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2024
My Year in Books
17,062
pages read
Julia Kelly
45
books read
Julia Kelly
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Shortest Book
8
pages
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Longest Book
840
pages
Average book length in 2024
379
pages
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Most Shelved
5,747,968
people also shelved
The Mystery in Moonshine by Lindsay Emory
Least Shelved
54
people also shelved
Julia’s average rating for 2024
5.0
it was amazing
5.0
Do Not Cry When I Die by Renee Salt
Highest Rated on Goodreads
it was amazing
5.00 average
The Last Hope by Susan Elia MacNeal

Julia’s first review of the year

it was amazing
An explosive finale to a thrilling series! Once again, Maggie Hope shines as she finds herself plunged into a dangerous game of intrigue in World War 2 Spain. With spies, double agents, and shady figures around every corner, readers won’t be able to resist losing themselves in each thrilling twist and turn!
JULIA’S 2024 BOOKS
The Haunting Season by Bridget Collins
Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Last Hope by Susan Elia MacNeal
it was amazing
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
The Mystery in Moonshine by Lindsay Emory
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
Scandalous Women by Gill Paul
it was amazing
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
The Homewreckers by Mary Kay Andrews
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
Locked in Pursuit by Ashley Weaver
Rural Hours by Harriet Baker
Funny Story by Emily Henry
Spy School by Stuart Gibbs
Lisbon by Neill Lochery
New Grub Street by George Gissing
Lost in the Garden by Adam S. Leslie
The Champagne Letters by Kate Macintosh
it was amazing
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Unwedding by Ally Condie
Such a Bad Influence by Olivia Muenter
Friends and Traitors by Helen Peters
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack
Murder in the Ranks by Kristi Jones
it was amazing
Spy Camp by Stuart Gibbs
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seichō Matsumoto
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
The Wedding People by Alison Espach
The Fury by Alex Michaelides
Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
The Examiner by Janice Hallett
North Woods by Daniel Mason
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell
Do Not Cry When I Die by Renee Salt
it was amazing
Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead by Elle Cosimano
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Do Not Cry When I Die by Renee Salt

Julia’s last review of the year

it was amazing
A powerful account of a young girl’s incredible resilience in the face of the unthinkable horror of the Holocaust, Renee Salt’s memoir is needed now more than ever. Interspersed with Kate Thompson’s intricate research, this memoir follows Renee as she is ripped from a happy childhood in Poland and forced into ghettos and concentration camps. However, her story does not end there but follows her liberation and—against all odds—the life she built a ...more
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