Hello everyone! You haven’t heard from me for some time and I want to apologise. I have not been blogging at all for the last two months as I have been wanting to try new things. Blogging just wasn’t something that was giving me joy recently.

As of Dec last year I have been creating YouTube videos dedicated to reading etc. and this feels like the natural progression of where I want this blog to go.

I have recently taken more responsibility on at work and am volunteering my time to help a indie podcast with their social media so I just do not have the time to also add to this blog.

So what does that mean? Well, I will be taking a hiatus for most likely the next 6 months. But I do not know when I will be back. I am sorry if this disappoints anyone but I really enjoying where this next step may take me. I also may come back to blogging I am just not sure yet.

I cannot believe we are here again! A whole year has passed. I have so many weird emotions about the new year. Excited for the year ahead but also FREAKING OUT BECAUSE TIME IS WEIRD! Now for the first time since I started blogging and logging my reading, I have not improved upon last year. I knew it would happen eventually – I still read loads but just not enough to beat 2023.

For this wrap up, I will be using stats taken from both the Goodreads Wrap Up, Storygraph and some reading spreadsheets I have collated from Ali from Hardback Hoarder.

Basic Stats

• I read 44,725 pages
• I read 163 books
• I DNFed 8 books
• My average book length was 269
• My average book rating was 4
• I read 17.5% of my physical TBR (Less than last year despite reading a lot more from my TBR this year!)

The longest book I read in 2022 – 560 pages

So for the first time ever I have a double bill. Both Where Sleeping Girls Lie and Harrow the Ninth are 560 pages. Where Sleeping Girls Lie was a lot easier to read and I flew through this book while Harrow the Ninth took me a lot longer to get through.

Rating Breakdown

So as per usual here is a breakdown of all the books I read this year and where they fall in the star category. I have also included links to my reviews if you wanted to read them!

Loads of people talk about how they rarely give out 5 stars. They are only reserved for the best of the best… I was giving out 5 stars left, right and centre in 2024. You get a 5 star and YOU GET A 5 STAR! A quarter of what I read this year got 5 stars.. oop.

DNFS

My list of DNFs are here >>>

1 STAR

Title	Author
The Wood at Midwinter	Susanna Clarke

2 – 2.5 STARS

Title	Author
Love on the Other Side	Nagabe
Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead	Jenny Hollander
Heracles and Other Plays	Euripedes

3 – 3.5 STARS

Title	Author
The Norse Myths That Shape the Way We Think	Carolyne Larrington
Binti	Nnedi Okorafor
The Hope of Elantris	Brandon Sanderson
The Divorcees	Rowan Beaird
BFFS	Anahit Behrooz
Fragile Animals	Genevieve Jagger
Griz Grobus	Simon Roy
The Secret Adversary	Agatha Christie
Fake Flame	Adele Buck
A Letter to the Luminous Deep	Sylvie Cathrall
Beyond the Clouds, Vol.1	Nicke
Young Hag	Isabel Greenberg
Snow White with the Red Hair, Vol.3&4	Sorata Akiduki
Claymore, Vol.2	Norihiro Yagi
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent	Judi Dench
Ditching Saskia	John Moore
Blue Lock, Vol. 2	Muneyuki Kaneshiro
The Korean Myths	Heinz Insu Funkl
The Eleventh Metal	Brandon Sanderson
Relit	Sandra Proudman
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 3	Naoko Takeuchi
Rogue Protocol	Martha Wells
The Butcher of the Forest	Premee Mohamed
Good Girl, Bad Blood	Holly Jackson
You Must Be This Tall to Propose! Vol. 1	Fumi Mifuyu
The Restaurant of Lost Things	Hisashi Kashiwai
Usotoki Rhetoric, Vol. 2	Ritsu Miyako
The Girl from Other Side, Vol. 4	Nagabe
Blue Exorcist, Vol.3	Kazue Kato
Dearest	Jacquie Walters
Graveyard Shift	M.L. Rio

