What I read in 2024

As we near the end of another year, it's time to look back on the books I read in 2024. At the beginning of the year, I set a goal to read at least 100 books, including re-reading some of my favorites, and I managed to read 102, the same number of books I read in 2023. (The graphic above shows 91 books because I didn't log the 11 books I re-read.)

As for the average rating for the books I read, if I exclude the re-reads, it was 4.04 stars, slightly higher than the 4.01 average from 2023's books read. The breakdown by star rating was:

• 5 stars - 30 books
• 4 stars - 35 books
• 3 stars - 26 books

If I include the re-reads, the average star rating for the books I read would jump to 4.15 since I would give them all 5 stars again. Overall, it was a very satisfying year of reading for me. Since I haven't decided yet how many of my favorite books I'll re-read in 2025, I don't know how 2025's ratings will fare.

In my next post, I'll list my top ten reads of 2024. Stay tuned!

Reading challenge recap - re-reading favorite books

In June, I gave an update on my reading "challenge" this year, which was to re-read some of my favorite books. In summary, the challenge has been great. 

These are the books I re-read this year:

• January - Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
• February - Find Her by Lisa Gardner
• March - The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
• April - When You See Me by Lisa Gardner
• May - Arcanum Unbounded by Brandon Sanderson
• June - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab 
• July - Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
• August - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• September - Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
• October - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• November/December - The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson 

I only re-read eleven books instead of twelve because The Way of Kings took me longer than I had planned. I enjoyed every book and would rate them all 5 stars if I had read them for the first time this year. Although I had a great time with this reading challenge, I don't know if I'll repeat it next year since there are so many unread books on my TBR list, but I'm definitely more open to re-reading books now than I was before.