New year, new ongoing list of books I read this year. Now my Read the World Project is complete, 2023 is going to be the year of mood reading and probably reading a whole lot of backlist books as I’ve got my TBR to get through. I don’t have big reading goals, just want to read at least 52 books and complete the Magical Readathon: Year in Aeldia which I will make a note of what books I read for it at the bottom of this post. You can find out more about what I’m reading on my Twitter, Goodreads and Storygragh.

Without further ado, here’s what I read in 2023! Any titles with asterisks are rereads and if it has a link, that goes to my review.

January:
– Making a Scene – Constance Wu
– One of Us is Next – Karen M. McManus
– The Bear and the Nightingale – Katherine Arden
– The Girl in the Tower – Katherine Arden
– The Winter of the Witch – Katherine Arden
– Maybe I Don’t Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery – David Harewood
– The Last Tale of the Flower Bride – Roshani Chokshi

February:
– The Wolf and the Woodsman – Ava Reid
– The Bachelorette Party – Carissa Ann Lynch
– Spells for Forgetting – Adrienne Young
– Dangerous Remedy – Kat Dunn
– Monstrous Design – Kat Dunn
– Glorious Poison – Kat Dunn
– The Lie – C.L. Taylor

Currently reading:
– The Republic of Thieves

Books read: 14
Books reviewed: 6

Magical Readathon: Year in Aeldia
January – start a series: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
February – trees on the cover: The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid
March – book over 500 pages: The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
April – Magical Readathon Spring Equinox
May – book finishes on an even number: ???
June – book you already own: ???
July – read when it’s dark: ???
August – Magical Readathon Autumn Equinox
September – dark academia book: Babel by R.F. Kuang
October – chapters are only numbers: ???
November – random number generator: ???
December – fox on the cover/title: Among the Beasts & Briars by Ashley Poston

It’s about time I finally started this post. Here are all the books I read this year. My main reading goal for this year is to focus on my Read the World Project and hopefully finish it but not sure how that’s going to go as I have a bit of reading slump going on. You can find out more about what I’m reading on my Twitter and Goodreads.

Without further ado, here’s what I read in 2021! Any titles with asterisks are rereads and if it has a link, that goes to my review.

January:
– The Equestrienne – Uršuľa Kovalyk
– The End of the Dark Era – Tseveendorjin Oidov

February:
– To Best the Boys – Mary Weber
– In Praise of Love and Children – Beryl Gilroy
– Selfie and Other Stories – Nora Nadjarian

March:
– The Ladies are Upstairs – Merle Collins
– Shadow and Bone – Leigh Bardugo
– Siege and Storm – Leigh Bardugo
– Ruin and Rising – Leigh Bardugo
– We Are the Ocean – Epeli Hauʻofa

April:
– Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo*
– In The Name Of The Father (& of the Son) – Immanuel Mifsud
– Crooked Kingdom – Leigh Bardugo
– The Good Life Elsewhere – Vladimir Lorchenkov

May:
– The Tale of Aypi – Ak Welsapar
– The Silent Steppe: The Story of a Kazakh Nomad under Stalin – Mukhamet Shayakhmetov
– Mother’s Beloved: Stories from Laos – Outhine Bounyavong

June:
– The Unwomanly Face of War – Svetlana Alexievich
– Nature Island Verses – Alick Lazare
– Baho! – Roland Rugero

July:
– The Mysterious Balloon Man – Albert Salvadó
– Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter – Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
– Told by Starlight in Chad – Joseph Brahim Seid

August:
– The Madwoman of Serrano – Dina Salústio
– On Friday Night – Luz Argentina Chiriboga
– Sabriel – Garth Nix*

September:
– The Devil Makes Three – Tori Bovalino
– Hawkeye: Freefall – Matthew Rosenberg and Otto Schmidt
– Beka Lamb – Zee Edgell
– Memoirs of a Reluctant Traveller – Sudesh Mishra
– The Girl Who Fell to Earth: A Memoir – Sophia Al-Maria
– King of Scars – Leigh Bardugo
– Lirael – Garth Nix*

October:
– Abhorsen – Garth Nix*
– Why the Sky Moved Away from the Earth – Christine Gnimagnon Adjahi

November:
– You Can’t Be Serious – Kal Penn
– Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean – Multiple authors
– Shepherd of Solitude – Amjad Nasser

December:
– Rule of Wolves – Leigh Bardugo
– Cadence of the Moon – Oscar Núñez Olivas
– The Purple Violet of Oshaantu – Neshani Andreas
– The City Where Dreams Come True – Gulsifat Shahidi

Currently reading:
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Books read: 42/52
Books reviewed: 36/26

Here are all the books I read this year. My main reading goal for this year is to focus on my Read the World Project as I have over 100 books to read (and review) in less than two years if I want to meet my self-imposed goal. You can find out more about what I’m reading on my Twitter and Goodreads.

