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2024
My Year in Books
15,025
pages read
59
books read


The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Shortest Book
86
pages
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Longest Book
1,023
pages

Average book length in 2024
254
pages

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Most Shelved
2,656,672
people also shelved
Ha Ha Hu Hu by Viswanatha Satyanarayana
Least Shelved
435
people also shelved

Jace’s average rating for 2024
4.0
really liked it
4.0

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Highest Rated on ŷ
4.48 average

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Jace’s first review of the year

it was amazing
After over a year and a half of reading, I finally finished East of Eden by John Steinbeck. This was an incredible book that has honestly become a sort of close friend. This book has seen me through some rough times, and reading it has always felt like coming home no matter how long it was between reading sessions. It has helped me understand myself better and helped me understand my relationships better as well.

The story of the Trask family over
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䷡’S 2024 BOOKS
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
it was amazing
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist
City of Glass by Paul Auster
it was amazing
Stories in the Worst Way by Garielle Lutz
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction by Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
Elements of Fiction by Walter Mosley
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Egil's Saga by Anonymous
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison
There There by Tommy Orange
it was amazing
Under the Glacier by Halldór Laxness
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Master Flea by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Prophet Song by Paul    Lynch
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
it was amazing
Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
it was amazing
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann
Ha Ha Hu Hu by Viswanatha Satyanarayana
Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro
Samskara by U.R. Ananthamurthy
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
it was amazing
Revenge by Yōko Ogawa
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
Blindness by José Saramago
The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
it was amazing
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Jace’s last review of the year

it was amazing
Gotta be one of the funniest books I’ve ever read.

What can I say? I’m a simple man. I read a four-century-old metafictional novel about a knight errant and his faithful squire questing around Spain and getting the crap beat out of them during their travels and recuperating and then getting beaten to a pulp again and again and again until one of them decides to die because he’s tired of everyone else trying—and failing—to be in on the joke, and I
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