Happy New Year!
This was a year of health challenges which oddly meant that there were times when I was in bed and the most I could do was read on my phone. I read 130 books this year, a record number for me, so this list below are my favorite titles from the year, with a mixture of fiction, non-fiction, and new for me — poetry.
The Creative Act (Rick Rubin)
Take My Hand (Dolen Perkins Valdez)
Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One (Raphaëlle Giordano)
Us Three (Ruth Jones)
Remember Love (Cleo Wade)
Nothing to See Here (Kevin Wilson)
I Hope This Finds You Well (Kate Baer) / poems
The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control (Katharine Morgan Schafler)
Radically Content (Jamie Varon)
Brave New Medicine (Cynthia Li)
The Last Thing He Told Me (Laura Dave)
Signs (Laura Lynn Jackson)
You Could Make This Place Beautiful (Maggie Smith)
Heart Talk (Cleo Wade)
I’d love to hear your top books of 2023. If you pick one from my list, I hope you choose, “The Creative Act” by Rick Rubin. You can sit and read it quickly or you can do what I did, and savor it over a longer period of time. I do not usually re-read books, but it will be one I continue to go back to for inspiration.
Here are three more lists in case you want to review my books favorites from 2022, 2021 or 2020.
