My Books of 2023 — Tosin Adeoti

Another year, another set of books read. In a way, this has been a strange year. I probably read the most I have ever read in any year this year but it’s also the year I read the least books. How? Good question. It’s because I wrote tons of articles — both personal and ghost articles for top media organizations — and five ghostwritten books. As any writer worth their salt would tell you, writing means you are reading a lot. The difference in this kind of reading is that you are not picking up books and reading them entirely for you to mark them as read. Instead, you are reading chapters, pages, and sometimes even paragraphs simply to pick up the ideas and thoughts you want to generate. After that, you put them down. So, can you really say you have read that book?

But hey, reading 30 books from start to finish should still be able to motivate you. Here is my list for 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019. I also have the habit of announcing the books I plan to read in the year even though I always end up not reading all the books I put on the list because I get recommendations along the way, but people have told me how useful they find them, so why not. The list for 2024 will be out in a few days, but here are my lists for 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020.

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