Hello Loves 🌷📖📝🌻📖📝🌷
Hope you’re having a lovely New Year's Eve. 🌸
Last evening of the year and time to talk about My Year in Books and list my Top 24 reads of the year.
I’ve had a very good reading year.
I read 235 Books and a majority of them were good. There were some duds; but for the most part this was a very successful reading year.
I read loads of Indian Books.
Read translations.
Read books from all corners of the world.
Read some new to me authors and fell in love.
Tried new genres.
Read some delightful children’s books.
Read so many beautiful picture books.
Read a fair amount of nonfiction.
Bought a few books but was able to very successfully do a whole book buying ban from May to November.
Annotated some books.
Read physical books.
Read a ton on my iPad.
Read very little on my Kindle (she’s getting old).
Found so much comfort and solace in my books.
I am so grateful for my books and for stories. This year was rather difficult for me, there was a lot of disappointment and hurt and worry and unspectacular things going on in my real life and my books kept me afloat. Seriously, without my books I’d lose my damn mind.
So let’s jump into my Top 24 Books of 2024.
(In no particular order & I’ve tired to include books I haven’t yet included in my other lists.)
TOP 24 BOOKS OF 2024!
1. Water
2. Earth
3. Fire by John Boyne~ The elements series by Boyne might just be the favourite thing I’ve read all year. I loved every single novella and each one got better than its counterpart and blew my mind. Brilliant and surprising and stunning.
4. The Gathering by CJ Tudor
5. Knife by Salman Rushdie
6. Welcome to Paradise by Twinkle Khanna
7. Kolam Kanna by Vibha Batra
8. Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen
9. The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden
10. Shred Sisters by Betsy Lerner
11. The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao by Lindsay Pereira
12. A History of Burning by Janika Oza
13. Notes from a Small Town by Ruskin Bond
14. One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon
15. The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
16. Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa
17. The Trees by Percival Everett
18. The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean
19. We Are The Gardeners by Joanna Gaines
20. What you are looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
21. Between Two Kimgdoms by Suleika Jaouad
22. Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan
23. Where The Heart Should Be by Sarah Crossan
24. Larf by Ashley Spires
And we are done.
I hope my Reading Life is just as good in 2025, maybe even better.
Have a lovely New Year’s Eve and a very Happy New Year. 🥳
See you next year 🤓📚🌺📖🌝📝💐
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