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2024
My Year in Books
31,443
pages read
Samantha Dupree
111
books read
Samantha Dupree
By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain by Joe Hill
Shortest Book
30
pages
Extasia by Claire Legrand
Longest Book
496
pages
Average book length in 2024
283
pages
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Most Shelved
4,180,073
people also shelved
Good Reception by Antero García
Least Shelved
25
people also shelved
Samantha’s average rating for 2024
3.8
3.8
Linguistic Justice by April Baker-Bell
Highest Rated on ŷ
4.58 average
There Goes the Neighborhood by Jade Adia

Samantha’s first review of the year

it was amazing
Heck yeah, you know it's gonna be good when the first read of the year is a 5 star!!

I started recommending this to students halfway through the book, that's how good this is. I didn't even need the ending, I just knew it was going to hit. And it did. I loved our lead character. As a teacher of 10th graders, this is one of the most sophomore-y sophomores to ever sophomore. She loves fiercely and passionately and contains zero ability to critically ...more
Ѵձᴡ’S 2024 BOOKS
There Goes the Neighborhood by Jade Adia
it was amazing
The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
The Wicked King by Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
Let There Be Light by Liana Finck
All Together Now by Hope Larson
Your Lonely Nights Are Over by Adam Sass
Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy
A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft
Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele
Lucy in the Sky by Kiara Brinkman
Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj
it was amazing
Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice by Elle Cosimano
Lone Women by Victor LaValle
Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Poe by Gareth Hinds
A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand
it was amazing
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
Slip by Marika McCoola
So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole
What the Woods Took by Courtney Gould
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
it was amazing
Together We Rot by Skyla Arndt
Night by Elie Wiesel
Heavy Oceans by Tyler Jones
Not Quite a Ghost by Anne Ursu
Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
it was amazing
Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones
There There by Tommy Orange
A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal
Evil Eye by Etaf Rum
really liked it
Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman
The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste
You Know What You Did by K.T. Nguyen
Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter
What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell
The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
How to Survive Your Murder by Danielle Valentine
What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron
And Then There Were Four by Nancy Werlin
Dead Flip by Sara Farizan
Middle of the Night by Riley Sager
Dead Girls Walking by Sami Ellis
Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
The Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire
it was amazing
I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
Mimi's Tales of Terror by Junji Ito
Dissolving Classroom by Junji Ito
Junji Ito's Cat Diary by JunjiIto
it was amazing
Stitches by Hirokatsu Kihara
Alley by Junji Ito
Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio
Sanity & Tallulah by Molly Brooks
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen
Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford
How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline
Don't Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban
Fan Fiction by Brent Spiner
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Linguistic Justice by April Baker-Bell
it was amazing
A House at the Bottom of a Lake by Josh Malerman
The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour
Good Reception by Antero García
Mothers United by Andrea Dyrness
The Skin I'm In by Sharon G. Flake
it was amazing
Extasia by Claire Legrand
The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds
Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross
This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Suddenly Diverse by Erica O. Turner
Same as It Never Was by Gregory Michie
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
it was amazing
Only a Monster by Vanessa Len
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
How the Brain Learns by David A. Sousa
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Samantha’s last review of the year

it was amazing
Forever a favorite. Dickens is incredibly funny and timely (contextually that is) and this is such a short book with a familiar enough plot that I always recommend this as a starter for folks looking to get into classics.

12/1/2021 reread: Its still great! Audiobook was a fun new way to enjoy one of my favorites and it only took about two hours to listen to.

12/13/2022 reread: This year I taught the book in Staves to three different classes of soph ...more
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