2023 reads

Books read this year, favorites in bold.  Also a big favorite is reading the Harry Potters as a family.

1. Blue Shoe
2. Gone Crazy in Alabama
3. Beartown
4. Going Rogue
5. How to Trap a Tiger
6. The Foundling
7. Mr. Pengachoosa
8. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
9. Shadow School Dehaunting
10. The Way I Heard It
11. The Stories We Tell
12. The Rabbit Hutch
13. Raymie Nightingale
14. Crenshaw
15. Other Birds
16. The Seven Good Years
17. Inside Out and Back Again
18. The Bandit Queens
19. Spare
20. Louisiana's Way Home
21. I'm Glad My Mother Died
22. Beverly Right Here
23. It Starts with Us
24. Daisy Jones & the Six
25. Nora Goes Off Script
26. House on the Cerulean Sea (again)
27. The Seat Filler
28. The Upside of Falling Down
29. Anxious Children, Anxious Parents
30. The Woman in the Library
31. The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell
32. Diana: In Her Own Words
33. Creative Mending
34. The House Across the Lake
35. Playing With Anxiety: Casey's Guide for Teens & Kids
36. The First Magnificent Summer
37. Really Good, Actually
38. A Long Walk to Water
39. Just the Nicest Couple
40. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
41. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
42. The Story of the Blue Planet
43. Someone Else's Shoes
44. We'll Always Have Summer
45. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
46. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
47. The Rachel Incident
48. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
49. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
50. Blue Hour
51. some of The Martian Chronicles
52. Everybody Fights
53. The Breakaway
54. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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