February was a great reading month for me, especially when it comes to nonfiction. I enjoyed all three nonfiction books that I read in February. One of them was even a five-star read.
I also had a five-star fiction read that I can’t stop talking about.
February Reading 2023
I read eight books in February. Five fiction books and three nonfiction books.
Click on the title of the book for my full review.
Fiction
A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles. I loved this book. My husband reads mainly nonfiction. He doesn’t read much fiction. As in maybe one fiction book a year, but I told him he needed to read this one. It was a five-star fiction read for me.
The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White. I wanted to love this WWI book, but I have mixed thoughts about it.
The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner. The Nature of Fragile Things is set in California during and after the earthquake of 1906. I really enjoyed this one. Susan Meissner is quickly becoming a must-read historical fiction author for me.
The Vicious Vet by M.C. Beaton. This is book two in the Agatha Raisin mystery series. I liked it but didn’t love it. If you like mystery you will probably want to read my full review.
The Baker’s Daughter by D.E. Stevenson. D.E. Stevenson wrote books back in the 1930s and 1940s. This was a fun read, but I think I like the Miss Buncle books by D.E. Stevenson better.
Nonfiction
First Friends by Gary Ginsberg. I really enjoyed this look into the lives of U.S. Presidents and their friends. It was such a creative way to make presidential history interesting.
Empire of Ice and Stone by Buddy Levy. My husband and I read this as a buddy read. We both read it at the same time. We would read a couple of chapters, discuss it, and read a few more chapters. It was so good, I couldn’t put it down. Once I got about halfway through it I gave up reading it slowly with my husband. I had to finish it. He is now almost done with it, and he agrees, this is a great nonfiction read.
Christian Nonfiction
Becoming Free Indeed by Jinger Duggar Vuolo. I featured this for Sunday reading this month and shared my thoughts there, but the short version is that I really enjoyed this. I think there are quite a few people in the Christian world or that grew up in Christian homeschooling circles that will be able to relate to at least part of Jinger’s story.
Oooh. Empire of Ice and Stone looks good! I am NOT great with anything that can be called a “vessel.” Planes, ships, boats. But there’s something about reading survival stories…they’re inspiring.
I liked The Nature of Fragile Things, too. I was NOT expecting things to turn out as they did with the husband. I was thinking there might be a “strangers to lovers” storyline, but that was not the case at all.
A Gentleman in Moscow had one of the BEST payoff endings I’ve read in a long time.
The husband storyline is one of the reasons that I loved The Nature of Fragile Things. I love it when a book surprises me like that. The Empire of Ice and Stone is such a good survival story. I can’t handle plane crash stories…but shipwrecks don’t seem to bother me as much.
A Gentleman in Moscow is now on my list of all time favorite fiction books. I have The Lincoln Highway in my tbr stack, and now I really want to read it too.