{"id":7566,"date":"2024-01-08T22:27:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T20:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/?p=7566"},"modified":"2024-01-08T22:27:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T20:27:26","slug":"my-2023-in-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/mk\/my-2023-in-books\/","title":{"rendered":"My 2023 in Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"672\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pexels-valeriia-harbuz-19620981.jpg?resize=672%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7549\" style=\"width:297px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pexels-valeriia-harbuz-19620981.jpg?resize=672%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 672w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pexels-valeriia-harbuz-19620981.jpg?resize=197%2C300&amp;ssl=1 197w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pexels-valeriia-harbuz-19620981.jpg?resize=768%2C1170&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pexels-valeriia-harbuz-19620981.jpg?resize=1008%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1008w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pexels-valeriia-harbuz-19620981.jpg?resize=8%2C12&amp;ssl=1 8w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pexels-valeriia-harbuz-19620981.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"\">2023 was quite the year on both a personal and professional level. I&#8217;m dedicating this post to 2023 in books, luckily Goodreads is here with all the stats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In summary: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">I read 130 books and 46,824 pages<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">The longest book I read at 1302 pages was London by Edward Rutherfurd<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">The average book length was 360 pages<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">The most popular book I read based on number of times shelved on Goodreads was People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">My average rating was 3.1 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">I gave a 5 star rating to 6 books <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Several very memorable 4 star reads ended up on my &#8216;best of 2023&#8217; shelf <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">I continue to not rate non-fiction, but I&#8217;m happy to say a non-fiction titles has made me on my &#8216;best of&#8217; list<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">I marked 5 books as &#8216;did not finish&#8217; and I have no intention of revisiting any of them<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">I listened to 30+ audiobooks and actually expected this number to be higher considering how much time I&#8217;ve spent on the Everand app (formerly known as Scribd)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">I read 12 ebooks and basically only used my Kindle while travelling, I&#8217;m hoping to change that in the new year <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">If curious about the rest of the books I read this year, check out my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/year_in_books\/2023\/9593877\">Goodreads<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">You can find my <a href=\"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/mk\/top-10-favorite-books-of-2023\/\">top 10 reads of 2023<\/a> on the blog already. I&#8217;m sorry to say I actually forgot to include one of my favorites there and that&#8217;s Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven, this could easily knock down Beast Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie from the list. I&#8217;m considering doing a list of honorable mentions even though when I first sat down to put the list together, I could not come up with 10 titles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">My &#8217;30-before-30&#8242; challenge ended in May and was both a failure and a success, here&#8217;s my <a href=\"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/mk\/did-i-read-the-books-on-my-30-books-to-read-before-i-turn-30-list\/\">summary<\/a>. The most memorable title was definitely War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. This is the biggest challenge I&#8217;ve ever attempted and I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ll ever try anything similar again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I have some tentative plans on 2024, but more on that in a post later this month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Feel free to post your yearly wrap up or year in books in the comments, I&#8217;d love to check it out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 was quite the year on both a personal and professional level. I&#8217;m dedicating this post to 2023 in books, luckily Goodreads is here with all the stats. 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