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2024
My Year in Books
5,774
pages read
18
books read


The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Shortest Book
96
pages
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Longest Book
640
pages

Average book length in 2024
320
pages

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Most Shelved
1,867,734
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Yakada Yaka by Carl Muller
Least Shelved
332
people also shelved

Antony’s average rating for 2024
3.7
3.7

The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.39 average

The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker

Antony’s first review of the year

liked it
Reading because the Ghost Road won the Booker prize and because Pat Barker is from Thornaby-on-Tees so just across the river from me. This was an enjoyable read. Hoping for a bit more from the next one.

´¡±·°Õ°¿±·³Û’S 2024 BOOKS
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
really liked it
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Death of Grass by John Christopher
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
The Leviathan by Rosie Andrews
Liberation Day by George Saunders
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
Back When We Were Grown-ups by Anne Tyler
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
it was amazing
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Monolith to Microservices by Sam Newman
Yakada Yaka by Carl Muller
Bête by Adam Roberts
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Wind/Pinball by Haruki Murakami
The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

Antony’s last review of the year

really liked it
I have now read all of Murakami's novels. This one is based on a novel he wrote early in his career which he was never satisfied with and hence never published. That figures as this is classic Murakami, a lot of the themes present here have been revisited in his other novels. The story is similar to Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World but I found it a lot easier to follow than that one. I enjoyed it a lot. ...more
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