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.
