Top 10 (ish) Books I Read in 2023

Happy New Year everyone! My wife makes fun of me because it causes me physical pain to try to "rate" the books I read or to say one is definitively better than another - so I challenged myself to rank order all 20+books  that I read last year! I go through most of them briefly in the video but try to give some additional commentary on my top 10 so you can determine if any of them would be of interest for yourself!

The challenge with ranking books is that each has strengths and weaknesses that are unique and difficult to compare. Additionally, the "right" book for one day may not be the "right" book on another day...it's like selecting a fine wine! Depends on your mood! Depends on what else is going on in life...But without further delay on my part here is the list....it's likely some of these have already shifted around in relation to one another in my mind since posting this!



SPOILERS:

21. Jekyll & Hyde
20. Frugal Wizards Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
19. The Turn of the Screw
18. Hex
17. Boys in the Valley
16. The Exorcist
15. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
14. Dark Matter
13. Project Hail Mary
12. Equal Rites
11. Sunlit Man
10. Howl's Moving Castle
9. A Wizard of Earthsea
8. Babel
7. The Warded Man
6. Duma Key
5. Piranesi
4. The Shadow of the Wind (in hindsight this is probably my #2)
3. Stardust
2. Tress
1. The First Law Trilogy

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