At some point during the year, in the Spring I think, I ran across this year-long scavenger hunt over on Birdie’s Book Nook, and thought it would be a lot of fun. It certainly was. I got stumped a few times, and I may have interpreted prompts a bit differently but I had a lot of fun with it. Here is the blurb from her website explaining the rules:
What’s the Year-Long Scavenger Hunt, you ask? Well, it’s basically a bingo, but with a few differences. There are 31 prompts for the entire year — January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023. You can choose to read 31 books where each book fits a different prompt or you can choose to find books that fit multiple prompts. The more times over you complete the entire Hunt, the cooler you are. And don’t we all want to be super cool???
Few things:
- Rereads count as long as you read the book within the year of 2023.
- You don’t have to do this with Sci-fi/Fantasy books, but I’m pretty sure it’ll be easier if you do.
- There’s no one here to slap your wrist if you do something ‘wrong’. Have fun with this!
I put a couple of other restraints on myself, I tried to have at least one book released in 2023 for each prompt, and I wanted to be super cool so I completed the list three times. I am so super cool. Book Titles are linked to either my reviews or their Goodreads pages. Enjoy!
2023 Release
I read something like 80 books that were released in 2023, so it was hard to narrow that down to three, but I consoled myself that most of them would show up on this list somewhere else.
The Fragile Threads of Power The Blonde Identity The Chalice of the Gods
Animal sidekick
Her Radiant Curse Starter Villain Fairy Tale
Cool Weapon
Marion Lane and The Raven’s Revenge The Aeronaut’s Windlass Untethered Sky
Debut
Bad Summer People Assistant to the Villain Remarkably Bright Creatures
Dragons
Dragonfall Fourth Wing The Hexologists
Female villain
The Art of Destiny The City of Stardust The Only One Left
Final book in a series
Two Twisted Crowns A Curse of Krakens The Chessmen
First person POV
The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle A Sinister Revenge The Malevolent Seven
Found family
Hell Bent Painted Devils The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Green cover
Night of the Witch Titanium Noir The Other Passenger
High fantasy
Witch King The Isle of the Gods Sword Catcher
Hugo winner (and one nominee)
Nettle and Bone Where the Drowned Girls Go Kaiju Preservation Society
Inspired by a culture OTHER than any in Western Europe
Song of Silver,Flame Like Night A Drop of Venom The Sacrifice
LGBTQ+ Main Character
The Sun and the Star Where the Dead Sleep Paladin’s Hope
Magic house
Starling House Mister Magic How To Sell a Haunted House
Merlin character
Perilous Times An Inheritance of Magic Long Past Dues
More than 2 women
Her Dark Wings The Measure Good Girls Don’t Die
New to you author
To Have and to Heist Fearless Redshirts
Over 500 pages (23 books)
A Blight of Blackwings Little Thieves Beautiful Creatures
Pirates
The Aeronaut’s Windlass Red Seas Under Red Skies The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
POC Author
The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle All the Sinners Bleed Vampire Weekend
Retelling
Thornhedge A Spindle Splintered A Mirror Mended
Set on a spaceship
The Olympian Affair Calamity The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
Space Opera
Antimatter Blues System Collapse Their Fractured Light
Standalone (60 books)
A Winter Grave The Last Thing He Told Me The Last Word
Sword on the cover (16 books)
Champion of Fate Ruling Destiny The Stolen Heir
Time travel
Never a Hero Just One Damned Thing After Another A Spoonful of Time
Title _ of _
House of Roots and Ruin One of us is Back Map of the Otherlands
Urban Fantasy
The Sinister Booksellers of Bath Love Will Tear Us Apart Dead Things
Witches
Night of the Witch Greymist Fair Don’t Hex and Drive
YA Book
The Isles of the Gods Stars and Smoke Five Survive
Thanks for sticking it out and making it to the end. This was a long list of books. This is probably the only review of the 2023 books that I read as this took a lot of time to put together and it pretty much covers all of the books that I loved. I haven’t seen a list for next year yet, but hopefully that will come out soon. I hope that you had a great reading year and look forward to seeing what you all read in 2024! Until next time…
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This is so fun! Congrats on completing it!
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Thanks
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Wow! I’m really impressed .that you found more than one book for each category!
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I might have fudged a little with some of them, but it was a bit of a challenge to find three for all of them.
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