Giving Star Ratings to Every Book I Read in 2023

Historically, I almost never rate books. It has made me nervous to do because it felt so definitive. But every time we come to the end of a year, I get jealous of all the stats that I don't get to be a part of because none of my books have ratings. So I figured for 2024 I would rate my books, and I thought a little immersion therapy would help me get over my anxiety around it by rating all of the books I read in 2023 to start.

Update! I'm proud to say that I have been consistently rating and giving short reviews of my 2024 reads. I review them on Threads and share them on my IG story (with a saved highlight for all my 2024 books).

📼Videos Mentioned📼
Best Books of 2023:    • The 10 Best Books I Read in 2023 and ...  
Worst Books of 2023:    • The 10 Worst Books I Read in 2023  

📚Books Mentioned📚
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñero (translated by Frances Riddle)
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Holdout by Jeffrey Kluger
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov (translated by Angela Rodel)
Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey
A Spell of Good Things by Ayobami Adebayo
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamot
Zero Days by Ruth Ware
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
Boulder by Eva Baltasar (translated by Julie Sanches)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar
Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
The Woman Inside by M.T. Edvardsson (translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles)
Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding
Cultish by Amanda Montell
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades
The Dharma Bums by Jack Karouac
Death Valley by Melissa Broder
Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell
Final Girls by Riley Sager
The Greatest by Matthew Syed
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell
Homesick by Jennifer Croft
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (translated by Stephen Snyder)
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead
The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Last Ranger by Peter Heller
Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and illustrated by Jen Wang
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
Loathe to Love You by Ali Hazelwood
Midnight is the Darkest Hour by Ashley Winstead
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter
The Only One Left by Riley Sager
The Plotters by Un-Su Kim (translated by Sora Kim-Russell)
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Pyre by Perumal Murugan (translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan)
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Belt
Rouge by Mona Awad
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (translated by Philip Gabriel)
Pod by Laline Paull
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes and illustrated by Lynd Ward
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

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