Tier Ranking Every Book I Read in 2023 (108 books!) 📚🌟

It's a very specific book and I did not relate to the vast majority of it and I'm not exactly sure why the book had to be so specific.

I feel like the romance here was really well done and some of the surrounding plot was well done but I feel like we needed a little bit more from the plot.

This was really fun I didn't expect it to love it as much as I did I didn't think it was a perfect book but I did really like it.

It's sci-fi it is gloriously weird Sapphic dystopian I really liked it I'm going to put it in no notes I thought this book was great.

I liked this book but I didn't love it this one's kind of the opposite of the gild of stories where most of the book I was pretty underwhelmed and then the ending I thought was fantastic and sort of redeemed the book for me a little bit but wasn't quite enough to make up for most of the book being pretty meh in my opinion.

Really enjoyed this book but the way that characters were introduced with a laundry list of all of their identities felt very unnatural and was jarring.

It's really meant to be an encyclopedia of emotions which is right up my alley but I didn't feel like it went deep enough into most of the emotions.

It was fine it was okay it was good could have done more for sure.

Both versions of Beauty and the Beast I'm going to put in I'm serving hashtag the best I can do right now in this situation they both had their flaws for different reasons and are a result of their time.

It was okay you know could have been better it didn't really go far enough for me in any direction it had some interesting themes but it just didn't really deliver on them for me it wasn't what I was hoping for going into it.

This I really loved I thought it was gorgeous it's mostly poems addressing our collective experience living through a pandemic and also the experience of being a black woman in America specifically in the 2019 to 2021 time period.

This is also a no notes the original vampire story and a sa safic vampire story and we love that for us.

This was such a huge disappointment it had so much potential it could have been so incredible and it just made the weirdest choices left and right.

This was a really interesting book I liked a lot about it but there were a couple things that didn't quite work for me a couple little choices that I wasn't totally on board with.

This was a really good book but the old English parts were confusing and I still don't know what was happening with all of that.

I found it boring as all heck it was very hard to get through and didn't feel like it was well suited to ADHD readers at all.

It was beautifully written very interesting information it covered a lot more philosophical topics than I expected it to and just really got really deep into the nitty-gritty details which is something I love from non-fiction.

Those dragons were amazing great potential with the dragons and then so many strange choices were made with the characters and the relationships that really took away from everything that it had going on it was very disappointing.

I was really Blown Away by how good this book was it's very dark very emotional really great character work and compelling relationships very atmospheric and eerie and has some really beautiful art in the physical copy.

This was fantastic this is my second James Baldwin and both that I have read from him have been fantastic incredible ridiculously good.

There were some really beautiful moments that stick in my mind and some really gorgeous writing but it was a little confusing and a little Meandering at times.

It was really fantastic it explored institutionalized racism in a really unique and poignant way.

Choices were made you can go watch my Halloween Horror reading Vlog to hear me rant about some of the choices in this book I was very annoyed.

Hester is a really great read fantastic I'm going to put it in no notes cuz I have no notes it was a really great book.

This book is horrific on so many levels it's terrible and I hated it has a lot of dog whistles to a lot of harmful hateful communities it's racist and fat phobic and transphobic and atheist phobic if that's even a thing.

I found it really scary I found the characters really fun and interesting I really enjoyed it.

Other than that I thought their romance was really adorable I liked both of them and they're Dynamic and I thought it was very cute.

It was a very good book I liked a lot about it but it didn't quite get there for me it wasn't quite a five-star read there were a couple little things here and there that I was feeling pretty nitpicky about.

For me personally I didn't find this helpful at all I know lots of people love this book but I just didn't find it to be my cup of tea.

This is supposed to be a book about four female philosophers and it is but they are barely talked about and much more of the book time is spent on the author's love life and the disintegration of her marriage.

I did actually really love the central romance between Iris and Stevie I thought it was really sweet and beautiful and lovely there was just a lot of peripheral things that bothered me and the ending was kind of unsatisfying.

This is a childhood favorite and I am blinded to any issues in it because I love it so it goes in no notes because I love Island of the Blue Dolph it's one of my favorite books ever.

