2024 Completed Reads

 



Books Completed in 2024 



January Reading Wrap UP

  1. Lyssa Kay Adams - Undercover Bromance ***
  2. Sara Nisha Adams - The Reading List ****
  3. Sarah Addison Allen - Other Birds  ***
  4. Jim Butcher - Aeronauts Windlass #1 Cinder Spires  ****
  5. Jenna Black - Dark Descendant  ***
  6. Marie Brennan - Tropic of Serpents #2 Lady Trent  *****
  7. Brendan Slocumb - Violin Conspiracy  ****
  8. R.F. Kuang - Babel: An Arcane History *****
  9. Samantha Shannon - The Bone Season #1  ****
  10. Samantha Shannon - The Pale Dreamer novella ****
  11. Jenny Colgan - The Bookshop on the Corner ****
  12. Karen Rose - Count to Ten  ****
  13. Ashley Poston - The Dead Romantics ****
  14. J.D. Robb - Random in Death #58 In Death series  *****
  15. J.T. Ellison - Lie to Me *****
  16. Emily St. John Mandel - Sea of Tranquility   **
  17. Sulari Gentill - The Woman in the Library  ****
  18. Haruki Murakami - Sputnik Sweetheart  *****
  19. Dean Koontz - Odd Thomas #1  ****
  20. Evie Woods - The Lost Bookshop  ****

 
February Reading wrap up

  1. Ben Aaronovitch - Moon over Soho #2 Rivers of London  ****
  2. Ben Aaronovitch - Whispers Underground #3 Rivers of London  ****
  3. Ben Aaronovitch - Broken Homes #4 Rivers of London  ****
  4. Sharon Bolton - Now You See Me #1 Lacey Flint  ****
  5. Jenny Colgan - Cafe by the Sea #1 Mure  ****
  6. Justin Cronin - The Ferryman  *****
  7. Elizabeth Hunter - The Scribe #1 Irin Chronicles  ****
  8. Elizabeth Hunter - The Singer #2 Irin Chronicles  ****
  9. Elizabeth Hunter - The Secret #3 Irin Chronicles  ****
  10. John Grisham - Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer  ****
  11. Iain Pears - Giotti's Hand #5 Jonathan Argyll  *** 
  12. Paola Peritti - The Distance Between Me and the Cherry Tree  ****
  13. Mark Pryor - The Book Artist #8 Hugo Marston  ****
 
March Reading Wrap Up 

  1. Ben Aaronovitch - Foxglove Summer #5 Rivers of London  ****
  2. Mark Helprin - In Sunlight and In Shadow  ****
  3. Fourth Wing #1 Empryean - Rebecca Yarros *****
  4. Iron Flame #2 Empryean - Rebecca Yarros  *****
  5. Faith Hunter - Rift in the Soul #4 Soulwood  ****
  6. Kay Hooper - Curse of Salem: #20 Bishop/Special crimes  ****
  7. Jessica Strawser - The Last Caretaker **
  8. Leslie Wolfe - The Surgeon  **
  9. Charles De Lint - The Mystery of Grace  ****
  10. Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry  ****


  1. David Brin - Earth ****
  2. Christopher Paolini - Murtagh #5 Inheritance Cycle  ****
  3. Elizabeth Bear - Machine #2 White Space ****
  4. Julia Quinn - Romancing Mr. Bridgerton ****
  5. Naomi Novik - His Majesty's Dragon #1 Temeraire  *****
  6. Trisha Das - Never Meant to Stay  ****
  7. Namrata Patel - Candid Life of Meena Dave  *****
  8. Nora Roberts / J.D. Robb - Remember When / Big Jack #17.5 In death ****



  1. John Scalzi - Old Man's War ****
  2. Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama )****
  3. Peng Shepherd - The Cartographers ***
  4. Nalini Singh - Archangel's Lineage #16 Guild Hunter *****
  5. Derek Paul - A Machine Divine  ****
  6. Blake Crouch - Dark Matter  ****
  7. Mimi Matthews - The Belle of Belgrave Square  ****


