Leave me alone—I read 235 books in 2023. You try whittling that down! These are my favorite books I read this year that came out before 2023. Every year I try to read more and more of my backlisted titles from my physical TBR.







Funny Feelings by Tarah Dewitt
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead
Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola
One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Always Only You by Chloe Liese






Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter
If We Were Us by K.L. Walther
Loveless by Alice Oseman
Turning by Joy L. Smith
Those Summer Nights by Lauren Silverman
Some Other Now by Sarah Everett