2024 Reads

What I read in 2024! Bold titles are ones I gave 5 stars. I am pretty stingy with my 5-star reviews, but I gave a ton of 4 stars so I was surprised when Goodreads told me my average rating for the year was 3.6.

1. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
2. Everyone Here is Lying by Shari Lapina
3. Remember Us by Jacqueline Woodson
4. The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
5. Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from Madness by Suzy Favor Hamilton
6. The Elephant's Girl by Celesta Rimington
7. Catching the Sky by Colten Moore
8. Running on Veggie: Plant-Powered Recipes for Fueling and Feeling Your Best by Lottie Bildirici
9. Today We Die A Little: The Inimitable Emil Zatopek, the Greatest Olympic Runner of All Time by Richard Askwith
10. The Housemaid (The Housemaid #1) by Freida McFadden
11. The Book Club Hotel by Sarah Morgan
12. The Women Could Fly by Meg Giddings
13. The Quiet Tenant by Clemence Michallon
14. The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts by Loren Grush
15. The Other Mothers by Katherine Faulkner
16. Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister
17. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
18. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
19. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
20. The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
21. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
22. Chasing Perfect: Peace and Purpose in the Exhausting Pursuit of Something Better by Alisha Illian.
23. The Warsaw Orphan by Kelly Rimmer
24. Gray Mountain by John Grisham
25. The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games #2) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
26. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
27. The River We Remember by William Kent Kruger
28. Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford
29. Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld
30. The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid #2) by Freida McFadden
31. First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
32. In a Single Moment by Imogen Clark
33. A Sign of her Own by Sarah Marsh
34. This is Our Story by Ashley Elston
35. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
36. The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid #2) by Nita Prose
37. Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong- and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini
38. The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
39. The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games #3) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
40. Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
41. The Day Tripper by James Goodhand
42. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
43. The Last Flight by Julie Clark
44. There There by Tommy Orange
45. Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb
46. The Little Liar by Mitch Albom
47. Looking for Alaska by John Green
48. The Women by Kristin Hannah
49. The Rules of Disappearing by Ashley Elston
50. The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
51. Kill for Me, Kill for You by Steve Cavanagh
52. Olivetti by Allie Millington
53. The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza
54. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
55. The Brothers Hawthore (The Inheritance Games #4) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
56. Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
57. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles
58. Girl Last Seen by Nina Laurin
59. Before I Go (Skyland #1) by Kennedy Ryan
60. Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra
61. Wintergirls but Laurie Halse Anderson
62. Paper Towns by John Green
63. The Teacher by Freida McFadden
64. No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall
65. Why I Stand by Jonathan Isaac
66. The Spectacular by Fiona Davis
67. Never Lie by Freida McFadden
68. Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar
69. Such Charming Liars by Karen M. McManus
70. The Postcard by Anne Berest
71. She's Not Sorry by Mary Cubica
72. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
73. The Housemaid is Watching (The Housemaid #3) by Freida McFadden
74. Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
75. A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park
76. Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear by Jinger Duggar Vuolo
77. Bad Graces by Kyrie McCauley
78. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
79. Flying at Night by Rebecca Brown
80. Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate
81. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
82. The Year of Goodbyes and Hellos by Kelly Irvin
83. What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall
84. Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver
85. The Inmate by Freida McFadden
86. Home is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose
87. True Biz by Sara Novic
88. Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle
89. Solito by Javier Zamora
90. The Grandest Game by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
91. The Senator's Wife by Liv Constantine
92. The Only One Left by Rily Sager
93. Breaking the Dark by Lisa Jewell
94. Sandwich by Catherin Newman
95. The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
96. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
97. Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
98. Angels of the Resistance by Noelle Salazar
99. The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
100. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
101. Like a Mother by Mina Hardy
102. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
103. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
104. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
105. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
106. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
107. Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalex
108. By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult
109. James by Percival Everett
110. Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten
111. What Have You Done? by Shari Lapena
112. We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
113. Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
114. Scythe (Arc of the Scythe #1) by Neal Shusterman
115. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
116. You Shouldn't Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose