Tuesday, December 31, 2024

2024 Reading Wrap Up

Here’s my 2024 Reading Wrap Up. This year I managed to read 117 books and exceeded my goal of 60 books. This is my first year to ever read over a hundred books. 

The House of Hidden Meanings” by RuPaul was the overall winner and the non-fiction winner with “Greenlights” by Matthew McConaughey coming in second. On the fiction side I had “The Guncle Abroad” by Steven Rowley as the winner with “A Nearly Normal Family” by M.T. Edvardsson coming in second.





2024 Books Read:

Non-Fiction - Memoirs:
Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey
How Ya'll Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived - Leslie Jordan * 
From Here to the Great Unknown - Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough
Karma - Boy George
Sociopath - Patric Gagne
The House of Hidden Meanings - RuPaul
The Woman In Me - Britney Spears
Where Was God? - Jennifer Dawn Turpin

Non-Fiction - Audiobooks: 
GuRu - RuPaul *

Non-Fiction - Personal Growth:
Emotional Intelligence: Managing Your Anxiety - Harvard Business Review
Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay - Cyndie Spiegel

Non-Fiction - True Crime: 
If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer - O.J. Simpson
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit - John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker
Newtown: An American Tragedy- Matthew Lysiak
Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders - John Glatt

Non-Fiction - History: 
A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust - Rachelle Unreich
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters - Andrew Morton
Great LGBTQ+ Speeches - Tea Uglow
The Art of Drag - Jake Hall
The Blood of Emmett Till - Timothy B. Tyson
The Red Bandanna: A Life. A Choice. A Legacy. - Tom Rinaldi
The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler - William L. Shirer

Non-Fiction: 
Ain't Burned All the Bright - Jason Reynolds
All in Good Taste - Kate Spade
Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones - Dolly Parton
Beyond the Gender Binary - Alok Vaid-Menon
Eat Drink Nap: Bringing the House Home - Soho House
Gray Malin: Coastal - Gray Malin
Lucille Bell Treasures - Cindy De La Hoz
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
Name Drop - Ross Mathews
Taylor Swift is Life - Kathleen Perricone
The Life of Christine Jorgensen - Jennifer Hopkins
The Official Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour Book - Taylor Swift
The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary - Chloe O. Davis
The Queens' English: The Young Readers' LGBTQIA+ Dictionary - Chloe O. Davis
The World According to Mister Rogers - Fred Rogers

Fiction: 
A Nearly Normal Family - M.T. Edvardsson
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
All the Missing Girls - Megan Miranda
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
August: Osage County - Tracy Letts
Barbie: The Screenplay - Greta Gerwig
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
for colored girls who have considered suicide - Ntozake Shange
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
In the Lives of Puppets - TJ Kline
Lily and the Octopus - Steven Rowley
Pretty Girls - Karin Slaughter
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
The Woman in the Window - A.J. Finn

Fiction - Series: 
Kill Joy (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #0.5) - Holly Jackson
Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle & Dante, #1) - Benjamin Alire Saenz
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, #1) - John Boyne *
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1) - Roald Dahl
Fantastic Beasts and Where to find Them (Fantastic Beasts, #1) - J.K. Rowling
Fantastic Beasts The Crimes of Grindelwald (Fantastic Beasts, #2) - J.K. Rowling
Fantastic Beasts The Secrets of Dumbledore (Fantastic Beasts, #3) - J.K. Rowling
The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) - Steven Rowley
Heartstopper: Volume 5 - Alice Oseman
The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1) - Freida McFadden
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1) - Colleen Hoover
It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2) - Colleen Hoover
Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #3) - Ransom Riggs
The Last Mrs. Parrish (Mrs. Parrish, #1) - Liv Constantine
Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 3 - L. Frank Baum
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (Oz, #7) - L. Frank Baum
Tik-Tok of Oz (Oz, #8) - L. Frank Baum
The Scarecrow of Oz (Oz, #9) - L. Frank Baum
Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0) - Angie Thomas
The One and Only Family (The One and Only Ivan, #4) - Katherine Applegate
Fairest of All (Villains, #1) - Serena Valentino
The Beast Within (Villains, #2) - Serena Valentino
Poor Unfortunate Soul (Villains, #3) - Serena Valentino

Poetry: 
the princess saves herself in this one - Amanda Lovelace

Short Stories - Fiction:
Cut & Thirst - Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter Spells - Prince Vincent
Lovers at the Museum - Isabel Allende
Mermaid - Jodi Picoult
Natural Selection - Elon Hilderbrand
The Absent-Minded Gentleman - Frank Heller
The Answer is No - Fredrik Backman
The Deal of a Lifetime - Fredrik Backman
The Raven - Edgar Allen Poe
When We Were Friends - Jane Green

Short Stories - Non Fiction:
Enemy of the People: The Untold Story of the Journalists Who Opposed Hitler - Terrence Petty
The Texas Tower Sniper: The Terrifying True Story of Charles Whitman - Ryan Green
Two Women Walk Into a Bar - Cheryl Strayed
We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngoni Adichie

Short Stories - Series: 
Amelia's Shadow (Blaze Collection, #1) - Marie Benedict
The June Paintings (Blaze Collection, #2) - Maggie Shipstead
The Forgotten Chapter (Blaze Collection, #3) - Pam Jenoff
Fires to Come (Blaze Collection, #4) - Asha Lemmie
Tune in Tomorrow (Blaze Collection, #5) - Melanie Benjamin
Fallen Grace (Blaze Collection, #6) - Sadeqa Johnson
Barriers to Entry (Blaze Collection, #7) - Ariel Lawhon 
The Summer We Believed (Denim Days, #1) - Shel Delisle
The Best Girls (Disorder Collection, #1) - Min Jin Lee
Loam (Disorder Collection, #2) - Scott Heim
Ungirls (Disorder Collection, #3) - Lauren Beaks
Anonymous (Disorder Collection, #4) - Uzodinma Iweala 
The Beckoning Fair One (Disorder Collection, #5) - Dan Chaon
Will Williams (Disorder Collection, #6) - Namwali Serpell
Candace (The Fairer Sex Collection, #1) - Michelle Miller
Meredith (The Fairer Sex Collection, #2) - Michelle Miller
Alicia (The Fairer Sex Collection, #3) - Michelle Miller
Heidi (The Fairer Sex Collection, #4) - Michelle Miller
Clara (The Fairer Sex Collection, #5) - Michelle Miller
Lauren (The Fairer Sex Collection, #6) - Michelle Miller
Eleanor (The Fairer Sex Collection, #7) - Michelle Miller
Keridee (The Fairer Sex Collection, #8) - Michelle Miller
The Vanishing Man (The Spy Who Vanished, #1) - Alma Katsu
On Enemy Ground (The Spy Who Vanished, #2) - Alma Katsu
Shaken, Not Stirred (The Spy Who Vanished, #3) - Alma Katsu

Children's Books:
Disney: Winnie the Pooh (Tiny Book) - Brooke Vitale
The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be - Joanna Gaines *

* Books that have been read 2 times
† Books that have been read 3 times

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