Reader recap: My 2023 reading list – 82 books read
Whew! Another year of reading comes to an end. Following is the complete list of titles I read in 2023. I'm only listing cover-to-cover reads, and inclusion does not necessarily imply endorsement.
Books are listed alphabetically
(by title) and unsorted (by genre).
- 12 Months to Live, James Patterson and Mike Lupica
- A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
- Absolute Fear, Lisa Jackson
- All My Knotted-Up Life, Beth Moore
- A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
- American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt, Karen Harper
- Angel Falls, Kristin Hannah
- Black AF History, Michael Harriot
- Chasing Shadows, Karen Harper
- Code Name Sapphire, Pam Jenoff
- Cold, Cold Heart, Tami Hoag
- Daughter of Jerusalem (Daughters of Faith), Thom Lemmons
- Dreamland, Nicholas Sparks
- Drowning Tides, Karen Harper
- Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe, Voddie T. Baucham, Jr.
- Friends Like These, Kimberly McCreight
- Girls and Their Horses, Eliza Jane Brazier
- Grief’s Journey: A Companion for Friends Who Mourn, Hal Edwards
- Hang the Moon, Jeannette Walls
- Home Again, Kristin Hannah
- Honeymoon, James Patterson and Howard Roughan
- How Far to the Promised Land, Esau McCaulley
- I Love It When You Lie, Kristen Bird
- In Their Footsteps, Tess Gerritsen
- I Will Find You, Harlan Coben
- Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon, Greg Laurie with Marshall Terrill
- Just the Nicest Couple, Mary Kubica
- Kill Shot, Vince Flynn
- Lennon, Dylan, Alice & Jesus: The Spiritual Biography of Rock and Roll, Greg Laurie with Marshall Terrill
- Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
- Lincoln's Battle with God: A President's Struggle with Faith and What It Meant for America, Stephen Mansfield
- Mad Honey, Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
- Murder at Black Oaks, Phillip Margolin
- Never Never, Colleen Hoover
- Out of Nowhere, Sandra Brown
- Private Moscow, James Patterson and Adam Hamdy
- Rainwater, Sandra Brown
- Reckless Girls, Rachel Hawkins
- Shiver, Lisa Jackson
- Sing Her Down, Ivy Pochoda
- Someone Else’s Shoes, Jojo Moyes
- The Book of Lost Friends, Lisa Wingate
- The Christmas Basket, Debbie Macomber
- The Christmas Clock, Kat Martin
- The End of the Pier, Martha Grimes
- The Escape Artist, Brad Meltzer
- The First Counsel, Brad Meltzer
- The Giver of Stars, Jojo Moyes
- The Golden Couple, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
- The Greatest Beer Run Ever, John “Chick” Donohue and JT Molloy
- The Hotel Nantucket, Elin Hilderbrand
- The House Girl, Tara Conklin
- The House in the Pines, Ana Reyes
- The Housemaid, Freida McFadden
- The House of Wolves, James Patterson and Mike Lupica
- The Jailhouse Lawyer & Power of Attorney, James Patterson and Nancy Allen
- The Last Romantics, Tara Conklin
- The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave
- The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly
- The Maidens, Alex Michaelides
- The Ninth Month, James Patterson and Richard DiLallo
- The Pact, Jodi Picoult
- The Sanctuary, Ted Dekker
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The Sixth Day, Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison
- The Spy Coast ,Tess Gerritsen
- The Stranger, Harlan Coben
- The Surgeon, Tess Gerritsen
- The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
- The Vanishing at Castle Moreau, Jaime Jo Wright
- The Villa, Rachel Hawkins
- The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife, Shannon Harris
- The Wrong Side of Goodbye, Michael Connelly
- Turbulence, Stuart Woods
- Walk in My Combat Boots, James Patterson and Matt Eversmann
- Walk the Blue Line, James Patterson and Matt Eversmann
- We Begin at the End, Chris Whitaker
- What Is a Girl Worth, Rachael Denhollander
- Where Are the Children, Mary Clark Higgins
- Wicked Dreams, Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush
- Wild, Kristin Hannah
- Zero Days, Ruth Ware
This total does not include books I wrote, children's books I read (again and again), the Bible (which I read cover-to-cover with a few friends), devotionals, Bible studies, cookbooks, reference books, magazines, newspapers, etc. It's just full-length, cover-to-cover reads for the past year.
Titles hyperlink to Amazon, when possible. (Disclaimer:
I'm an Amazon Affiliate, so I may earn a very small commission from orders
placed through links on my sites.)
Have you read any of these
books? Which did you love? Which did you not love so much? What wonderful reads
did I miss?
Now I’m beginning to dig into my 2024 reads. Looking for super recommendations in various genres. What’s on your reading list for the year?
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