2023 books

My goal was to read/listen to 30 books, and I reached 32 books. I participated in the #ReadICT challenge again, and here are the categories and books:

1. A book with a non-human narrator: Warm Bodies
2. A book with a long title (7+ words): Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsberg
3. A book about friendship: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
4. A guilty pleasure read: The House Across the Lake
5. A book told from a villain’s point of view: The Pallbearers Club
6. A book about time: Recursion
7. A book with a color in the title: The Other Black Girl
8. A book featuring a LGBTQIA+ protagonist: The 19th Wife
9. A book about death or grief: How to Sell a Haunted House
10. A book set in the Great Plains: Under the Rainbow
11. A book about a secret or closed society: The London Seance Society
12. A book by an author visiting Wichita (in-person or remote): Trophy Girl

I wrote additional blog posts about Notorious RBG: the life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Range. Spare was heartbreaking, Recursion was super weird, and The Cabin at the End of the World was disturbing. I read The Ballard of Songbirds and Snakes, the prequel to the Hunger Games trilogy, before the movie came out.

My goal for 2024 is 30 books again. Even though I read 32 this year, there were several that were “easy” reading. If I had not read those, I probably would not have reached my goal.