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2023 Reading List
River Secrets (Books of Bayern #3) - Shannon Hale
Heartless - Marissa Meyer
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Something Fresh - P.G. Wodehouse
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
Queen’s Peril - E.K. Johnston (Note: Star Wars)
The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson
Crooked House - Agatha Christie
The Darkest Minds - Alexandra Bracken
The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events #3) - Lemony Snicket
Dragonsinger (Harper Hall Trilogy #2) - Anne McCaffrey
The Thief (Queen’s Thief #1) - Megan Whalen Turner
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Coraline - Neil Gaimen
Ahsoka - E.K. Johnston (Note: Star Wars)
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Queen of Attolia (Queen’s Thief #2) - Megan Whalen Turner
The King of Attolia (Queen’s Thief #3) - Megan Whalen Turner
Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia deLuce #5) - Alan Bradley
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Day Boy and Night Girl - George MacDonald
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien (Note: read by Andy Serkis)
A Conspiracy of Kings (Queen’s Thief #4) - Megan Whalen Turner
Rebel Rising - Beth Revis (Note: Star Wars)
Thick as Thieves (Queen’s Thief #5) - Megan Whalen Turner
Return of the Thief (Queen’s Thief #6) - Megan Whalen Turner
The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events #4) - Lemony Snicket
Two Tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Arthur Conan Doyle (Note: The New Catacomb & The Beetle-Hunter)
Moira’s Pen (Queen’s Thief) - Megan Whalen Turner
The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French - Arthur Quiller Couch (Note: illustrated by Kay Neilsen)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings #1) - J.R.R. Tolkien (Note: fan-made audiobook by Phil Dragash)
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings #2) - J.R.R. Tolkien (Note: fan-made audiobook by Phil Dragash)
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings #3) - J.R.R. Tolkien (Note: fan-made audiobook by Phil Dragash)
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co. #1) - Johnathan Stroud
Partners in Crime (Tommy and Tuppence #2) - Agatha Christie
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
Rebecca - Daphne duMaurier
Dracula - Bram Stoker (Note: Dracula Daily)
Afterworlds - Scott Westerfeld
The Whispering Skull (Lockwood & Co. #2) - Johnathan Stroud
Uneasy Money - P.G. Wodehouse
Renegades (Renegades Trilogy #1) - Marissa Meyer
Archenemies (Renegades Trilogy #2) - Marissa Meyer
Total: 44
Favorites: Persuasion, Queen’s Thief
Honorable Mentions: Lockwood & Co., Something Fresh
Further notes on LOTR: Andy Serkis is great but I thought his Hobbit was just fine, not remarkable. A little disappointing. Phil Dragash never disappoints and I truly think his audiobooks are the ultimate way to experience the trilogy (provided one likes the Peter Jackson movies).
#reading list#2023 books#I adore the Phil Dragash audiobooks and I will never shut up about them#they’re so good#Phil Dragash#I’m loving Lockwood & Co. so far#it’s surprising excellent#and Queen’s Thief was SHOWSTOPPING SPECTACULAR etc etc#oh my goodness they were so exceptional#I have a lot more thoughts about it like I expected them to be good but they’re SO good#and Persuasion! I adored Persuasion#the last two Austens I’ve read (Mansfield Park and Persuasion) I just loved immediately and I didn’t even have to try#unlike the previous Austen novels I read which took a little more for me to get into them#I don’t know if it’s just that I’m a more experienced/mature/whatever reader now or if Persuasion and MP were just more my thing#Lastly Something Fresh was genuinely hilarious and an absolute delight#another good year for reading!#I think I gotta stop reading Star Wars novels though they’re not very good
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