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The Most Read Books of the 2025 Reading Challenge So Far
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2024
My Year in Books
21,261
pages read
JLC
64
books read
JLC
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
Shortest Book
40
pages
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Longest Book
1,006
pages
Average book length in 2024
332
pages
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Most Shelved
4,192,748
people also shelved
The Old Man and The Sea 1995 Paperback [Ernest Hemingway] by Ernest Hemingway
Least Shelved
39
people also shelved
JLC’s average rating for 2024
3.7
3.7
James by Percival Everett
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.45 average
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

JLC’s first review of the year

liked it
I liked the shift in the focus of the main character's affections - this is not the cheeezy romance novel I thought it was going to be. Nicely written, quick read - but I'll probably forget about it in five year's time. ...more
´³³¢°ä’S 2024 BOOKS
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
it was amazing
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Normal Girl by Molly Jong-Fast
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
The Sense of Wonder by Matthew Salesses
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
it was amazing
The Dinner by Herman Koch
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
The Old Man and The Sea 1995 Paperback [Ernest Hemingway] by Ernest Hemingway
The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
The Lazy Genius Kitchen by Kendra Adachi
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
Thanks a Lot, Mr. Kibblewhite by Roger Daltrey
it was amazing
I'm Sorry You Feel That Way by Diana Joseph
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
Who I Am by Pete Townshend
Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
it was amazing
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
it was amazing
How to Walk into a Room by Emily P. Freeman
102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
The Door by Magda Szabó
James by Percival Everett
Sociopath by Patric Gagne
What to Listen for in Music by Aaron Copland
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Otto by Jon Agee
Looking for Calvin and Hobbes by Nevin Martell
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
it was amazing
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
The Jinn Daughter by Rania Hanna
A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Moral Disorder and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood
Kindling the Celtic Spirit by Mara Freeman
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
it was amazing
Neither Here nor There by Bill Bryson
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Secrets Under The Parking Lot by Diane Kelly Runyon
it was ok
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

JLC’s last review of the year

it was amazing
I’ve never had a book make me start sobbing at the end - not for good things. An account of a family’s experience of Hurricane Katrina, it spirals into an (un)believably dark place, but the final chapters are full of hope for the future of our country. This book was written in 2009; reading it at the end of 2024, knowing that that hope has been destroyed and the darkness that Zeitoun experienced is coming for the whole country is heartbreaking. B ...more
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