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2024
My Year in Books
57,615
pages read
Louise
173
books read
Louise
1 like
The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke
Shortest Book
64
pages
The Uncommercial Traveller and Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens
Longest Book
776
pages
Average book length in 2024
333
pages
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Most Shelved
1,733,130
people also shelved
The Girl in the Bunker by Mike Stephenson
Least Shelved
2
people also shelved
Louise’s average rating for 2024
4.7
4.7
Pioneers in Bloomers by Rob Hadgraft
Highest Rated on Goodreads
it was amazing
5.00 average
The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks

Louise’s first review of the year

really liked it
I really enjoyed The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks, but I have to admit it wasn't quite what I was expecting. The story follows a woman who volunteers to be a surrogate mother for a couple, but during the IVF treatment something is done which breaks all the ethical rules, and has potentially huge implications for humanity. The pacing was good, and I was hooked from the start, wanting to know what was going to happen to the boy at the centre of ...more
LOUISE’S 2024 BOOKS
Sisters of Sword and Shadow by Laura Bates
it was amazing
The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Windmill Hill by Lucy Atkins
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis
The Golden Hour by Jacquie Bloese
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Love Letters by Julie Ma
Reading Lessons by Carol Atherton
it was amazing
Maurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst
The Guest by B.A. Paris
The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo
The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Unsinkable by Jenni L. Walsh
The Secret Practice by Joelle Tamraz
Saltblood by Francesca de Tores
The Hapless Milliner by Jessica Bull
it was amazing
Fragile Animals by Genevieve Jagger
A Bookshop of One’s Own by Jane Cholmeley
The Murder Game by Tom Hindle
Furies by Margaret Atwood
The Girl in the Bunker by Mike Stephenson
I Am Not Afraid of Looking into the Rifles by Rick Stroud
All of You Every Single One by Beatrice Hitchman
Murder on Lake Garda by Tom Hindle
Prize Women by Caroline Lea
it was amazing
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
Jack and Eve by Wendy Moore
Boy Like Me by Simon James Green
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Hey, Zoey by Sarah Crossan
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum
You Are Here by David Nicholls
Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo
Sea Fever by Meg Clothier
The Flow by Amy-Jane Beer
it was amazing
Birdeye by Judith Heneghan
In the Blink of An Eye by Jo Callaghan
The Bone Hunters by Joanne Burn
When We Were Silent by Fiona McPhillips
The Self-Sufficiency Garden by Huw Richards
Speak of the Devil by Rose Wilding
Pioneers in Bloomers by Rob Hadgraft
The Library Thief by Kuchenga Shenjé
it was amazing
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne
Written by Bec Evans
Earth by John Boyne
Only the Ocean by Natasha Carthew
The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins
Nature’s Ghosts by Sophie Yeo
Queen of Codes by Jackie Ui Chionna
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
One Garden Against the World by Kate Bradbury
it was amazing
The Couple at the Table by Sophie Hannah
You Like It Darker by Stephen King
The Fascination by Essie Fox
How to Create a Wildlife Pond by Kate Bradbury
Private Rites by Julia Armfield
Home by Cailean Steed
The Fates by Rosie Garland
The Paris Muse by Louisa Treger
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
it was amazing
Wife by Charlotte Mendelson
Forever Strong by Gabrielle Lyon
Eve by Cat Bohannon
How to Tell a Story by Meg Bowles
Between the Chalk and the Sea by Gail Simmons
Beautiful Writers by Linda Sivertsen
Lifting Off by Karen McLeod
The Story Collector by Iris Costello
The Household by Stacey Halls
it was amazing
The Twelve by Liz Hyder
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
Any Human Power by Manda Scott
Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen
The Echoes by Evie Wyld
The Whole Vegetable by Sophie Gordon
Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
This Book Kills by Ravena Guron
Crow by Boria Sax
it was amazing
Moonstone by Laura Purcell
My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss
Julia by Sandra Newman
Rook by Jane Rusbridge
The Book of Secrets by Anna Mazzola
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
Nightwalking by John Lewis-Stempel
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
it was amazing
Walks in the Wild by Peter Wohlleben
Into the Dark by Jacqueline Yallop
Every Body Should Know This by Federica Amati
Maiden, Mother, Crone by Joanne Harris
Bibliotherapy by Molly Masters
Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout
Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers
A Haunting in the Arctic by C.J. Cooke
Black Woods Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey

Louise’s last review of the year

it was amazing
Black Woods Blue Sky’ is one of the most immersive books I’ve read in a long time. It took me deep into the Alaskan wilderness , in a story that read almost like a fairytale. Birdie and her 6 year old daughter Emaleen have moved into a very remote cabin belonging to a man they don’t really know called Arthur. This man is odd, but Birdie believes he has their best interests at heart, and she is desperate for a new life. At first, they embrace the ...more
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