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2024
My Year in Books
37,974
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Felicity
162
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A Shining by Jon Fosse
Shortest Book
48
pages
Septology by Jon Fosse
Longest Book
825
pages
Average book length in 2024
234
pages
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
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A Czech Philosopher on the Cotswolds by Nellie Shaw
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Felicity’s average rating for 2024
3.7
3.7
Whiteway by Nellie Shaw
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it was amazing
5.00 average
Squirrel Nation by Peter Coates

Felicity’s first review of the year

it was amazing
Quite coincidentally, I read this book on Squirrel Appreciation Day, an American day of celebration, as far as I'm aware not replicated in Europe, certainly not in those countries where the American grey squirrel is regarded as an undesirable alien displacing the native species and colonising the country. I am not a biologist, and neither is the author, an environmental historian, but his archival research examines the claims and counter-claims f ...more
󷡳ճ’S 2024 BOOKS
Ammonites and Leaping Fish by Penelope Lively
it was amazing
Squirrel Nation by Peter Coates
The Love Child by Edith Olivier
A Late Education by Alan Moorehead
Fierce Appetites by Elizabeth Boyle
The Travel Writing Tribe by Tim Hannigan
At the Pond by Ava Wong Davies
Set To Partners by Ruth Adam
Penning Poison by Emily Cockayne
The Easternmost House by Juliet Blaxland
Chums by Simon Kuper
Night Thoughts of a Country Landlady. Being the pacific Exper... by illus. OLIVIER (E). WHISTLE...
Francis Plug by Paul Ewen
Twelve Thousand Days by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
it was amazing
A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
James Ravilious by Robin Ravilious
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
Free by Katharine Hibbert
Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays by Andrei Platonov
Balkan Departures by Wendy Bracewell
Francis Bacon's the New Atlantis by Bronwen Price
Oleander, Jacaranda by Penelope Lively
The Green Man of Horam by Tom Wareham
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
it was amazing
Murder in the Home Guard by Ruth Adam
Three Early Modern Utopias by Thomas More
The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
All the Roads Are Open by Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Mac and His Problem by Enrique Vila-Matas
The Outermost House by Henry Beston
A Quiet Life by Beryl Bainbridge
The Book of Ramallah by Maya Abu al-Hayat
Nine Years Is a Long Time and Other Tales by Norah Hoult
it was amazing
The Absent Moon by Luiz Schwarcz
The Cruel Way by Ella Maillart
Time Gentleman! Time! by Norah Hoult
it was amazing
Rummy by AE Coppard
The Mint by T.E. Lawrence
The Folly by Ivan Vladislavić
The Crocodile by the Door by Selina Guinness
Crossing by Pajtim Statovci
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
Oblivion by Héctor Abad Faciolince
Gerald O'Donovan by John F. Ryan
A new world in essex by Victor Gray
The Alchemist and Other Plays by Ben Jonson
David's Daughter by Tamar Barrington
it was amazing
Tail corn by E. M. Barraud
A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively
The zekameron by Maxim Znak
Killjoy by Jo Cheetham
The Offing by Benjamin Myers
The Box by Günter Grass
My Pen is the Wing of a Bird by Lyse Doucet
My Cousin Justin by Margaret Barrington
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The Visitor by Maeve Brennan
Wigtown Ploughman by John McNeillie
No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen by Ken Worpole
it was amazing
The Blazing World and Other Writings by Margaret Cavendish
Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Knockmaroon, by W. M Letts
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
The Opportune Moment, 1855 by Patrik Ouředník
Knife by Salman Rushdie
Whiteway by Nellie Shaw
it was amazing
Why Food Matters by Paul Freedman
A Czech Philosopher on the Cotswolds by Nellie Shaw
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
Remembering Peasants by Patrick Joyce
brother. do. you. love. me. by Manni Coe
Three Brothers by Yan Lianke
Silence by Shūsaku Endō
The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam
it was amazing
The seals, by Monk Gibbon
Belinda the Backward A Romance of Modern Idealism 1905 [Hardc... by Salome Hocking
Alive, Alive Oh! by Diana Athill
Barbara Comyns by Avril Horner
Don't Look Left by Atef Abu Saif
it was amazing
That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
The Skin Chairs by Barbara Comyns
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
Long Live Great Bardfield by Tirzah Garwood
Pulp Methodism by Alan M. Kent
William Carleton by William Carleton
Getting Through by John McGahern
Potholes and Pavements by Laura Laker
An Eye on Ireland by Justine McCarthy
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
Caliban Shrieks by Jack Hilton
Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories by Ghassan Kanafani
it was amazing
All That's Left to You by Ghassan Kanafani
Living Pictures by Polina Barskova
Hags by Victoria Smith
Ruth by Jeremy Cooper
I Love Russia. Reporting from a Lost Country. by Elena Kostyuchenko

Felicity’s last review of the year

it was amazing
Don’t be deterred by the provocative, perhaps intentionally misleading, title. What Kostyuchenko records, affectionately or not, are the covert or abandoned communities unknown to most Russophiles. This is a compulsively readable, personal account of hidden Russia, commendable for not being a barely disguised tourist trendsetter. It’s a brave journalist who would risk alienating her readers.
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