zondag 5 januari 2025

My Favorite Books of 2024

 Hi everyone

 I read a total of 92 books in 2024. That's a lot! But not every book was worth recommending so I wanted to give you a complete list of all the books I rated 5 stars in 2024.
In case I read the book in the last few months, you will be able to click on the title to read the review.

So, here's the list in alphabetical order:

- Stephen Aryan: Magebane

- Nathan Filer: The Shock of the Fall

- Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens

- Eowyn Ivey: The Snow Child

- Stephen King: Pet Sematary

- Brian McClellan: Sins of Empire

- Brian McClellan: Wrath of Empire

- Brian McClellan: Blood of Empire

- Pascal Mercier: Night Train to Lisbon

- Sequoia Nagamatsu: How High We Go in the Dark

- Emma Newman: Before, After, Alone

- Emma Newman: Planetfall 

- Terry Pratchett: Feet of Clay

- Terry Pratchett: Jingo

- Dennis E. Taylor: A Change of Plans

I would love to see your list! So please, let me know in a comment on this post.

Happy reading!
Helena



vrijdag 3 januari 2025

Wrap Up: 2024

Hi everyone

Happy new year!

Just like I did before I took a long break from blogging, I wanted to write one single post with a complete list of all the books I read in the past year.

I read a total of 92 books in 2024, not counting the books I didn’t finish.

 

Series I started reading:

- Joe Abercrombie: The Age of Madness

- Travis Baldree: Legends & Lattes

- Peter Brown: The Wild Robot

- Jim Butcher: The Cinder Spires 

- Miles Cameron: Arcana Imperii

- Becky Chambers: Monk and Robot

- David Dalglish: Shadowdance

- David Gemmell: Drenai Saga

- Emma Newman: Planetfall

- Shelley Parker-Chan: The Radiant Emperor

- Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter: The Long Earth

- Dennis E. Taylor: Quantum Earth

 

Series I continued reading:

- Ben Aaronovitch: Rivers of London

- Terry Pratchett: Discworld

 

Series I finished reading:

- Stephen Aryan: Age of Dread

- Neil Gaiman: American Gods

- Cameron Johnston: Age of Tyranny 

- Ira Levin: Rosemary's Baby

- Ed Mcdonald: Raven's Mark


Series I started and finished reading:

- Joe Haldeman: The Forever War

- Brian McClellan: Gods of Blood and Power


Series I quit reading:

- Katherine Arden: The Winternight Trilogy

- R. J. Barker: The Tide Child

- Marie Brennan: Doppelganger

- Aliette de Bodard: Obsidian and Blood 

- Madeleine L'Engle: Time Quintet 

- N. K. Jemisin: Dreamblood

- Lois Lowry: The Giver

- Devin Madson: The Reborn Empire

- Richard K. Morgan: Takeshi Kovacs

- Thomas Olde Heuvelt: Robert Grim 

- Rebecca Roanhorse: Between Earth and Sky 

- Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan: The Black Iron Legacy

- Brian Staveley: Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne

- Martha Wells: The Books of the Raksura


Here are all the books I read with a link to the review (if I finished them since restarting the blog).

- Andy Weir: Project Hail Mary

- Brian McClellan: Sins of Empire

- Dan Harris: 10% Happier

- Neil Gaiman: Anansi Boys

- Terry Pratchett: Feet of Clay

- Ira Levin: The Stepford Wives

- Stephen King: On Writing

- Brian Staveley:The Emperor's Blades

- Richard Matheson: The Shrinking Man

- Pascal Mercier: Night Train to Lisbon

- Jim Butcher: Warriorborn 

- Jim Butcher: The Olympian Affair

- Dennis E. Taylor: A Change of Plans

- Brian McClellan: The Mad Lancers

- Emma Newman: Before, After, Alone

- Aliette de Bodard: Servant of the Underworld

- Thomas Olde Heuvelt: Hex

- Marie Brennan: Dancing the Warrior

- Marie Brennan: Warrior

- Hugh Howey: Beacon 23

- Rachel Joyce: The Music Shop

- Stephen Aryan: Magebane

- Eowyn Ivey: The Snow Child

- Philippa Perry: The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read

- Julian Barnes: The Lemon Table

- Cameron Johnston: God of Broken Things

- Joe Hill: 20th Century Ghosts

- James Clear: Atomic Habits

- Martha Wells: The Cloud Roads

- Matt Haig: The Comfort Book

- R. J. Barker: The Bone Ships

- Lois Lowry: The Giver

- Iain Reid: I'm Thinking of Ending Things

- Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time

- Miles Cameron: Artifact Space

- Chris Voss: Never Split the Difference

- Michel Faber: The Fahrenheit Twins and Other Stories

- Brian McClellan: Wrath of Empire

- William Goldman: The Princess Bride

- Rebecca Roanhorse: Black Sun

- Andy Griffiths: Waanzinnige Boomhutverhalen

- Ira Levin: Sliver

- Ed McDonald: Crowfall

- Terry Pratchett: Hogfather

- Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Time

- Joe Haldeman: Peace and War

- Nathan Filer: The Shockof the Fall

- Joe Abercrombie: A Little Hatred

- Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales

- Katherine Arden: The Bear and the Nightingale

- Tommy Orange: There There

- Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter: The Long Earth

- Pete Walker: Complete PTSD

- Travis Baldree: Legends & Lattes

- Matthew Harffy: Wolf of Wessex

- David Gemmell: Knight of Dark Renown

- Emma Newman: Planetfall

- Jonas Heyerick & Sep Vanmarcke: SEP!

- Ben Aaronovitch: Winter's Gifts

- David Dalglish: A Dance of Cloaks

- Dennis E. Taylor: Outland

- Samit Basu: The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport 

- Stephen King: Pet Sematary

- Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens

- Lucy Holland: Sistersong 

- N. K. Jemisin: The Killing Moon 

- Richard K. Morgan: Altered Carbon 

- Sequoia Nagamatsu's How High We Go in the Dark

- Shelby Van Pelt: Remarkably Bright Creatures

- Gretchen Rubin: Better Than Before

- Alice Hoffman: The Museum of Extraordinary Things

- Travis Baldree: Bookshops & Bonedust

- Devin Madson: We Ride the Storm

- Christian White: The Wife and the Widow

- Shelley Parker-Chan: She Who Became the Sun

- Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter: The Long War

- Ira Levin: Son of Rosemary

- Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow

- Brian McClellan: Blood of Empire

- Muriel Barbery: A Single Rose

- Emma Newman: After Atlas

- Peter Brown: The Wild Robot

- Lucy Jones: Matrescence 

- Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan: The Gutter Prayer

- Mike Bockhoven: Fantasticland 

- Marie Brennan: Driftwood 

- Becky Chambers: A Psalm for the Wild-Built

- Terry Pratchett: Jingo 

 

Quite a few of these books aren't included in the pictures because I don't own them anymore or I read them on my e-reader. Still, I love these pictures.

How was your year reading-wise? Anything you'd like to recommend me?

I wish you all a very happy and relaxing reading-year.

Happy reading
Helena