As 2024 comes to a close, my fourth full year of remote working, I managed to once again surpass my previous records by completing a whopping 61 books, two books more than my previous high set last year and my fourth consecutive year completing the 52 books in 52 weeks challenge.  I completed the challenge in mid-November and surpassed last year’s total in mid-December.  I read 22,622 pages, by far my highest total of all time and just the second time I’ve managed to surpass 20.000 pages.

Of those books, only five were non-fiction and, of the remaining 56 novels, only five were tied to a TV show, either as the source material or as a tie-in.  None of the books came out of my dwindling “to-read” drawer, with two hard covers, two paperbacks, 53 e-books and no audiobooks.  I continued to take advantage of my library card, which helped me procure 46 of the books I consumed throughout the year.

Over 69% of the books I read this year were by authors I had read before. The 19 authors that I read for the first this year were:

Jessica Knoll	Isabella Maldonado	Kathleen McGurl	Lisa Taddeo
Lisa Jewell	Millie Bobby Brown	J.M. Dillard	Lee Goldberg
Avery Cunningham	Margot Douaihy	R.F. Kuang	Jessica Simpson
Jeffrey Lang	Dayton Ward	Holly Wilson	Karin Smirnoff
Walter Beede	Michael Connelly	Rob Harvilla

Karin Slaughter, Jeffery Deaver, Laura Lippman, Elin Hilderbrand, Jessica Knoll, Michael Connelly, Minka Kent, Lee Goldberg, Rebecca Forster, Stephen King, and Sarah Pekkanen were the authors that I read multiple titles from during 2024.

17 of the books I read were released this year, while only three of them were released last century, with the oldest first published in 1997.

Finally, the breakdown by month, which was fairly consistent across the entire year.

December – 6
November – 7
October – 6
September – 5
August – 6
July – 6
June – 4
May – 5
April – 3
March – 5
February – 4
January – 4