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2024
My Year in Books
46,606
pages read
Susan
128
books read
Susan
The Road Home by Kristin Harmel
Shortest Book
42
pages
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
Longest Book
pages
Average book length in 2024
364
pages
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Most Shelved
2,097,952
people also shelved
Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucachenko
Least Shelved
15
people also shelved
Susan’s average rating for 2024
3.5
3.5
See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.67 average
The Colors of All the Cattle by Alexander McCall Smith

Susan’s first review of the year

really liked it
Another in the Mma Ramotswe series - I think the latest.

They are an easy read and take you into Botswana meeting all the same characters.

The detective element is pretty low-key, its the conversations and characters that make this series.
SUSAN’S 2024 BOOKS
A Deadly Divide by Ausma Zehanat Khan
The Colors of All the Cattle by Alexander McCall Smith
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
it was amazing
The Reluctant Carer by The Reluctant Carer
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
Forest of the Pygmies by Isabel Allende
The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka
Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover
The Maid by Nita Prose
Shadow of the Taj by Lara Bernhardt
The Amulet by Ann Bennett
A Home Like Ours by Fiona Lowe
Home by Harlan Coben
it was amazing
Do Not Disturb by Michela Wrong
The Planter's Wife by Ann Bennett
The Tea Planter's Club by Ann Bennett
Finding Jennifer Jones by Anne Cassidy
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
really liked it
Every Contact Leaves a Trace by Elanor Dymott
Guest House for Young Widows by Azadeh Moaveni
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
Haven by Emma Donoghue
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Knife Skills for Beginners by Orlando Murrin
Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena
The Kelly Hunters by Grantlee Kieza
I Want You to Know We're Still Here by Esther Safran Foer
Mrs Kelly by Kieza Grantlee
The English Girl by Katherine Webb
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
The Murders at Fleat House by Lucinda Riley
The House Keeper by Valerie Keogh
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
it was amazing
Where Waters Meet by Zhang Ling
The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
really liked it
The Magician by Colm Tóibín
See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill
The Story of the Night by Colm Tóibín
Free-Falling by Nicola Moriarty
Never Never by James Patterson
Brutally Honest by Melanie Brown
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
My Life as a Rat by Joyce Carol Oates
The Lightkeeper's Wife by Karen Viggers
Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
Fava Beans for Breakfast by Suzanne Salem
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Jessica by Bryce Courtenay
it was amazing
The Good People by Hannah Kent
The Lonely Desert by Sarah Challis
White Gardenia by Belinda Alexandra
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Locked Room by Griffiths Elly
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
Those Who Are Loved by Victoria Hislop
it was amazing
Will by Will Smith
Fifty Fifty by James Patterson
Liar Liar by James Patterson
Hush by James Patterson
The Hospital by Barbara O'Hare
really liked it
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Paradise by Gurnah, Abdulrazak New Edition by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths
Black and British by David Olusoga
Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge
A History of Burning by Janika Oza
really liked it
The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri
The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James
Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton
Precious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith
Honor by Elif Shafak
Never Never by Colleen Hoover
All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep by Andre Henry
The Things We Do for Love by Kristin Hannah
Force of Nature by Jane Harper
really liked it
Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
Fatwa by Jacky Trevane
A Promise To Nadia by Zana Muhsen
Three Sisters by Heather Morris
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
A Dutiful Boy by Mohsin Zaidi
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
The Lantern Men by Elly Griffiths
Failures of State by Jonathan Calvert
it was amazing
To the Land of Long Lost Friends by Alexander McCall Smith
The Naked Country by Morris L. West
The Moon Sister by Lucinda Riley
The Sun Sister by Lucinda Riley
Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucachenko
The Lemon Grove by Ali Hosseini
From a Far and Lovely Country by Alexander McCall Smith
Honor by Elif Shafak

Susan’s last review of the year

really liked it
I found this a well written book with some good characterisation. It was not a happy read by any means and at times I found it quite depressing but I persevered and found it an emotional roller coaster of a read. I really felt for the women in the book as well as young Yunus. The women were treated so badly in so many ways, emotionally kept down as well as physically at times. Many of the men were unpleasant, controlling and at times selfish and ...more
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