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2024
My Year in Books
20,917
pages read
61
books read


Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang
Shortest Book
68
pages
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Longest Book
776
pages

Average book length in 2024
342
pages

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Most Shelved
6,324,045
people also shelved
Cherrywood by Jock Serong
Least Shelved
810
people also shelved

David’s average rating for 2024
3.8
3.8

James by Percival Everett
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.46 average

On the Beach by Nevil Shute

David’s first review of the year

really liked it
I’ve read this through a different lens than a few others who’ve written reviews on here. I’ve got a couple of cancers, and although the end isn’t imminent, it mustn’t be that far off.

The characters On the Beach are waiting for their end very similarly to me. In fact, they even know about when it’s going to occur. Although some drink the time away, or take unnecessary risks, the bulk of them go to work, tend their garden and read the last few ch
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¶Ù´¡³Õ±õ¶Ù’S 2024 BOOKS
Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
The Last Pomegranate Tree by Bachtyar Ali
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John Le Carré
Prophet Song by Paul    Lynch
it was amazing
The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Mr Einstein's Secretary by Matthew Reilly
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Pole by J.M. Coetzee
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Water by John Boyne
James by Percival Everett
it was amazing
Sidesplitter by Phil Wang
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
it was amazing
Time Travelling with a Hamster by Ross Welford
Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
really liked it
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
This Was a Man by Jeffrey Archer
Interesting Facts about Space by Emily R. Austin
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
The Morningside by Téa Obreht
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Eden Test by Adam Sternbergh
Night by Elie Wiesel
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
it was amazing
Pax by Sara Pennypacker
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz
Entitlement by Rumaan Alam
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte  Wood
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
really liked it
Held by Anne  Michaels
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Cherrywood by Jock Serong
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami
Runt by Craig Silvey
it was amazing
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Jazz by Toni Morrison

Runt by Craig Silvey

David’s last review of the year

it was amazing
Runt is about a stray dog who is adopted by a kind and determined young girl named Annie. Together they enter an agility competition to help save the family farm. The problem is � Runt will do anything Annie says, except while people are watching! How will the resourceful Annie fix this?

I liked the dastardly villains. Earl Robert Barron is a rich, stingy neighbour who hoards everything � priceless artefacts and the town’s water too. Fergus Fink c
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