THE 23 BEST BOOKS I READ IN 2023! ️

Miranda thank you so much for your recommendations. As I watch your videos, I search the Toronto public library’s audiobook collection! And borrow where availability permits ❤️

Thank you Miranda, I’m always looking forward to your video’s!

Whenever you will visit Amsterdam. Please visit the Rijksmuseum again with the beautiful Cuyperslibrary and the mysterious dollshouse that is featured in Jessie Burton’s book The miniaturist. After that you can visit a glorious canalhouse with all the beautiful rooms intact like it was century’s ago in House Willet-Holthuysen. You have to visit Rembrandt’s house too. It looks as he still lives there, all the rooms are so beautifully decorated. And maybe you can visit the quiet Begijnhof with the little church and the American bookstore nearby :) And for delicious cakes visit Pluk Amsterdam (Reestraat 19).

I live 30 minutes from Amsterdam ❤️

Have a good week Miranda!!

Hi Miranda! I think that I may have mentioned this before, but I read and loved Wintercombe and also liked very much Yellowface. 😊

Lovely video,had my pen & paper ready for all your wonderful suggestions .Wishing you&Donna a wonderful week.📚🥰

Thanks so much Miranda! I suspect that we are "kindred reading spirits!" I appreciate your book suggestions--they often lead to book buying and new favorites. One favorite from last year that you recommended was The Fortnight in September. I also loved The Silent Companions and Summer Pudding among others.

Thanks! I enjoyed your review of 2023. There were many titles that I will look forward to reading in the new year as I received several of them for Christmas. Your reviews of books are so helpful in navigating the vast number of books available. I am looking forward to 2024 and another wonderful year of reading. Thanks again, Miranda and my best to Donna.

I read A Lady's Guide to Fortune Hunting this year and it made it on my favorites list as well.

Thanks for introducing me to the Pushkin press. They have several Japanese novelas coming out this year and some back listed books


I will be purchasing. Enjoy your videos. Thanks for the good work. Ken from Denver Colorado

Thanks! I also love Kate Morton! Homecoming was great! Hope you and your mom have a wonderful week.

Wow, so many to add to my TBR! You had a great year of reading!

I recently read a biography of Lawrence Olivier and though generally a paean of the illustrious actor's career, it did admit that he wasn't a nice man to be around. So I often wonder if Olivier's scathing critique of Marilyn isn't just him being his typical mean self.

Thank you Miranda, Love your Channel.

Thank you Miranda for such lovely book recommendations as always! I have already bought some of these books when you first talked about them during 2023, but I would definitely try to get another ones which really appeal to me! Thank you for opening a new world of books to me ! ❤

What a wonderful list of books. Thank you Miranda😊 📚 my absolute favorite books of 2023 were My family and other animals by Durrell, Birdsong by Faulks and Watership Down by R. Adams

I really like Kate Morton's writing, and enjoyed Homecoming, although it waffled a bit. I do sometimes think authors write too much to just make the book big. I live in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia, where the main part of the book was set and found the incorrect details about places, really annoying. Although fiction, it surprised me that the facts about locations were often incorrect. It was interesting to read a book set where you live though.

Hello Miranda from Ontario, Canada! Love your videos and book recommendations. They always makes me so excited to run to the library and/or book store for these books. Love your channel and look forward to all your videos.

I’ve been looking for the Pamela Belle books and finally the little charity bookshop in our village said they had Winterborne and the other 3 in the series, so looking forward to those, they are the paperback versions and v small writing😂. Thanks for a lovely video

Could not wait to see this video.

Dear Miranda, I also enjoyed reading Yellowface, although at the same time I was glad to finish it, being in June's mind was quite scary somehow. Standout reads of 2023 for me have been Q's Legacy by Helene Hanff and the last two books of the Strike series by Robert Galbraith, which have the ability to make 100 pages feel like 5, for how well they are written 🙂 Looking forward to next Sunday's CBC discussion! Have a nice week, greetings to Donna as well 🤗

Thank you Miranda for sharing your 2023 best reads. I've read one or two but you've reminded me of a few others that I'd like to try.

My 2023 bookish highlights include: In Altre Parole by Jhumpa Lahiri, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, A Helping Hand, What You Are Looking For is in the Library, and Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway series.

Per usual after your recommendations, my TBR pile grows ever taller! One of my favorite reads of 2023 came in the form of a Christmas present so it came in just under the wire. I live in Maine and love the work of a local artist named Blue Butterfield. Her first book was just published called ‘Maine, a Love Story’. I knew I would love the art work but I was so touched by her story of growing up and making a life for herself under difficult circumstances. She also shares some of the inspiration for her art work which I always find so interesting. ❤

So nice to see you talking about these books again. 😊

What a wonderful reading year you've had. One of my favourite reads in 2023 is This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing, a memoir by Jacqueline Winspear. It was interesting to see where Winspear must have picked up inspiration for her novels.

