Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!
In this special episode, we go through our 2023 stats, our worst and best books of 2023, review our 2023 goals, and set our 2024 goals.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:00 Overall stats (books/pages/hours)
20:25 Book length stats
24:10 Other book attribute stats
41:22 Book community stats
50:42 StoryGraph Plus stats
56:36 Worst Books of 2023
01:04:46 Best Books of 2023
01:19:04 2023 goal review
01:26:07 2024 goals
01:38:20 Outro
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Lore Olympus series - Rachel Smythe
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Heartstopper - Alice Oseman
The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde
The Peace Egg - Juliana Horatia Ewing
Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami - Akiko Yosano
Dune - Frank Herbert
Little Men & Jo’s Boys - Louisa May Alcott
On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden
The Shadow Cabinet - Juno Dawson
Our Violent Ends - Chloe Gong
Astral Season Beastly Season - Tahi Saihate
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
The King’s Speech - Mark Logue
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Good Wives - Louisa May Alcott
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
Shatter Me - Tahereh Mafi
Educated - Tara Westover
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Sheets trilogy - Brenna Thummler
I Have Some Questions for You - Rebecca Makkai
I’ll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson
Exiles - Jane Harper
The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff
Year of the Rabbit - Tian Veasna
Cleopatra and Frankenstein - Coco Mellors
When Women Were Dragons - Kelly Barnhill
Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh
How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You - Matthew Inman
Imagine Me - Tahereh Mafi
The Confabulations of Toulouse Lechat - Richard Trebilcock
Damsel - Elana K. Arnold (DON’T EVER READ THIS)
Landline - Rainbow Rowell
Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
These Violent Delights - Chloe Gong
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Death in Her Hands - Ottessa Moshfegh
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka
Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation - Hannah Gadsby
Why We Broke Up - Daniel Handler
Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
This is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences - Sarah Hill
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others - Stephanie Dalley
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Also mentioned:
Imgur album: https://imgur.com/a/PiY9J0N
The StoryGraph https://www.thestorygraph.com/
Orilium Adventure in Aeldia challenge https://youtu.be/hAGr_byzqw8
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
Julia Whelan https://jmwhelan.com/narrator/
