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2024
My Year in Books
40,327
pages read
Claire
131
books read
Claire
A Shining by Jon Fosse
Shortest Book
74
pages
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Longest Book
639
pages
Average book length in 2024
307
pages
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Most Shelved
6,556,327
people also shelved
The Pruning Principle by Simon Breakspear
Least Shelved
15
people also shelved
Claire’s average rating for 2024
4.0
4.0
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.60 average
The Secret by Lee Child

Claire’s first review of the year

it was amazing
A blast from the past with old school army Reacher was just what I needed. This is definitely the best of the co-written Reacher novels so far. Plenty of all the things we love about Reacher, nothing to complain about.
CLAIRE’S 2024 BOOKS
The Secret by Lee Child
it was amazing
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden
Becoming Kim Jong Un by Jung H. Pak
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
The Janes by Louisa Luna
Don't Look Back by Jo Spain
Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan
it was amazing
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
The Retreat by Sarah Pearse
Who Was Steve Irwin? by Dina Anastasio
Gangster's Paradise by Jared Savage
Something Bad is Going to Happen by Jessie Stephens
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
The Auburn Conference by Tom Piazza
it was amazing
Under the Stars by Lisa Harvey-Smith
The Space Between by Lauren Keenan
The Shamshine Blind by Paz Pardo
Good Material by Dolly Alderton
The Twits by Roald Dahl
Dice by Claire Baylis
We Need to Talk About Norman by Denis Welch
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
The Perfect Son by Freida McFadden
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
American Mermaid by Julia Langbein
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
it was amazing
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
The Country of Others by Leïla Slimani
The Exchange by John Grisham
Lioness by Emily Perkins
it was amazing
A Shining by Jon Fosse
Piglet by Lottie Hazell
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster by Mirinae Lee
Fearless by Jelena Dokic
Outback by Patricia Wolf
The Night She Fell by Eileen Merriman
Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar
The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell
The Women by Kristin Hannah
El Flamingo by Nick Davies
Funny Story by Emily Henry
Chenneville by Paulette Jiles
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
it was amazing
My Husband by Maud Ventura
The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Under the Influence by Noelle Crooks
When I Open the Shop by romesh dissanayake
it was amazing
When McKinsey Comes to Town by Walt Bogdanich
Long Island by Colm Tóibín
Run For Your Life by Sue Williams
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Water by John Boyne
Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
To the River by Vikki Wakefield
Return to Blood by Michael Bennett
it was amazing
Wild Things by Sally Rippin
James by Percival Everett
Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki
Chip War by Chris Miller
Everest, Inc. by Will Cockrell
Eruption by Michael Crichton
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
it was amazing
Should We Stay or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver
Jaded by Ela Lee
Moon Road by Sarah Leipciger
You Are Here by David Nicholls
The Chewing-Gum Rescue & Other Stories by Margaret Mahy
The Last Secret Agent by Pippa Latour
All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
My Brilliant Sister by Amy Brown
Earth (Hardback) by John Boyne
it was amazing
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
Only Say Good Things by Crystal Hefner
How Humans Took Over the World by Yuval Noah Harari
Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
There Is No Ethan by Anna Akbari
Held by Anne Michaels
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
really liked it
My Friends by Hisham Matar
There There by Tommy Orange
The Housemaid Is Watching by Freida McFadden
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Sociopath by Patric Gagne
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
I Am Not Esther by Fleur Beale
Knife by Salman Rushdie
Plainsong by Kent Haruf

Claire’s last review of the year

it was amazing
I feel late to the Kent Haruf party but I am ON THE BUS. The second of his novels that I have read thanks to an excellent recommendation from Susie. Plainsong is a tender and yet totally unsentimental novel of everyday life, its hardships, moments of connection, and the intersection of lives in a small rural town. It has a lot to say about how people treat each other, and is told with such compassion for its characters. It’s beautifully written, ...more
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