Hi Miranda, oh dear as usual our tastes are the same. I will want to read most of your recommendations. You really do make all the books you like so inviting🥰

Really enjoyed your year's collection. I recently discovered Molly Clavering myself and have very much enjoyed the three books I've read: Susan Settles Diwn, Near Neighbours, Mrs Lorimer's Quiet Summer.
Looking forward to more of your recommendations and reviews.
Christine from Saskatoon, Canada.

Thank you for this chat, Miranda. Lovely as always, really appreciated ❤

Thank you Miranda what an enjoyable video! My favourite reads for last year were Jane Austen's 'Emma' and 'Persuasion'. There are two books I read that have stayed with me, 'Mrs Dalloway' by Virginia Woolf and 'Out of the Window' by Madeleine Linford. ' Mrs Dalloway for her beautiful writing and how she constructs her descriptive writing. And 'Out of the Window' for how it surprised me, in the way it ended. I find myself often thinking about this book and it's impact. Thank you so much for your book suggestions.

Hello Miranda, there are so many great recommendations from your video and I have added them to my already very long list of books to read. The books that I enjoyed in 2023 included The Other Bennett Sister, Midnight in Everwood, The Whalebone Theatre and Lucy Worsley’s biographies of Agatha Christie and Jane Austen. Wishing you and Donna a beautiful week. x

Oh what a fabulous video!! Thank you for the book recommendations! I sooo adore books!! Thank you and of course subscribed AND ordered the books for the book club!!

So many if my standout reads were your recommendations. From Wind in the Willows to the Emmy Lake chronicles, I had so much to enjoy. One book that I didn’t like, however, was Yellowface. It’s one of the few books that I didn’t even finish. It seemed too obvious where things were going that I skipped ahead and confirmed the impressions I already had. But I love knowing that for other people there was something to be gained from reading it. Can’t wait for this month’s book discussion!

I keep hoping a publisher will watch this and publish Greensleeves.

I loved “The Girl Who Came Home” by Hazel Gaynor which I read whilst on holiday last year. In fact I highly recommend all her books x

Hello Miranda Mills , Thank you for posting.

Some of my favorites from last year are the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith and the Thrush Green series by Miss Read. Also love My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell. Wintercombe looks like a good one...thanks for the recommendations!

I totally agree with your thoughts about "Homecoming" and "Mrs. Porter Calling" which were two of my favorite reads in 2023. I flew through Homecoming" (beautifully written and plotted) and loved being part of Emmy Lake's world again. Looking forward to this Sunday's book club and am eager to hear and read everyone's thoughts on "Dear Miss Bird". Enjoy your week!

Great list!! Thank you 🩷

I have just finished Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher and oh what a great recommendation ❤ I fell in love with all the characters, the beautiful descriptions of the locale and lost myself in the gentle, fulfilling story. I giggled and shed a few happy tears and would say it is a must read. I now need to search my shelves for something new and different, such fun 😊

Just six hours until I can curl up at home with noodles and this video! A cozy bookish evening is the best reward at the end of a long week.

Thunderclap and the Clare Leighton book were among my favourites last year as well. I also enjoyed the Colin Clark memoir but, like you, was horrified at the casual sexism Marilyn suffered. I read a lot of great non-fiction last year. My favourites were Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart, Story of a Life by Konstantin Paustovsky, Pax by Tom Holland and Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard.

Amanda, Love your videos, your breath of fresh air. 💫⛄️☃️🧣🧤🧦👢🌳

Thanks

Thank you, Miranda! I've ordered Homecoming and Thunderclap -- they look like just the long, engrossing reads for February.

My favourites for 2023
Birnam Wood, Yellowface and Babel: An Arcane History, The Bandit Queens, Black Butterflies, The House of Doors and The Gift of Rain, Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, Pearl, Fifteen Wild Decembers

Thank you for introducing me to A Year of Wonder!

Thank you for sharing your top reads of 2023. I always find something interesting in your picks. Mrs Porter Calling is on my TBR list. A Month in the Country and the Grey Family sound like my kind of books😊

What a fabulous video, and, as always after watching your videos, I’ve added more books to my wish list! Homecoming and Mrs Porter Calling were also favourites of mine, along with India Knight’s Darling, Alice Winn’s In Memoriam and Appointment With Venus.

Just fantastic your Likes. At least twreve I must Search! Glad Thunderclap is now at hand.

Loved your recommendations! Thank you!

Happy Sunday! What were some of your standout reads from 2023? Do let me know ⬇