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2024 Reading Stats

For most of 2024, I felt like I was barely reading at all, so I was surprised when I finally tallied up my reading to find that I'd beat last year's total (my personal reading record) by 2 books. I read 110 books in 2024. What I read was largely on par with past years, with a few exceptions. 

  1. Romance. I read 25 percent more romance this year compared to last year (which actually brought me back in line with the amount of romance I read in 2023). That being said, I mostly read older books (tackling much of Loretta Chase, K.J. Charles, and Talia Hibbert's backlogs). There weren't a ton of recently published romances that really grabbed my attention or pulled at my heartstrings this year. 
  2. Non-fiction. I read 35 percent less non-fiction than I did last year, since I wasn't actively researching for novel-drafting purposes. This year I've already got a ton of interesting non-fiction on my plate, so I'm hoping to increase the share of my reading that is non-fiction in the coming months. 
  3. Non-genre fiction. I doubled the amount of women's, literary and classic fiction that I read this year in an effort to read more widely. Even though this was still a relatively small share of my total reading (only 7 percent), I think it was good for me to read pieces outside of my comfort zone, even as I am slowly coming to terms with the fact that I don't really enjoy very many of the highly-rated literary novels that I read. 
The share of my total reading that was sci-fi, fantasy, or horror was exactly the same as it was in 2023, and the share that were mystery or thrillers increased by only 1 percentage point. 

Favorite books of 2024 (in order of read-date): 
The Great Transition, The Longest Autumn, Starling House, Every Duke Has His Day, The Garden, The Light Eaters, When Among Crows, The Library of Borrowed Hearts, How the World Ran Out of Everything,  Stories Are Weapons, A Sorceress Comes to Call

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