{"id":20639,"date":"2023-12-31T09:29:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T15:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20639"},"modified":"2023-12-30T20:30:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T02:30:02","slug":"2023-the-year-in-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/2023-the-year-in-books\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: The Year In Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As 2023 comes to a close, my third full year of remote working, I managed to far surpass my previous records by completing a whopping 59 books, four books more than my previous high from last year and my third consecutive year completing the 52 books in 52 weeks challenge<\/a>.\u00a0 I completed the challenge in late November and surpassed last year\u2019s total in mid-December.\u00a0 I read (or listened) to 21,394 pages, by far my highest total of all time and only the fourth time I\u2019ve passed 10,000.<\/p>\n

Of those books, eleven were non-fiction and, of the remaining 48 novels, only four were tied to a TV show, either as the source material or as a tie-in.\u00a0 None of the books came out of my dwindling \u201cto-read\u201d drawer, with 53 e-books and two audiobooks.\u00a0 I continued to take advantage of my library card, which helped me procure 44 of the books I consumed throughout the year.<\/p>\n

Over 61% of the books I read this year were by authors I had read before. The 22 authors that I read for the first this year were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Selma Blair<\/td>\nStacy Willingham<\/td>\nGillian McAllister<\/td>\nChuck Klosterman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gabrielle Zevin<\/td>\nRonan Farrow<\/td>\nMatthew Perry<\/td>\nAmor Towles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jason Rekulak<\/td>\nEmily St. John Mandel<\/td>\nBonnie Garmus<\/td>\nThomas Mullen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Naomi Hirahara<\/td>\nMaitland Ward<\/td>\nBusy Phillips<\/td>\nElliot Page<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jinwoo Chong<\/td>\nMaureen Ryan<\/td>\nMinka Kelly<\/td>\nBritney Spears<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Emily Henry<\/td>\nRebecca Makkai<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Jennifer McMahon, Karin Slaughter, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Erle Stanley Gardner, Grady Hendrix, Jeffery Deaver, Laura Lippman, Ruth Ware, and Stacy Willingham were the only authors that I read multiple titles from during 2023.<\/p>\n

18 of the books I read were released this year, while only five of them were released last century, with the oldest first published in 1934.<\/p>\n

Finally, the breakdown by month, which was fairly consistent across the entire year.<\/span><\/p>\n

December \u2013 7
\nNovember \u2013 4
\nOctober \u2013 5
\nSeptember \u2013 3
\nAugust \u2013 7
\nJuly \u2013 4
\nJune \u2013 6
\nMay \u2013 4
\nApril \u2013 7
\nMarch \u2013 3
\nFebruary \u2013 5
\nJanuary \u2013 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As 2023 comes to a close, my third full year of remote working, I managed to far surpass my previous records by completing a whopping 59 books, four books more than my previous high from last year and my third consecutive year completing the 52 books in 52 weeks challenge.\u00a0 I completed the challenge in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[10660,10703,957,10756,10568,9101,10821,10685,5332,10590,10392,9787,10664,1578,188,10761,8099,8023,10747,2548,10763,852,10725,10823,10611,9877,10363,10383,10028,10721],"class_list":["post-20639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-amor-towles","tag-bonnie-garmus","tag-britney-spears","tag-busy-philipps","tag-chuck-klosterman","tag-elliot-page","tag-emily-henry","tag-emily-st-john-mandel","tag-erle-stanley-gardner","tag-gabrielle-zevin","tag-gillian-mcallister","tag-grady-hendrix","tag-jason-rekulak","tag-jeffery-deaver","tag-jennifer-mcmahon","tag-jinwoo-chong","tag-karin-slaughter","tag-laura-lippman","tag-maitland-ward","tag-matthew-perry","tag-maureen-ryan","tag-minka-kelly","tag-naomi-hirahara","tag-rebecca-makkai","tag-ronan-farrow","tag-ruth-ware","tag-selma-blair","tag-stacy-willingham","tag-taylor-jenkins-reid","tag-thomas-mullen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21007,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20639\/revisions\/21007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}