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My Favourite Reads of 2024

In 2024 I, perhaps unsurprisingly, continued to neglect my blog. I was ridiculously busy at work, but it's not an excuse. So here I am posting my favourite reads of 2024. The lists are actually a lot shorter than I thought they would be, and I admit that I should have DNF'd a lot  more books last year. That being said, I read a few gems. My only preemptive bit is that these numbered lists are in no particular order. Here we go! Fiction The Sleeping Car Porter, Suzette Mayr Clear, Carys Davies Falling Animals, Sheila Armstrong Landscapes, Christine Lai Rizzio, Denise Mina Feast, Emily O'Grady Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad By far one of the best books I read (and also reread) in 2024! Nonfiction Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe Semicolon, Cecelia Watson Seven Necessary Sins of Women and Girls, Mona Eltahawy The Science of Murder, Carla Valentine Code Dependent, Madhumita Murgia Ten Myths About Israel, Ilan Papp é The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Bettany Hughes My mo...

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