2024 reading

I snuck in one last novelette on New Year's Eve to bring my total of books read in 2024 to a nice round 125. Of these, at most 9 were by cishet white men, with 105 by women or NB people. Most-read genres were fantasy (39) and non-fiction (37), with SF and mystery both on 17. My most-read author was Margery Allingham, thanks to Kate Davies's Summer of Mystery pattern club. (I am unlikely to knit many of the patterns, but was very glad to be prompted to return to Albert Campion, who I adored at the age of 11 or 12. At 50, I liked the older, wiser and sadder man more than the foolish young sleuth I'd preferred then.)

Full list of books: ( behind the cut )

2024 was a year where I stopped doing a lot of things I'd previously enjoyed, mostly due to fundamental brokenness (five years of burning out at work and starting the year with your father's funeral will do that, never mind covid halfway through). One of those was writing about the books I'd read, because trying to write good reviews was feeling too much like hard work, but I miss talking about the books I've read, so I'm going to try to get back in the habit of doing that, even if I only write a couple of sentences rather than full reviews.

Meanwhile, if you're interested in my thoughts on any of the 2024 books, ask in comments, or give me a random number between 1 and 125 and I'll talk about the corresponding book.