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Finally got my 2024 books read up to date 🥵 Need to be more systematic with it this year.

240 books read, which is a whopping 88 books less than the previous year. Shows the type of year 2024 was, let‘s hope 2025 is a better year.

Spotting for a more conservative 225 books in 2025 as want to get to some of my bigger books.

#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Ghabi4Roses

#ReadAway2024

2024 was an excellent reading year, even though I didn‘t reach my final GR/SG goals. I read a lot off of my physical shelves & purged/traded a bunch that I‘ll never actually get to. Audiobooks have been a godsend for both audio cleaning purposes & pain flare up times. 🥂to 2025!

My annual ranking of all the books I read in 2024! I got rid of the electric chair 2: electric bugaloo tier at the bottom because I didn‘t give anything less than a 2 star this year (and there was only one 2 and I don‘t think it deserved the electric chair). A pretty solid year overall!

#top24of2024 roughly arranged from top to bottom and left to right in grids of six 🙃 I always enjoy seeing the overlap/lack thereof depending on how I try to decide on my fav book of the year! #top24of24

That'll do it. I read and reviewed 4 cute little picture books yesterday on Netgalley, leaving my total books in 2024 at a nice even 140. I try to focus more on the quality and joy of my reading than a number total, and 2024 was a great year for me. I had 15 5 star reads and 101 4 star reads. Not too shabby! I'm hoping 2025 brings me just as many great books!

2024 Wrap-Up

Goal: 62
Total Read: 91 a personal best! 😮
BookSpin: 12
Doublespin: 11
BookSpinBingo: 42
ReadingMyTBRs ReadingAway2024: 77
BookedInTime: 3
DNF: 14

Favorite of The Year: Prisoners: A Jew and A Muslim Across The Middle East Divide, by Jeffrey Goldberg

Goal for 2025: 80

Happy New Year Littens!! 🥂📚❤️

#bookspinbingo #dec2024 #goodbye2024
So Big
There Your Heart Lies

Wow! What an amazing 2024 I had in books! From books that I have wanted to read forever, to old favorites, to books and authors who were new to me, to traveling books and all the amazing friends I have made through them, and to the authors who entrusted me to read and review their books, I feel blessed!

Now here is to 2025 and upping my goal to 120 books! 💙💙💙💙

Here is StoryGraph's interpretation of my 2024 reading.

Bye bye 2024.

And what a year it was!!!

Even though the last few weeks weren‘t great, reading wise, 2024 was a pretty good reading year. I started to embrace #romancefiction a little bit more and read less #historicalfiction. I also have realized that I need to read more of the books that I do have before accumulating more books and to get rid some more of those that I do have. And maybe try to limit the number of library books I have out at one time…

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English – 45
Hungarian – 4
Swedish – 3
Spanish – 3
French – 1

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5 ⭐ – 4
4 ⭐ – 37
3 ⭐ – 16
2 ⭐ – 1

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Ebooks – 20
Physical – 11
Audio – 27

One of my goals each year is to read books outside of the US. I would really like to get to more that are also not English (country not language) next year. But for 2024 I am super pleased!
My goal was to read less than 55% from the US, and I read 45% - 10% better than I had hoped! Overall I read from 26 other countries. I learned so much about the Sri Lankan civil war, a bunch about South African rugby, and found that French books are my jam!

My #Top9 reads for 2024❤️❤️❤️

#top24of24 I feel like I‘ve been on a streak of really good books this year - lots of 4.5/5 star reads.

I love love love to re-read favorite books. These are my favorite re-reads from 2024.

In no particular order these are my 5 star reads from 2024 (so far.)

I wanted to read more non fiction this year so I‘m happy to see a handful of those titles on my list.

This doesn‘t include re-reads which I‘ll do next.

put this list together for a challenge over on instagram, but it works for #24in2024 here, too. really hoping to read a lot of my own books this year 🤞🏻

https://youtu.be/UTHylW1Vs5M?si=zxOH9PtPubdxSbpe

January 1st of the #wintergames Photo Challenge - New Year‘s

Last night, I watched this show and I‘m going to count it as a #holidayshow. I enjoyed this show. I also drank last night. I was celebrating the holiday. I drank a mini bottle of Butterscotch Liqueur and drank 2 glasses of spiked punch. I spiked my tropical punch with Vodka. That was enough alcohol for me to get a buzz. When I woke up today, I felt hungover.

#GhostsOfXmas

Happy New Year!!

I‘m trying to keep it light this year.
I‘m not going to set a book goal (this worked last year).
I‘m going to participate in #AAM, #Bookspin #Doublespin, and #SeriesLove2024 again.
I‘m going to continue my attempt to read Stephen King in publication order, but not set a number goal this time.
This year I asked my husband to pick 6 books he wants me read. These are already on my TBR I just never get to them, so I have ⬇️

Repost for @Jas16

I have been contemplating the challenges I want to participate in next year. Like many Littens I have so many neglected books on my own shelves that I always intend to get to and never quite do. So I decided to create my own challenge, 24 unread books pulled off my shelves that I intend to finish before the end of 2024. If anyone is interested in joining in, let me know. #24in2024

Keeping the #readinggoals for 2024 super simple. 💙

#bulletjournal #bujo #2024goals 🐶

I‘m feeling overwhelmed by my Netgalley TBR for 2024 so I decided to organize it using these trackers that someone I follow on Instagram posted. Now, I can look at these trackers every month and see what I need to read. I‘m excited about all of these books. Will I be able to read them all on time? I will do the best I can. That‘s all I can do.

Hey everyone! We‘re happy to announce we have some changes for next years #BacklistReadathon challenge ☺️ Take your time to see what option works best for you, and be sure to tag us in your 2024 planning!