Things We Left Behind
by Lucy Score
★ Top 25 book of 2023 · #13 on Best Books of 2023
A vengeful mogul and a small-town librarian share a steamy night despite their mutual dislike. Their enemies-to-lovers romance hits a wall because she wants a family and he refuses to consider one.
Best for: Enemies-to-lovers fans who like powerful heroes and emotional standoffs
Things We Left Behind is #13 on BookWard's Best Books of 2023, out of 34 2023 books that cleared our data bar.
What Things We Left Behind is about
Lucian Rollins has built an empire meant to be impossible to knock down, partly to wipe out the stain his father left on the family name. Sloane Walton is a small-town librarian who has taken up her own father's search for justice, and she is certain Lucian is somewhere in the middle of it. What exactly he did to her family, or for it, is what she is trying to work out. Neither of them can stand the other, yet an old, dark secret ties them together. Then the arguing tips over into something else, and a single night changes the terms between them. Sloane wants a family of her own. Lucian won't hear of marriage or children, convinced that broken men end up breaking the women who love them. An enemies-to-lovers romance about secrets, fear of commitment and what we owe our families.
Things We Left Behind on the Best Books of 2023
Things We Left Behind came out in 2023. Of the 34 books first published in 2023 that met BookWard's data bar, it ranks #13 on our Best Books of 2023 list.
Why it made the list: 394 readers have shelved it on Open Library. The list ranks each year’s books on how many readers have picked them up, how highly readers rate them, and how many are reading them right now.
Nearby on the 2023 list
- The Sun and the Star Rick Riordan, #11
- Love Theoretically Ali Hazelwood, #12
- One of Us Is Back Karen M. McManus, #14
- Divine Rivals Rebecca Ross, #15
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The numbers behind it
- Readers: 373 want to read it, 14 are reading it now and 7 have read it, according to Open Library.
| Signal | This book (0 to 100) | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Reach | 62 | 55% |
| Reader love | 59 | 25% |
| Being read right now | 53 | 20% |
Questions about Things We Left Behind
When was Things We Left Behind published?
Things We Left Behind by Lucy Score was first published in 2023.
Was Things We Left Behind one of the best books of 2023?
Things We Left Behind is #13 on BookWard's Best Books of 2023, out of 34 2023 books that cleared our data bar. 394 readers have shelved it on Open Library.
Why is Things We Left Behind on the Best Books of 2023 list?
394 readers have shelved it on Open Library.
More of the best books of 2023
- Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros, #1
- King of Pride Ana Huang, #2
- Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros, #3
- Powerless Lauren Roberts, #4
- The Chalice of the Gods Rick Riordan, #5
- King of Greed Ana Huang, #6
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How we know
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