This book was terrible in so many ways you can check out that video if you want the long laundry list but I would happily erase this from my brain.

I read this book twice in 2023 I read it first in January I think and then I read it again in the summer as a book club pick with my book club and both times I really loved it.

I think this book was really well written really fascinating a really beautiful story in a lot of ways but some of the disturbing romantic relationships were very hard to read.

I love it is cozy and amazing and beautiful and lovely and everyone should read it.

This one actually also pleasantly surprised me was a lot more poignant and emotional than I expected it to be.

I read it and I thought it was fantastic I really liked it I loved the main character I loved the setting I loved the themes and I found it pretty funny and engaging and also heartbreaking.

The main horror element here the setting should have delivered the horror the idea of being a lone black woman on the frontier where you never know who is going to ride over the horizon and you're just alone in your tiny little house and there's no one for miles around was really ignored for the monster in a box horror.

This was a really great concept and it failed miserably in my opinion and the end was a choice and the romance was a choice many choices were made that I side eyed heavily reading this book.

It's fantastic it's beautiful it's heartbreaking probably my absolute favorite from this whole series which is a favorite series of mine in general.

I didn't love reading this book I found the main character very difficult to like she was very hypocritical it was kind of depressing.

I found it very Darkly comedic and entertaining while also being very poignant and Diving deep and really developing this character in a very thorough complex beautiful way.

I thought this book was really well done very interesting exploration of the subject matter some really lovely metaphors but I found the ending very frustrating for spoilery reasons.

I loved this book I thought it was so good it's heartbreaking it's very hard to read devastating but beautifully written very Stark and confronting in the best way that literature can be.

It was a favorite of the Year beautifully written exploring some really heartbreaking subject matter.

It is incredible literary horror so good beautiful writing really interesting characters and relationship Dynamics just absolutely deeply compelling exploring grief on a whole other level monstrous transformation and some really weird stuff and a little bit of Gore.

Book two was just as good as book one I really loved it all the Monstrous volumes or books that I've read so far have gotten five stars and I love them a lot.

The other book I read by otessa mheg which was a year of rest and relaxation which I hated so much.

Obsessed with this book I think it's so fantastic it does a lot of similar things to Rouge but it had some extra themes in there especially with the main character's relationship to her immigrant parents and her connection to music as a Pianist those elements added a lot to the story.

While I think this book ended really strong the beginning and middle were pretty Ram it took a long time to get to the good stuff.

I really don't like this book personally I give it two stars.

100 Years of Solitude was really beautiful and very emotionally draining in the best possible way and the ending in particular absolutely blew me away I thought the ending was one of the most gorgeous endings to a book I have ever read.

I thought it was great in pretty much every way beautifully written love the characters really interesting World building and Magic system just fantastic.

This one took the weirdness into more of a gross place and I also felt like it didn't quite fully deliver on some of the themes that I felt it was striving for I found it a little more confusing than Innovative.

This one was really great very difficult to read very emotionally draining to read but very preent and poignant and had some really interesting ways of tying religion in with this idea of a sort of near future end stage climate change sort of societal collapse narrative.

I hated project Hail Mary I hated that book.

This had such a good premise and it just threw it away it made the weirdest choices that made no sense.

I thought it was fantastic I love Mona aad and I loved this book exploring neurocentric beauty standards and complex motherdaughter relationships with a bit of a sci-fi horror element really good.

I personally got a lot out of it just anecdotally I found it very cathartic but I think a lot of the scientific information is not based on any actual science.

It was a bit of a mess sadly I was very disappointed the writing was just not nearly as good as I had hoped it would be.

It was a fantastic book very strange but very enjoyable we had great discussions about it referenced about a million other books that I would love to read but the treatment of women was unsettling.

This book was really great I really loved it I'm going to put it in no notes.

I didn't really feel any of that tension eeriness fear I thought the direction it went in was little strange and I didn't understand why the romance that happened had to happen I just didn't connect to it at all really.

