This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Virginia Tech chapter.
If you’re like me, you’re obsessed with Goodreads. In 2022, I created a Goodreads challenge to read 50 books for the entire year. I won’t say I failed miserably, but I only made it to 41 out of the overzealous 50 that I hoped to accomplish.
As the first month of 2023 is over, I’m reassessing how to finish my goal. The first thing I did was change my Goodreads challenge to 48 books, or four books per month. Then I created themes or concepts for each month to help me decide what I want to read. Here is what I read and what I’m going to read in 2023. Hopefully, my reading list will provide some book recommendations and inspire you to create your own Goodreads goal for the year.
January
- All About Love by Bell Hooks
- Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
- Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
February
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
- Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
- The Harlan Renaissance by William Turner
- You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
March
- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- Don’t Call Me Princess by Peggy Orenstein
- I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
- My Body by Emily Ratajowski
April
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
- Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
- Into the Wild by John Krakauer
May
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
- Sharks in the Time of Saviors Kawai Strong Washburn
- Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion by Jia Tolentino
June
- Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
- The Girls by Emma Cline
July
- Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
- Dear Dolly: On Love, Life, and Friendships by Dolly Alderton
- The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
- Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
August
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Writers and Lovers by Lily King
- In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
- Happy Place by Emily Henry
September
- Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
- Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
- Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
- Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
October
- Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
- Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
November
- The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
- Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog
- Lapvona by Otessa Moshfegh
- The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
December
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott