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2024
My Year in Books
51,115
pages read
Catherine (The Gilmore Guide to Books)
142
books read
Catherine (The Gilmore Guide to Books)
Aug 9 - Fog⁠ by Kathryn Scanlan
Shortest Book
128
pages
Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro
Longest Book
672
pages
Average book length in 2024
359
pages
The Women by Kristin Hannah
Most Shelved
2,379,052
people also shelved
Prescription for Pain by Philip Eil
Least Shelved
1,157
people also shelved
Catherine (The Gilmore Guide to Books)’s average rating for 2024
3.9
3.9
The Women by Kristin Hannah
Highest Rated on ŷ
4.58 average
The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini

Catherine (The Gilmore Guide to Books)’s first review of the year

really liked it
After a woman is found dead on the pavement in front of a London highrise office building, Tate Kinsella is brought in for questioning on suspicion of murder. She tells the police that she had met the as-yet unidentified woman on the building’s rooftop terrace and that the woman was going to kill herself by jumping until Tate had talked her out of it. Either the woman had gone back and jumped or, if it’s murder, then someone was trying to frame T ...more
CATHERINE (THE GILMORE GUIDE TO BOOKS)’S 2024 BOOKS
Aug 9 - Fog⁠ by Kathryn Scanlan
A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella
What Wild Women Do by Karma Brown
Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent
The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri
The Fury by Alex Michaelides
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
it was amazing
Family Family by Laurie Frankel
Mercury by Amy Jo Burns
Diva by Daisy Goodwin
One Wrong Word by Hank Phillippi Ryan
The Fortune Seller by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
it was amazing
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
Medea by Eilish Quin
Three Muses by Martha Anne Toll
The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons
After Annie by Anna Quindlen
it was amazing
The Atlas of Forgotten Places by Jenny D. Williams
The Things We Didn’t Know by Elba Iris Pérez
James by Percival Everett
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
Piglet by Lottie Hazell
The Women by Kristin Hannah
Kill for Me, Kill for You by Steve Cavanagh
A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Breathless by Amy McCulloch
Mother Doll by Katya Apekina
The Book of Gothel by Mary McMyne
really liked it
Prescription for Pain by Philip Eil
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure
Honey by Victor Lodato
My Murder by Katie Williams
Safe and Sound by Laura McHugh
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Walk the Darkness Down by Daniel Magariel
While We Were Burning by Sara Koffi
The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza
The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean
it was amazing
Capote's Women by Laurence Leamer
Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra
Christa Comes Out of Her Shell by Abbi Waxman
The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley
Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
it was amazing
I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
Sociopath by Patric Gagne
Every Time We Say Goodbye by Natalie Jenner
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
The Wealth of Shadows by Graham Moore
The Gown by Jennifer Robson
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
The Hunter's Daughter by Nicola Solvinic
Swift River by Essie J. Chambers
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
Coming Home by Brittney Griner
it was amazing
Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
Jackie by Dawn Tripp
Wolf at the Table by Adam Rapp
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse
All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
You'd Look Better as a Ghost by Joanna Wallace
End of Watch by Stephen King
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
it was amazing
How the Light Gets In by Joyce Maynard
The Same Bright Stars by Ethan Joella
Bear by Julia Phillips
The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
it was amazing
Look in the Mirror by Catherine Steadman
The Book That Broke the World by Mark Lawrence
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
A Hunger to Kill by Kim Mager
Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub
The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
How to Read a Book by Monica Wood
Rabbit Heart by Kristine S. Ervin
Hera by Jennifer Saint
Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid
The Takedown by Lily Chu
The Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty
it was amazing
There Is No Ethan by Anna Akbari
The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult
The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro
it was amazing
The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan
Bringer of Dust by J.M. Miro
Women and Children First by Alina Grabowski
How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots by Jessica Soffer

Catherine (The Gilmore Guide to Books)’s last review of the year

it was amazing
Tomorrow there will be Apricots is a portrait in sadness. Lorca is a 14-year-old girl who is trying to gain the attention of her distant mother, who is a chef, and so turns to Victoria, an Iraqi woman who once owned a popular restaurant in the neighborhood and is now offering cooking classes. Her husband has recently died and she is haunted by his loss and their past. Lorca signs up for the class and when the two meet, there is the tentative sens ...more
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