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2024
My Year in Books
26,002
pages read
Shruti
72
books read
Shruti
My Death by Lisa Tuttle
Shortest Book
93
pages
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Longest Book
867
pages
Average book length in 2024
361
pages
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Most Shelved
5,255,963
people also shelved
Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar
Least Shelved
7,327
people also shelved
Shruti’s average rating for 2024
4.2
4.2
James by Percival Everett
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.50 average
SHRUTI’S 2024 BOOKS
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
The Laughter by Sonora Jha
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar
it was amazing
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Emma of 83rd Street by Audrey Bellezza
The Humans by Matt Haig
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
An Immense World by Ed Yong
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
The Illness Lesson by Clare Beams
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
really liked it
The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
James by Percival Everett
Last Summer at the Golden Hotel by Elyssa Friedland
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak
Summer Crossing by Truman Capote
The Garden by Clare Beams
The Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth
Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum
Ways of Being by James Bridle
Lone Women by Victor LaValle
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
West by Carys Davies
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
it was amazing
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
Stay True by Hua Hsu
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Beach Read by Emily Henry
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Feast by Margaret Kennedy
The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
They Called Us Exceptional by Prachi Gupta
The Guest by Emma Cline
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
My Death by Lisa Tuttle
Daughters of the Deer by Danielle Daniel
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Likeness by Tana French
Another Country by James Baldwin
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
Heartbreak Is the National Anthem by Rob Sheffield
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk
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