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2024
My Year in Books
15,154
pages read
64
books read


The Young Man by Annie Ernaux
Shortest Book
64
pages
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Longest Book
671
pages

Average book length in 2024
236
pages

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Most Shelved
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Asian American Drama by Brian K. Nelson
Least Shelved
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ruby’s average rating for 2024
3.6
3.6

Collect Call to My Mother by Lori Horvitz
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.89 average

Stay True by Hua Hsu

ruby’s first review of the year

i read this simultaneously fast and slow, where each page breezed through so quickly but each of hsu's sentences sank deeply, forebearingly into me. i've read some reviews that felt the book was slow but i think the book contains no real "pace", no real metric of time, instead passing through hsu's ideas and music and memories. how are you supposed to tackle something that doesn't really make sense in the moment? the book made me think about how ...more

¸é±«µþ³Û’S 2024 BOOKS
Stay True by Hua Hsu
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Some Thoughts Concerning Education by John Locke
Weather by Jenny Offill
Emile, or On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
it was ok
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patrick Cottrell
The Autobiography of a Language by Mirene Arsanios
A Bestiary by Lily Hoang
it was amazing
Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
Collect Call to My Mother by Lori Horvitz
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine
The Young Man by Annie Ernaux
Histoire de la violence by Édouard Louis
The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball
Shae by Mesha Maren
Bad Seed by Gabriel Carle
Stoner by John  Williams
Parade by Rachel Cusk
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1 by Jean-Christophe Deveney
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth by Anna Moschovakis
Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg
A History of Asian American Theatre by Esther Kim Lee
Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru
All Fours by Miranda July
it was ok
Asian American Drama by Brian K. Nelson
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler
Monsters by Claire Dederer
Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah
American Bulk by Emily Mester
The Employees by Olga Ravn
Normal People by Sally Rooney
it was amazing
Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Outline by Rachel Cusk
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
The Beggar Student by Osamu Dazai
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan
it was amazing
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sun & Steel by Yukio Mishima
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Second Place by Rachel Cusk
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
Three Plays by Young Jean Lee
Ru by Kim Thúy
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
Playboy (Semiotext by Constance Debré
Call Them by Their True Names by Rebecca Solnit
Lifeform by Jenny Slate
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Sex Goblin by Lauren  Cook
it was ok
frank by Diane Seuss
NDA by arata
The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada

The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada

ruby’s last review of the year

the idea of using holes to hint at illusion/absence/nonpresence intrigues me but the overall story felt eh
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