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2024
My Year in Books
96,430
pages read
272
books read


A Charmed Christmas by Alison Cochrun
Shortest Book
33
pages
The Disappearances of Draco Malfoy by Speechwriter
Longest Book
1,172
pages

Average book length in 2024
354
pages

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Most Shelved
8,418,238
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Superstar! by Ellis Nassour
Least Shelved
22
people also shelved

Alexis’s average rating for 2024
3.7
3.7

Assassin's Fate by Robin Hobb
Highest Rated on ŷ
4.61 average

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou

Alexis’s first review of the year

really liked it
This is the last of Maya Angelou's memoirs I currently own, and while I am excited to have completed my collection, I know I'm going to have to keep going.

Maya Angelou's life is just fascinating. I was discussing this series of memoirs with my mother, who questioned how so many could exist and was startled to hear how many more facets there are to Maya Angelou's life than just that of a great poet and writer.

This book follows Maya Angelou as she
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ݱ’S 2024 BOOKS
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou
really liked it
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos by Nash Jenkins
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Palestine by Joe Sacco
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
My Roommate Is a Vampire by Jenna Levine
really liked it
Mad Men and Philosophy by James B. South
The Foxglove King by Hannah F. Whitten
Kimberly Akimbo by Jeanine Tesori
Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen        King
Hinges by Meredith McClaren
American Gods, Vol. 3 by Neil Gaiman
really liked it
The Atlas Complex by Olivie Blake
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
Lumberjanes, Vol. 1 by N.D. Stevenson
Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Animal Farm by George Orwell
it was amazing
The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Gunslinger Born by Peter David
The Disappearances of Draco Malfoy by Speechwriter
Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher
The Impossible City by Karen Cheung
The Book of Love by Kelly Link
really liked it
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James   McBride
Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin
Just After Sunset by Stephen        King
The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Against Technoableism by Ashley Shew
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Oscar Wars by Michael        Schulman
it was amazing
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill
Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson
On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki by Baek Se-hee
The Unreal and the Real by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
it was amazing
Why We Read by Shannon Reed
Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood
really liked it
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavige Hill
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Dreamsongs, Volume II by George R.R. Martin
Fierce Fairytales by Nikita Gill
Fables by Bill Willingham
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
Never Whistle at Night by Shane Hawk
Batman by Grant Morrison
it was amazing
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
Wonder of Wonders by Alisa Solomon
The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
Funny Story by Emily Henry
The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
really liked it
The Best American Essays 2023 by Vivian Gornick
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R.R. Martin
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry   Mitchell
Slewfoot by Brom
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction by Joseph Conrad
You're the Only One I've Told by Meera Shah
Redlands, Vol. 1 by Jordie Bellaire
Chita by Chita Rivera
Nightwing (2016-) #113 by Tom    Taylor
The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
it was amazing
Dead Boy Detectives by Pornsak Pichetshote
Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver
The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket

My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Streisand

Alexis’s last review of the year

really liked it
To say the size of this intimidated me would be an understatement. I admired Barbra Streisand, and I appreciated her talent going in, but I do not consider myself a super-fan, so I wasn't sure I was ever going to read this tome. I started with a discarded copy from the library and ended up transferring to the audiobook, which was a GREAT listening experience. I don't think I could have done it and enjoyed it as much if I had eye read it all.

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