4 – 4.5 STARS

Title	Author
A Torch Against the Night	Sabaa Tahir
Cursed Bread	Sophie Mackintosh
A Tempest of Tea	Hafsah Faizal
Meet Me at the Surface	Jodie Matthews
The Hunger Games	Suzanne Collins
Artifical Condition	Martha Wells
The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Vol.2	Hiromu Arakawa
If You Could See the Sun	Ann Liang
The Storm We Made	Vanessa Chan
Sweat and Soap, Vol.2	Kintetsu Yamada
Miss Miyazen, Would Love to Get Closer to You, Vol.1	Akitaka
Dumb Witness	Agatha Christie
A-DO, Vol. 1	Amano Jaku
My Love Story with Yamada-kun at LV.999, Vol.1	Mashiro
A Magical Girl Retires	Park Seolhyun
The Spook’s Apprentice	Joseph Delaney
Know My Name	Chanel Miller
The Examiner	Janice Hallett
Mortal Monarchs	Suzie Edge
Welcome to Demon-School, Iruma-Kun, Vol.1	Osamu Nishi
Covenant, Vol.1	Lysanda Vuong
Quarterlife	Satya Doyle Byock
Holy Island	L.J. Ross
Delicious in Dungeon, Vol.1,2 & 3	Ryoko Rui
What You Are Looking For is the Library	Michiko Aoyama
The Thief and the Wild	Seann Barbour
I See Your Face, Turned Away, Vol. 1	Rumi Ichinohe
Death on the Nile	Agatha Christie
The Au Pair Affair	Tessa Bailey
Daemons of the Shadow Realm, Vol.2, 3 & 4	Hiromu Arakawa
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Vol. 2, 3, 4 & 5	Kanehito Yamada
The Victim	P.D. James
Orange: Future	Ichigo Tanako
Nana, Vol.2	Ai Yazawa
Children of the Whales, Vol.3	Abi Umeda
Snow White with the Red Hair, Vol. 2	Sorata Akiduki
Yona of the Dawn, Vol. 4 & 5	Mizuho Kusanagi
Hell Followed With Us	Andrew Joseph White
Harrow the Ninth	Tamsyn Muir
The Lie of the Land	Guy Shrubsole
The Woods All Black	Lee Mandelo
Want	Gillian Anderson
Night Side of the River	Jeanette Winterson
Sunbringer	Hannah Kaner
Ghost Roast	Shawnelle Gibbs
The Last Murder at the End of the World	Stuart Turton
The Emperor’s Soul	Brandon Sanderson
Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 3	Kamome Shirahama
The Reappearance of Rachel Price	Holly Jackson
Abroad in Japan	Chris Broad
The Trees	Percival Everett
Night Shift	Annie Crown
Before the Fact	Francis Iles
The Worst Ronin	Maggie Takuda-Hall
The Devil’s Flute Murders	Seishi Yokomizo
The Maid and the Crocodile	Jordan Ifueko
Gentlest of Wild Things	Sarah Underwood
Deadly Little Scandals	Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Dallergut Dream Department Store	Miye Lee
The Faraway Paladin, Vol. 2	Mutsumi Okubashi
The Hills of Estrella Roja	Ashley Robin Franklin
Drifting Dragons, Vol. 2	Taku Kuwabara
The Hacienda	Isabel Cañas
Murder at Holly House	Denzil Meyrick

5 STARS

Title	Author
How to Solve Your Own Murder	Kristin Perrin
Daemons of the Shadow Realm, Vol.	Hiromu Arakawa
The List of Suspicious Things	Jennie Godfrey
The Silence in Between	Josie Ferguson
Intervals	Marianne Brooker
Where Sleeping Girls Lie	Faridah Abikie-Iyimede
Song of the Huntress	Lucy Holland
The Potting Shed Murder	Paula Sutton
Yona of the Dawn, Vol. 2	Mizuho Kusanagi
Blue Lock, Vol. 1	Muneyuki Kaneshiro
The Cruel Prince	Holly Black
Is Love the Answer?	Uta Itasaki
Homebody	Theo Parish
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone	Benjamin Stevenson
Reading Lessons	Carol Atherton
The Ferryman	Justin Cronin
It’s Lonely at the Centre of the World	Zoe Thorogood
Burning Roses	S.L. Huang
Unlikeable Female Characters	Anna Bogutskaya
Sorcery of Thorns	Margaret Rogerson
The Game of Hearts	Felicity Day
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Vol. 1	Kanehito Yamada
Fangirl Down	Tessa Bailey
Babylonia	Constanza Casati
Children of the Whales, Vol.2	Abi Umeda
Little White Lies	Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Strange the Dreamer	Laini Taylor
Lightfall: The Girl and the Galdurian, Vol.1	Tim Probert
What A Way To Go	Bella Mackie
Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 4	Kamome Shirahama
Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 4	Ryoko Rui
Yona of the Dawn, Vol. 3	Mizuho Kusanagi
Sweat and Soap, Vol.3	Kintetsu Yamada
Escaping Mr Rochester	L.L. McKinney
Ring Shout	P. Djeli Clark
Ancillary Justice	Ann Leckie
Rewitched	Lucy Jane Wood