Reading.is.your.destiny

✌️📖THE BOOKS I READ IN 2023📖✌️

🎶hold on to the memories, they will hold on to you🎶

✌️out 2023!

📚Pictured here are 112 of the (now and subject to change) 184 books I’ve read this year! It’s crazy to see so many of them together and be reminded of what a fun year of reading it’s been! (I’m already realizing I forgot to add some I own 🙄)

📚Of the 184, 52 were print 📖 and 132 were audio 🎧!

📚While those numbers may sound crazy, it comes out to roughly one print book a week (which takes me 5-8 hours to read) and an audiobook about every 2-3 days (which usually is about 6-10 hours of listening).

📚I break it down to show that 30 minutes of reading on my Kindle while nursing the baby a couple times a day and audiobooks while I work, clean, and drive around can add up to A LOT OF GREAT BOOKS!

📚I don’t sit and read all day (I wish)! I have a 4 year old, 1 year old, a full-time job, a social life and keep my house clean (mostly) (thanks audiobooks)!

📚I never set out to hit a certain number of books or beat my numbers of previous years, I just read for fun when I want to. That’s it 😊

📚Of these 112, almost 90 were gifted from either publishers (tagged) or friends or from my bookclub’s monthly book unhaul! And probably at least 10 were bought second hand!

📚Stay tuned, I’ll be sharing my favorite 23 of 23 and then my top 3 (I think they’re tied)!

📚I’m so excited for a new fun year of reading ahead and I’ve read probably 10-20 2024 releases so far and think it may be one of the best book years yet!

❓Do you see any favorites in these stacks? Are you making any reading goals in 2024?