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. Ernest Cline - Armada  ****
  8. Mimi Matthews - The Belle of Belgrave Square  ****

June 

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

July 

  1. Lord of Shadows: #2 Dark Artifices - Cassandra Clare (Young Adult fantasy, 699)
  2. The It Girl - Ruth Ware (mystery, thriller, 423)
  3. From Lukov with Love - Mariana Zapata (e, sports romance, annoying characters, ***)
  4. Seven Year Slip - Ashley Poston (e, Magical Realism, Romance, ****)
  5. Winter Lost - Patricia Briggs (Mercedes Thompson adventure, urban fantasy, 408, *****)
  6. Get a Life, Chloe Brown - Talia Hibbert (contemporary romance, disabled heroine, e, ****)
  7. You, Me, and the Colors of Life - Noa Walker (Heartbreaking story about terminally ill woman who falls in love, gives back to those in need, and finds something positive about every day, e)
  8. Darker Shade of Magic - V. E. Schwab (young adult fantasy, good vs evil, 400)

August 

  1. Primal Mirror - Nalini Singh (#8 psy-changeling trinity, 400) ****
  2. Once Upon A River - Diana Setterfield (Magical Realism, 464) ****
  3. Patricia Briggs Mercedes Thompson reread 1 - 14)
September

  1. Patricia Briggs Alpha and Omega series reread 1 - 4
  2. J.D. Robb Passion in Death (In death book) *** Story didn't vibe with me.
  3. Satoshi Yagisawa’s Days at the Morisaki Bookshop  (Japanese, books about books, romance and friendship, family, and relationships, 150) *** Didn't connect with characters. 
  4. Joanna Quinn - The Whalebone Theatre   (W1 through WW2, 400 pages, war and relationships, and adventures) ****.5
  5. Steve Berry - Charlemagne's Pursuit #4 Cotton Malone (Antarctica and around the world, missing sailors mystery) ****
  6. T.A. Barron  - The Ancient One: (Middle grade time travel fantasy, native american culture and saving an ancient forest) ****
  7. Amanda Quick - When She Dreams #6 Burning Cove (Paranormal, ***)

October

  1. Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary:  (Science Fiction space adventure in which a Biologist turned school teacher has to help save the world for the evil astrophage, *****)
  2. Willa Cather - Death Comes for the Archbishop: (Literary bedtime reread, ****)
  3. Nina Sankovitch - Tolstoy and the Purple Chair (Memoir, grief, year of reading) *****
  4. Jason Pargin - I'm Starting to Worry About This Big Black Box of Doom: (Thriller, humorous, crazy ride across the U.S. with internet conspiracy theorist making up stories about them along the way.)
  5. Toni McGee Causey - Bobby Faye's Very (very, very, very) Bad Day: (Suspense with a little bit of Romance thrown in. Non stop action as Bobby Faye tries to save her brother and goes from one fire to another.) ***




My rating system is a mishmash of Goodreads and others.  

5 star - Loved the author, and will read anything they publish. Loved the story line, loved the characters.  Couldn't put it down. Made me think. Will read it again. 

4 star - Liked the story, liked the characters, but not necessarily rereadable

3 star - Good but....

2 star - Failed to live up to my expectations 

1 star - DNF - Not my cup of tea at all and didn't want to continue.  

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