Saturday, January 11, 2025

Reading in 2024 in Review

 


Total Number of Books Read:  219 - Less than last year but not bad overall - especially considering my reading goal was 200.

Reading Breakdown:

Print:  69 

Ebook: 68 - this surprised me.  I would have expected to have read more ebooks than print

Audiobooks:  82

Genres:

Mystery:  156 - The genre winner by far which is not a surprise

Romance:  21

Fiction (This includes Middle Grade and Fantasy) - 33

Nonfiction:  9

Monthly Favorites:

These were my favorite books month to month.  I don't worry about when they were published but I don't count rereads.  They also didn't all make my favorite books of the year though they were books I enjoyed the most during that month of reading. 



None of This is True by Lisa Jewell 
Nine Lives by Peter Swanson
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
The Lantern's Dance by Laurie R. King
Assistant to the Villian by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
Homecoming by Kate Morton
Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica
The Summer Swap by Sarah Morgan
Murder in Rose Hill by Victoria Thompson
The Grace of Wild Things by Heather Fawcett
Mind Games by Nora Roberts

A Murder at Half Moon Gate by Andrea Penrose
Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy
The Lights of Sugarberry Cove by Heather Webber
Murder with Puffins by Donna Andrews
15 Summers Later by RaeAnne Thayne
The Body in the Bookstore by Ellie Alexander
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Donna Andrews 


The Rose Arbor by Rhys Bowen
Haunted Ever After by Jen DeLuca 
Sticks and Scones by Ellie Alexander
Rockin' Around the Chickadee by Donna Andrews
The Mirror by Nora Roberts
Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh
The Family Vault by Charlotte MacLeod

Armchair Travel for 2024


Domestic:  Weirdly I didn't visit Louisiana which is a state I usually visit several times over.  I did go to Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.  All in all not too bad but I would like to get a few more states in next year.

International:  I visited England during multiple time periods quite a bit as well as Scotland.  I also visited France, Australia, Canada, Syria (1920s), Switzerland, Germany, Greece, a Trans-Atlantic voyage on the Lusitania, Singapore, and Russia.  Not a bad list though I'm surprised I didn't visit Ireland.  I'll have to fix that in 2025.

Where did your reading in 2024 take you?  Where are you hoping to visit in 2025?  What were some of your favorite books?

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