My 2023 Goodreads Highlights

Check out my 2023 reads…

Georgia’s 2023 reading list of 57 books.

Are you keen to discover some fantastic new reads? Below I have categorised some of my favourites from 2023…

Sublime characterisation top-5 faves:

• ‘Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow’ - by Gabrielle Zevin

• ‘Small Pleasures’ - by Clare Chambers

• ‘The Marriage Portrait’ by Maggie O’Farrell

• ‘Nightcrawling’ - Leila Mottley

• ‘My Phantoms’ - Gwendoline Riley

Psychologically twisted top-5 tales:

• ‘Nightbitch’ by Rachel Yoder

• ‘Magpie’ - by Elizabeth Day

• ‘I’m a Fan’ by Sheena Patel

• ‘If We Were Villains’ - M. L. Rio

• ‘Paradais’ by Fernanda Melchor

Non-fiction top-5 (okay…top 6!) faves:

• ‘I am, I am, I am,’ - Maggie O’Farrell

• ‘Fix The System Not The Women’ - Laura Bates

• ‘Tenants’ - Vicky Spratt

• ‘Innocence’ - Roald Dahl

• ‘The Lonely City’ - Olivia Laing

• ‘Islands of Abandonment’ - Cal Flyn

Beautiful prose:

• ‘Burntcoat’ - Sarah Hall

• ‘Salt Slow’ - Julia Armfield (Short Story Collection)

• ‘Fen’ - Daisy Johnson -(Short Story Collection)

Post-modern, punchy and experimental in form:

• Little Scratch’ by Rebecca Watson - (Trigger warning - sexually violent themes)