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2024
My Year in Books
18,220
pages read
77
books read


Mr Salary by Sally Rooney
Shortest Book
33
pages
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Longest Book
483
pages

Average book length in 2024
236
pages

Normal People by Sally Rooney
Most Shelved
3,495,637
people also shelved
Catching Fire by Daniel Hahn
Least Shelved
917
people also shelved

elle’s average rating for 2024
3.6
3.6

Catching Fire by Daniel Hahn
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.41 average

Funny Story by Emily Henry

elle’s first review of the year

liked it
to preface this review, i love and adore emily henry's books. book lovers is in my top 5 books of all time (and i am not a romance reader), and happy place is the only book that made me cry last year. time is truly measured in emily henry releases for me.

my current emily henry rom com ranking is: book lovers (5 stars), happy place (5 stars), beach read (4.5 stars), funny story (3 stars), and people we meet on vacation (2.5 stars). if we have comp
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ELLE’S 2024 BOOKS
Funny Story by Emily Henry
The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino
The Missing Girl by Shirley Jackson
The Breakthrough by Daphne du Maurier
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
it was amazing
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn
Coventry by Rachel Cusk
Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly
Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti
really liked it
Mr Salary by Sally Rooney
A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
Real Life by Brandon  Taylor
Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley
Green Dot by Madeleine Gray
Piglet by Lottie Hazell
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
really liked it
What a Shame by Abigail Bergstrom
Insatiable by Daisy Buchanan
Mother Doll by Katya Apekina
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
Like Love by Maggie Nelson
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
Mrs Caliban by Rachel Ingalls
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
really liked it
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
I Used to Be Charming by Eve Babitz
Self Portrait in Green by Marie NDiaye
The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada
Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg
The Last Quarter of the Moon by Zijian Chi
Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
it was amazing
First Love by Lilly Dancyger
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
French Exit by Patrick deWitt
Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu López
This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill
The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy
Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk
Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
really liked it
Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler
Animal by Lisa Taddeo
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung
Maurice by E.M. Forster
None of This Is Serious by Catherine Prasifka
Catching Fire by Daniel Hahn
really liked it
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
On Freedom by Maggie Nelson
Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata
The White Book by Han Kang
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Dávila
Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino
Bad Fruit by Ella   King
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
it was amazing
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Woolgathering by Patti Smith
Crudo by Olivia Laing
Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
The Science of Last Things by Ellen Wayland-Smith
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
it was amazing
Strange hotel by Eimear McBride
On Not Knowing by Emily Ogden
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

elle’s last review of the year

really liked it
i love shirley jackson so much that she could be revealed to be an axe murderer and i'd be like "she probably had her reasons!" ...more
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