I read 102 books in 2024. Here are my tops and bottoms.

2024 has been a ride! I started the year extremely pregnant, sick, and stressed and I’m ending it with an almost 1 year old and over 100 books read. I’m proud of that number and, as always, thankful to the NYC and Brooklyn public libraries for providing me with all of my Kindle books and audiobooks! Support your local libraries, they are so important!

Usually, I just write out my top 10 books and the rankings for all of the books I read during the year. But, this year I read a lot of stinkers. While I am still not at a place in my life where I can put down a book I hate (sorry, Hannah), I am in a place where I can tell you which ones to avoid. So, this year I will also include my least favorite 10 books of 2024, too. Don’t read those books!

If you are interested in seeing what I read throughout the year, including my rankings and the little reviews I write for each book, you can follow me on Goodreads!

Let’s start with the good ones, shall we?

Top 10 books of 2024

Is anyone surprised that these are all written by women?

1. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
2. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
3. My Murder by Katie Williams
4. The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter
5. Mister Magic by Kiersten White
6. youthjuice by EK Sathue
7. And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
8. Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
9. The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
10. Tell Me What I Am by Una Mannion

Bottom 10 books of 2024

1. The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel
2. Vox by Christina Delcher
3. Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
4. Sixteen Horses by Greg Buchanan
5. Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca
6. Dream Girl by Laura Lippman
7. Her Little Flowers by Shannon Morgan
8. Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
9. The Son of Good Fortune by Lysley Tenorino
10. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

Everything I read in 2024 (with ratings!)

January

1. The Stranger in Our Home by Sophie Draper — 2 stars
2. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson — 4 stars (but I ate these up)
3. The Girl Who Died by Ragnar Jonasson — 3 stars
4. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo — 4 stars
5. Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson — 2 stars (so disappointed because I loved his other book)
6. Pageboy by Elliot Page — 3 stars
7. Playing Dead by Julia Heaberlin — 2 stars
8. Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent — 4 stars
9. Berlin by Bea Setton — 3 stars
10. Evil Eye by Etaf Rum — 5 stars
11. Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak — 2 stars
12. Bridge by Lauren Beukes — 3 stars
13. Nineteen Claws and a Blackbird by Agustina Bazterrica — 3 stars
14. I Did It For You by Amy Engel — 3 stars
15. The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel — 1 star
16. The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff — 5 stars

Huge month for me and then I went to the hospital on Jan 29th for my induction and had Noah on the 31st!

February

1. This Is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor — 3 stars (full disclosure, I finished this book 1 week postpartum and have absolutely no memory of it lol)
2. Normal Women by Ainslie Hogarth — 3 stars
3. Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson — 4 stars
4. Tell Me What I Am by Una Mannion — 5 stars
5. The Return by Rachel Harrison — 3 stars
6. On Earth as It Is on Television by Emily Jane — 3 stars
7. Chlorine by Jade Song — 4 stars
8. Bad Dolls by Rachel Harrison — 2 stars
9. Alone by Cyn Balong — 2 stars

March

1. Vox by Christina Delcher — 1 star
2. Ghost Music by An Yu — 3 stars
3. Cackle by Rachel Harrison — 2 stars
4. Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty — 3 stars
5. The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter — 5 stars
6. Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter — 3 stars
7. Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix — 3 stars
8. Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia by Hadley Freeman — 2 stars
9. We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix — 3 stars

April

1. First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami — 2 stars
2. Victim by Andrew Boryga — 2 stars
3. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix — 1 star
4. Joyland by Stephen King — 3 stars
5. Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt — 4 stars
6. As Good as Dead by Holly Jackson — 2 stars (really went off the deep end with this one)
7. The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff — 1 star
8. The Son of Good Fortune by Lysley Tenorino — 1 star

May

1. A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins — 3 stars
2. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers — 5 stars
3. Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange — 4 stars
4. Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval — 3 stars
5. The Keeper by Jessica Moor — 2 stars
6. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers — 5 stars
7. Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton — 3 stars
8. Big Swiss by Jen Beagin — 1 star
9. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell — 5 stars
10. My Murder by Katie Williams — 5 stars

June

1. Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams — 4 stars
2. Biography of X by Catherine Lacey — 1 star
3. A Shining by Jon Fosse — 3 stars
4. To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers — 3 stars
5. The Angel Maker by Alex North — 2 stars
6. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story by Max Marshall — 2 stars
7. Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper — 4 stars
8. The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants by Orlando Ortega-Medina — 2 stars
9. How Much of these Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang — 4 stars
10. Harold by Steven Wright — 2 stars

July

1. Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power — 3 stars
2. Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka — 5 stars
3. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers — 4 stars
4. In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead — 2 stars
5. Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele — 3 stars

August

1. Damned by Chuck Palahniuk — 3 stars
2. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar — 4 stars
3. Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk — 2 stars
4. Sixteen Horses by Greg Buchanan — 1 star
5. A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers — 4 stars
6. Trust by Hernan Diaz — 2 stars
7. I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel — 3 stars

September

1. Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka — 4 stars
2. Goddess of Filth by V Castro — 3 stars
3. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum — 4 stars
4. The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings — 4 stars
5. youthjuice by EK Sathue — 5 stars
6. Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica — 4 stars
7. The Dry by Jane Harper — 3 stars
8. The Only One Left by Riley Sager — 1 star
9. Trespasses by Louise Kennedy — 2 stars

October

1. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel — 3 stars
2. Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca — 1 star
3. And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott — 5 stars
4. The Glutton by AK Blakemore — 4 stars
5. Dream Girl by Laura Lippman — 1 star
6. The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda — 3 stars
7. Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers — 4 stars

November

1. The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell — 3 stars
2. When I Was You by Amber Garza — 4 stars
3. Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward — 5 stars
4. People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd — 4 stars
5. Piglet by Lottie Hazell — 3 stars
6. James by Percival Everrett — 3 stars

December

1. When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain — 4 stars
2. The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard — 3 stars
3. Penance by Eliza Clark — 3 stars
4. Her Little Flowers by Shannon Morgan — 1 star
5. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang — 3 stars
6. Mister Magic by Kiersten White — 5 stars