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2024
My Year in Books
12,291
pages read
H James
36
books read
H James
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka
Shortest Book
52
pages
The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith
Longest Book
960
pages
Average book length in 2024
341
pages
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Most Shelved
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Ape’s-face by Marion Fox
Least Shelved
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H James’s average rating for 2024
3.3
3.3
The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith
Highest Rated on ŷ
4.56 average
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

H James’s first review of the year

really liked it
Six years after the end of the Harry Potter series, Ms Rowling's prose remains fresh and vigorous. While her plotting has never been refined, this new series hinges (and succeeds) more on the richness of its characters than it does on intrigue. ...more
H JAMES’S 2024 BOOKS
Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
really liked it
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
Divided We Fall by David French
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
The Big Four by Agatha Christie
The Last Emperox by John Scalzi
Brute Force by Scott Meyer
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Ape’s-face by Marion Fox
Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
really liked it
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Year’s Best Science Fiction by Gardner Dozois
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway
Livesuit by James S.A. Corey
The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith
really liked it
Love Triangle by Matt Parker
Polostan by Neal Stephenson
The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves
Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
Eat More Better by Dan Pashman
The Human Division by John Scalzi
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The End of All Things by John Scalzi
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka
it was amazing
Red Dust by Yoss
You Like It Darker by Stephen King
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

H James’s last review of the year

it was amazing
This collection of five creative non‐fiction works has a few instances of unacknowledged overlap between pieces that induce a jarring 徱’t‐h‐s‐t󲹳‐a𲹻? moment of disorientation, but each piece is absolutely brilliant on its own.
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