🎉 Happy (almost) 2025! 🎉
It’s time again for the annual end of year book survey where I reflect back on the books I’ve read throughout the year.
It was originally created by Jamie @ The Perpetual Page-Turner.
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2024 Reading Stats
Number Of Books You Read: 120 books
Number of Re-Reads: 8 books
Genre You Read The Most From: Nonfiction
Number of Pages You Read: 34,828 pages
Average Book Length: 290 pages
Average Book Rating: 3.7
Best in Books
Best book you read in 2024?
Babylonia by Costanza Casati
Lucy Undying: A Dracula Novel by Kiersten White
Mother of Rome by Lauren J.A. Bear
Book you were excited about & thought you were going to love more but didn’t?
Haunt Your Heart Out by Amber Roberts
Two Roman Revolutions by John D. Grainger
Most surprising (in a good way) book you read?
They Were Here Before Us by Ran Barkai & Eyal Halfon
After 117 B.C. by Eric H. Cline
Our Moon by Rebecca Boyle
Book you “pushed” the most people to read (and they did)?
Lucy Undying by Kiersten White
Bonded by Thorns by Elizabeth Helen
Mother of Rome by Lauren J.A. Bear
Best first book in a series you started in 2024. Best sequel of 2023. Best series ender of 2024.
My Fake Rake by Eva Leigh
Woven by Gold by Elizabeth Helen
Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
Favorite new author you discovered in 2024?
Elizabeth Helen, authors of Beasts of the Briar series
Best book from a genre you don’t typically read/was out of your comfort zone?
We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
Most action-packed/thrilling/unputdownable book of the year?
Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
Book you read in 2024 that you are most likely to re-read next year?
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
Favorite cover of a book you read in 2024?
Healer to the Broken King by Avie Adams
Babylonia by Costanza Casati
Lucy Undying by Kiersten White
Most memorable character of 2024?
Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray – Frances Perkins
My Fake Rake by Eva Leigh – Sebastian Holloway
Mother of Rome by Lauren J.A. Bear – Rhea Silvia
Most beautifully written book read in 2024?
Babylonia by Costanza Casati
They Were Here Before Us by Ran Barkai & Eyal Halfon
Book you can’t believe you waited UNTIL 2024 to finally read?
Forging Silver into Stars by Brigid Kemmerer
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline
Favorite quote from a book you read in 2024?
“Instead of a march of progress, the history of human information networks is a tightrope walk trying to balance truth with order. In the twenty-first century we aren’t much better at finding the right balance than our ancestors were in the Stone Age.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Shortest and longest books you read in 2024?
Shortest — 29 pages: Ankle Snatcher by Grady Hendrix
Longest — 984 pages: Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
Book that shocked you the most?
They Were Here Before Us by Ran Barkai & Eyal Halfon
Forging Silver into Stars by Brigid Kemmerer
OTP of the year (you will go down with this ship!)
Forging Silver into Stars by Brigid Kemmerer: Jax + Tycho
Ruby Tears by Pepper Winters: Ily + Henri
My Fake Rake by Eva Leigh: Grace + Sebastian
Favorite non-romantic relationship of the year?
Mother of Rome by Laren J.A. Bear: Rhea and Antho
Favorite book you read in 2024 from an author you’ve read previously?
The Professor by Skye Warren
Evocation by S.T.Gibson
Lucy Undying by Kiersten White
Best book you read in 2024 that you read based SOLELY on a recommendation from somebody else?
Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead: recommended by Tammy @ Books, Bones & Buffy
Newest fictional crush from a book you read in 2024?
Bonded by Thorns by Elizabeth Helen: Rosalina + Keldarion + Farron + Ezryn + Dayton + Caspian
Best 2024 debut you read?
The Kingdom of Flames by Audrey Everstar
Our Moon by Rebecca Boyle
Faith of Their Fathers by Samuel M. Sargeant
Best worldbuilding/most vivid setting you read this year?
Babylonia by Costanza Casati
Book that put a smile on your face/was the most FUN to read?
Mage Assassins & Other Misfits by Annette Marie & Rob Jacobsen
Knockout by Sarah MacLean
Book that made you cry or nearly cry in 2024?
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Hidden gem of the year?
Red Kingdom by Rachel L. Demeter
Healer to the Broken King by Avie Adams
A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience by Stephanie Burgis
Book that crushed your soul?
