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2024
My Year in Books
57,780
pages read
Debra Medina
154
books read
Debra Medina
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Shortest Book
128
pages
Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon
Longest Book
842
pages
Average book length in 2024
375
pages
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Most Shelved
2,780,965
people also shelved
Hope's Highway by Dorothy Garlock
Least Shelved
1,094
people also shelved
Debra’s average rating for 2024
4.0
4.0
The Women by Kristin Hannah
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.60 average
The Women by Kristin Hannah

Debra’s first review of the year

it was amazing
Dear The Women,
I have said it before, and I am sure I will say it again, Kristin Hannah writes amazing women. I absolutely plowed through you, unable to tear myself away from Frankie and her journey. While there were a few twists that I predicted with ease, you still had those perfect, jaw-dropping moments that I absolutely love. Frankie and Bev and Ethel were forced to be so strong for horrific reasons and you brought the struggle of female vete ...more
DEBRA’S 2024 BOOKS
The Women by Kristin Hannah
it was amazing
Bloodless by Douglas Preston
The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
The Future by Naomi Alderman
Soundtrack of Silence by Matt Hay
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan
Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon
The Longest Autumn by Amy Avery
The Fury by Alex Michaelides
Family Family by Laurie Frankel
it was amazing
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones
Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead by Jenny Hollander
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski
Godkiller by Hannah Kaner
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
The Lost Dresses of Italy by M.A. McLaughlin
Gypsy Blood by Kristy Cunning
She's a Killer by Kirsten McDougall
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
it was amazing
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González
The Eternal Ones by Namina Forna
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
it was amazing
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Cherish by Tracy Wolff
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
The Still Point by Tammy Greenwood
The Opal Crown by Jenny Lundquist
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
Extinction by Douglas Preston
In This Moment by Karma Brown
Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle
it was amazing
The Magic All Around by Jennifer Moorman
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
The Library of Borrowed Hearts by Lucy Gilmore
What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson
Death and the Maiden by Ariana Franklin
Throwback by Maurene Goo
The Star and the Strange Moon by Constance Sayers
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
it was amazing
Five Survive by Holly Jackson
Spare Parts by Paul Craddock
The Unbreakable Boy by Scott LeRette
When Among Crows by Veronica Roth
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
The Burning God by R.F. Kuang
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
it was amazing
The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
When We Were Silent by Fiona McPhillips
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
it was amazing
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Sociopath by Patric Gagne
The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult
Baby X by Kira Peikoff
Long Time Gone by Charlie Donlea
None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
it was amazing
A Botanist's Guide to Society and Secrets by Kate Khavari
What the Hell Did I Just Read by David Wong
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Save What's Left by Elizabeth Castellano
The Arsenic Eater's Wife by Tonya Mitchell
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Devil Is Fine by John Vercher
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
it was amazing
Lilith by Eric Rickstad
Holly by Stephen King
The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro
There Is No Ethan by Anna Akbari
Within Arm's Reach by Ann Napolitano
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
it was amazing
The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
A Forgery of Roses by Jessica S. Olson
Humor Me by Cat Shook
The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear
Middletide by Sarah Crouch
Vilest Things by Chloe Gong

Debra’s last review of the year

liked it
Dear Vilest Things,
Unfortunately, you were a bit of a miss for me. I am not sure if it was because I was listening to a book with a similar plot, ornif it was because you suffered from the tragic second book slump. I just had a really hard time slipping back into Calla and Anton's intrigues and their unique world. You also had a lot of political maneuvering that had me a bit lost in the sauce. Anton and August kept getting clonfused in my mind, w ...more
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