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2024
My Year in Books
5,995
pages read
20
books read


Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Shortest Book
128
pages
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Longest Book
645
pages

Average book length in 2024
299
pages

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Most Shelved
2,647,336
people also shelved
The Islands by Dionne Irving
Least Shelved
5,121
people also shelved

Dylan’s average rating for 2024
4.1
4.1

Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.55 average

The Islands by Dionne Irving

Dylan’s first review of the year

really liked it
I loved this collection of short stories! Centred mostly around the lives of Jamaican women, Irving creates a variety of such interesting characters at different phases in their lives and journeys to self-discovery. I found the different detailed descriptions of daily life so well-developed and really enjoyed the majority of these stories, each one with some super insightful character arc moments and depictions of the universal desires that bind ...more

¶Ù³Û³¢´¡±·â€™S 2024 BOOKS
The Islands by Dionne Irving
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
it was amazing
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
it was amazing
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James   McBride
Beowulf by Unknown
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
it was amazing
Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt

Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt

Dylan’s last review of the year

it was amazing
“There are no lies that wound as deeply as the lies we tell ourselves.�

Torn between 4 and 5 stars because I found that I had to read this one in short fragments and couldn’t exactly speed my way through it, but that’s only because every sentence requires careful reading and a complete immersion into the specifics and details of the environment that Boyt creates. I’m giving it the 5 because it really has everything I could want in a book - beautif
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