Books of 2024 - A Review



It's Book Me Books Wrapped

Hello! It's another year and my first review of books that I've read this year. I'm going to keep this article quite simple and just list out the books I read without any crazy statistics; then I'm going to set out my Bookish Goals of 2025. Buckle up for an exhilarating read. 

Classics/ Modern Classics

'The Picture of Dorian Gray' - Oscar Wilde                            
 'The Importance of Being Earnest' - Oscar Wilde                   
'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' - Anne Brontë                  
'Wuthering Heights' - Emily Brontë                                          
'Pride and Prejudice' - Jane Austen                                      
'Othello' - William Shakespeare                                  
'Frankenstein' - Mary Shelley                                            
'Giovanni's Room' - James Baldwin                                              
'The Great Gatsby' - F. Scott Fitzgerald                                      
'A Streetcar Named Desire' - Tennessee Williams               
'Goodbye to Berlin' - Christopher Isherwood                          
'The God of Small Things' - Arundhati Roy                                
'A Thousand Splendid Suns' - Khaled Hosseini                             
'The Handmaid's Tale' - Margaret Atwood


Non - Fiction
                                       
'The Art Of Fiction' - David Lodge
'Kay's Incredible Inventions' - Adam Kay
'Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas' - Adam Kay
'Wings of Fire' - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam



The Rest of It
 'An Abundance of Katherines' - John Green
'Friends Like These' - Meg Rosoff
'Murder on a School Night' - Kate Weston
'The Boy You Always Wanted' - Michelle Quach
'Well That Was Unexpected' - Jesse Q. Sutanto
'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo' - Taylor Jenkins Reid
'Only This Beautiful Moment' - Abdi Nazemian
'If He Had Been With Me' - Laura Nowlin
'Five Survive' - Holly Jackson
'A Good Girl's Guide To Murder' - Holly Jackson
'Spud' - John Van der Ruit 
'Lessons In Chemistry' - Bonnie Garmus
'The Covenant of Water' - Abraham Varghese
'The Song of Achilles' - Madeline Miller
'Ophelia After All' - Racquel Marie
'It's Kind of a Funny Story' - Ned Vizzini
'I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me' - Jamison Shea
'Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow' - Gabrielle Zevin
'Yellowface' - R.F.  Kuang
'How To Kill Your Family' - Bella Mackie
'Dollar Bahu' - Sudha Murty 

Total - 40 Books 

2025 Bookish Goals and Aspirations

1.  Use GoodReads - the statistics in this article will be a bit off as I count the books I've read from the beginning of the academic year (since September 2023 to December 2024), so realistically I probably read 35 books in this year alone. In 2025 I promise to diligently use GoodReads to more accurately track my reading.
2. Read outside my comfort zone - I definitely want to try more genres next year, maybe some sci-fi and fantasy. I also want to read more classics (I'm working on building my Penguin Classics collection) and more poetry as, although I've dipped my toes into plays, I've neglected poetry this year. Not good. Requires Improvement.
3. Read 50 books - That might be a bit ambitious considering I have school and exams and that stuff but I think I can do it. I think. Do you?

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