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Books I read in 2024. I found my new favourite

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I think 59 is a decent number; no speed-reading here, just enjoyment. Here's my list of 59 books I read in 2024. How many do we have in common? ;)

  1. A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara 😭
  2. Pachinko, Min Jin Lee 😍
  3. Yellowface, R F Kuang 
  4. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev 
  5. Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
  6. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 😍
  7. Post Office, Charles Bukowski 
  8. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak 😍
  9. Kafka On The Shore, Haruki Murakami🙂
  10. Middlemarch, George Elliot 
  11. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 😍
  12. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones🙂
  13. A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
  14. The Catcher in the Rye, J D Salinger🙂
  15. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie 
  16. Later, Stephen King 
  17. Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky 
  18. All Systems Red, Martha Wells 
  19. The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy 
  20. The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut 
  21. Piranesi, Susanna Clarke🙂
  22. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
  23. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf 
  24. Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver 
  25. Sula, Toni Morrison
  26. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
  27. Ulysses, James Joyce
  28. Normal People, Sally Rooney
  29. Anne of Green Gables, L M Montgomery 😍
  30. The Strange Library, Haruki Murakami 
  31. Beloved, Toni Morrison 
  32. The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger 
  33. Men Without Women, Haruki Murakami 
  34. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
  35. Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
  36. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie 😍
  37. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov🙄
  38. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie
  39. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro😍
  40. Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
  41. Maame, Jessica George
  42. First Person Singular, Haruki Murakami
  43. The Trial, Franz Kafka 😐
  44. Anne of Avonlea, L M Montgomery
  45. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams
  46. Life, the Universe and Everything, Douglas Adams
  47. Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke 😍😍😍😊 [there's something about these letters that I love.]
  48. Mogens, and Other Stories, J P Jacobsen
  49. Niels Lyhne, J P Jacobsen
  50. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
  51. Upstream, Mary Oliver🙂
  52. Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
  53. Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer
  54. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
  55. The Vegetarian, Han Kang
  56. Anne of the Island, L M Montgomery
  57. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath 😐
  58. Orbital, Samantha Harvey
  59. Anne of Windy Poplars, L M Montgomery 😍
This year, I've decided to read more books by Nobel Laureates in Literature. How about you, fellow readers? What have you on your TBR list?

Happy Reading!;D
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