30 Books in 30 Days 2023 Edition | Results

We have reached the end of May 2023 and that means it’s time to share the results of my most recent challenge, the 30 Books in 30 Days 2023 Edition. In May, I managed to read 17. I’m so happy with that result!

In the last 30 Books in 30 Days Challenge I did in November 2022, I only managed to read 7 books so I was very disappointed. To have read over double that result in May 2023 is such a success for me. Particularly given how busy I’ve been, and my ongoing reading slump from June 2022.

So, what books did I read in May 2023? Well, firstly, here are the books I planned to read.

What I planned to read in my latest challenge, the 30 Books in 30 Days 2023 Edition:

150 pages or less

• The Little Mermaid by Hans Christen Anderson – 48 pages – Read
• This Winter by Alice Oseman – 120 pages – Read
• What Writers Read by Pandora Sykes & Others – 126 pages – Read
• Stuart Little by E.B White – 131 pages – DNF’d
• We Had to Remove This Post by Hannah Bervoets – 144 pages – Read
• Horrible Histories: Awesome Egyptians – 144 pages – Started

250 pages or less

• Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith – 174 pages – Read
• Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton – 176 pages – Read
• Manifest by Roxie Nafousi – 192 pages – Read
• Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson – 192 pages
• No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwell – 210 pages – Read
• Medusa by Jessie Burton – 224 pages
• Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte – 226 pages

350 pages or less

• The Clocks by Agatha Christie – 256 pages – Read
• Waypoints by Sam Heughan – 270 pages – Read
• Just for Today by Nell Hudson – 284 pages
• Delicacy by Katy Wix – 288 pages – Read
• Furies by Margaret Atwood & Others – 304 pages
• Angels in America by Tony Kushner – 304 pages
• Can Everyone Please Calm Down by Mae Martin – 304 pages – Read
• Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier – 320 pages
• Rosewater by Liv Little – 320 pages – Started
• Well This is Exhausting by Sophia Benoit – 336 pages – Started
• A Very Nice Girl by Imogen Crimp – 336 pages

400 pages or less

• Really Good Actually by Monica Heisey – 384 pages
• Careering by Daisy Buchanan – 384 pages – Read
• Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors – 384 pages
• In Memoriam by Ann Winn – 400 pages – Started

451 pages or more

• Great Expectations by Charles Dicken – 544 pages – Started
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagahara – 720 pages – Read

It was such a great list and I’m really proud of the books I completed from the list in May. However, a few books I read were not originally on the list. I was partway through my annual Harry Potter re-read and there were a few titles I started mid-way through the challenge because I’m a mood reader. But without further ado, here are the books I managed to read in my latest 30 Books in 30 Days Challenge

What I read in the 30 Books in 30 Days 2023 Edition Challenge:

1. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
2. Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
4. Careering by Daisy Buchanan
5. Manifest by Roxie Nafousi
6. The Clocks by Agatha Christie
7. Little Mermaid by Hans Christen Andersen
8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
9. This Winter by Alice Oseman
10. What Writers Read by Miscellaneous
11. Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton
12. Can Everyone Please Calm Down by Mae Martin
13. Waypoints by Sam Heughan
14. Favourite Tales of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter
15. We Had to Remove This Post by Hannah Bervoets
16. Delicacy by Katy Wix
17. No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

How many books did you read in May 2023? Would you take part in a 30 Books in 30 Days Challenge? Let me know in the comments below.

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