T.K. Ballingham's Blog

I've read quite a lot in my life. It took me a long time to discover what reading actually did for me, and what exactly it did to me that made me love it as much as I do. When I'm having a hard time emotionally, I have a hard time sitting down and getting into a story. However, when I do in those moments lose myself in a book, I find that by the time I put the book down, I feel more relaxed than I could have imagined I would. In the year 2023 I branched out of my comfort area of reading somewhat, and I found some of the most phenomenal books I've ever read. I went through and added many of them to my read list. But, for your reading pleasure, here are my favorites:

1. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. Ocean Vuong.
2. It End With Us/It Starts With Us. Colleen Hoover.
3. My Policeman. Bethan Roberts.
4. Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea. Sarah Pinsker.
5. Know My Name. Channel Miller.
6. The Emerald Mile. Kevin Fedarko.
7. The Invisible Life of Addie Larue. V.E. Schwab.
8. Love is Not Enough Mark Manson.
9. This is How You Lose the Time War. Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone.
10. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. David Grann.
11. The House in the Cerulean Sea. TJ Klune.
12. Where the Dead Sit Talking. Brandon Hobson.
13. Project Hail Mary. Andy Weir.
14. Gallant. V.E. Schwab.
15. The Lives of Puppets. TJ Klune.
16. The 37th Parallel. Ben Mezrich.
17. The Woman in Me. Britney Spears.
18. The Minds of Billy Mlligan. Daniel Keyes.
19. The Curiosities. Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gralton, and Brenna Yovanoff.
20. Twelve Tomorrows. Science Fiction Anthology.
21. Tomorrow's Parties. Science Fiction Anthology.