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2024
My Year in Books
33,702
pages read
119
books read


1919 by Eve L. Ewing
Shortest Book
pages
Under the Dome by Stephen        King
Longest Book
1,074
pages

Average book length in 2024
283
pages

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Most Shelved
14,277,850
people also shelved
Music for Ghosts by Christopher Locke
Least Shelved
1
people also shelved

Caitlin’s average rating for 2024
3.7
3.7

Tough & Tender by Zane Frederick
Highest Rated on ŷ
4.86 average

Body Grammar by Jules Ohman

Caitlin’s first review of the year

liked it
I so wanted to love this book, but had a lot of trouble with it for a few reasons.

One is the prose—while clean, it moved quickly over the events happening. I wanted this story which is so heavy on the introspection to linger more on each moment. The fast-moving chapters and scene breaks did nothing to make me sit with the feelings being explored

Another is the characters. I feel like so many were introduced and not all of them had their stories ti
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䴡ճ’S 2024 BOOKS
Body Grammar by Jules Ohman
Together and By Ourselves by Alex Dimitrov
really liked it
There There by Tommy Orange
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Dreamcatcher by Stephen        King
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
What Will People Say by Taniya Gupta
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Educated by Tara Westover
1919 by Eve L. Ewing
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds
Fat Girl Magic by Kat Savage
Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser
it was amazing
Girls by Frederick Busch
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha
My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
it was amazing
The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
52 Loaves by William   Alexander
Music for Ghosts by Christopher Locke
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
really liked it
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee
Pilgrim Bell by Kaveh Akbar
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Hide by Kiersten White
The Professor's House by Willa Cather
Long Past Stopping by Oran Canfield
Negroland by Margo Jefferson
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Head Off & Split by Nikky Finney
Eyes, etc by Eleanor   Clark
I Do Everything I'm Told by Megan Fernandes
it was amazing
On Writing by Stephen        King
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Father by Sharon Olds
Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
Bunny by Mona Awad
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
really liked it
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Last Usable Hour by Deborah Landau
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Selected Poems by John Ashbery
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhhà Lại
Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
A Falling Knife Has No Handle by Emily O'Neill
Dead Wake by Erik Larson
it was amazing
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Flâneuse by Lauren Elkin
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
Whoever You Are, Honey by Olivia Gatwood
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
it was amazing
City of Thieves by David Benioff
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
Just Us by Claudia Rankine
Half-Light by Frank Bidart
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by torrin a. greathouse
Philomena by Martin Sixsmith
Born Standing Up by Steve  Martin
it was amazing
Ghost Of by Diana Khoi Nguyen
Furiously Happy by Jenny  Lawson
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
really liked it
Ghost by Jason Reynolds
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Color of Water by James   McBride
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Shelter by Jung Yun
I'll Cry If I Want To by Raquel Franco
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Dream Work by Mary Oliver
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
First Love by Lilly Dancyger
The Theory of Everything by Stephen Hawking
it was amazing
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
Billy Budd and Other Tales by Herman Melville
The Wild Robot by Peter  Brown

All My Sons by Arthur Miller

Caitlin’s last review of the year

really liked it
Arthur Miller just knocks it out of the park every time. This has one of the most poignant final scenes in a play that I’ve ever read (or seen), and the title is so clever. I’d love to see this one performed live.
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