Alice and the Giant Bookshelf | 46 for 2023: Why Do I Do These Things? | Reviewing my TWO 23 for 23 Book Lists! #booktube #tbr @AliceandtheGiantBookshelf | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Hi everyone! Today I'm going to look back on 2023 and whether I read the two lists of 23 books I set for myself. I took on 46 books, by selecting 23 Classics and 23 crime and thriller books - here's how I got on.

0:00 Intro
1:32 Overall Stats of these two lists
2:31 The Classics I read
8:44 The Classic I’m Still Reading
9:16 The Classics I did not read
10:57 The Crime Fiction books I read and DNFed
17:03 Those I did not read on the Crime and Thriller list
18:20 Wrapping up

Thanks for watching. Let me know in the comments, did you read any of the books you set out to read in 2023? Do you think there are any of these I should still prioritise? Did you read any of these?

Booktubers mentioned:
@GemofBooks
@spreadbookjoy
@anges_book_chatter
@novellenovels
@BernasBookishAdventures
@TooFondofBooksJH
@CriminOllyBlog
@BookwormAdventureGirl

Books Mentioned:
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Cranford by Jerome K Jerome
Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell
Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne Du Maurier
Flight of the Falcon by Daphne Du Maurier
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime by Oscar Wilde
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Bulldog Drummond by Sapper
The Collegians by Gerald Griffin
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré
In the Woods by Tana French
The Expendable Man by Dorothy B Parker
The Martian by Andy Weir
Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb
A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette
The Last Remains by Elly Griffiths
The Favour by Nicci French
Blue Moon by Lee Child
In A House of Lies by Ian Rankin
Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell
Unseen by Karin Slaughter
Birdman by Mo Hayder
The Red House Mystery by AA Milne
Killer Come Back to Me by Ray Bradbury
Bloodstream by Tess Gerritsen
Mike Hammer Omnibus by Mickey Spillane
Flesh and Blood by Caroline Mitchell
The Neon Rain by Jame Lee Burke
The Bone Collector by Jeffrey Deaver
The Last Detective by Robert Crais
Missing you by Harlan Coben

Authors mentioned:
James Baldwin

Videos mentioned:
23 Classics for 23: youtu.be/GOubZHso2Bs?si=7sF1lqiG-5g7obe8
23 Crime and Thriller Books for 2023: youtu.be/TGf7IotMfdc?si=kdSrLv2dH43CN1Nf

I'm Done With This Series: youtu.be/5tj5Ib-yaGQ?si=sTYTGxsHvDLY-HYf
The Red House Mystery Review: youtu.be/qO5Hnl64iqQ?si=XlvYss_x9u7L1x-3

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