I finished out the year pretty strongly with a total of 135 books read during the year. Some of those were books I read for review, some of my own choosing, some that were book club choices and some that were recommendations from others. All in all, it was. a good year for reading and I met my goal. My real goal is to average a couple of books a week but sometimes I am able to read more and that bumps my total up. Vacations are a great time for me to take a stack of books to read and that is when I read the most.

Today I thought it would be fun to share my top 5 books from 2023. There is no particular order to them but I thought it would be fun to share and to see what my readers read last year as well. I will go first. It was not easy to pick just five. I may have to include runners up.

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Wild Hope: Healing Words to Find Light on Dark Days by Donna Ashworth

Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Guide for Murderers by Jesse Q Sutanto

Kinfolk by Sean Dietrich

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugong

Runners up:

The Confession Club by Elizabeth Berg

The Taken Ones by Jess Lourey

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult

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So what did you read last year that you loved? I can’t wait to read what you are reading and what you are loving. Fill me in in the comments section.