Did I read the books I hauled in 2023? 📚

Hello fellow bookworms 📚 Today I’m reflecting back on what books I hauled in 2023! I don’t usually do book hauls but I wanted to figure out how many of the books I hauled, I actually ended up reading! I tracked this in my Notion throughout the year, so I used this overview for the post! Though I read fewer books compared to 2022, I’m still happy with my progress. I hauled fewer books in 2023, therefore it was much easier to read most of them. I’m trying to read books – especially physical ones – in a more timely manner, instead of waiting years to get to them. I only included the covers for the books I haven’t read, so if any of them is your favorite, let me know 👀

💫 Index 💫

• 📱 = E-book (Kindle)
• 📚 = Physical Book
• 🎁 = Gifted to Me
• 🔁 = Books I already read, but wanted a copy of

1. ❌ Prince of Sorrows (Kellen Graves) 📱
2. ✅ A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation 1 (Momochi, Misaki, Sando) 📱
3. ✅ Mysteries of Thorn Manor (Margaret Rogerson) 📚

➽ There’s still a book on my TBR that I hauled all the way back in January! I managed to read my preorder of Mysteries of Thorn Manor, a companion book to Sorcery of Thorns that I loved 💖 I checked out Prince of Sorrows during a Kindle sale and even though I hadn’t heard much about it, the premise seemed like fun! It features fairies and I’m hoping to read it when I’m in the mood for some Fantasy Romance!

1. ✅ Spy x Family Vol 9. (Tatsuya Endo) 📚
2. ✅ The Screaming Staircase (Jonathan Stroud) 📚
3. ✅ The Dagger in the Dark (Jonathan Stroud) 📱

➽ I managed to read all of my February books! I’m always eager to read the latest Spy x Family Volume and I immediately picked it up at the bookstore. I also watched the Lockwood & Co. Netflix series, so I bought the first book (and a novella) in order to check out the source material! I loved the book as much as the show 🥰

1. ✅ The Sad Ghost Club Vol. 3 (Lize Meddings) 📚

➽ I only hauled one book in March and it was a graphic novel! I love the Sad Ghost Club books, so I had to preorder the latest volume 💖 Obviously, I ended up immediately reading it when it came in the mail!

1. ✅ Ghost 19 (Simone St. James) 📱
2. ✅ Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Heather Fawcett) 📚🎁🔁
3. ✅ Atomic Habits (James Clear) 📚🎁🔁
4. ✅ The Whispering Skull (Jonathan Stroud) 📚🎁
5. ✅ The Hollow Boy (Jonathan Stroud) 📚🎁
6. ✅ The Creeping Shadow (Jonathan Stroud) 📚🎁
7. ✅ The Empty Grave (Jonathan Stroud) 📚🎁

➽ April is my birthday month, so I hauled more books than usual! Most of them were birthday gifts from my family. Since I loved the Lockwood & Co series and started reading it, I ended up getting the remaining books! I also got two books that I enjoyed and wanted a copy of 🥰 I ended up reading all the books I got!

1. ❌ Spells for Forgetting (Adrienne Young) 📱
2. ✅ A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation 2 (Momochi, Misaki, Sando) 📱
3. ✅ Green Rising (Lauren James) 📱
4. ✅ The Sun and the Star (Rick Riordan) 📚

➽ My May Hauls were a mixed bag! I really enjoyed Green Rising, but was disappointed by The Sun and the Star and the second volume of A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation (definitely not continuing with the series). I still have yet to read Spells of Forgetting. I haven’t read anything by this author before, but the book sounded intriguing 😊

1. ✅ Honey & Spice (Bolu Babalola) 📱
2. ✅ A Witch’s Guide to Fake Dating a Demon (Sarah Hawley) 📱
3. ❌ Elementary (James M. Russell) 📱

➽ It’s rare for me to haul a nonfiction book, so maybe that’s why I haven’t read it yet! I used to major in Chemistry back in high school, so Elementary intrigued me from the very beginning. I saw it in a bookstore back in February, but it only went on sale for Kindle in June! I’m planning on reading it this year for sure 😄

