2024 Book Meme
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tjs_whatnotFirstly, as this is acting as my Year in Review, here have some links to all the book reviews I half-attempted this year:
January
February
March
April
May
June
July and August
September
October
November and December
Now, onto A Year in Review, of sorts (I'm horrible and I can't remember who I snagged this list from. 😭😭 If it was you, thank you, and I'm sorry.):
The first book read in 2024?
How to be a Normal Person by TJ Klune
January
February
March
April
May
June
July and August
September
October
November and December
Now, onto A Year in Review, of sorts (I'm horrible and I can't remember who I snagged this list from. 😭😭 If it was you, thank you, and I'm sorry.):
The first book read in 2024?
How to be a Normal Person by TJ Klune
The last book you finished in 2024:
The Geek Who Saved Christmas by Annabeth Albert
The Geek Who Saved Christmas by Annabeth Albert
The first book you finished in 2025:
Into this River I Drown by TJ Klune
How many books read in 2024?
103
Fiction/Non-Fiction ratio?
96% Fiction
4% nonfiction
Male/Female authors?
Too hard to tabulate. I will say, most were male, and even more were queer.
Most books read by one author this year?
12 by TJ Klune
8 by Alexis Hall
Favorite book read?
Too many! But because the rest of this list is going to be swarming with TJ Klune, I'm going to break the 8 way tie and say:
We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian
Best books you read in 2024?
Oh, here, let me list the other 7 books I instantly thought of as favorites:
How to be a Normal Person
How to be a Movie Star
Wolfsong
Ravensong
Heartsong
Brothersong
You Should Be So Lucky
Least favorite?
Infinity Son by Adam Silvera 😭😭
Most disappointing book/Book you wished you loved more than you did?
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston (Though I have a hard time articulating why, and overall, I enjoyed it)
Best series you discovered in 2024?
Green Creek
Favorite new author you discovered this year?
TJ Klune
Cat Sebastian
Oldest book read?
Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon (2007)
Newest?
A handful of ARCs.
Longest book title?
Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Shortest title?
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
How many re-reads?
A lot. Some immediately after finishing.
How many of this year's books were from the library?
Almost all of them. I love the library!
Favorite character:
Probably Oxnard Matheson (though I loved all the characters in the Green Creek series he was my first love).
Most memorable character:
Gustavo Tiberius from How to Be a Normal Person by TJ Klune
Favorite scene:
There are a lot of scenes from my favorites this year that replay in my head over and over, but the one that comes to mind right now is the scene in Wolfsong where Joe goes to Ox's mother to ask her permission to court her son. It is hysterical and also ridiculously touching.
Favorite quote:
And because that scene is fresh on my mind:
“You don’t get to decide what you’re worth because you obviously don’t know. You don’t get to decide that anymore because you have no fucking idea that you’re worth everything…
And if you don’t choose me, then that’s your choice and I will walk out of here knowing you got to choose your own path. But I swear to god, if you choose me, I will make sure that you know the weight of your worth every day for the rest of our lives because that’s what this is.”
Most inspirational in terms of own writing?
Probably Green Creek. It's just…he does things in this book that I've always tried to do in my own writing (the Power of 3s being the big one) and then also does things that I'd never even dreamed were possible (the thing he did with speech tags? How he makes them like poetry? sigh) I'm enjoying trying to emulate that in my own writing (especiallyGC fic).
How many you'd actually read again?
Any book I gave 5 stars.
A book that you never want to read again:
Any book I gave 3 stars.
Book you recommended most to others in 2024?
Probably Green Creek (I've discovered the best way to re-live discovering them myself, is witnessing others lose their minds while reading). But there are some queer spaces that don't like Klune, so I also spent a lot of time talking about Cat Sebastian ‘s books. ❤️
The book series you read the most volumes of in 2024:
Green Creek
The genre you read the most in 2024:
Queer Romance
Most surprising (in a good way) book of the year?
Probably Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle. Even though I've been aware (and an admirer) of him as a persona and enigma for years, this was the first book of his I ever read (and honestly, it was the cast of narrators involved that finally flipped the scale). But I wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did. I wasn't expecting it to be as powerful and emotional as it was. ❤️
The hardest book you read in 2024 (topic or writing style):
Godly Heathens by H.E. Edgemon. It was hard to get into, hard to make sense out of, and hard for me to relate to almost any of the characters (that I also had a hard time keeping track of).
The funniest book you read in 2024:
So many! The funniest though? Probably The Lightning-Struck Heart by TJ Klune
The saddest book you read in 2024:
Again, so many. I read a lot of books about grief and loss and how to rebuild yourself around the rubble. It was oddly cathartic because of the loss I, myself, experienced and wasn't (still am not) willing to acknowledge. To name a few:
The Guncle by Steven Rowley
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The First One to Die at the End by Adam Silvera
More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian
The shortest book you read in 2024:
Bloom by NR Walker (206 pages)
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead (213 pages)
The longest book that you read in 2024:
Read: Ravensong (576 pages)
Listened: Brothersong (20 hours)
Best book that was outside your comfort zone/a new genre for you?
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle (I don't read horror)
Most thrilling, unputdownable book of 2024?
Probably also Bury Your Gays
Most beautifully written book in 2024?
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Book you most anticipated in 2024?
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
Favorite cover of a book you read in 2024?
The Last Binding Series by Freya Marske
Book you can't believe you waited till 2024 to finally read?
Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Saenz (I didn't even know there WAS a sequel!)
Book that had a scene that left you reeling and dying to talk to someone about it?
Heartsong by TJ Klune
Looking Ahead:
One book you didn't read this year that will be your #1 priority in 2025?
I started two KJ Charles series that I want to read more of in 2025.
New book you are most anticipating for 2025?
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Date: 2025-01-30 12:48 pm (UTC)For his other stuff, I've read Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and that was funny and on point.