2024.
A wild ride of less in quantifiable reading but more in appreciation of the time dedicated to reading.
I read 50 books this year, not meeting my normal personal goal of surpassing the former year’s number of books read. But, I still read most days and I think with the major changes to my lifestyle, I’m still proud of myself in how much I read.
This was mainly the year of selling books for me. Which I’m pretty proud of myself for, starting a small business and still selling books after I became pregnant with our first baby. Honestly, I can’t wait to see what the business will hold for my family and what it’ll teach my son.
So here’s a proverbial toast to personal growth in 2025.
What I read in 2024 (by month)
January
- Picker’s Bible: How to Pick Antiques like the Pros by Joe Willard
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
- Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
- No Exit by Taylor Adams
- Winter Solstice by Elin Hilderbrand
- Still Fucking Alive by Marissa Hardy
February
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
- Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
- Censorship pamphlet
- Book 1 of War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by JK Rowling
- Alcatraz Bride by Ann Burrows Eib
March
- Real Food For Fertility by Lily Nichols and Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
- Book 2 of War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
- Screwjack by Hunter S Thompson
April
- Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
- Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
- Book 3 of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- BEBBIS for Babies by Dr. Kiltz
- Godkiller by Hannah Kaner
May
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy – Book 4 and Epilogue
- The Black Phone by Joe Hill
June
- And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
- Shampoo by Robert Alley
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
July
- Night Chills by Dean Koontz
- Swimming Against the Current by Riley Gaines
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngoni Adichie
- The Navy SEAL’s Email Order Bride by Cora Seton
August
- How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm and Other Adventures in Parenting by Mei-Ling Hopgood
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
- Gerald’s Game by Stephen King
- The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
September
- Hypnobirthing by Siobhan Miller
- Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
- Sula by Toni Morrison
- Think Twice by Harlan Coben
October
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
- If Mashed Potatoes Could Dance by Paige Shelton
- The Bridge Kingdom by Danielle L. Jensen
- Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin
November
- The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell
- N0S4A2 by Joe Hill
- Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman
- The God of Lost Words by AJ Hackwith
December
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- A Carol for a Corpse by Claudia Bishop
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score
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