I read 52 books in 2023 and here are my favorites

I read the most books of my life this year.

How I did it:

• Tracking books read publicly
• Taking a break from kdramas
• Reading at bedtime (and staying up to read)

It was so, so fun.

Here are my favorite reads of 2023:

• Favorite fiction: A Fine Balance, This Time Tomorrow, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (honorable mention: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow)
• Favorite simple romance: Wicked Fox or Seoul Searching
• Favorite novels set in Korea: Island of Sea Women and Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (honorable mentions)
• Most cozy: Legends & Lattes
• Favorite memoirs: Committed, Bringing up Bébé, The Game, The Truth, Yes Man (this category slapped)
• Favorite single message books: The Pathless Path, Goodbye Things (honorable mention: 5AM Club)
• Favorite self help: Four Thousand Weeks, The Way of Integrity, Not Nice (technically didn't finish yet) and The Now Habit
• Favorite health: Outlive, Intuitive Eating, Tactical Barbell II: Conditioning
• Favorite subject matter books: The Interior Design Handbook and Skincare Decoded

Here's everything I read in 2023.

I hope you find something you like 😊

And consider setting a reading goal for 2024. See In Defence of Reading Goals by Cedric Chin.