1. ✅ I Wish You All the Best (Mason Deaver) 📱
2. ❌ Family Business (Jonathan Sims) 📱
3. ✅ The Whispering Dark (Kelly Andrews) 📱
4. ✅ Business or Pleasure (Rachel Lynn Solomon) 📱
5. ✅ Role Playing (Cathy Yardley) 📱
6. ❌ The Foxglove King (Hannah Whitten) 📱
7. ✅ The Secrets of the Stormforest (L.D. Lapinski) 📱

➽ I’m happy with how many of my summer hauls I read!! Remaining on my TBR are Family Business and The Foxglove King. The former is another Jonathan Sims book that I didn’t get around to reading in Autumn because I finally read his debut novel! I loved Thirteen Storeys, so I’m hyped to read Family Business later this year 🥰 I heard good things about The Foxglove King, so I’m curious to try it!

1. ✅ The Haunting of Maddy Clare (Simone St. James) 📱
2. ✅ Killer Instinct (Jennifer Lynn Barnes) 📱
3. ✅ One Piece Vol. 1 (Eiichiro Oda) 📚
4. ✅ Home Before Dark (Riley Sager) 📱

➽ I bought some mystery books in September and I read all of them! I like reading mystery/thriller books in Autumn and managed to read the books I got for the season. I also ended up picking up the first volume of One Piece because I loved the live-action show and now I’m in full-on One Piece mode 😂

1. ✅ The Midnight Club (Christopher Pike) 📱
2. ❌ The Kiss Curse (Erin Sterling) 📱
3. ❌ A Restless Truth (Freya Marske) 📱

➽ I didn’t haul many books in October, but two are still on my TBR! I ended up getting The Kiss Curse after liking The Ex Hex, but wasn’t able to read it in 2023! I also finally got A Restless Truth, the sequel to A Marvellous Light. I hope to tackle both sequels this year, as I’m looking forward to checking out these companion books 😊

1. ✅ The Hunting Moon (Susan Dennard) 📚🔁
2. ✅ System Collapse (Martha Wells) 📚🔁
3. ❌ The Christmas Letter (Emily Stone) 📱
4. ❌ Once Upon a December (Amy E. Reichert) 📱
5. ✅ In the Event of Love (Courtney Kae) 📱

➽ November was a month of preorders for me! I don’t preorder as much as I used to anymore. But I couldn’t help but preorder The Hunting Moon and System Collapse, sequels to two favorite series ❤️ I’d read the Arcs for them before, but really wanted a finished copy and to support the authors!! The only two books I didn’t read this month were two Christmas romances. I didn’t manage to fit them into my December reading plans.

1. ❌ In the Company of Witches (Auralee Wallace) 📱
2. ✅ Stepfather Christmas (L.D. Lapinski) 📱
3. ✅ Spy x Family Vol. 10 (Tatsuya Endo) 📚🔁
4. ✅ Spy x Family Guide (Tatsuya Endo) 📚🔁
5. ✅ Spy x Family: Family Portrait (Tatsuya Endo) 📚
6. ✅ Komi Can’t Communicate Vol. 1 (Tomohito Oda) 📚🔁
7. ✅ One Piece Vol. 19 (Eiichiro Oda) 📚
8. ✅ One Piece Vol. 20 (Eiichiro Oda) 📚
9. ✅ One Piece Vol. 21 (Eiichiro Oda) 📚

➽ December is always the month with the most hauls, because of Christmas gifts! I had a very Manga-heavy Christmas haul this year, as I’ve been getting even more into it since visiting Japan. I got a ton of Spy x Family books, One Piece and Komi Can’t Communicate, three of my favorite series 🥰 The only book I haven’t read so far is In the Company of Witches, but I’m saving it for Autumn, as it would be perfect for the season!

In Conclusion

… I hauled 49 books & I read 76.6% of them 📖

➽ What types of books did I buy most? I bought 28 e-books and 21 physical books 📚

➽ Most Books Bought in a Month: December (9 Books) 📚

Have you read all of the books you hauled in 2023? Any books you definitely want to get to this year? Which of these books should I read first? 📚