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2024
My Year in Books
13,953
pages read
45
books read


Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
Shortest Book
149
pages
'Salem's Lot by Stephen        King
Longest Book
631
pages

Average book length in 2024
310
pages

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Most Shelved
6,722,782
people also shelved
Things I Have Withheld by Kei Miller
Least Shelved
3,143
people also shelved

Dwayne’s average rating for 2024
3.4
3.4

Finding Me by Viola Davis
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.54 average

Writers & Lovers by Lily King

Dwayne’s first review of the year

really liked it
First published in 2020, I've had a copy of this one for almost 4 years. It was one of those (many) books I purchased at the height of the pandemic, some of which I still haven't gotten around to.
Clearly I was in no hurry to read it, so I'm not even sure why I decided to read it now. But you know what? I'm so glad I did. What an amazing book!

Set in the 90's and told from the point of view of a white thirty-something year old woman struggling (for
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¶Ù°Â´¡³Û±··¡â€™S 2024 BOOKS
Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
Trust by Hernan Diaz
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
really liked it
North Woods by Daniel       Mason
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
Finding Me by Viola Davis
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud
really liked it
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan
it was amazing
Things I Have Withheld by Kei Miller
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts by Soraya Palmer
The Furrows by Namwali Serpell
Broughtupsy by Christina Cooke
Blackouts by Justin Torres
A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power
How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs
Don't Cry for Me by Daniel     Black
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
it was amazing
My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson
There There by Tommy Orange
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte  Wood
'Salem's Lot by Stephen        King
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Mighty Marvel Masterworks by Stan Lee
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
My Friends by Hisham Matar
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin
Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

Dwayne’s last review of the year

it was amazing
One of the best short story collections I've read so far. Having grown up in a Black church, I really appreciate what the author does with this. I love how Black and queer everything is. My faves were (in no particular order) "Peach Cobbler," "How to Make Love to a Physicist," "Jael," and "Instructions for Married Christian Husbands."
Thank you, National Book Awards; this would probably have flown completely under my radar had it not been a final
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