Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books! In this special episode, we go through our 2023 stats, our worst and best books of 2023, review our 2023 goals, and set our 2024 goals. Send us an email! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com ————————————————— Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 02:00 Overall stats (books/pages/hours) 20:25 Book length stats 24:10 Other book attribute stats 41:22 Book community stats 50:42 StoryGraph Plus stats 56:36 Worst Books of 2023 01:04:46 Best Books of 2023 01:19:04 2023 goal review 01:26:07 2024 goals 01:38:20 Outro ————————————————— Books mentioned in this episode: Lore Olympus series - Rachel Smythe The Book Thief - Markus Zusak Heartstopper - Alice Oseman The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde The Peace Egg - Juliana Horatia Ewing Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami - Akiko Yosano Dune - Frank Herbert Little Men & Jo’s Boys - Louisa May Alcott On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden The Shadow Cabinet - Juno Dawson Our Violent Ends - Chloe Gong Astral Season Beastly Season - Tahi Saihate Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse The King’s Speech - Mark Logue Little Women - Louisa May Alcott Good Wives - Louisa May Alcott The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery Shatter Me - Tahereh Mafi Educated - Tara Westover The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins Sheets trilogy - Brenna Thummler I Have Some Questions for You - Rebecca Makkai I’ll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson Exiles - Jane Harper The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff Year of the Rabbit - Tian Veasna Cleopatra and Frankenstein - Coco Mellors When Women Were Dragons - Kelly Barnhill Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You - Matthew Inman Imagine Me - Tahereh Mafi The Confabulations of Toulouse Lechat - Richard Trebilcock Damsel - Elana K. Arnold (DON’T EVER READ THIS) Landline - Rainbow Rowell Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield These Violent Delights - Chloe Gong North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Death in Her Hands - Ottessa Moshfegh My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation - Hannah Gadsby Why We Broke Up - Daniel Handler Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie This is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences - Sarah Hill Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others - Stephanie Dalley ————————————————— Also mentioned: Imgur album: https://imgur.com/a/PiY9J0N The StoryGraph https://www.thestorygraph.com/ Orilium Adventure in Aeldia challenge https://youtu.be/hAGr_byzqw8 Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/ Julia Whelan https://jmwhelan.com/narrator/