These are my top 12 favorite reads of 2023! The books are in order of when I read them. These were all 5-star reads. I considered what I read this year regardless of the publication date.

True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren (now my all-time favorite CLO book and second book in DNADuo)
Things We Hide From The Light by Lucy Score (now my all-time favorite Lucy Score book and second book in Knockemout series)
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (favorite fantasy)
How Not To Drown In A Glass Of Water by Angie Cruz (favorite backlist literary fiction)
The Only One Left by Riley Sager (second all-time favorite Riley Sager book)
Drowning by TJ Newman (new-to-me thriller author favorite)
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter (favorite backlist thriller)
Mixed Signals by BK Borision (favorite sunshine-sunshine romance and new-to-me author I discovered)
The Art of Scandal by Regina Black (one of my favorite debut authors)
After That Night by Karin Slaughter (favorite book in a series I haven’t completely read)
You, Again by Kate Goldbeck (one of my favorite debut authors)
This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan (favorite 2024 release I can’t wait for everyone to read)

A few observations about my 2023 reading:

• Of my top 12, I met all these authors except for Rebecca Yarros and Kate Goldbeck.
• Lucy Score was the top author I read this year with 5 books.
  The top genres I read this year were romance, contemporary, and mystery.
• According to my years books.com, my reading vibes were “adventurous.”

What was one of your favorite books of 2023?