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The Books that Left an Impression on Me in 2023

Ashleigh

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The Books that Left an Impression on Me in 2023

So it is that time of year when people make their top ten books of the year lists, or their best reads of the year and rank them. This is something I have never been able to do because I can’t always choose a top ten – I always have more than ten!

This year, instead of ranking books, I want to try something a little different – I want to showcase the books that stood out to me, and the books that need love, the books that may have slipped a little bit under the radar for whatever reason, because on the ‘top reads’ lists, I often see the same ones, and they’re often the ones that get lots of hype and media attention for a range of reasons.

The books I think shone brightly this year and need more love are:

There are many reasons I chose these books, from the themes, what they did with retellings, the settings and lots of other reasons outlined in the reviews. It was very hard to narrow these down, and I have focused on Australian authors, and most of them are female – I think it is just the way I have read this year as well, and these were amongst the ones that left an impression on me. Many of them are also ones that do not always get as much attention as the bigger books out there, and I wanted to shine a light on them as well.

Onto more reading in 2024.

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Published by Ashleigh

An avid reader and writer, reviewer and author. I love to read just about anything. I enjoy writing about books, reading and writing as well and I dabble in many areas of writing from travel to crime fiction and fantasy. My blog is a way to get how I feel about reading, books and writing out there. I currently receive books to review from various publishers in most genres, but typically don't review romance or horror, or erotica books as I these are genres I have difficulty in reviewing and in general they are not what I enjoy reading.

8 thoughts on “The Books that Left an Impression on Me in 2023”

  1. I’ve only read a couple on this list – Being Jimmy Baxter and The Woman in the Library – and they’ve both been favourites! Murder You Wrote looks fascinating, and I’ve just reserved one of the Temora books from the library based on another blog post of yours.

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  2. I haven’t read any of these, but I hear Jack Heath’s books are good. He’s a charmer in person (and I mean that sincerely.) I still want to read Sulari Gentill but the years go and I don’t seem to quite make it.

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        1. With Jack Heath, he has two adult series that I have heard of – Hangman, and the two companion novels, Kill Your Brother and Kill Your Husbands – I haven’t read the Hangman series yet but have heard that it is good.

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            1. Yeah his Minutes of Mystery and Minutes of Danger series are awesome too, as his his latest YA If You Tell Anyone You’re Next. There’s also a middle grade trilogy which is lots of fun too. Kid President, I think it is.

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