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2024
My Year in Books
10,023
pages read
34
books read
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Teething by Megha Rao
Shortest Book
88
pages
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Longest Book
758
pages

Average book length in 2024
294
pages

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Body Traitor's History by S.  Venugopal
Least Shelved
5
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S.’s average rating for 2024
4.1
4.1

Body Traitor's History by S.  Venugopal
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.50 average

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

S.’s first review of the year

really liked it
This is a novella showing how the crimes of history are far closer to us than we think they are; all we need to do in order to discover them is simply step out of line. The Frankfurt Book Fair's censorship of this excellent novel only bolsters the horrifying but all too expected truth it holds about sexual violence in service of colonisation and genocide.

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³§.’S 2024 BOOKS
Mansur by Vikramajit Ram
Teething by Megha Rao
Divorce is Normal by Shasvathi Siva
Being Muslim in Hindu India by Ziya Us Salam
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
really liked it
Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko
How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee
Prosper's Demon by K.J. Parker
Red Lilies and Frightened Birds by Muttollayiram
Icelight by Ranjit Hoskote
The Anatomy Of Hate by Revati Laul
really liked it
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
In the Bazaar of Love by Amir Khusrau
Deceptive Patterns by Harry Brignull
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht
Highfire by Eoin Colfer
Yes, There Will Be Singing by Hamraaz
A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
History's Angel by Anjum Hasan
it was amazing
Body Traitor's History by S.  Venugopal
Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira
Artemisia by Alexandra Lapierre
Reforged by Seth Haddon
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
The Colour of Revenge by Cornelia Funke
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie
it was amazing
Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Sakina’s Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

S.’s last review of the year

really liked it
My favourite part of the book is probably how the university experience is universal through the centuries and across empires. Be it 19th century Russia or 21st century Asia, being a college student involves a lot of random convos with drunken misfits you'd never even look at as a working adult, not to mention one's gutter level lifestyle and family members staging unsuccessful interventions and cold cups of tea lying around everywhere.

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