Below are some good books I plan to read over the next year. I am finishing up Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy from my 2022 reading list, but after that, I am good to go for 2023. For a while, I was teaching high school Writing and Literature and did not have time to read. Now that I am not teaching, I feel like I am trying to catch up on all the books I wanted to read but couldn’t. For example, I never read the Harry Potter Series. I think I am the only person in the universe, who has not read those books. I read the first in the series last year and loved it, so now I will read the second to see if it measures up to the first.
What books do you plan on reading in 2023? Leave your book recommendations in the comments below. If you don’t plan out your stack, what are you reading currently?
All the Right Places by Jennifer Niven – Two teens, who are struggling with life, meet on top of a six-story building where they connect in ways that make them want to live. The world that is too big for one begins to shrink and a world that is too small for the other begins to grow.
Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell – In book 2 of the Kay Scarpetta series, a writer is found slain after she feels she is stalked by a menace. Kay Scarpetta fits the forensic pieces of the puzzle together to solve the crime.
Fall of Giants by Ken Follet – Book 1 of the Century Trilogy, this novel starts at WWI and follows five families through the Russian Revolution where love, tragedy and chaos bind them together.
Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood, Book 3 – The third novel in this popular series finds the sisterhood about to go to college. The pants are going to travel a lot.
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stiegg Larsson – The second book in the Millennium series by Stieg Larsson, Mikael Blomkvist is about to publish an article about sex trafficking when he finds out that the two reporters responsible for the article is found dead. The fingerprints on the murder weapon belong to his friend, Lisbeth Salander.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.L Rawlings – The second book in the Harry Potter series brings Harry and his friends back to Hogwarts for their second year after an interesting summer. Harry begins to hear whispers in the corridors of Hogwarts and strange occurrences of students turning to the stone have everyone on edge. Harry’s newest follower, Dobby, a mysterious elf, forewarns of things to come. It will take Harry and his classmates to find out the culprit of the mysterious happenings around Hogwarts.
John Adams by David McCullough – The story of one of the most iconic founding fathers of America, who became the second President of the United States. This biography follows the path of John Adams as he claims his stake in American history.
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly – A lawyer who conducts business out of his Lincoln town car defends a Los Angeles playboy who is charged with attacking a woman he picked up in a bar. What he thought would be a slam-dunk easy case, turns into a nightmare.
The Reason for God: Belief in the Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller – Challenging arguments for skeptics, atheists and agnostics for the reason to believe in God. The author also presents sound reasoning through literature, conversation and philosophy to answer frequent questions from believers.
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt – A developing friendship between an aquarium employee and an octopus, who helps her through the death of her husband and the disappearance of her son.
The Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller – An amazing retelling of the story of Achilles.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Husseini – The story of two women in Kabul brought together by a war who learn at the end that love is the key to survival.
