Read 2024

My reading list for 2024.

All books link back to the original review.

Key to Abbreviations.

  • O = Own copy – I bought / swapped / was given / inherited it
  • RC = Print review copy / freebie from publisher / Amazon Vine etc
  • B or (S)L = borrowed from someone or the (School)Library resp.
  • NG = Review copy via Netgalley
  • NF = Non Fiction; P = Poetry; Gr = Graphic novel; Ch – Children’s
  • Tr = Translated
  • DNF= Did not finish. CGS = Couldn’t get started (first chapters only)
  • And finally, an asterisk * = from the TBR (acquired by any of the above routes before 1.1.23)

Finished in 2023, reviewed in 2024

  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – O (9.5/10) Review
  • Termush by Sven Holm – O (9/10) Review
  • As the Eagle Flies by Nolwenn Le Blevennec – O (8/10) Review

JANUARY
1. really good, actually by Monica Heisey – O* (7/10) Review
2. The Dancer by Óskar Guðmundsson – RC FTr (8.5/10) Review
3. Beirut Station by Paul Vidich – RC (8/10) Review
4. To the Dogs by Louise Welsh – RC (9/10) Shiny review
5. The Guests by Agnes Ravatn – RC FTr (8/10) Review
6. Now in November by Josephine Johnson – O (8.5/10) Review
7. The Swedish Art of Ageing Well by Margareta Magnusson – RC (8/10) Review
8. Eat to Your Heart’s Content by Sat Bains – RC (7.5/10) Review
9. Argylle by Elly Conway – O (8/10) Review
10. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata – O* FTr (6.5/10) Review
DNF: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 96 pages + skim as recap for book group. Comments

FEBRUARY
11. The Lover of No Fixed Abode by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini – RC FTr (9/10) Review
12. Transmigration of Souls by Yuri Herrera – O* FTr (10/10) Review
13. Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal – O* FTr (10/10) Review
14. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt – O (7/10) Review
15. Green Dot by Madeleine Gray – O (8/10) Review
16. Yule Island by Johana Gustawsson – RC FTr (8.5/10) Review
17. Point Zero by Seicho Matsumoto – RC FTr (9/10) Review
18. Modern Fog by Chris Emery – RC P (8.5/10) Review
19. Tristan / Yseult by Harry Bonele – RC P (8.5/10) Review
20. Anna O by Matthew Blake – RC (8/10) Review

MARCH
21. Rodolfo Walsh’s Last Case by Elsa Drucaroff – RC FTr (9/10) Review
22. Dark Clouds Bring Water by I R Ridley – RC (8.5/10) Review
23. The Future of Trust by Ros Taylor – RC NF (8/10) Shiny Review
24. Orbital by Samantha Harvey – O* (10/10) Shiny Review
25. The Coiled Serpent by Camilla Grudova – RC/O (9/10) Review
26. The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey – O (9/10) Review
27. Hotel Arcadia by Sunny Singh – O* (quick re-read) (10/10) Review
28. Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery – O* (7.5/10) Review
29. Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan – O* (9.5/10) Review
30. Lost and Found by Helen Chandler-Wilde – RC (9/10) Review
31. The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich – O* (7/10) Review

APRIL
32. Mr and Mrs American Pie by Juliet McDaniel – RC (8/10) Review
33. All You Need Is Love by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines – RC (10/10) Review
34. The Blues Brothers by Daniel de Visé – O (9/10) Shiny Review
35. Honour Among Spies by Merle Nygate – RC (9/10) Review
36. Falling Animals by Sheila Armstrong – O* (10/10) Review
37. Profile K by Helen Fields – RC (9/10) Review
38. The Book of Witty Women – intro Helen Lederer – RC (7.5/10) Review
39. I Love You Too Much by Alicia Drake – O* (9/10) Review

MAY
40. Murder Under the Midnight Sun by Stella Blómkvist – RC (9/10) Review
41. The Coming Storm by Greg Mosse – RC (8/10) Review
42. Hattie Brings the House Down by Patrick Gleeson – RC (9/10) Review
43. Bear by Marian Engel – O* (7.5/10) Review
44. The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr – RC (9/10) Review
45. Hera by JenniferSaint – RC (9/10) Review
46. Toxic by Helga Flatland – RC FTr (8.5/10) Review
47. Piece of my Heart by Penelope Tree – RC (9/10) Review

JUNE
48. The Trial by Rob Rinder – O* (20B#1) (7.5/10) Review
49. The Venus of Salò by Ben Pastor – RC (8/10) Review
50. Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh – O* (20B#2) (7/10) Review
51. Husbands by Mo Fanning – RC (8/10) Review
52. The Rook by Daniel O’Malley – O* (20B#3) (8/10) Review
53. Boxes by Pascal Garnier – O* (20B#4) (8.5/10) Review
54. Black Dogs by Ian McEwan – O* (20B#5, re-read) Review
55. The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly – O* (20B#6) Review
56. The Winter War by Philip Teir – O* FTr (20B#7) Review
57. Joe Country by Mick Herron – O* F (20B#8) Review
58. The Divorce by Moa Herngren – RC FTr (8/10) Review
CGS: Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood.