Without further ado, here’s what I read in 2020! Any titles with asterisks are rereads and if it has a link, that goes to my review.

January:
– Only God Can Make a Tree – Bertram Roach
– The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
– They Called Us Enemy – George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott and Harmony Becker
– Night, Again edited – Linh Dinh

February:
– The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History – Aida Edemariam
– The Conspiracy – Israel Centeno
– Love in No Man’s Land – Duo Ji Zhuo Ga
– The Lies of Locke Lamora – Scott Lynch

March:
– Notes of a Crocodile – Qiu Miaojin
– Transparent City – Ondjaki

April:
– The Eighth Life – Nino Haratischwili
– The Door – Magda Szabó
– The Architect’s Apprentice – Elif Shafak
– Hawkeye: Avenging Archer – Jim McCann, David Lopez, Duane Swierczynski, Manuel Garcia and Paco Diaz
– Truthwitch – Susan Dennard
– The Naked Woman – Armonía Somers
– Woman Take Two – Telcine Turner
– A Girl Called Eel – Ali Zamir
– The Places I’ve Cried in Public – Holly Bourne
– Difficult Fruit – Lauren K. Alleyne
– Downfall – Rob Thurman
– A Dream So Dark – L.L. McKinney

May:
– Passage of Tears – Abdourahman A. Waberi
– Dread Nation – Justina Ireland
– A Small Place – Jamaica Kincaid

June:
– Black Panther: The Complete Collection Vol. 1 – Christopher Priest, Mark Texeira, Vince Evans, Joe Jusko, Mike Manley, Mark Bright and Sal Velluto
– Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex – Oskana Zabuzhko
– Deathless Divide – Justina Ireland
– Life for Each – Daisy Zamora
– 13 Colors of the Honduran Resistance – Melissa Cardoza
– Cultural Refugees: Anthology of Poems – Julie Mota
– United States of Banana – Giannina Braschi

July:
– First They Killed My Father – Loung Ung
– The Matter of Desire – Edmundo Paz Soldán
– Hawkeye: Kate Bishop Vol. 1: Achor Points – Kelly Thompson, Leonardo Romero, Michael Walsh and Jordie Bellaire
– The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair – Joël Dicker
– Bhutanese Tales of the Yeti – Kunzang Choden

August:
– Spain: The Inside Story of La Roja’s Historic Treble – Graham Hunter
– Hawkeye: Kate Bishop: Vol. 2: Masks – Kelly Thompson, Leonardo Romero and Jordie Bellaire
– Hawkeye: Kate Bishop: Vol. 3: Family Reunion – Kelly Thompson, Leonardo Romero and Jordie Bellaire
– Beneath the Blue Sky – Frederick Yamusangie
– The Restless – Gerty Dambury
– She Would Be King – Wayétu Moore
– A Phoenix First Must Burn – Patrice Caldwell
– Clap When You Land – Elizabeth Acevedo
– West Coast Avengers Vol. 1: Best Coast – Kelly Thompson, Stefano Caselli and Triona Farrell
– West Coast Avengers Vol. 2: City of Evil – Kelly Thompson, Daniele Di Nicuolo, Gang Hyuk Lim and Moy R.

September:
– Behold the Dreamers – Imbolo Mbue
– How to be a Heroine (Or, what I’ve learned from reading too much) – Samantha Ellis
– Thirteen Months of Sunrise – Rania Mamoun
– A Land Without Jasmine – Wajdi Al-Ahdal

October:
– The Screaming of the Innocent – Unity Dow
– The Last Brother – Nathacha Appanah
– The Perfectionists – Sara Shepard
– Three Summers – Margarita Liberaki
– The Black Kids – Christina Hammonds Reed

November:
– Jamilia – Chingiz Aïtmatov
– My Urohs – Emelihter Kihleng

December:
– The Old Drift – Namwali Serpell

Currently reading:
– The Good Girls – Sara Shepard

Books read: 59/60
Books reviewed: 42/30

Here are all the books I read this year. I’m taking it a bit easier this year and haven’t signed up for any challenges. Instead I’m going to be focussing on my Read the World Project and trying to get my physical TBR down a fair bit. You can find out more about what I’m reading on my Twitter and Goodreads.

