Book Rank List 2023
I really dropped the ball for 2023, at least at the end of the year. I just got overwhelmed, and then my stomach started hurting again, and I didn't have the time nor the motivation to read... I really need to start back up on it. My dream is to read enough to catch up on the time I missed in 2023, as well as to catch up on what I haven't done for 2024 so far. We'll see if it happens.
Overall Best Book of 2023
1. This One Time With Julie by David Lampson (5/5)
2. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (5/5)
3. My Favorite Band Does Not Exist by Robert T. Jeschonek (4/5)
4. Over the Moon by Elissa Haden Guest (3/5)
5. The Alchemy of Forever by Avery Williams (3/5)
6. One of the Survivors by Susan Shaw (3/5)
7. Arclight by Josin L. McQuein (2/5)
8. The 13th Reality: The Journal of Curious Letters by James Dashner (2/5)
9. The Beautiful Between by Alyssa B. Sheinmel (1.5/5)
Unranked in list but ranked here from greatest to least: Can You Keep a Secret? by various authors - 4/5 , The Valentine's Day Disaster by Brandi Dougherty 4/5 , Totally Crushed by Eliza Willard 3/5 , Callie For President by Robin Wasserman 3/5
Unranked in list and unranked here, but still included because I read them: Ben 10: Mecha Madness, Ben 10: For Science, Ben 10: The Manchester Mystery, Ben 10: The Creature From Serenity Shore
Most Interesting Premise, Regardless of Execution
My Favorite Band Does Not Exist by Robert T. Jeschonek
Arclight by Josin L. McQuein
The Alchemy of Forever by Avery Williams
Best Cover
Arclight by Josin L. McQuein
Over The Moon by Elissa Haden Guest
The 13th Reality: The Journal of Curious Letters by James Dashner
Want To Rewrite
Arclight by Josin L. McQuein
The Alchemy of Forever by Avery Williams
Over The Moon by Elissa Haden Guest
Best Protagonist
Melinda - Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Joe - This One Time With Julie by David Lampson
Idea Deity (not including Reacher Mirage) - My Favorite Band Does Not Exist by Robert T. Jeschonek
Best Villain
Honoria - Arclight by Josin L. McQuein
(the rest of the books either didn't have actual villains, or else the villains weren't good enough to go here. The only one that even came close was Cyrus from The Alchemy of Forever by Avery Williams)
Best Deuteragonist or Side Character
Mattie - Over The Moon by Elissa Haden Guest
Anne Marie/Annie - Arclight by Josin L. McQuein
Kate and Alexis - The Beautiful Between by Alyssa B. Sheinmel
Sato - The 13th Reality: The Journal of Curious Letters by James Dashner
Donate Pile (No Specific Order)
The Beautiful Between by Alyssa B. Sheinmel
Arclight by Josin L. McQuein **
The 13th Reality: The Journal of Curious Letters by James Dashner ^
Keep Pile (No Specific Order)
Over The moon by Elissa Haden Guest
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
This One Time With Julie by David Lampson
One of the Survivors by Susan Shaw
My Favorite Band Does Not Exist by Robert T. Jeschonek
The Alchemy of Forever by Avery Williams
(All of my Valentine's books)
(All of the Ben 10 comics)
^ = originally this book was in the Keep Pile, but after some debate, I decided that I couldn't see any reason to keep it.
** = This book as it CURRENTLY STANDS is in the Donate Pile, but I find myself debating whether or not it should be moved to the Keep Pile in the end
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the books I read in 2017
Way better this year, thanks to no school after May.
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine
The Elephants of Style, Bill Walsh
Scrappy Little Nobody, Anna Kendrick
The Indian in the Cupboard, Lynne Reid Banks
The Rise of Writing: Redefining Mass Literacy, Deborah Brandt
Dirty Jokes and Beer, Drew Carey
Dead Birds Singing, Mark Talbert
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Screwball, Alberta Armer
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
Words Fail Me, Patricia O'Conner
The Moves Make the Man, Bruce Brooks
Best. State. Ever., Dave Barry
Good Job, Brain!, Karen Chu et al.
Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters, Alfred Hermida
Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication, Gunther Kress
Media Convergence, Graham Meikle and Sherman Young1
Eleanor and Park, Rainbow Rowell
Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell
Carry On, Rainbow Rowell
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Newt Scamander
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
Ghosts, Raina Telgemeier
Endymion Spring, Matthew Skelton
All I Know About Animal Behavior I Learned in Loehmann's Dressing Room, Erma Bombeck
Wonder, R.J. Palacio
Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life, Chris Kohler
My Favorite Band Does Not Exist, Robert T. Jeschonek
It Started With Goodbye, Christina June
36 Views of Mount Fuji, Cathy N. Davidson
I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl, Gretchen McNeil
Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, Louis Sachar
Almost Transparent Blue, Ryu Murakami
The Crossover, Kwame Alexander
MARTians, Blythe Woolston
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
I Am Number Four, Pittacus Lore
The Adventures of Dr. McNinja Omnibus vol. 1, Christopher Hastings2
Open Ice, Pat Hughes
The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
Athlete Vs. Mathlete, W.C. Mack
Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher
The Only Thing Worse Than Me is You, Lily Anderson
We'll Laugh Again, Art Buchwald
Skink: No Surrender, Carl Hiaasen
Hungry Monkey, Matthew Amster-Burton
Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
Live Right and Find Happiness (Though Beer is Much Faster), Dave Barry
Charmed Life, Diana Wynne Jones
When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, George Carlin
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling3
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
The Nerdist Way, Chris Hardwick
American Band, Kristen Laine
Do Bananas Chew Gum?, Jamie Gilson
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Samantha Irby
The Baseball Codes, Jason Turbow
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
Major Crush, Jennifer Echols
I Hope I Screw This Up, Kyle Cease
Music Lessons, Stephanie Stein Crease
Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!, M.E. Kerr
Navajo Afterglow, Melvin Eisenstadt
Notes from an Accidental Band Geek, Erin Dionne
Saxophone for Dummies, Denis Gabel and Michael Villmow
Losers Take All, David Klass
The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading, Charity Tahmaseb and Darcy Vance
My Custom Van, Michael Ian Black
The Upside of Unrequited, Becky Albertalli
Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons
italics: read it before
bold: read it to my kids in bed
This is where I finished my research and writing for grad school. From here forward, it’s almost all new YA, with some essayists and nonfiction sprinkled in.
I know that I read more comics than this, but I guess I didn’t write them down.
This is the British edition that I bought from a second-hand shop in London, so I’m claiming that I’d never read it even though it’s not so different.
I also did the Book Riot Read Harder challenge, and I did OK. Missed four, or possibly three because I feel weird Googling the sexual preference of authors.
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