JULY
59. The Future of Energy by Richard Black – RC NF (8.5/10) Shiny Review
60. How to be Nowhere by Tim MacGabhann – RC* (20B#9) (7/10) Review
61. A Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba – O* (20B#10) (8/10) Review
62. It’s a Gas by Mark Miodownik – O NF (9/10) Shiny Review
63. Kalmann and the Flying Mountain by Joachim B Schmidt – RC FTr (8.5/10) Review
64. Rememberings by Sinéad O’Connor – O* (20B#11) (10/10) Review
65. Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight – O* (20B#12) (7/10) Review
66. Imposter Syndrome by Joseph Knox – RC (9/10) Review
67. The Trap by Ava Glass – RC (9/10) Review
68. Kala by Colin Walsh – RC (20B#13) (8.5/10) Shiny Review

AUGUST
69. Table for Two by Amor Towles – RC (20B#14) (9/10) Shiny Review
70. This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone – O* (20B#15) (10/10) Review
71. Kids Run the Show by Delphine de Vigan – RC FTr (20B#16) (8/10) Review
72. Prey by Vanda Symon – RC (9/10) Review
73. The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman – O* (20B#17) (9/10) Review
74. Nothing is Lost by Cloé Mehdi – RC* FTr (20B#18) (9.5/10) Review
75. Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper – RC* (20B#19) (10/10) Review
76. Animal Farm by George Orwell – O* (re-read) (20B#20) Review
77. The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable – RC (7.5/10) Review
78. Witness 8 by Steve Cavanagh – RC (8.5/10) Review
79. The Librarianist by Patrick Dewitt – O* (20B#21) (8.5/10) Review
80. Wild Houses by Colin Barrett – O* (20B#22) (7.5/10) Review
81. Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent – O (8/10) Review
82. The Edge by James Smythe – O* (20B#23) (8/10) Review
83. Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling – O* (20B#24) (7.5/10) Review

SEPTEMBER
84. Fledging by Rose Diell – RC (8/10) Review
85. The Torments by Michael J Malone – RC (8.5/10) Review
86. Rare Singles by Benjamin Myers – O (9.5/10) Shiny Review
87. Blood Debt by M.K. Murphy – RC (7/10) Review
88. Portrait of the Art Dealer as a Young Man by Michael Findlay – RC (7.5/10) – Shiny Review
89. Red Dwarf – Discovering the TV Series Volume 1: 1988-1993 by Tom Salinski – RC (7/10) Review
90. Dear Dickhead by Virginie Despentes – RC (8.5/10) Shiny Review

OCTOBER
91. The Burning Stones by Antti Tuomainen – RC (8.5/10) Review
92. Sirieixly Seriously British by Fred Sirieix – O (8.5/10) Review
93. My Rude Awakening by E C Featherstone – RC (6.5/10) Review
94. The Unfinished Harauld Hughes by Richard Ayoade – O (10/10) Shiny Review
95. Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym – B – (6/10) short review
96. Maigret and the Wine-Merchant – O* (9/10) Review
97. WarHorse by Michael Morpurgo – (S)L (7/10) Review
98. Dark as Night by Lilja Sigurðardóttir – RC (8.5/10) Review
99. Reprieve by James Han Mattson – O* (7.5/10) Review
100. The Peacock and the Sparrow by I S Berry – RC (9/10) Review
101. Black Storms by Teresa Solana – RC (8.5/10) Review

NOVEMBER
102. Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway – RC (10/10) Review
103. The Point of Distraction by Will Eaves – O (7/10) Review
104. Ice Cold by Andrea Maria Schenkel – O* (8/10) Review
105. Dougal and the Blue Cat by Eric Thompson (screenplay) – O* (8/10) Review
106. Three to See the King by Magnus Mills – O*
107. One of the Boys by Daniel Magariel – O (9/10) Review
108. The Madman of Bergerac by Georges Simenon – O*
109. Souvenir by Michael Bracewell – O* (10/10) Review
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DECEMBER

GOODREADS CHALLENGE (120) FINISHED

Reading the World 2024

  • Author origin: Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexican, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Swiss, UK, USA
  • Language:  English, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Nyorsk, Spanish, Swedish
  • Notable settings:  Albuquerque, Bahrain, Barcelona, Bath, Beirut, Bedfordshire, British Columbia, Budapest, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dunedin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Gotland, Guatemala, Hampstead Heath, Helsinki, Hollywood, ISS, LA, London, Lyon, Mali, Mexico City, Minneapolis, Munich, Nebraska, New England, New York, NW Ireland, Old Bailey, Oslo, Oxford, Paris, Pembrokeshire, Reading, Reykjavik, Salò, Scarborough, Siberia, Sydney, Toronto, Uruguay, US Capitol, Venice, Washington State, Waterford, Yorkshire.