2024 End of Year Reading Wrap-up
2024 has been over for a few days now, but I’m still reflecting on the past year. It was a great reading year for me, and I love documenting what I read! So here we are. I recapped what I read in the first half of 2024 in this post, so check it out if you haven’t!
Here is everything I read in the second half of 2024, plus a list of my very favorites:
Beach Read by Emily Henry
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
Happy Place by Emily Henry
Generation Friends by Saul Austerlitz
Tell Me Everything by Erika Krouse
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Martian by Andy Weir
When We Flew Away by Alice Hoffman
Flirty Little Secret by Jessica Lepe
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Emma of 83rd Street by Audrey Bellezza & Emily Harding
Meeting God in Quiet Places by F. Lagard Smith
The Christmas Glass by Marci Alborghetti
My absolute favorite reads of 2024:
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
One of the only books I’ve ever reread and I still loved this magical story about the woman who started it all for the beloved Practical Magic series!
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
I loved escaping into this world and learning about why certain things happened in the first book. It didn’t seem like a 624 page book, that’s for sure.
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Another book that didn’t seem as long as it was, and I didn’t want it to end! I can still put myself in this setting with these characters — they were that vivid. This was my first Donna Tartt and was not my last.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Like I said… This year I fell in love with Donna Tartt’s writing. I devoured this and was sad while I was actively reading because I didn’t want the experience to end. I loved the “spoiler” we get in the beginning and then discovering what led to that event.
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
What a debut! I really enjoyed how genre-bending this story was. Part sci-fi, part thriller, part romance. 100% a great time. It built into a very exciting and shocking ending. I loved every minute!
Beach Read by Emily Henry
I had never read anything by Emily Henry before picking this up. I was a little surprised by how much I enjoyed this story, but maybe I shouldn’t have been as it was a love story between two writers. I loved both the concept and the execution. It was funny, steamy, and also touched on themes of family and grief. I thought it balanced these well.
Tell Me Everything by Erika Krouse
The only nonfiction to make my favorites! Krouse has such a unique voice. I was laughing one minute, sad the next, enraged the next. I didn’t know much about the story of the first Title IX sexual assault case, but I got to learn about it from Krouse’s POV as a PI who was involved in the investigation. I was invested through the whole book.
Here’s to a new year of reading, editing, and writing! Happy 2025!