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2024
My Year in Books
42,783
pages read
Ilya
112
books read
Ilya
1 like
The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop
Shortest Book
92
pages
Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu
Longest Book
840
pages
Average book length in 2024
381
pages
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Most Shelved
2,674,493
people also shelved
Four Points of the Compass by Jerry Brotton
Least Shelved
237
people also shelved
Ilya’s average rating for 2024
3.6
3.6
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.57 average
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

Ilya’s first review of the year

liked it
I kind of liked this book but there are some flaws to this story. There is a lot packed in 300 pages. We have a Ponzi scheme, family drama and ghosts. We have a trophy wife storyline, which turns into a cook on a ship. There is a hotel on an island where a portion of this tale takes place. Another portion of this story is set in New York. There are multiple points of view and a whole group of characters you have to pay attention to. All of these ...more
ILYA’S 2024 BOOKS
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu
it was amazing
Severance by Ling Ma
The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Baumgartner by Paul Auster
North Woods by Daniel Mason
really liked it
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
Room to Dream by David Lynch
it was amazing
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
The North Water by Ian McGuire
The Trees by Percival Everett
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgård
it was amazing
Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
Wellness by Nathan Hill
Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
The Wolves of Eternity by Karl Ove Knausgård
The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
it was amazing
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
it was amazing
Blackouts by Justin Torres
Septology by Jon Fosse
Crash by J.G. Ballard
The Wager by David Grann
The Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
Uzumaki by Junji Ito
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Fracture by Philipp Blom
it was amazing
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
My Friends by Hisham Matar
Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
it was amazing
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
The Double by José Saramago
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie by Ágota Kristóf
it was amazing
Harvest by Jim Crace
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop
A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava
Pines by Blake Crouch
The Last Town by Blake Crouch
Wayward by Blake Crouch
Fog & Car by Eugene Lim
Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
it was amazing
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Solaris by Stanisław Lem
it was amazing
The Art Forger by Barbara A. Shapiro
Blindsight by Peter Watts
The Third Realm by Karl Ove Knausgård
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Human Acts by Han Kang
Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder

Ilya’s last review of the year

it was amazing
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin was truly a chilling read. What we get here is a systematic study of mass murder mutually conducted by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. Over 14,000,000 civilians (!!!) were murdered by the two regimes in that time period. Starting from the horrors of Holodomor and ending with the Holocaust, Snyder dives deep in that dark time period in the world history. Snyder coins the term "B ...more
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