2024 Reading Round-Up (With Bonus 2023 Round-Up!)

I wanted to do my informal yearly round-up of what books I read this year, and realized that I never did one for last year! So here’s a double header, 2023 and 2024. This year, I’m not including movies—I’ll hopefully put that together sometime soon. I watched an unusually large number of movies this year (I think…we’ll see if the numbers agree).

2023 Books

It’s interesting how relatively many books I read in the first three months of 2023, and how relatively few I read the rest of the year. I can attribute the stoppage at the end of March to a particular reason, but I wonder why I stopped for so long and so completely. I guess I was busy with moving and decluttering the second half of that year…maybe I was just unusually brain-busy. A lot was happening at work at the time as well. I read almost nothing for a whole calendar year—weird to think about in retrospect.

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2024 Books

I didn’t read a huge amount this year either, but it was a more normal year as far as that goes. This is also when I began my Sovereign State Novel Challenge, so I tried to read a bit more internationally.

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