Although I'm slightly astonished to find myself in 2025 already, welcome to my 2024 Reading Wrap-up, with categories shamelessly borrowed from Spotify's "Wrapped"!
First, though, we'll start with a couple 2024 writing stats:
- Published 56 blog posts
- Wrote 56,000 words of my YA fantasy Hunted
2024 Bookish Goals vs. What I Actually Accomplished
My writing goal for 2024 was to go to a writers conference, which I did! I actually loved it so much that I'm planning to go back to that same conference next May. (It's the Washington Writers Conference in Rockville, MD if anyone is interested in meeting up with me there!)
I set my reading goal for 2024 at 60 books, since I felt like my goal of 70 books in 2023 was too much–but I actually ended up reading 83 books! (My Goodreads only says 82 because one of the books was my grandma's self-published memoir.)
I'll talk about my bookish goals for 2025 in my Top Ten Tuesday post on January 14!
Reading Stats
Top 5 Artists Authors
On Spotify's Wrapped, top artists are the ones you've listened to the most. So I pulled out my reading list and counted up all the authors I read more than once in 2024 and came up with eight! Since this is beyond the standard five, I chose my top five favorites from those authors (the three that didn't make the cut, by the way, were Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Somaiya Daud, and Stephanie Land).
- Cameron Dokey (3)
- Fredrik Backman (2)
- Becca Kinzer (2)
- Alice Oseman (2)
- Jenny Han (2)
Top 5 Songs Books
- Starless, by Jacqueline Carey
- The Pomegranate Gate, by Ariel Kaplan
- The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker
- Tress of the Emerald Sea, by Brandon Sanderson
- Last one is between Radio Silence by Alice Oseman and Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
Minutes Listened Number of Books Read: 83
Top Genre: Fantasy
Bonus! Most Books Read in a Month:
I read an average of 6.75 books/month in 2024, and February, June, September, and December were peak months for me at eight books each.
Bonus! Books I DNFed in 2024
Icebreaker, by Hannah Grace
Reason: Gratuitous sex
Star Daughter, by Shveta Thakrar
Reason: There was nothing wrong with it. I just found myself extremely reluctant to pick it up. I was forcing myself to read even one chapter a day. This doesn't normally happen to me with fiction, especially fantasy. I loved the Indian influences (especially the Night Market), but the characters were soooo flat. I also found that a lot of the Indian terms weren't explained (like foi, which I finally figured out means aunt, I think?), and that took me out of the story a bit. The writing wasn't great, which just removed me a little bit more. I just wasn't invested in the story or the characters at all. It felt "off" to me and I can't quite pinpoint why. It took me 118 pages of feeling unenthused before I finally pulled the trigger and decided to DNF it. There are just so many books out there to read, why should I struggle through one I'm not thoroughly enjoying?
I really like your pie chart! How’d you make it? I’m working on a SheetGeek book log and it has a handy little pie chart, but it’s for the 100 book challenge I’m undergoing, so it will not be complete for some time. CONGRATS on 83 books! That’s insane!
ReplyDeleteThank you! My secret is Canva :) That's how I make a lot of my headers too. I use Canva all the time for work, and I finally realized that I could use it for my blog too!
DeleteGreat recap. The writer’s conference sounds so good.
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It was delightful! I can't wait to go again.
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