Mother of Rome by Lauren J.A. Bear
Faith of Their Father by Samuel M. Sargeant
Babylonia by Costanza Casati
Most unique book you read in 2024?
Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead
Lucy Undying by Kiersten White
Book that made you the maddest (doesn’t necessarily mean you didn’t like it)?
Ruby Tears by Pepper Winters
Mother of Rome by Lauren J.A. Bear
Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
Blogging/Bookish Life
New favorite book blog/bookstagram/youtube channel you discovered in 2024?
The Content Reader
Her Weathered Pages
Mom with a Reading Problem
Favorite post you wrote in 2024?
Nonfiction November 2024: Choosing Nonfiction
Favorite bookish related photo you took in 2024?
Posted here
Best bookish event that you participated in (author signings, festivals, virtual events, etc.)?
Best moment of bookish/blogging life in 2024?
Receiving Lucy Undying by Kiersten White as an advanced reading copy.
Most challenging thing about blogging or your reading life this year?
Time management was definitely the most challenging this year.
Most popular post this year on your blog (whether it be by comments or views)?
My review of Bride by Ali Hazelwood was one of my most popular posts by views.
Post you wished got a little more love?
As always, I don’t have one particular post in mind so any and all posts could always use more love.
Best bookish discovery (book related sites, book stores, etc.)?
Did you complete any reading challenges or goals that you had set for yourself at the beginning of this year?
I’ve completed my Goodreads Reading Challenge of reading 50 books, which is my go-to goal for every year.
Looking Ahead
One book you didn’t get to in 2023 but will be your number 1 priority in 2025?
By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult
Book you are most anticipating for 2024 (non-debut)?
Jews vs. Rome by Barry Strauss
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
2025 debut you are most anticipating?
Enemy of My Dreams by Jenny Williamson
Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid
Series ending/A sequel you are most anticipating in 2025?
Warrior by Simon Turney
Carving Shadows into Gold by Brigid Kemmerer
Sweet Obsession by Katee Robert
One thing you hope to accomplish or do in your reading/blogging life in 2024?
I’d love to go to a bookish event but there aren’t too many where I live that I’m interested in. You never know, though!
And that’s it again for the end of year book survey of 2023. See you all in 2025!
Congratulations on a great year of reading!
Thank you! 🙂
I love how Lucy Undying and Mother of Rome keep popping up in different categories😁 And yes, I still need to read Lucy Undying!
I can’t wait for the day you read Lucy Undying! 😉
120 books!! Wow, congrats! Not surprised that your most-read genre is nonfiction!
Last year my most read genre was fantasy but nonfiction beat it hard this year! 😀
Whoa, brilliant post and bookmarking it!
It’s always great to see some historicals on the best-of list. They were Here Before Us sounds ominous and fascinating! It reminds me somehow of the documentary on Netflix, Ancient Apocalypse – have you watched that?
Here’s to many more wonderful historicals in 2025! (and yes, more re-reads of Poe, love that imagination!) Happy New Year 🙂
Thank you, Lex! 😀
They were Here Before Us is just about humans in prehistory, no weird pseudo-archaeology things 😅 I didn’t watch Ancient Apocalypse as I’m not a big Graham Hancock fan. I don’t support his views.
Rereading Poe during spooky season is always a must!
Great job!! Looks like you had a really good reading year!
Thank you! 🙂
Love your list of favourite books and reading habits for 2024. I have only read Fourth Wing. I did like the dragon part of the book, but the love story was too expected. I am probably to old for these kind of books.
As you know I love the same kind of books as you, and I see a lot of interesting books of history, that would be interesting for me to read.
I almost picked up Mother of Rome recently but am in the middle of the Wolf Den trilogy and decided I might want to hold off on that one until I finish the third book. I am so glad to see it featured here though! I look forward to reading it. My daughter read The Tell-Tale Heart for school this past fall and really liked it. She’s planning to read more Poe in the near future. I can see why you chose the covers you did as your favorites. They really are gorgeous. I hope you have a Happy New Year!
The too much to do and not enough time is so true!!!
Literally!
I need to read Bonded by Thorns in 2025! And finally start my Throne of Glass reread 🙂 Also so looking forward to Sweet Obsession.
Good luck with the reread. It destroyed me. lol