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2023 Reading Wrapped! Life-changing Books & Insufferable Books! (Feat. Cady)
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2023 Reading Wrapped! Life-changing Books & Insufferable Books! (Feat. Cady)

Revealing our most adored, hated, and traumatising books of the year! We went through a thorough list of fantastical, socialist and ArCadyan books with unsolicited but highly personal and emotional verdicts! What’s your favourite read in 2023? Do you have any objections to our reviews?? Let us know in the comments! 

---Timestamps---

0:25 Introducing Cady

2:17 How many books did you read/DNF this year

10:27 How many Chinese books did you read

13:52 Which country did you read from the most (Author’s country of origin)

19:22 What is your most/ least read Genre!

23:23 What is the longest/ shortest book you read

28:15 What is your most read decade (ranked by date first published)

32:06 Personal questions:

  1. Cady - How many environment/agriculture books did you read?

  2. Achim - How many fantasy/mythology books did you read?

  3. BFL - How many socialism related books did you read?

36:36 Favourite Book of the Year

54:51 Least Favourite Book of the Year

1:04:34 Reading goals for 2024

---Books Mentioned---

Achim:

The Prophet

Tender is the Flesh

Labrinths

The Lady of the Lake (The Witcher Book 7)

Murder of the Alphabets

Live by Night

Cady: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/162932073

BFL:

China in Ten Words by Yu Hua

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Simple Passion by Annie Erneaux

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Yellowface by RF Kuang

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

On The Road by Jack Kerouac

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