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What I Read in 2024

Best book of 2024: The Women by Kristin Hannah

Overall favorite fiction book of 2024: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

Overall favorite nonfiction book of 2024: White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

Overall favorite romance of 2024: Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

Quick stats: 

  • # of books read: 110
  • format breakdown: 47% print, 31% audiobook, 22% print
  • most-read genre: romance (37%)
  • average star rating: 3.8

my favorite reads • reading stats


FIVE-STAR READS

  • Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date by Ashley Herring Blake
  • Cover Story by Susan Rigetti
  • Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
  • Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
  • How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety by Ellen Hendrikson
  • The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
  • You, with a View by Jessica Joyce
  • Ander and Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa
  • White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
  • The Women by Kristin Hannah
  • All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
  • Planes, Trains, and All the Feels by Livy Hart
  • Go as a River by Shelley Read
  • Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
  • The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
  • Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
  • This Spells Love by Kate Robb
  • Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg
  • Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
  • Act Like It by Lucy Parker
  • What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
  • At First Spite by Olivia Dade
  • The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
  • Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan
  • The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
  • Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
  • When in Rome by Sarah Adams
  • Ready or Not by Cara Bastone
  • Pretty Face by Lucy Parker
  • Worst Case Scenario by T.J. Newman
  • The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter
  • The Wedding People by Alison Espach

FOUR-STAR READS

  • Drunk on Love by Jasmine Guillory
  • White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck
  • The Honest Enneagram: Know Your Type, Own Your Challenges, Embrace Your Growth by Sarajane Case
  • Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale
  • Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
  • Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan
  • The Art of Scandal by Regina Black
  • A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
  • Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks
  • The Seven-Year Slip by Ashley Poston
  • The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford
  • Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
  • The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
  • Heartbreaker by Sarah MacLean
  • Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
  • About That Night by Julie James
  • The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike’s Elite Running Team by Kara Goucher
  • The Comeback by Lily Chu
  • A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
  • Knockout by Sarah MacLean
  • Victim by Andrew Boryga
  • Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena
  • Zorrie by Laird Hunt
  • A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
  • Love Irresistibly by Julie James
  • Finley Donovan Jumps the Gun by Elle Cosimano
  • Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
  • The Last Chance Library by Freya Sampson
  • The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
  • Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
  • His & Hers by Alice Feeney
  • The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue
  • A Tempest at Sea by Sherry Thomas
  • You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
  • Mrs. Nash’s Ashes by Sarah Adler
  • Funny Story by Emily Henry
  • It Happened One Wedding by Julie James
  • The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
  • Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice by Elle Cosimano
  • The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce
  • The Spectacular by Fiona Davis
  • Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams
  • The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
  • The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak
  • Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie
  • Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor
  • You Will Never Be Me by Jesse Q. Sutanto

THREE-STAR READS

  • The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
  • This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens
  • The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley
  • How You Get the Girl by Anita Kelly
  • The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian
  • Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
  • Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
  • Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert
  • All That Is Mine I Carry With Me by William Landay
  • I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
  • An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera
  • The Museum of Ordinary People by Mike Gayle
  • The End of Her by Shari Lapena
  • The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose
  • Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradel
  • Humor Me by Cat Shook
  • The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith
  • The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley
  • Suddenly One Summer by Julie James
  • A Daughter of Fair Verona by Christina Dodd
  • The Fall Back Plan by Melanie Jacobson

TWO-STAR READS

  • Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen
  • Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
  • The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi
  • What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall
  • The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
  • The Very Nice Box by Laura Blackett
  • Make the Season Bright by Ashley Herring Blake
  • Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams
  • The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

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