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2024
My Year in Books
17,505
pages read
67
books read


Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
Shortest Book
105
pages
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
Longest Book
496
pages

Average book length in 2024
261
pages

James by Percival Everett
Most Shelved
332,351
people also shelved
Everything and Nothing at All by Jenny Heijun Wills
Least Shelved
197
people also shelved

Troy’s average rating for 2024
5.0
it was amazing
5.0

Crooked Teeth by Danny Ramadan
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.62 average

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

Troy’s first review of the year

Minor Detail seared itself into my consciousness and memory and to me is a brilliant and near perfect work of fiction written of Palestine, Israel, and the line between history and the present.

The book is a short but unnerving, forensic-like narrative that is seemingly less interested in emotion, but more focused in delivering scenes to the reader in a way similar to that of a wide angle camera lens, capturing the facts and movements, telling us
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TROY’S 2024 BOOKS
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
My Work by Olga Ravn
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
The Guest by Emma Cline
it was amazing
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Any Person Is the Only Self by Elisa Gabbert
Held by Anne   Michaels
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham
Molly by Blake Butler
Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley
Anyone's Ghost by August Thompson
it was amazing
The Observable Universe by Heather McCalden
Erasure by Percival Everett
The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams
The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell
The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon
Hombrecito by Santiago Jose Sanchez
The Answers by Catherine Lacey
it was amazing
The Novelist by Jordan Castro
James by Percival Everett
Another Word for Love by Carvell Wallace
Coexistence by Billy-Ray Belcourt
The Details by Ia Genberg
The Future Was Color by Patrick Nathan
Pew by Catherine Lacey
Parade by Rachel Cusk
Splinters by Leslie Jamison
Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edmund White
Crooked Teeth by Danny Ramadan
it was amazing
There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
All Fours by Miranda July
Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
I Make Envy on Your Disco by Eric Schnall
Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal
State of Paradise by Laura van den Berg
Worry by Alexandra  Tanner
Rattlebone by Maxine Clair
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
Small Rain by Garth Greenwell
Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante
Ghost Pains by Jessi Jezewska Stevens
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Permafrost by Eva Baltasar
Bad Girls by Camila Sosa Villada
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
Queer by William S. Burroughs
Everything and Nothing at All by Jenny Heijun Wills
it was amazing
Napalm in the Heart by Pol Guasch
Salvage by Dionne Brand
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken
The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel
The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma
Yr Dead by Sam Sax
Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
it was amazing
In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott
What I Know About You by Éric Chacour
Concerning the Future of Souls by Joy Williams
Audition by Katie Kitamura
Nobody Is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
Health and Safety by Emily Witt
it was amazing
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
Breaking and Entering by Joy Williams

Audition by Katie Kitamura

Troy’s last review of the year

this was like black swan level of you don’t know what is real and what is not. this novel really did play out like some f*cked up arronofsky movie in my head, or that’s how it felt for the last half of it where you’re like whaaaaat is happppening.

kitamura is a master of mood and tension - her other two novels gave me the feeling of inhabiting in this weird, otherworldly liminal space and this novel really expands her writing within that mode in m
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