The Best and Worst Books I Read in 2023 

thankyou for mentioning 🍉 I LOVE U SM FOR THAT!!! the power of now changed my life i read it when i was 16

Julia Fox's book was my favourite book of last year! So good. Currently reading Carrie Soto is back by TJR, very enjoyable considering I know nothing about Tennis

big sis librarian lexie is back ❤❤ (as if i didn't listen to your podcast ep talking abt this exact video and sponsor lol)

Silent watcher here but I’m a huge lover of your pod, and og RU-vid vids! Fahrenheit 451 definitely needs to be read as a physical copy as opposed to an Audibook. You will love it. Please tell us where you got your shirt from? You’re glowing !!

literally switched from the pod directly onto this 🌷 now going back to listen ❤

I think you’d enjoy Bunny by Mona Awad. Kind of a prep school sci-fi horror vibe

Please do more videos on what you’re reading ❤ love the book content from you!

Omggg I can’t believe you’re reading vernon subutex. I wonder if the issue is the translation because in French it’s gripping in how realistic and gritty the characters are. I don’t know if that comes across in the English version but I hope so!!

When I was reading Norwegian Wood, my Japanese roommate told me that in Japan Haruki Murakami is considered a sellout and he just markets himself really well to the western world as cultured literature. That kinda ruined him for me. 😅

You need to read What My Bones Know - Stephanie Foo. Best non fic I've read with SO many takeaways!

kafka on the shore is my favorite murakami book and i luuuvvv sputnik sweetheart

thank you lexie!! I’m on the hunt for some good reads, so this video is perfect!

The thumbnail??? Iconic 🫶🏻

Ugh, love your reading vids

the bluest eye is my fav toni morrison🤍 i’m excited to check out big swiss. thanks lexie!

Using this as inspo for the books I'll read this summer

Awesome video! Awesome recommendations! And so pretty

do you have a goodreads account??

If you like deeply romances that happens behind the scenes in Hollywood in the 50s, it’s a soft reding….Please, read The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid ❤

I read bad Cree based on your recommendation and loved it!! Reading it in vancouver in the spring with all the crows out definitely connected me more to the book

My favorite kind of video ❤

Have you ever read the Sex and the City book by Candace Bushnell? There's also a prequel called The Carrie Diaries. I read them last year and loved it! Might be something for you, too.

So glad youve done a video for this, been loving so many of your recommendations over the past year! I just finished Circe by Madaline Miller and loved it SO much, its a take on greek mythology with a female protagonist. Also, do you have a goodreads account?

Loved this video

Beloved is really good! You have a really eclectic reading taste, I like it! I tried reading Jitterbug Perfume and couldn't get into it. Still Life With Woodpecker was my philosophy professor's favorite book, but for some reason I couldn't get into it either. I'll try again one day, maybe on audio 🤣 Also love Chuck Palahniuk, but I haven't read anything from him lately, I liked Choke 10 yrs ago.

I am loving the dark hair on you. 😍

Oprah did on her podcast a series with Eckahrt a couple of years ago. Each episode was one chapter of "A New Earth" and they explain the chapter and answer questions. I loved it, maybe you would like it as well.

Tom robbins is my favorite author - I’ve read everything he’s written, but it did take me a minute for jitterbug perfume but once I gave it a chance I loveddd it

I just finished Breadgivers by Anzia Yezierska which reminded me so much of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, but honestly better paced

Vernon Subutex is great (at least the first one...) the second was a bit worse and the third was meh. But, I think you got the plot a bit twisted... it's about a guy who used to run a successful record shop that had to close and becomes homeless. I think it's trying to comment on neo-liberal economic policies, poverty and gentrification in paris and so on. The writer is an insanely cool French woman, you should read up on her!

I think you’d like Maeve Fly by CJ Leede. It’s such a quirky horror! 🪰

I wonder if you read Emily Ratakowski's book? How does Julia Fox's compare to that one? After reading Emily's and continuing to follow her career I couldn't help but feel like she was just writing what people wanted to hear...

Some recs even though we are complete opposites I think you may like how can I help you and everyone here is lying ❤