With 2024 firmly behind us, I thought reviewing my year in books would be a cool idea. 2024 continued as 2023 ended, my head firmly back in the world of fiction.
Despite reading 26 books in 2023, I didn’t want to pressurise myself by setting a high target in 2024. Instead, I doubled my 2023 pledge and set the goal for twelve.
In the end, I read as many as 2023. I finished twenty-six books in 2024, most of which were fiction. In comparison to last year, I only read a couple of non-fiction books.
I didn’t find any “new favourite” authors this year. I read a few new authors, but none really stood out. None captured my interest enough for me to want to read any of their other novels.
Something I hadn’t done before but thought would be interesting was to list the twelve books I wanted to read. Spoiler alert: I didn’t read all the books I listed in this post:
What I’ll be reading in 2024
My 2024 TBR list. Well, at least the ones I plan on reading, there are always some unexpected reads along the way!
You can find my reviews on the website, although I haven’t finished writing all of them. (I’ve got some serious backlog).
Without further ado, here’s a recap of what I read.
Fiction:
Novels (in order of Goodreads ratings):
4-star ratings:
Devolution by Max Brooks
Redemption by Jussi Alder-Olsen
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Bachman
The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson
Before I go to Sleep by S. J. Watson
That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
3-star ratings:
World War Z by Max Brooks
The Girl Who Lived Twice by David Lagercrantz
White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht
Merging the Drift by Tom Bray
Moscow Babylon by Owen Matthews
Home by Harlen Coben
Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes
The Dark Half by Stephen King
2-star ratings:
Verity by Colleen Hoover
Scream Test by Grégoire Hervier
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Just Die by E. Alan Fleischauer
1-star ratings:
Icebreaker by Hannah Grace
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
The Magician’s Secret by Charles Townsend
Graphic novels:
Maus I and II by Art Spiegelman
Nonfiction:
Good Inside by Becky Kennedy
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
The Hummingbird Kiss: My Life as an Addict in the 1970s By Trish MacEnulty
The Book Bump 
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