Without further ado, here’s what I read in 2019! Any titles with asterisks are rereads and if it has a link, that goes to my review.

January:
– Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph – Yusra Mardini
– The Exact Opposite of Okay – Laura Steven
– My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
– Under the Tripoli Sky – Kamal Ben Hameda
– Every Man Is A Race – Mia Couto

February:
– Made You Up – Francesca Zappia
– The Memory of Love – Aminatta Forna
– Allah is not Obliged – Ahmadou Kourouma
– Safe as Houses – Simone van der Vlugt
– Let’s Talk About Love – Claire Kann
– Crimson – Niviaq Korneliussen

March:
– Burning Cities – Kai Aareleid
– Soviet Milk – Nora Ikstena
– A Fortune Foretold – Agneta Pleijel
– Leah on the Offbeat – Becky Albertalli
– Secret Son – Laila Lalami
– Letters from Burma – Aung San Suu Kyi
– Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi

April:
– Old Man Hawkeye Vol. 1: An Eye for an Eye – Ethan Sacks, Marco Checchetto and Andres Mossa
– Old Man Hawkeye Vol. 2: The Whole World Blind – Ethan Sacks, Marco Checchetto, Francesco Mobili and Ibraim Roberson
– Augstown – Kei Miller
– Genuine Fraud – E. Lockhart
– Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
– The Angel’s Game – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
– The Red Beach Hut – Lynn Michell

May:
– Trout, Belly Up – Rodrigo Fuentes
– Becoming – Michelle Obama
– The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind – William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealeb
– Frankenstein in Baghdad – Ahmed Saadawi

June:
– A Girl Called Shameless – Laura Steven
– The Dry – Jane Harper
– The Howling Miller – Arto Paasilinna
– Red Sister – Mark Lawrence
– Maybe This Time – Alois Hotschnig
– Devoted – Jennifer Mathieu
– Raised from the Ground – José Saramago
– All We Could Have Been – T.E. Carter
– Mere Chances – Veronica Simoniti
– Lies We Tell Ourselves – Robin Talley
– Marriage of a Thousand Lies – SJ Sindu
– The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Tales from Alagaësia – Christopher Paolini

July:
– Northern Lights – Phillip Pullman*
– This Time Will Be Different – Misa Sugiura
– The Subtle Knife – Phillip Pullman*
– The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet – Becky Chambers

August:
– This Savage Song – Victoria Schwab
– Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman – Malidoma Patrice Somé
– Forest of a Thousand Lanterns – Julie C. Dao
– Flashfall – Jenny Moyer
– A Blade So Black – L.L. McKinney
– Hawkeye Vol. 5: All-New Hawkeye – Jeff Lemire and Ramón Pérez*
– The Runaway Jury – John Grisham
– Hawkeye Vol. 6: Hawkeyes – Jeff Lemire and Ramón Pérez
– Birthday – Meredith Russo
– The Amber Spyglass – Phillip Pullman*
– African Titanics – Abu Bakr Khaal

September:
– Celestial Bodies – Jokah Alharthi
– Breath, Eyes, Memory – Edwidge Danticat
– Roger Federer & Rafael Nadal: The Lives and Careers of Two Tennis Legends – Sebastián Fest
– Internment – Samira Ahmed
– Burn for Burn – Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian

October:
– Nemesis – Brendan Reichs
– Shadows on the Tundra – Dalia Grinkevičiūtė
– The Murder Complex – Lindsay Cummings
– Sherwood – Megan Spooner

November:
– The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After – Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Wiel
– Fear and His Servant – Mirjana Novaković
– The Polished Hoe – Austin Clarke

December:
– In the Distance with You – Carla Guelfenbein
– The Tongue’s Blood Does Not Run Dry – Assia Djebar
– The Book of Ebenezer Le Page – G.B. Edwards
– The Good Muslim – Tahmima Anam

Currently reading:
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Books read: 72/52
Books reviewed: 46/26

Here are all the books I’ve read this year. My reading goals for this year are to read 50 books, review at least half of what I read and start on the Read the World Project. You can find out more about what I’m reading on my Twitter or Goodreads (which I am getting better at updating).

So without further ado, here’s what I’m reading in 2017! Titles with an asterisks are rereads and those with links go to their reviews.

