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2024
My Year in Books
13,584
pages read
42
books read


Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
Shortest Book
20
pages
Soup for Every Day by New Covent Garden Soup Company
Longest Book
775
pages

Average book length in 2024
323
pages

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Most Shelved
3,064,464
people also shelved
British Studio Potters' Marks by Eric Yates-Owen
Least Shelved
7
people also shelved

Dorothy’s average rating for 2024
3.8
3.8

High Force by L.J. Ross
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.52 average

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Dorothy’s first review of the year

it was amazing
This book was recommended to me first by a close friend and then, months later, by my sister. It probably took me eighteen months or so to finally get around to reading it.

I wasn't disappointed. Towles's novel probably takes the prize as the most charming book I have ever read, whilst steering well clear from saccharine sentimentality.

The book's main character is a Russian Count who narrowly misses execution following the Russian revolution and,
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¶Ù°¿¸é°¿°Õ±á³Û’S 2024 BOOKS
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
it was amazing
Many Different Kinds of Love by Michael Rosen
Stitches by Anne Lamott
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Getting Past the Pain Between Us by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Help Thanks Wow by Anne Lamott
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
Murder Before Evensong by Richard  Coles
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
really liked it
Toast by Nigel Slater
High Force by L.J. Ross
Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff
The Emotionally Abusive Relationship by Beverly Engel
British Studio Potters' Marks by Eric Yates-Owen
Soup for Every Day by New Covent Garden Soup Company
A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier
A Death in the Parish by Richard  Coles
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
really liked it
It Takes One to Tango by Winifred M. Reilly
The Cove by L.J. Ross
The Ballroom Blitz by Anton du Beke
Sexy But Psycho by Jessica   Taylor
Finding Chika by Mitch Albom
The Creek by L.J. Ross
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
Landlines by Raynor Winn
Children of the Self-Absorbed by Nina W. Brown
really liked it
Discovering the Inner Mother by Bethany Webster
The Revolving Door of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
Why Marriages Succeed or Fail by John M. Gottman
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
The Dance of Deception by Harriet Lerner
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence by Alice   Miller
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
The Novel Habits of Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
The Secret Life Of Cows by Rosamund Young
Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
it was amazing
The Understudy by David Nicholls

The Understudy by David Nicholls

Dorothy’s last review of the year

liked it
This is my fifth read of a novel by David Nicholls. The cover boasts 'laugh-out-loud' and 'funniest book of the year' from reviewers, and I have found Nicholls's novels laugh-out-loud funny, especially Starter for Ten.

I noticed it took several chapters for this book to come alive for me. Had I not read previous books by Nicholls, I might have given up. But when it did - with descriptions of the main character's teenage life - I put other books as
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