2024 Goodreads Challenge

After a couple of years of easily surpassing my reading goal of 40 books a year I decided I’d increase the number to 50. That level of arrogance was not not to be tolerated by the universe, it seems, as I barely got to 40. Ah well. I got hyper fixated on rereading or completing several series so the bulk fo the books read were thrillers. Not terribly educational but engaging enough to keep my interest and seeing as how I don’t believe books have to always be teaching me something, I’m okay with the choices. That said, I do think I’d like 2025 to not be so heavy on the forgettable reads.

The last week of 2024 I made a concerted effort to catalogue my books and I’m happy to say I got about 95% there. This is relevant here because one of last year’s goals was to also read physical books. I failed at this miserably with, I believe, only one of my reads being something I had on my shelves. Not that my books are catalogued, and in a bit of order, I’m a bit more motivated to select something from my shelves. (The cataloguing process will be a separate entry at some point soon.)

If you’ve been keeping up with my (albeit) sporadic updates I’m sure you can guess that my third and final goal will be to finish The Brothers Karamazov. Would I be me if I didn’t include my white whale in a reading goal entry? If I ever do finish it, I don’t know what I will do with myself.

What was your favorite read of the year?

Here are the books I read in 2024. Favorites of the year are marked by **s.

1. L is for Lawless, Sue Grafton
2. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood’s Kings of Carnage, Nick de Selyen
3. The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles), Tess Gerritsen
4. The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles), Tess Gerritsen
5. The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles), Tess Gerritsen
6. Body Double (Rizzoli & Isles), Tess Gerritsin
7. Vanish (Rizzoli & Isles), Tess Gerritsen
8. Erasure, Percival Everett
9. Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, Jesse Q Sutanto
10. Blank, Zibby Owens
11. One for the Money (Stephanie Plum #1), Janet Evanovich
12. The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles), Tess Gerritsen
13. The Never Game (Colter Shaw), Jeffrey Deaver
14. The Keepsake (Rizzoli & Isles), Tess Gerritsen
15. The Goodbye Man (Colter Shaw), Jeffrey Deaver
16. Resurrection Walk (Lincoln Lawyer), Michael Connelly
17. After That Night (Will Trent), Karin Slaughter
18. Righteous Prey (Lucas Davenport & Virgil Flowers), John Sandford
19. Judgment Prey (Lucan Davenport & Virgil Flowers), John Sandford
20. Escape Clause (Virgil Flowers), John Sandford
21. Deep Freeze (Virgil Flowers), John Sandford
22. The Final Twist (Colter Shaw), Jeffrey Deaver
23. Holy Ghost (Virgil Flowers), John Sandford
24. Hunting Time (Colter Shaw), Jeffrey Deaver
25. The Midnight Lock (Lincoln Rhyme), Jeffrey Deaver
26. Good Material, Dolly Alderton
27. Ice Cold (Rizzoli & Isles), Tess Gerritsen
28. Toxic Prey, John Sandford,
29. The Watchmaker’s Hand (Lincoln Rhyme), Jeffrey Deaver
30. Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice, Elle Cosimano
31. Bloody Genius (Virgil Flowers), John Sandford
32. The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles), Tess Gerritsen
33. Last to Die (Rizzoli & Isles), Tess Gerritsen
34. **The Guncle Abroad, Steven Rowley**
35. Thank You for Listening, Julia Whelan
36. Die Again (Rizzoli & Isles), Tess Gerritsen
37. I Know a Secret (Rizzoli & Isles), Tess Gerritsen
38. **The Midnight Library, Matt Haig**
39. Listen to Me (Rizzoli & Isles), Tess Gerritsen
40. **Pachinko, Min Jin Lee**

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