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 shortest book I read in 2024 – 24 pages
This was a fun story in the world of Mistborn Era 1.
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.
The most popular book I read in 2024.
This book has been shelved by 11,740,974 people.
The least popular book I read in 2024.
This book has been shelved by 37people.
The book I read with the highest rating on Goodreads.
This had an average rating of 4.8 stars.
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
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 |
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