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2023
My Year in Books
30,398
pages read
Peter
80
books read
Peter
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
Shortest Book
111
pages
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Longest Book
1,276
pages
Average book length in 2023
379
pages
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Most Shelved
2,099,948
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From the Deep by Kateri Stanley
Least Shelved
109
people also shelved
Peter’s average rating for 2023
2.7
2.7
The Will of the Many by James Islington
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.62 average
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

Peter’s first review of the year

liked it
This is the kind of fantasy I yearn for: well-written, character-driven, and original. And not just original in terms of its world or magic system, but a story that doesn't follow the well-trodden formulas of the fantasy genre. Unfortunately, the reason this only got 3 stars was that it completely mishandled the fantasy elements to the point where I was bored with the mundanity of the majority of the book.

On a technical level, there wasn't much ...more
PETER’S 2023 BOOKS
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
The Measure by Nikki Erlick
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
really liked it
Lessons by Ian McEwan
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams
Tracers in the Dark by Andy Greenberg
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky
really liked it
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Deluge by Stephen Markley
The Expert System's Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Expert System’s Champion by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Unthinkable by Helen Thomson
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky
The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson
liked it
The King Must Fall by Adrian Collins
The Cruel Stars by John Birmingham
What's Our Problem? by Tim Urban
The Last Beekeeper by Julie Carrick Dalton
Stay Awhile and Listen by David L. Craddock
Regenesis by George Monbiot
All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle
Primitives by Erich Krauss
The Skeptics' Guide to the Future by Steven Novella
liked it
Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk
Make Your Bed by William H. McRaven
36 Streets by T.R. Napper
Infinity Gate by M.R. Carey
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
The Experience Machine by Andy Clark
A Witch's Sin by Daniel B. Greene
Range by David Epstein
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
Outlive by Peter Attia
it was amazing
Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Magnificent Sex by Peggy J. Kleinplatz
All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay
Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway
Delta-v by Daniel Suarez
In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune
Is This Wi-Fi Organic? by Dave Farina
it was amazing
Films from the Future by Andrew Maynard
Into the Planet by Jill Heinerth
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
Briardark by S.A. Harian
From the Deep by Kateri Stanley
Winds of Strife by Uri Gatt Gutman
Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia Sylvester
The Blighted Stars by Megan E. O'Keefe
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
it was amazing
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson
How Minds Change by David McRaney
Legacy of the Brightwash by Krystle Matar
Humans by Tom Phillips
The Ghost Woods by C.J. Cooke
Constance by Matthew FitzSimmons
Determined by Robert M. Sapolsky
it was amazing
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne
Dreambound by Dan Frey
The Will of the Many by James Islington
The Narrow Road Between Desires by Patrick Rothfuss
The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher
The Invisible Machine by Eugene Lipov
Spear by Nicola Griffith
The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher
Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
Perception - How Our Bodies Shape Our Minds by Dennis Proffitt
World War Z by Max Brooks
it was amazing
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
World War Z by Max Brooks

Peter’s last review of the year

it was amazing
Some books work great as re-reads, but unfortunately, this wasn't one of them. This book got me back into reading about a decade ago, so I'll be leaving the 5-star rating, but by my current standards, this would probably be a 4.

The unique format of mini-stories detailing a surprisingly convincing zombie outbreak was by far the biggest selling point and it still holds up as a storytelling technique. However, without the novelty of the format and ...more
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