2024 reads

Assuming I don't sit around and finish something over the next few days, here's my list.  I spent too much time on NYT Games at the end of the day instead of reading.  I'm changing that for 2025 as my reading list is way too short compared to the last few years.  

More audiobooks this year than years past (but still definitely heavier on actual books I can hold in my hand).  We also finished the Harry Potter series as a family--so I guess that may explain the shorter list, in part.  But we started a book club (BC) that has helped me branch out on reads a little bit.  Finally, favorites.*

  1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  2. Dirty Thirty
  3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  4. Nineteen Steps
  5. The Only One Left
  6. Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
  7. Best Wishes, Warmest Regards
  8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  9. The Woman in Me
  10. Tom Lake
  11. Remarkably Bright Creatures*
  12. None of This is True
  13. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store*
  14. Queen Charlotte
  15. Ordinary Grace (BC)
  16. Marriageology
  17. The Legend of Woman Hollering Creek
  18. Between Two Kingdoms (BC)
  19. Finding Me
  20. Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, & Me
  21. The Island of Missing Trees (BC)
  22. The Story of Arthur Truluv
  23. The Women (BC)
  24. Mosquitoland
  25. The Wild Robot
  26. The Frozen River (BC)
  27. Number the Stars
  28. The Wild Robot Escapes
  29. The Briar Club (BC)*
  30. From Here to the Great Unknown
  31. Hocus Pocus
  32. The Prophet
  33. The Wish (BC)
  34. When Breath Becomes Air
  35. The Finnish Guide to Happiness
  36. All the Colors of the Dark (BC)
  37. Hate Follow
  38. The Snow Queen

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