This one was amazing I gave it five stars it made me very emotional I cried a lot while reading it and then also at the end to the point where my husband was concerned for my well-being.

I feel a bit conflicted on this one to be honest it was good but it didn't quite deliver what I was expecting going into it left me a little bit cold at the end.

I thought this book was really well put together for people with ADHD very easy to read in the format it had so much valuable information was very reassuring very validating while also being upfront and blunt about the realities of ADHD.

So many interesting characters were given total personality transplants in this book very little happened plot-wise I just I don't know the whole thing was a choice.

I really liked this collection it's feminist fairy tale retellings and most of them I really loved but there were a couple that didn't quite click for me.

I didn't love how mental illness was represented in this book I felt like that was a real choice.

I had high hopes for this book I think it could have been really interesting but it just felt a little unfocused I think it tried to do too many things in one book.

I loved this duy I think it's fantastic I highly recommend it if you haven't read any NK gemson the city we became is the first one very good.

This book hit really hard it's all about grief and I found it really beautiful and the main character is a little unlikable but she grows throughout the story.

This one was okay it was good it just it had a lot of lost potential it had three love stories that were basically the same love story over and over again that had the exact same story beats the exact same conflict.

I really liked it even though it's not exactly what I had expected going into it and I personally didn't love the ending that was added at the 25th anniversary.

It was one of my favorite books of the year it was really great very surprised by how good it was.

It did something I didn't hate it I just didn't love it either.

I feel like this is another similar situation to a dead Jin and Cairo which is just that this book was too complex for this short format.

This book was a mess it was an absolute mess just no.

The Marion was better it was better was it perfect no it was not.

This was a really fun book I really enjoyed it I did theorize the murderer but I didn't figure out all the ways that the murderer committed the murder how they made everything work and it was really fun and intriguing and a good solid mystery.

I thought this book was a pretty boring take on the subject matter of reinvention culture and onwe.

I think the ending was a little too cut and dry and would have loved a little more ambiguity personally.

This one was fantastic I loved it five stars and I'm going to put it in no notes because I genuinely have no notes I thought this book was amazing highly recommend.

The haunted house was a really interesting metaphor for some of the other subject matter but I found some of the choices to do with the main character's relationship with her daughter a little off pudding.

This was a big disappointment for me I was looking forward to it when I read the description it sounded really interesting but I honestly still don't really know what this book was about I found it very confusing.

I feel like this had potential and there were a couple little aspects of it that I really liked but I just felt like for the most part it missed the mark for me didn't deliver what I was hoping for.

The sequel in a duology urban sci-fi fantasy really great I'm going to put this in no notes I thought it was great I loved this duy I think it's fantastic I highly recommend it.

The one book I read that was a different genre which was the beautiful ones it's more sort of fantasy historical fiction with a little dash of romance that I felt I could really connect to on a different level I felt like aligned with my preferences a lot better.

This one just didn't quite do it for me it's very good as a entryway into body positivity or neutrality if you are new to the concepts completely but if you know anything about these movements if you've been involved in them at all if you've read about them at all you're going to find this very entry level and basic.

I'm going to put the boy on the bridge in no notes cuz it was also fantastic.

This was a fantastic book I gave it four stars I read this in my dark Academia video was very thought-provoking.

I thought it was fantastic I really loved the whole game development aspect of it as well as how unlikable the characters were how complex they were how real their Dynamic felt.

This was a disappointment I'm going to put it in choices.

I thought this book was really great in a lot of ways and really interesting but it definitely wasn't a perfect book and the racism and sexism were very blatant and at times were very difficult to get through.

I don't think it addressed it well at all either of the main topics I think it skirted around all of the bigger issues in a way that I honestly found really irksome.

This one I just found a little meth to be honest.

This is definitely a very difficult book to read it's very sad and upsetting but I also found it really beautiful.

This book had a lot of potential it explored some interesting themes it's a different take on the vampire but some of the choices with the main character and the Romantic entanglement were questionable.

I was enjoying the book it was sort of a turn your brain off Thriller horror and then the ending happened and I was like excuse me am I just supposed to go along with that.