January:
– Green Tea – Sheridan Le Fanu
– March Book One – John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
– March Book Two – John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
– March Book Three – John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell

February:
– Old Rosa – Reinaldo Arenas

March:
– Hiding in Plain Sight – Nuruddin Farah
– How I Came to Know Fish – Ota Pavel
– The Fix Vol. 1: Where Beagles Dare – Nick Spencer, Steve Lieber, Ryan Hill and Nic J Shaw
– Mockingbird Vol. 1: I Can Explain – Chelsea Cain, Kate Niemczyk and Ibrahim Moustafa
– Letters to Eloise – Emily Williams
– Men Explain Things to Me and Other Essays – Rebecca Solnit

April:
– Dubai Tales – Mohammad al Murr
– Nineveh – Henrietta Rose-Innes
– The Keeper of Lost Causes – Jussi Adler-Olsen
– Poe Dameron Vol. 1: Black Squadron – Charles Soule and Phil Noto
– Monstress Vol. One: Awakening – Majorie Liu and Sana Takeda
– A-Force Vol. 0: Warzones! – G. Willow Wilson, Marguerite Bennett and Jorge Molina
– Descender Vol. 1: Tin Stars – Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen
– The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas

May:
– The Language of Dying – Sarah Pinsborough
– The Accusation: Forbidden Stories From Inside North Korea – Bandi
– Looking for Trouble – Roque Dalton

June:
– A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
– Eliza and Her Monsters – Francesca Zappia
– Metro 2033 – Dmitry Glukhovsky
– The Couple Next Door – Shari Lapena

July:
– The Bollywood Bride – Sonali Dev
– The Book of Memory – Petina Gappah
– Even This Page is White – Vivek Shraya
– Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling and Jim Kay
– Kaptara Vol. 1: Fear Not, Tiny Alien – Chip Zdarsky and Kagan McLeod
– Sirius – Jonathan Crown
– The Fat Years – Chan Koonchung
– The Unexpected Everything – Morgan Matson
– Gurkha: Better to Die than Live a Coward – Colour Sergeant Kailash Limbu
– Only Ever Yours – Louise O’Neill

August:
– The Gunslinger – Stephen King
– Electric Souk – Rose McGinty
– The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue – Mackenzi Lee
– Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
– Death Going Down – Maria Angelica Bosco
– The Punisher Vol. 3: Last Days – Nathan Edmondson, Mitch Gerads, Moritat and Brent Schoonover
– Black Widow Vol. 3: Last Days – Nathan Edmondson and Phil Noto
– Wonder Woman: Warbringer – Leigh Bardugo

September:
– Bubblegum – Sari Taurez
– Let Them Eat Chaos – Kate Tempest
– Frangipani – Célestine Hitiura Vaite
– Mexico 20: New Voices, Old Traditions – Multiple Authors

October:
– Papi – Rita Indiana
– Every Heart a Doorway – Seanan McGuire
– Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic – Alison Bechdel
– Power Man and Iron Fist Vol. 1: The Boys are Back in Town – David Walker, Sanford Greene and Flaviano
– The Open Door, and the Portrait. Stories of the Seen and the Unseen – Margaret Oliphant
– Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film – Edward Ross
– Moxie – Jennifer Mathieu
– Black Moses – Alain Mabanckou
– The Reader on the 6.27 – Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
– Saga Volume 6 – Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
– Saga Volume 7 – Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples

November:
– Nasty Women – Multiple Authors
– Street Without a Name – Kapka Kassabova
– One of Us is Lying – Karen M. McManus
– One of Us – Åsne Seierstad

December:
– Freelove – Sia Figiel
– The Blue Fox – Sjón
– When Dimple Met Rishi – Sandhya Menon
– The Dark is Rising – Susan Cooper
– Runaways: The Complete Collection Volume Three – Brian K. Vaughn, Adrian Alphona, Mike Norton, Zeb Wells, Stefano Caselli, Joss Whedon, Michael Ryan, Christopher Yost and Takeshi Miyazawa
– Runaways: The Complete Collection Volume Four – Terry Moore, Kathryn Immonen, C.B. Cebulski, Chris Yost, James Asmus, Humberto Ramos, Takeshi Miyazawa, Sara Pichelli, Phil Noto and Emma Rios
– Poe Dameron Vol. 2: The Gathering Storm – Charles Soule and Phil Noto

Currently reading:
– Artemis – Andy Weir

Books Read: 70/50
Books Reviewed: 51/25