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Here are my 5-star reads of 2023, in list format. If you’d like the pretty, picture-rich version with all the linky goodness, plus my reviews, check it out here.
I read a tonne of books every year, and am always asked for recommendations by friends and colleagues. So, I thought, “Why not put them all in one place?”.
Herewith, my lists, split into non-fiction and fiction.
P.S. I track all of my reading on Goodreads, so, if you love books, why not join me over there? My profile and reading lists are here.
Non-Fiction
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, John Carreyrou
- Be a Spider, Build a Web: Sticky Content Marketing for Small Businesses, Rachel Klaver
- Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole, Susan Cain
- Do the Work, Steven Pressfield
- Driving to Treblinka: A long search for a lost father, Diana Wichtel
- Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace, Jessica Bennett
- Gentle Power: A Revolution in How We Think, Lead, and Succeed Using the Finnish Art of Sisu, Emilia Elisabet Lahti
- How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, Katy Milkman
- How to Work with (Almost) Anyone: Five Questions for Building the Best Possible Relationships, Michael Bungay Stanier
- Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness, Ingrid Fetell Lee
- Kāinga: People, Land, Belonging, Paul Tapsell
- Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines, Jonathan Mooney
- Pig Wrestling: Clean Your Thinking to Create the Change you Need, Pete Lindsay
- Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead, Tara Mohr
- Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well, Amy C. Edmondson
- The Complete Maus, Art Spiegelman
- The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit, Seth Godin
- The Gifts of Imperfection, Brené Brown
- The Joy of Finding FISH: A Journey of Fulfilment, Inspiration, Success and Happiness, Christopher Miller
- The Talking Cure: Normal People, Their Hidden Struggles and the Life-Changing Power of Therapy, Gillian Straker
- The Thin Book of Trust: An Essential Primer for Building Trust at Work, Charles Feltman
- The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle, Steven Pressfield
- Turning Pro, Steven Pressfield
- Unicorns Over Rainbows: Make lasting, meaningful change in your organization, Nathan John Donaldson
- Unleash Your Awesome: How to Live and Work from your Zone of Genius, Daria Williamson
Fiction
- 22.63, Stephen King
- Birds in Flight, Anni Taylor
- Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1), Benjamin Stevenson
- Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect, Benjamin Stevenson
- Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts, Josie Shapiro
- Firekeeper’s Daughter, Angeline Boulley
- In the Lives of Puppets, T.J. Klune
- Last One at the Party, Bethany Clift
- Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
- The Passage (The Passage, #1), Justin Cronin
- The Twelve (The Passage, #2), Justin Cronin
- The City of Mirrors (The Passage, #3), Justin Cronin
- The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner
- The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1), Nita Prose
Reading stats for 2023
By 31st December 2023, I read 180 books, with 3 unfinished books still on the go. Here’s a breakdown of my reading for the year:
| Fiction | Non-fiction |
| 85 books, of which: | 91 books, of which: |
| 1 star: 0 | 1 star: 1 |
| 2 stars: 12 | 2 stars: 3 |
| 3 stars: 34 | 3 stars: 15 |
| 4 stars: 25 | 4 stars: 47 |
| 5 stars: 14 | 5 stars: 25 |
Based on these stats, I’d say I’m better at choosing good non-fiction books than fiction ones!
