I also decided this year to participate in the book bracket challenge but I thought it would be interesting to split it up between non-fiction and fiction as well as the overall.
"The Lightmaker's Manifesto" by Karen Walrond was the overall winner and the non-fiction winner with "The Diary of Anne Frank - 75th Anniversary Edition" coming in second. On the fiction side I had "The Good Girl's Guide to Murder" by Holly Jackson as the winner with "The House in the Cerulean Sea" by T.J. Kline coming in second.
2023 Books Read:
Non-Fiction - Memoirs:
A Place for Us: A Memoir - Brandon J. Wolf
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Spare - Prince Harry
The Diary of a Young Girl, 75th Anniversary Edition - Anne Frank *
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories - Marina Keegan
Walking in My Joy: In These Streets - Jenifer Lewis
Non-Fiction - Audiobooks:
How Ya'll Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived - Leslie Jordan
What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love - Carole Radziwill †
Non-Fiction - Personal Growth:
Acres - Kendra Barnes
The Lightmaker's Manifesto: How to Work for Change without Losing Your Joy - Karen Walrond
Non-Fiction - True Crime:
Butcher, Baker: The True Account of an Alaska Serial Killer - Walter Gilmour
Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion & Death in the Suburbs - John Bloom & Jim Atkinson
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, & the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood - Gregg Olsen
Sutherland Springs: God, Guns, and Hope in a Texas Town - Joe Holley
The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder
Non-Fiction - History:
I Am Not Your Negro - James Baldwin
I Have a Dream - Martin Luther King Jr.
Stupid History: A Collection of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Through the Ages - Leland Gregory & John Mitchinson
The Book of General Ignorance - John Lloyd
Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama that Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11 - Lynn Spencer
Non-Fiction:
Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics - Dolly Parton
Fiction:
Carrie Soto Is Back - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Red, White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
Reminders of Him - Colleen Hoover
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
The Guncle - Steven Rowley
The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Kline
The Last Thing He Told Me - Laura Dave
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides *
Under the Whispering Door - T.J. Kline
Fiction - Series:
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1) - Holly Jackson
Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2) - Holly Jackson
As Good as Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3) - Holly Jackson
Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 2 - L. Frank Baum
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (Oz, #4) - L. Frank Baum
The Road to Oz (Oz, #5) - L. Frank Baum
The Emerald City of Oz (Oz, #6) - L. Frank Baum
Hearstopper: Volume 1 - Alice Oseman
Hearstopper: Volume 2 - Alice Oseman
Hearstopper: Volume 3 - Alice Oseman
Hearstopper: Volume 4 - Alice Oseman
For You and Only You (You, #4) - Caroline Keynes
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0) - Suzanne Collins
The One and Only Ruby (The One and Only Ivan, #3) - Katherine Applegate
The Winners (Beartown, #3) - Fredrik Backman
Poetry:
2am Thoughts - Makenzie Campbell
Call Us What We Carry - Amanda Gorman
And Still I Rise - Maya Angelou
fluid. - Renaada Williams
healing for no one but me - Jennae Cecelia
Home Body - Rupi Kaur
Milk & Honey - Rupi Kaur
Please Love Me at My Worst - Michaela Angemeer
salt. - Nayyirah Waheed
The Flower That Went Mad: Bipolar Poetry - Yogesh Chandra
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country - Amanda Gorman
The Sun and Her Flowers - Rupi Kaur *
Uncaged Wallflower - Jennae Cecelia
you are safe here. - AVA.
You'll Come Back to Yourself - Michaela Angemeer
Short Stories:
A Night at the Tropicana - Chanel Cleeton
Frozen - Ann Sleeves
If the Fates Allow - Rainbow Rowell
Model Home - J. Courtney Sullivan
Resting Scrooge Face - Meghan Quinn
Straw into Gold: A Rumpelstiltskin Faerie Tale Retelling - Carol Beth Anderson
The Bookstore Sisters - Alice Hoffman
The Rise: A Short Story - Ian Rankin
The Scenic Route - Christina Baker Kline
Trayvon: Ten Years Later - Sybrina Fulton
Short Stories - Series:
Two Henrys (This Can't Be Happening Collection, #1) - Kevin Allison
Identity Thief (This Can't Be Happening Collection, #2) - Rachel Rosenthal
The Third Man (This Can't Be Happening Collection, #3) - Mani Sheriar
Black Sheep (This Can't Be Happening Collection, #4) - Rory School
Everything My Mother Taught Me (Inheritance, #1) - Alice Hoffman
Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies (Pottermore Presents, #1) - J.K. Rowling
Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2) - J.K. Rowling
Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide (Pottermore Presents, #3) - J.K. Rowling
Innocent (Pen Pals and Serial Killers, #5) - Jo Michaels
Leap to Love (International Sports Romance, #0.5) - Johana Gavez
Children's Books:
A Light in the Attic - Shel Silverstein
Falling Up - Shel Silverstein
I Snoop On My Anxiety - Melissa Winn
I've Loved You Since Forever - Hoda Kotb
Odder - Katherine Applegate
The Smart Cookie (The Food Group, #5) - Jory John & Pete Oswald
The Sour Grape (The Food Group, #6) - Jory John & Pete Oswald
* Books that have been read 2 times
† Books that have been read 3 times
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