Stats

Total books read: 100

Total pages read: 29,525

Longest book: All the Hidden Paths by Foz Meadows (528p)

Shortest book: Graceful Burdens by Roxane Gay (24p)

Average book length: 295p

Most popular (on Goodreads): The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (shelved 11,740,974 times)

Least popular (on Goodreads): Stand Your Ground by Roxane Gay (shelved 74 times)

Average Goodreads rating: 4.0 stars

Highest rated book on Goodreads: How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith (4.71 stars)

Most-read genres: contemporary romance (21%), nonfiction (20%), fantasy (14%)

Author breakdown by gender: 86% female authors, 10% male authors, 4% non-binary authors

Intended audience: 93% adult, 7% YA

Oldest book I read in 2024: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, first published in 1996

 

 

Top 9 Favorite books of 2024:

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (memoir); Legacy by Uche Blackstock, M. D. (memoir/nonfiction); Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (memoir/nonfiction); How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler (memoir/nonfiction) (are we seeing a pattern here among my faves yet)

How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith (nonfiction); Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett (historical fantasy); All the Hidden Paths by Foz Meadows (fantasy); Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (memoir/nonfiction)

Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica (fabulism/horror short story collection)

 

Runner-Up Favorites of 2024

Old Enough by Haley Jakobson (contemporary fiction); Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (memoir); The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo (historical fantasy); Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood (contemporary YA romance)

Elizabeth of East Hampton by Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding (contemporary Pride & Prejudice retelling); Erasing History by Jason Stanley (nonfiction); How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz (fiction); Truly, Madly, Deeply by Alexandria Bellefleur (contemporary romance)

Cruel Winter With You by Ali Hazelwood (holiday romance short story); The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi (fabulism)

 

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Favorite romance

 

Favorite YA

 

Short stories read in 2023

Although I only read one short story collection in 2024 (yes, I’m very disappointed in myself), I did read 7 standalone short stories.

 

New-to-Me Authors I’m Excited to Read More From

Agustina Bazterrica, Olivia Atwater

 

Most disappointing

All 3 of these are from authors whose books I’ve previously loved, and while I didn’t hate or even dislike these, they didn’t live up to my expectations/hopes.