10 Must-Read Books for 2023
One thing I really want to do more of this year is read. There are many good must-read books out there, it is hard to know where to start! I find that I gravitate towards a combination of motivational or self-help books and a good fiction read, so I did some digging and put together a list of both as my must-reads for 2023.
If you are like me and want to dive into some good pages this year, take a peek below and see my list of must-read books for 2023! I am excited to get started on these.
You may have seen me mention Mallory Ervin’s book on my Instagram, but I love this book! I have listened to it twice through already and decided to sit and physically read the book this year.
Living Fully is about trading your “okay” life for the life you have dreamed of. Mallory shares her story of getting past bad patterns and relationships to find her best life and really start living it!
This is one of my first picks for all the parents out there! Good Inside hit top of several book lists including New York Times Best Sellers list right out of the gate. It is a book to help parent strong, healthy kids. She talks about common childhood and sibling issues, parenting styles, and ideas to shift the narrative. This book is to also help parents feel heard and hopefully less stressed, which I am all about!
Atomic Habits isn’t a new book, but will probably always be found on a must-read and top sellers list. This book teaches us how to make new and improved habits, and in an easy way! The author takes a simple and doable approach to forming new habits and how to stick with them, even when life gets crazy.
Who doesn’t have a few little behaviors we may like to tweak or change? I know I do! In this book, Goulston and Goldberg provide some very tangible and practical ways for us to overcome everyday behaviors that may be hurting us— inaction, guilt, obsession, and procrastination, to name a few.
This book has been on New York Times bestsellers list for well over 200 weeks! This book offers some insight into how to get past worrying about who likes us, constant positivity in light of not so positive situations, and learning that sometimes life is hard. We need to embrace the hard and learn to live and learn from it.
Colleen Hoover books have been making waves recently! She has so many good reads out there that it was hard to narrow it down to what I wanted to read first, but I had to go with this series.
It Ends with Us is the first of a two-book series about a hardworking girl named Lily who meets an almost too perfect new guy, but there is something about him she questions, which brings back memories of her first love from when she was a kid. When her first love actually appears, Lily’s new life is in question.
It Starts With Us is the sequel in this Hoover series that ties up the end of the story of Lily and her first love, Atlas. Lily is now divorced from her husband when Atlas makes yet another appearance in her life, and it sounds like her ex-husband is not too pleased about it!
I cannot wait to wrap up this series and see how it all plays out.
Lessons in Chemistry is the author’s debut novel. It is a story of a scientist in the 1960’s who loses her love, becomes a solo parent, and gets sidelined by her male counterparts and ends up hosting a cooking show. She puts her own spin on the situation and ends up teaching women more than just cooking. Should be a juicy read!
I am super curious to read this one! Things We Never Got Over sounds like one of those should-be love stories with a twist. A story of sister helping evil sister and getting left behind to a life she didn’t want or know about, to meet a man who would rather fly solo, but decides to help her anyways. Then there is a turning point where regular trouble becomes something more dangerous.
If you have any winter vacations lined up, this book has been noted as a great beach read!
Evelyn Hugo is an old time Hollywood actress with apparently a very scandalous past! She decides she wants to tell her story, and finds Monique, who is not in the best of ways in her own life, to share it with. As Evelyn tells her story, it unravels some very interesting twists and turns, and some best kept secrets from the public.
Do you have any other must-read book suggestions? Let me know in the comments below!