2023 Reading Challenge

At the beginning of 2023, I had a little debate with myself over how high to set my reading goal. I knew I didn't want to try to read more than I read in 2022 (155 books is a lot even for me), but I wasn't sure how much less I was going to be reading. Some people set their goals to 50 or 52 books because they're happy as long as they average one book a week. I liked that idea in theory, but since I often read 8-10 books a month, it just felt too low. I end up settling on 75 books as my goal.

January

1. The Bone Shard War by Andrea Stewart
2. The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison
3. How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black
4. All Systems Red by Martha Wells
5. The Stolen Heir by Holly Black
6. Unplugged by Donna Freitas
7. The Boy You Always Wanted by Michelle Quach
8. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
9. City of Bones by Martha Wells
10. Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
11. The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate Dicamillo
12. Imago by Octavia Butler
13. Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

As you can see, I reread the first for Murderbot Diaries novellas this month. I also listened to the Tantor audiobook of City of Bones. I almost DNF'd it a couple of times, but I was ultimately glad I pushed through because I like the story much more than I dislike the narrator.

February

1. And Then There Were (N-One) by Sarah Pinsker
2. Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
3. The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
4. Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
5. The Red Palace by June Hur
6. Thorn by Intisar Khanani
7. The Dawn of Yangchen by F.C. Yee
8. The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
9. Thief Liar Lady by D.L. Soria
10. House of Roots and Ruin by Erin A. Craig

March

1. The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
2. Jackaby by William Ritter
3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
4. Fire with Fire by Destiny Soria
5. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
6. The Dark Lord's Daughter by Patricia C. Wrede
7. Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

April

1. Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
2. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
3. The Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick
4. The Black God's Drums by P. Djeli Clark

May

1. The Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells
2. System Collapse by Martha Wells
3. The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark
4. Light From Other Stars by Erika Swyler
5. The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
6. The Serpent Sea by Martha Wells
7. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
8. The Siren Depths by Martha Wells

June

1. Stories of the Raksura: Volume One by Martha Wells
2. Stories of the Raksura: Volume Two by Martha Wells
3. The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen
4. First Test by Tamora Pierce
5. The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
6. Page by Tamora Pierce
7. The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
8. A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant
9. Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
10. Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
11. The Edge of Worlds by Martha Wells

July

1. The Stars Undying by Emery Robin
2. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
3. A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland
4. All Systems Red by Martha Wells
5. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
6. Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
7. Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
8. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas
9. The Harbors of the Sun by Martha Wells
10. Star Splitter by Matthew J. Kirby
11. Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

August

1. Sing Me to Sleep by Gabi Burton
2. A Hundred Vicious Turns by Lee Paige-O'Brien
3. The Infinity Particle by Wendy Xu
4. A Bright Heart by Kate Chenli
5. The Scarlet Alchemist by Kylie Lee Baker
6. If I Have to Be Haunted by Miranda Sun
7. What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez
8. The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass
   
9. Never a Hero by Vanessa Len

 September

1. Like a Charm by Elle McNicoll
2. A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
3. The Element of Fire by Martha Wells (revised edition from the Book of Ile-Rien bind-up)
4. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
5. Cursebreakers by Madeleine Nakamura
6. The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells (revised edition from the Book of Ile-Rien bind-up)

October

1. Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
2. The Bone Orchard by Sara Mueller
3. The Dress Diary by Kate Strasdin
4. Once Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire
5. The Darkness Within Us by Tricia Levenseller
6. Four Letter Word by Gretchen McNeil

November

1. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
2. Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
   

December 

1. Fireborne by Rosaria Munda