  1. Nora Roberts - Mind Games *****
  2. Ernest Cline - Armada  ****
  3. Lady Midnight: Dark Artifices - Cassandra Clare ****
  4. When Woman Were Dragons - Kelly Barnhill ****
  5. Zodiak Academy #1: The Awakening - Caroline Peckham ***
  6. Venus Prime V: Breaking Strain - Paul Preuss ****
  7. The Librarian of Crooked Lane #1 Glass Library - C.J. Archer ****
  8. Bone Ships - DNF


  1. Mariana Zapata  - From Lukov with Love - e, ***
  2. Ruth Ware - The It Girl  ****
  3. Ashley Poston - Seven Year Slip  - e, ****
  4. Cassandra Clare - Lord of Shadows: #2 Dark Artifices   ***
  5. Patricia Briggs - Winter Lost Mercedes Thompson adventure, *****
  6. Talia Hibbert  - Get a Life, Chloe Brown - e, ***
  7. Noa Walker - You, Me, and the Colors of Life - e, ****
  8. V. E. Schwab - Darker Shade of Magic ****


  1. Nalini Singh - Primal Mirror #8 psy-changeling trinity, *****
  2. Sylvia Cathrall -A Letter to the Lumious Deep - e, ****
  3. Rebecca Yarros - The Things We leave Unfinished  - e, ****
  4. Diana Setterfield - Once Upon A River  ****
  5. Debra Webb - Deeper than the Dead - e, ***
  6. Patricia Briggs Mercedes Thompson reread 1 - 14)



  1. Patricia Briggs Alpha and Omega series reread 1 - 4
  2. J.D. Robb Passion in Death  #59 In death *** 
  3. Satoshi Yagisawa’s - Days at the Morisaki Bookshop  ***
  4. Joanna Quinn - The Whalebone Theatre   *****
  5. Steve Berry - Charlemagne's Pursuit #4 Cotton Malone  ****
  6. Amanda Quick - When She Dreams #6 Burning Cove ***


  1. Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary:  *****
  2. T.A. Barron  - The Ancient One: ****
  3. Willa Cather - Death Comes for the Archbishop: reread, ****
  4. Nina Sankovitch - Tolstoy and the Purple Chair  *****
  5. Jason Pargin - I'm Starting to Worry About This Big Black Box of Doom:  *****
  6. Elsewhere - Dean Koontz  ****
  7. Toni McGee Causey - Bobby Faye's Very (very, very, very) Bad Day  ***


  1. Alan Dean Foster- Life Forms ****
  2. John Grisham - The Racketeer -   ****
  3. Sarah Hall- How to Paint a Dead Man  **
  4. Nora Roberts - The Mirror #2 Lost Brides    *****
  5.  Campbell Walker - Your Head is a Houseboat - Nonfiction ****


  1. Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore   ****
  2. Kate Clayborne - Love Lettering -  e, *****
  3. Emily Henry - Funny Story ****
  4. Isak Dinesen- Out of Africa ***
  5. Dylan Newton - How Sweet it is -  e, ****
  6. Gwendolyn Brooks - People of the Book -  ****


My rating system is a mishmash of Goodreads and others.  

5 star - The writing was compelling, the world building was outstanding and the story flowed. Couldn't put it down. Evoked an emotional response and made me feel my feelings. Unique.   As a series opener, would make me want to read the whole series.  As a new to me author, would make me want to read more of their stories. Would reread again in the future. 

4 star - The writing, world building, and characters were excellent. Enjoyed the story. Would read this series or author again. Willing to give it a second read.

3 star - It was good, but...

2 star - I read the whole thing but had morally grey characters without any redeeming qualities, or something about the story turned me off, or it failed to live up to my expectations.

1 star - Did not finished. It wasn't my cup of tea and didn't care to continue the story.   

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