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#Top24of24
Here are my favorite reads from 2024. This overlaps 83% with my #AuldLangSpine list, but I still want to memorialize another fantastic reading year. The top 4 spots go to Winterson's The Passion, Butler's Kindred, Awad's Rouge, and Murata's Convenience Store Woman. I read 3 of those 4 in the first three months of the year, so hopefully that means I'm due for some early favorites in 2025🤞🤞

#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

Memoirs #top24of24 (25!)
Gee, I do love a memoir. These were the standouts to me in 2024. Top honors to How to Say Babylon, and Lisa Marie Presley‘s was a close second.

Nonfiction #top24of24 The Comfort of Crows takes the top spot!
(Again, it‘s 25, just looks better plus I get an extra!)

Some truly stellar nonfiction this year.

Fiction #top24of24 (it‘s actually 25 but the grid, ya know, so I get a spare!)
I loved these books, for one reason or another. It was difficult to narrow it down and it may look different on another day.

#Top24of24

It wasn‘t a great reading year for me, but at least it was better than 2023. The 2 top rows are my highest rated, the 3 at the bottom right the best of my romance reading.

Though I hope to finish one more book tonight, I am officially calling my #Top24Of24 , which is really 25 (one for good luck).

To date, I have completed 166 books this year (not counting picture or early reader books for #BBRC ); I think this is my best reading year ever.

I selected 5-star reads and books that I keep thinking about, even months later.

Thanks for being great reading supporters! Huge thank you those who joined me in buddy reads!

So many good books this year! I read a lot less nonfiction than usual and leaned in toward lighter reads and mysteries to get me through a rough first half of the year. 11/24 were repeat authors, trusted to engage a highly distracted brain. #Top24of24

I did not make my #Top24Of24 yet, and it‘s because I hoped to finish this before the end of the year. Mission accomplished!

Elegantly written, this is based on the true story of Varian Fry and his attempt to rescue Jewish artists and others deemed enemies of the Germans and secret them to the US during WWII. Fry also has secret passions deemed abhorrent in the culture, and it‘s this constant hiding and tension that carries the novel ⬇️⬇️⬇️