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a look at my 2024 reading

I’m probably the most type-A girl you’ll ever meet. I track my reading like some people track sports statistics. I go full-on data analyst. I have spreadsheets, Notion boards, Goodreads lists, the works. And while reading isn’t a competition, it is for me.

Not in the sense that I’m competing with other people. The only person I compete against is myself. Every year I strive to read better. To broaden my horizons, to read more queer books, more BIPOC books. I want to be better, and I need data to back that up.

So, was 2024 a better reading year than 2023? Let’s review the footage.

my year in books

Compared to 2023, I did read less, but that was also intentional. One of my reading goals was to read less. This may seem counterproductive to having a good reading year, but I wanted to focus on quality in 2024.

Speaking of quality, I only gave 15 books 5-star ratings this year. That means there’s a 20% chance a book I pick up will be 5 stars. That’s incredibly low odds, and I was being generous with myself because at least 5 of my 5-star books were rereads and not new books.

All of my new 5-star reads for 2024

According to Goodreads, my average rating for 2024 is 4 stars, which if you ask me is a flawed number.

Toward the end of the year, I stopped rating a lot of books on my Goodreads. As I transition from being a reader to being a writer, I kind of don’t want to share my ratings for books anymore. It might be a dramatic decision, but sometimes I feel so confined by this 5-star system. It doesn’t accurately reflect my feelings for the books, so I’m going to stop using it.

formats, sources, and other fun stats

It’s always interesting for me to see which formats I enjoy reading. It’s no surprise that audiobooks are my most-read format. If you combine audiobooks with ALC (advanced listening copies), audiobooks made up 42% of my reading this year. I did also try to read more of my physical owned TBR, so tallying up all of the physical copies would put them at 28.5%. Not bad, but since I got rid of most of my books before moving to a new country this will drastically change in 2025.

Unsurprisingly, I read more adult books than YA books this year. Though YA had a slight uptick as I got back into reading chonky fantasy books.

Most of my books come from LibroFM, either bought or through their influencer program. It’ll be fun to see how this stat changes as I enter my year of not buying books (more on that next week).

all of the books I read in 2024

This will just be a quick, rapid-fire list of all 77 books I read this year, broken down by months to make it easy to view. Ones in bold are 5-star reads, ones in italics are rereads.

January

• Blood and Moonlight by Erin Beaty

• Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven

• The Grimoire of Grave Fates (anthology) edited by Margaret Owen and Hanna Alkaf

• Lore Olympus Vol 1 by Rachel Smythe

• A Shot in the Dark by Victoria Lee

• A Photo Finish by Elsie Silver

• Silence and Shadow by Erin Beaty

• Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törsz

February

• Fangirl Down by Tessa Bailey

• Mickey7 by Edward Ashton

• A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal

• The Witchwood Knot by Olivia Atwater

• An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson

March

• Collide by Bal Khabra

• You’re Gonna Die Alone by Devrie Donalson

• The Serpent & The Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent

• Broken Vow by Sophie Lark

• Only & Forever by Chloe Liese

• Mislaid in Parts Half Known by Seanan McGuire

April

• You With A View by Jessica Joyce

• Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

• The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

• Your Blood My Bones by Kelly Andrew

May

• Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

• A Rivalry of Hearts by Tessonja Odette

• The Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker

• Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

June

• Cross The Line by Simone Soltani

• Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor

• The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton

• Listen For The Lie by Amy Tintera

• Not In Love by Ali Hazelwood

• The atardust Grail by Yume Kitasei

• Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor

July

• Funny Story by Emily Henry

• Those Left Behind by N.C. Scrimgeour

• Below Zero by Ali Hazelwood

• The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness

• Just For The Summer by Abby Jimenez

• Storm Warning by Nellie Wilson

• Where The Dark Stands Still by A.B. Poranek

August

• Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

• Midnight is The Darkest Hour by Ashley Winstead

• Leather & Lark by Brynne Weaver

• At First Spite by Olivia Dade

• Medici Heist by Caitlin Schneiderhan

• Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis

• All Systems Red by Martha Wells

• Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

• Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

• Before I Tell You by Ashley Elisabeth

September

• Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

• Buried Deep by Noami Novik

• A Pirate’s Life For Tea by Rebecca Thorne

• Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

• Daydream by Hannah Grace

• Aurora Blazing by Jessie Mihalik

• The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

• Network Effect by Martha Wells

• The Deer and The Dragon by Piper C.J.

October

• The Bone Season (revised edition) by Samantha Shannon

• Haunted Ever After by Jen DeLuca

• The Mime Order (revised edition) by Samantha Shannon

• Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio

• The Song Rising (revised edition) by Samantha Shannon

• System Collapse by Martha Wells

• The Mask Falling (revised edition) by Samantha Shannon

• The Dark Mirror by Samantha Shannon

November

• Raiders of the Lost Heart by Jo Segura

• Thrum by Meg Smitherman

• The Ashes & The Star Cursed King by Carissa Broadbent

• Six Scroched Roses by Carissa Broadbent

• The Au Pair Affair by Tessa Bailey

December

• My Feral Romance by Tessonja Odette

• Slaying the Vampire Conqueror by Carissa Broadbent

• Whatever Whispers by Genna Black

• Dashing All The Way by Chelsea Curto

• Evenings and Weekends by Oisin McKenna

Overall I feel pretty meh about this reading year. I discovered some new favourites and re-discovered my love for fantasy.

I’m going to be taking a different approach to reading next year, which I’ll talk more about in next week’s newsletter.

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💬 How did your reading year go? Did you find any new favourites?

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