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2024
My Year in Books
2,138
pages read
7
books read


The Long Game by Ann Leckie
Shortest Book
31
pages
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez
Longest Book
588
pages

Average book length in 2024
305
pages

Babel by R.F. Kuang
Most Shelved
1,379,449
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Just Out of Jupiter's Reach by Nnedi Okorafor
Least Shelved
11,496
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Barney’s average rating for 2024
2.9
2.9

Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.08 average

Babel by R.F. Kuang

Barney’s first review of the year

it was ok
I was so excited for this! I was expecting it to be like an anti-colonial Dr Strange and Harry Potter love child. But I found it to be a victim of its own hype. Super loose world-building, unlikable characters, very little sense of historical place for a speculative historical fiction (honestly the way the characters talk and interact with the world, you could replace ‘parchment� for ‘laptop� and ‘library� for ‘JSTOR� and set it in the modern day ...more

µþ´¡¸é±··¡³Û’S 2024 BOOKS
Babel by R.F. Kuang
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
it was amazing
When McKinsey Comes to Town by Walt Bogdanich
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
Just Out of Jupiter's Reach by Nnedi Okorafor
The Long Game by Ann Leckie

There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

Barney’s last review of the year

really liked it
I really enjoyed this. The concept alone is so cool. I’m not sure I quite understood everything that was going on, but I was happy to go along for the ride.
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