2024 reading list and commentary

endpaper of an old book that is a collection of blue and green swirls with some lighter blue blobs. It has a bookplate from the library at the University of California in Los Angeles and a typewritten note says "Gift of Dr. Annette Howell"

Here was the Mastodon thread of what I read last year and here’s my 2024 booklist. This is the thread of the books I am reading this year. This was a slightly challenging year of navigating some health stuff (which has been working out well; nothing serious just getting some age-appropriate attention) which meant a LOT of reading. I didn’t mind it but I might have liked being out doing more other things. Most of the non-fiction I read was graphic novels (my library tends to like “graphic memoir” formats). I started 137 books and finished 135. I finally managed to read a majority of female and non-binary authors. I tried to get ChatGPT to tell me how many pages I’d read in 2024 and it could not, so I’ll just say it felt like a lot!

average read per month: 11.25
average read per week: 2.6
number read in worst month: 9 (April)
number read in best month: 14 (March)
number unfinished: 2
percentage by male authors: 49%
percentage by female and non-binary authors: 51%
fiction as percentage of total: 73%
non-fiction as percentage of total: 27%
percentage of total liked: 91%
percentage of total ambivalent: 8%
percentage of total disliked: less than 1%
ebook to print book percentage: Pretty close, and identical to last year: 53/47

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004. The always-updated booklist, going back to 1997, lives at jessamyn.info/booklist and it has its own RSS feed.

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