{"id":22075,"date":"2024-12-31T04:17:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T10:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=22075"},"modified":"2024-12-29T12:03:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T18:03:29","slug":"2024-the-year-in-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/2024-the-year-in-books\/","title":{"rendered":"2024: The Year In Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>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<\/a>.\u00a0 I completed the challenge in mid-November and surpassed last year\u2019s total in mid-December.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 None of the books came out of my dwindling \u201cto-read\u201d drawer, with two hard covers, two paperbacks, 53 e-books and no audiobooks.\u00a0 I continued to take advantage of my library card, which helped me procure 46 of the books I consumed throughout the year.<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Jessica Knoll<\/td>\nIsabella Maldonado<\/td>\nKathleen McGurl<\/td>\nLisa Taddeo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lisa Jewell<\/td>\nMillie Bobby Brown<\/td>\nJ.M. Dillard<\/td>\nLee Goldberg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Avery Cunningham<\/td>\nMargot Douaihy<\/td>\nR.F. Kuang<\/td>\nJessica Simpson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jeffrey Lang<\/td>\nDayton Ward<\/td>\nHolly Wilson<\/td>\nKarin Smirnoff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Walter Beede<\/td>\nMichael Connelly<\/td>\nRob Harvilla<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Finally, the breakdown by month, which was fairly consistent across the entire year.<\/span><\/p>\n

December \u2013 6
\nNovember \u2013 7
\nOctober \u2013 6
\nSeptember \u2013 5
\nAugust \u2013 6
\nJuly \u2013 6
\nJune \u2013 4
\nMay \u2013 5
\nApril \u2013 3
\nMarch \u2013 5
\nFebruary \u2013 4
\nJanuary \u2013 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 I completed the challenge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[11581,11176,10260,11596,11658,11640,1578,11401,11000,3014,8099,11419,11564,8023,11588,11143,10965,11511,11634,7599,9532,10974,3394,11205,8919,718,11521],"class_list":["post-22075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-avery-cunningham","tag-dayton-ward","tag-elin-hilderbrand","tag-holly-wilson","tag-isabella-maldonado","tag-j-m-dillard","tag-jeffery-deaver","tag-jeffrey-lang","tag-jessica-knoll","tag-jessica-simpson","tag-karin-slaughter","tag-karin-smirnoff","tag-kathleen-mcgurl","tag-laura-lippman","tag-lee-goldberg","tag-lisa-jewell","tag-lisa-taddeo","tag-margot-douaihy","tag-michael-connelly","tag-millie-bobby-brown","tag-minka-kent","tag-r-f-kuang","tag-rebecca-forster","tag-rob-harvilla","tag-sarah-pekkanen","tag-stephen-king","tag-walter-beede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22075"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22327,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075\/revisions\/22327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}