2024 Reading Wrap-Up

One of my goals in 2024 was to read more. I’d fallen completely out of reading during Covid due to all of the chaos – trying to work full-time remote while also training multiple people remotely to do my job (which changes in both scope and workflow nearly monthly), helping my son as a first-grader navigate remote school, dealing with elderly cats passing away, etc. My brain was so full of processing that I simply couldn’t focus on books.

And then 2021 happened.

And then 2022.

And then 2023.

And suddenly, I realized I could count the number of books I’d read in four years on one hand. The last time I could have done that? Not joking, I was probably three or four years old. And even then, I probably was reading quite a few because I was one of those crazy early readers who figured out what it was all about when I was two, according to my parents.

Reading has been a part of my life forever, and suddenly I was completely adrift. And I truly felt adrift without being able to escape into reading without serious effort. Absolutely disturbed, honestly.

My goal in 2024 was to just get back into a reading habit. I didn’t care how many books I read, what I read – I just wanted to read. And so I ventured back into my life-long love slowly, enjoyed my time between a mix of physical and audio books, and ended the year having finished 22 books and carrying over two.

Full List of Books Read in 2024

• The Once and Future Witches – Alix E. Harrow
• A Wicked Yarn (Craft Fair Knitters Mystery #1) – Emmie Caldwell
• Stitched in Crime (Craft Fair Knitters Mystery #2) – Emmie Caldwell
• Peace Talks (Dresden Files #16) – Jim Butcher
• Battle Ground (Dresden Files #17) – Jim Butcher
• Fourth Wing (Empyrean #1) – Rebecca Yarros
• Iron Flame (Empyrean #2) – Rebecca Yarros
• Threaded for Trouble (Threadville Mystery #2) – Janet Bolin
• A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR #1) – Sarah J. Maas
• The Lost Bookshop – Evie Woods
• Love, Lies and Hocus Pocus: Beginnings (Lily Singer Adventures #1) – Lydia Sherrer
• A Court of Mist and Fury (ACOTAR #2) – Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Wings and Ruin (ACOTAR #3) – Sarah J. Maas
• The Last Mafioso: The Treacherous World of Jimmy Frantianno – Ovid Demaris
• Last Pen Standing (Stationery Shop Mystery #1) – Vivian Conroy
• The Magic All Around – Jennifer Moorman
• They Fly Silent – Barb Lanell
• Unbreak Me (Magnolia Falls Ranch series) – C.A. Grieco
• The Cruel Prince (Folk of the Air #1) – Holly Black
• The Magnolia Inn (The Red Stiletto Book Club #1) – Anne-Marie Meyer
• A Court of Frost and Starlight (ACOTAR #3.5) – Sarah J. Maas

Books in Progress – Carryover to 2025

• The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War – Erik Larson
• Ghostly Paws (Mystic Notch Cozy Mystery #1) – Leighann Dobbs

My goals for 2025 are to read 35 books in any fashion (print/digital/audio).

I’ll track things here on my blog, but I’m also over on Storygraph and would love to connect with some other readers!