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10 Best Books I Read in 2023

Last year’s best reading experiences

Hooked on Books
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7 min readJan 7, 2024

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I read 60 books last year, according to my Goodreads Reading Challenge. Here are the top 10.

The 10 Best Books of 2023:

  1. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  2. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
  3. Dusty’s Diary: One Frustrated Man’s Apocalypse Story by Bobby Adair
  4. The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
  5. The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas
  6. Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
  7. Rock Bottom Girl by Lucy Score
  8. The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren
  9. The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
  10. Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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First out is 3 non-romance books.

#1. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Published: May 4, 2021
Genre: Science Fiction
Goodreads rating: 4.51

Winner of Best Science Fiction in Goodreads Choice Awards in 2021.

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Elin Melaas
Hooked on Books

Books, reading, health, parenting, and coffee 📚 MSc in Medical Physics and BSc in Nutrition. Editor at Illumination. Owner of Hooked on Books.