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2023
My Year in Books
36,752
pages read
Kayla Hendrie
103
books read
Kayla Hendrie
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
Shortest Book
128
pages
Things We Hide From the Light by Lucy Score
Longest Book
592
pages
Average book length in 2023
356
pages
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Most Shelved
5,014,346
people also shelved
Sun Keep Rising by Kristen R. Lee
Least Shelved
3,119
people also shelved
Kayla’s average rating for 2023
4.2
4.2
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.56 average
Terms and Conditions by Lauren Asher

Kayla’s first review of the year

it was amazing
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KAYLA’S 2023 BOOKS
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
it was amazing
Icebreaker by Hannah Grace
The One by Kiera Cass
Twisted Love by Ana Huang
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin
Love That Story by Jonathan Van Ness
it was amazing
Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
My Body by Emily Ratajkowski
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Terms and Conditions by Lauren Asher
Spy x Family, Vol. 1 by Tatsuya Endo
Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead by Elle Cosimano
The Sweetest Oblivion by Danielle Lori
Beautifully Broken Pieces by Catherine Cowles
What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline
Spy x Family, Vol. 2 by Tatsuya Endo
it was amazing
A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole
SPY×FAMILY 4 by Tatsuya Endo
SPY×FAMILY 3 by Tatsuya Endo
Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
Spare by Prince Harry
SPY×FAMILY 5 by Tatsuya Endo
it was amazing
Addicted to You by Krista Ritchie
Ricochet by Krista Ritchie
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
Garnet Flats by Devney Perry
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
SPY×FAMILY 6 by Tatsuya Endo
The Deal by Elle Kennedy
SPY×FAMILY 7 by Tatsuya Endo
Final Offer by Lauren Asher
Addicted for Now by Krista Ritchie
it was amazing
The Mistake by Elle Kennedy
SPY×FAMILY 8 by Tatsuya Endo
Magnolia Parks by Jessa Hastings
Happy Place by Emily Henry
Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun by Elle Cosimano
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
You Shouldn't Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose
The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand
Jasper Vale by Devney Perry
it was amazing
Sun Keep Rising by Kristen R. Lee
Kiss the Sky by Krista Ritchie
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
When in Rome by Sarah Adams
Last Summer at the Golden Hotel by Elyssa Friedland
it was amazing
House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Crimson River by Devney Perry
Exes and O's by Amy Lea
Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Paris by Paris Hilton
The Half of It by Madison Beer
it was amazing
The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Things We Left Behind by Lucy Score
Twisted Hate by Ana Huang
Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister
Flawless by Elsie Silver
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
Throttled by Lauren Asher
The Only One Left by Riley Sager
Collided by Lauren Asher
it was amazing
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
Go Hex Yourself by Jessica Clare
Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson
King of Wrath by Ana Huang
Bad Mormon by Heather Gay
Identity by Nora Roberts
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
My Roommate Is a Vampire by Jenna Levine
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
it was amazing
Wrecked by Lauren Asher
Hothouse Flower by Krista Ritchie
Beautifully Broken Life by Catherine Cowles
Heartless by Elsie Silver
Twisted Lies by Ana Huang
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Punk 57 by Penelope Douglas
Beautifully Broken Spirit by Catherine Cowles
The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Maid by Nita Prose
Tattered by Devney Perry
The Risk by S.T. Abby
Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison
Love Redesigned by Lauren Asher
Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams
it was amazing
Done and Dusted by Lyla Sage
Things We Left Behind by Lucy Score

Kayla’s last review of the year

it was amazing
Thank you to Bloom Books and NetGalley for the arc!!

I was really excited to read this book since book #1. We've been teased about the reasoning behind their deep hatred towards each other and with the this book we finally know all the details. The first 50% I had mixed feelings about the book, but once the relationship picked up it got exponentially better. Lucy Score did a really good job tying up all the storylines from previous books into this ...more
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