HAPPY NEW YEAR BOOKISH FRIENDS! I am wishing you all the love, peace, and light that 2023 has to offer. I am also hoping you had an incredible reading year in 2022 and that you have an even better one in 2023. My reading in 2022 had some gaps and long stretches of reading slumps, but I still managed to indulge in some incredible reads that I’ve listed below for ya. All but the last of these were 5 star reads (with The Sentence being a strong 4 star read that stuck with me). What were your favorite reads of 2022? Share below!
(Note - these are just in the order that I read them (except for The Sentence) because of these, I genuinely couldn’t pick a favorite.)
Public Faces, Secret Lives* by Dr. Wendy Rouse
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, Beth E. Richie
The Trees by Percival Everett
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
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And how about those 2023 plans?
Well, as per usual, I have goals for this upcoming year, but no set TBR…because I…am…a mood reader. I do, however, have some ideas for books that might meet these particular endeavors. Here are those goals:
More long reads! - Every year, I’m intimidated by the longer reads on my shelf, but almost every time I actually pick one up, once I get into it, I. Am. Obsessed. So, time to get over that long read fear. To help me in this, many of my #readwithLLM reads are going to be longer reads.
Books on my shelf I might read:
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
More books by BIPOC authors - every year, I do make efforts to read books by authors who don’t look like me, but I think there’s always room to broaden your horizons. (And if you look above, so many of those books are BIPOC authors, I’m clearly missing out on great literature if I’m not making this effort.) To aid me in this effort, I’ve signed up for the StoryGraph reads the World 2023 challenge.
Books on my shelf I might read:
Slum Virgin by Gabriela Cabezon Camara
The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
More nonfiction - It was only in the last few years that I found that I actually liked nonfiction reads (and I’m going to blame my public school history education for making me think I didn’t for as long as I did). So this year, I want to explore the wide variety of books available to me now that I don’t actually shun the genre altogether.
Books on my shelf I might read:
Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda Brown
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
What are you hoping to read in 2023?
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