While I posted my 2023 reading list before that year ended, I was finishing books right up until the last minute in 2024 – and here’s my list of the *63* books that I read this year!
Honestly the fact that I read so many is mostly thanks to the fact that I started listening to audiobooks when I run (courtesy of Spotify Premium for now, though I’m thinking about an Audible subscription). The full list is below, and here’s a little key:
– A book with 3 stars marks those that made it into my top 6
– A book with 2 stars means it made it into [the bottom 6 of] my top 12
– A book with 1 star is a read that didn’t make it into the top 12 but that I still really enjoyed
– Underlined titles are re-reads
– Bolded titles mean I read a physical copy
– Italicized titles denote audiobooks that I listened to
…and FYI, if a book has no stars, that doesn’t mean I straight up didn’t like it, I just didn’t want to try to dig any deeper into star ratings than what’s listed above.
I would say that my ultimate favorite book this year was Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (close second being Red Dead’s History by Tore C. Olsson), but while I didn’t star any of the Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire Mysteries novels by Charlaine Harris (the book series that HBO’s True Blood is based on!), it was definitely my overall favorite new series of the year 🙂
(Which…I think you can tell because if you actually look over the full list, you’ll see that I had trouble taking breaks while reading this series to check out other things, ha…also, when you read 10 books in the same series as fast as I did, and like some better than most but overall just enjoy the SERIES as a whole more than the books as single entities…why bother giving any sort of rating to them, amiright?)
NOVELS/NOVELLAS
* Dust – Hugh Howey
The Wind Through the Keyhole – Stephen King
** The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi – S.A. Chakraborty
The Lost Apothecary – Sarah Penner
Galloway’s Gamble – Howard Weinstein
The Cylons’ Secret – Craig Shaw Gardner
Sagittarius is Bleeding – Peter David
Unity – Steven Harper
Dance of Thieves – Mary E. Pearson
Lucifer & the Great Baltimore Brawl – Howard Weinstein
*** Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky
*** Children of Ruin – Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Memory – Adrian Tchaikovsky
* Zero Repeat Forever – G.S. Prendergast
* Cold Falling White – G.S. Prendergast
* Love and Ruin – Paula McLain
The Valley of the Moon – Jack London
Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
* Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi
*** Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
* Heaven Breaker – Sara Wolf
Maybe in Another Life – Taylor Jenkins Reid
** The Women – Kristin Hannah
** Babel – R.F. Kuang
* The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides
* Edgedancer – Brandon Sanderson
* Dawnshard – Brandon Sanderson
* Elantris – Brandon Sanderson
* The Ending Fire – Saara El-Arifi
* The Alloy of Law – Brandon Sanderson
* Shadows of Self – Brandon Sanderson
Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris
Living Dead in Dallas – Charlaine Harris
Club Dead – Charlaine Harris
Dead to the World – Charlaine Harris
* The Bands of Mourning – Brandon Sanderson
Dead as a Doornail – Charlaine Harris
Definitely Dead – Charlaine Harris
Mistborn: Secret History – Brandon Sanderson
All Together Dead – Charlaine Harris
* The Lost Metal – Brandon Sanderson
* Wicked – Gregory Maguire
From Dead to Worse – Charlaine Harris
Dead and Gone – Charlaine Harris
Dead in the Family – Charlaine Harris
“REAL LIFE”
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing – Matthew Perry
The Zodiac Revisited Volume 1 – Michael F. Cole
Only Say Good Things – Crystal Hefner
Down the Rabbit Hole – Holly Madison
*** One in a Millennial – Kate Kennedy
Book of Jack London Volume 1 – Charmian London
Book of Jack London Volume 2 – Charmian London
So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls – Jennifer Kaishin Armstrong
** I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are – Rachel Bloom
The Vegas Diaries – Holly Madison
Lonely Planet Tokyo
What Not to Do in Japan
* My Squirrel Days – Ellie Kemper
*** Red Dead’s History – Tore C. Olsson
** Paris: The Memoir – Paris Hilton
*** Gellhorn: A 20th Century Life – Caroline Moorehead
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism – Amanda Montell
** Eleanor and Hick – Susan Quinn
