Books I Read in 2023

Previously: Every Book I Read from 2016 to 2021 | Books I Read in 2022

Continuing on from previous reading lists, I have compiled all the books I read last year into one single post.

You can also learn more about my top reads from my annual list of favourites: My Favourite Books of 2023.

Key

📕 Fiction
📘 Non-fiction
👪 Children's fiction
👽 Science-fiction
🐉 Fantasy
💀 Horror
📜 Poetry
💬 Graphic novel/manga
🔁 Re-read

Rating System

★ I really enjoyed this book
★★ I loved this book!
★★★ I loved, loved, loved this book!
★★★★ The best book I read all year!

Chronological List of Books Read

1.     📜 Sincerity, Carol Ann Duffy

2.     📜 100 Poets: A Little Anthology, John Carey

3.     📘 Put a Wet Paper Towel on It, Lee Parkinson & Adam Parkinson ★

4.     💬 Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation, Tim Hamilton ★

5.     📜 Summer With Monika, Roger McGough, Chris Riddell (ill.) ★

6.     👽 The Triple Knife and Other Doctor Who Stories, Jenny T. Colgan

7.     📘 A Message from Ukraine, Volodomyr Zelensky

8.     📜 Poems of Thomas Hardy, selected by Claire Tomalin ★

9.     🐉 Assassin’s Apprentice, Robin Hobb ★★

10.  👽🔁 Ubik, Philip K. Dick ★

11.  📕 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin ★★★★

12.  📕 Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata ★

13.  📘 Never Say You Can’t Survive, Charlie Jane Anders ★★

14.  📘 I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy ★★★

15.  📕 There’s No Such Thing as An Easy Job, Kikuko Tsumura ★

16.  💬🔁 The Walking Dead: Book Ten, Robert Kirkman ★★

17.  💬🔁 The Walking Dead: Book Eleven, Robert Kirkman ★★

18.  💬🔁 The Walking Dead: Book Twelve, Robert Kirkman ★★

19.  💬🔁 The Walking Dead: Book Thirteen, Robert Kirkman ★★

20.  📘 The Story of Windrush, K.N. Chimbiri ★

21.  💬🔁 The Walking Dead: Book Fourteen, Robert Kirkman ★★

22.  💬🔁 The Walking Dead: Book Fifteen, Robert Kirkman ★★

23.  💬🔁 The Walking Dead: Book Sixteen, Robert Kirkman ★★★

24.  👽 Time Lord Fairy Tales, Justin Richards, David Wardle (ill.)

25.  💬 Strange: I Belong to Death, Jed MacKay

26.  💬 Free Mars: Riot Girls, David Pauwells, Nicolas R. Giacondino (ill.)

27.  💬 Dead Eyes Open, Matthew Shepherd, Roy Boney Jr. (ill.) ★★

28.  📕 The Trees Grew Because I Bled There, Eric Larocca ★

29.  👪 The Worst Witch, Jill Murphy ★

30.  👪 Class Six and the Eel of Fortune, Sally Prue ★

31.  👪 Really WEIRD Removals.com, Daniela Sacerdoti ★

32.  💬 Berserk: Deluxe Edition #1, Kentaro Miura ★★★

33.  📕 The Humans, Matt Haig

34.  🐉 The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan ★★

35.  👪 Coraline, Neil Gaiman ★★

36.  👽 Mortal Engines, Philip Reeve ★

37.  📘 This Is Your Own Time You’re Wasting, Lee Parkinson & Adam Parkinson

38.  💬 Berserk: Deluxe Edition #2, Kentaro Miura ★★★

39.  💬 Once Upon a Time Lord, Dan Slott (writ.), Christopher Jones & Matthew Dow Smith (art.) ★

40.  💬 No Longer Human, Junji Ito, Osamu Dazai ★★★