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2024
My Year in Books
23,363
pages read
Marchpane
77
books read
Marchpane
2 likes
My Evil Mother by Margaret Atwood
Shortest Book
32
pages
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
Longest Book
758
pages
Average book length in 2024
303
pages
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Most Shelved
2,197,614
people also shelved
Theft by Rachel Ingalls
Least Shelved
133
people also shelved
Marchpane’s average rating for 2024
3.9
3.9
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Highest Rated on ŷ
4.59 average
Christine by Stephen King

Marchpane’s first review of the year

really liked it
How prescient of Stephen King - a cautionary tale about the dangers of self-driving cars, written forty years ago!
Ѵʴ’S 2024 BOOKS
Bolivar by Marie Arana
really liked it
Trust by Hernan Diaz
The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez
The Wager by David Grann
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Christine by Stephen King
A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand
Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
Unruly by David Mitchell
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
One Clear Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21... by Roland Schimmelpfennig
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
it was amazing
Runt by Craig Silvey
Theft by Rachel Ingalls
The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut
I, Tituba by Maryse Condé
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Melancholy of Mechagirl by Catherynne M. Valente
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
A Crack in Creation by Jennifer A. Doudna
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
it was amazing
Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
One Illumined Thread by Sally Colin-James
Cujo by Stephen King
This Is Where We Live by Kate Hardie
The Taste of River Water by Cate Kennedy
Hostage by Clare Mackintosh
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Murmur by Will Eaves
really liked it
The Mist by Stephen King
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
Piglet by Lottie Hazell
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
it was amazing
Different Seasons by Stephen King
Apt Pupil by Stephen King
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
The Body by Stephen King
The Breathing Method by Stephen King
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
The Decameron Project by The New York Times
The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers by Jen Campbell
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
it was amazing
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
Until August by Gabriel García Márquez
Clear by Carys Davies
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King
James by Percival Everett
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Bunny by Mona Awad
The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones
The Morningside by Téa Obreht
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster by Mirinae Lee
My Evil Mother by Margaret Atwood
The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
it was amazing
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
The Night Eaters, Vol. 1 by Marjorie M. Liu
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
The Night Eaters, Vol. 2 by Marjorie M. Liu
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
it was amazing
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
You Like It Darker by Stephen King
Cut and Thirst by Margaret Atwood
Everyone and Everything by Nadine J. Cohen
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
really liked it
The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston
A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
Choice by Neel Mukherjee
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright

Marchpane’s last review of the year

it was amazing
Winner of the 2024 Stella Prize
Winner of the 2024 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction
Winner of the 2024 Miles Franklin Award

Is this the book of the century?

“Praiseworthy� is an understatement... this is a work of sheer bloody genius.

An ochre haze settles over the remote Aboriginal community of Praiseworthy. A climate-change visionary seeks a god donkey; a despairing teen walks into the ocean to drown; a boy waits for rescue by the blonde ...more
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