tamaranth | 2024: Year in Review (Staying In -- books read)

See them all on LibraryThing

What I read in 2024...

* 184 books, including a couple of scanned books on Internet Archive; not including most rereads, re-skims, DNFs... or audiobook 'rereads' which I have taken to as an accompaniment to gaming / housewerk / getting to sleep.
* 131 by female writers, 43 by male writers (some collaborations, not all books tagged)
* 4 rereads

My categorisations (some books will have more than one of these tags):
* 62 fantasy, 26 SF, 49 historical (predominantly 19th / 20th century, Roman, or Classical Greek)
* 22 romance (majority non-het romance)
* 8 YA/children's
* 28 non-fiction

My reading challenges:
* 52 books in 52 weeks -- (completed!)
* Annual Non-Fiction Challenge -- (not complete)
* some challenges on Storygraph, which I like more than Goodreads because of graphs and stats and how challenges are done. I'm tamarant4 if you'd like to follow me there.
* Challenge to self: read what you buy! 68 of the books I read this year were acquired a year or more before I read them. I was aiming for at least a third of my reading in 2024, and achieved this goal!

Authors I read most by:
* Louise Penny
* Victoria Goddard
* T Kingfisher

Best five (based on my enjoyment, not their perfection):
*The Mars House by Natasha Pulley
*Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
*Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
*The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts
*Saint Death's Daughter by C.S.E. Cooney

Last year's 'books read' post