My Years In Books: 2023

Every year I write an end-of-year post about my annual Goodreads Reading Challenge and the report titled My Year in Books. It’s been an annual tradition for nearly a decade and it’s that time of year! (Here is a link to my LinkedIn 2019 Reading Challenge results article just as an FYI.) Fortunately for many readers of this article, I don’t have the time to write a longish analysis as I often have, so I’m going to post a screenshot of both with a link to the Goodreads webpages and another link to PDF documents for each that I stored on my Hankrules2011 website. There you can see icons (covers) of all of the books I read in 2023 for anyone who may be curious. My results were a little better than 2022 and I'm linking to last year's post for comparison purposes.

Here is a screenshot of my 2023 Goodreads Reading Challenge results and it shows my results in year dating back to 2013.

Last year I finished my?2022 Reading Challenge?surpassing my?goal of 210 books?by reading?404 books. This year, I set my 2023 goal at 200 books and read 452, not the most ever but I think probably in my top 3-4 all-time for one year.

Here are some basic stats taken from the My Year in Books webpage:

Scott’s?2023 Goodreads Reading Challenge Basics

• Books Read:?452
• Pages Read:?195,139
• Shortest Book:?10 Pages?[infamous speech by the late British MP James Burnham]
• Longest Book:?14,584 Pages?[Delphi Complete Works of Emile Zola]
• Average Length per Book?in 2022:?431 Pages
• Average Rating:?3.7/5
• First Review of the Year Written: Adam Lowther, Challenging Nuclear Abolition (a friend)
• Last Review of the Year Written: A.D. Winans, Dead Lions (a friend)

You can find my 2023 Goodreads Reading Challenge results (in their entirety) on Goodreads OR via a PDF at Hankrules2011.com . It shows covers of all 452 books I read in 2023.

Continuing, Goodreads also releases an end-of-year report fairly similar to the Reading Challenge titled My Year in Books (obviously for 2023 in this case), but with some of the stats I posted above, etc. Here is a screenshot of the top of the webpage.

Here are links to this Goodreads webpage AND to a PDF I made (which is large but hopefully it will work for everyone).

I need to wrap this up and those who have been with me a long time and who have seen this before may appreciate it, though others may too and I certainly hope so. I haven’t thought of my 2024 goal yet, but it might be around the same. Can’t say I can predict any success though. (And if you want to look at my Goodreads Author Page, you can find it here .)

Cheers!

Scott Holstad