End-of-Year Reading Meme: 2024

[quillpunk]

Simply copy-paste the template from textarea at the bottom of this post (that's the little box where the text moves inside), and answer what you want in a comment on this post!

Feel free to add/remove things as you feel like; you don't need to stick super strictly to the questions :D

In 2024:

I Read: how many books in 2024?
My Reading Goal: did you have a goal, and how do you feel about it?
I Challenged Myself: did you do any reading challenges? how did you do? did you like it?
A New Genre I Attempted: did you try a new genre, and if so, how did you feel about it?
An Author New-to-me in 2024 I Really Enjoyed:
My Favorite Book of the Year:
Books I Read in 2024 That I Recommend:

In 2025:

My Reading Goal: do you have a goal, and how do you feel about it?
I'm Going to Challenge Myself: do you plan on doing any reading challenges?
My TBR List: do you have one for 2025? how long is it? any plans?
Books I'm Especially Interested in Reading in 2025:
A Book Coming Out in 2025 That I'm Excited About:
Other Book-Related News for 2025 I'm Interested In:

<h3>In 2024:</h3> <b>I Read:</b> how many books in 2024? <b>My Reading Goal:</b> did you have a goal, and how do you feel about it? <b>I Challenged Myself:</b> did you do any reading challenges? how did you do? did you like it? <b>A New Genre I Attempted:</b> did you try a new genre, and if so, how did you feel about it? <b>An Author New-to-me in 2024 I Really Enjoyed:</b> <b>My Favorite Book of the Year:</b> <b>Books I Read in 2024 That I Recommend:</b> <h3>In 2025:</h3> <b>My Reading Goal:</b> do you have a goal, and how do you feel about it? <b>I'm Going to Challenge Myself:</b> do you plan on doing any reading challenges? <b>My TBR List:</b> do you have one for 2025? how long is it? any plans? <b>Books I'm Especially Interested in Reading in 2025:</b> <b>A Book Coming Out in 2025 That I'm Excited About:</b> <b>Other Book-Related News for 2025 I'm Interested In:</b>

Comments

[milo_r]

In 2024:

I Read: I was very bad at counting this past year, but it's gotta be about a dozen of things I read willingly + another dozen read for work/study reasons, which I tend not to consider towards my "reading goal."
My Reading Goal: 2024 was the year I switched between three different logging methods, from digital to analog and across various bookwyrm instances, so I didn't have a goal per se. I was very much below my average of past years however, so not too satisfied with that ):
I Challenged Myself: I tried to read more novels written (not translated) in my native language
A New Genre I Attempted: Not exactly "new," but I started reading graphic novels/memoirs again
An Author New-to-me in 2024 I Really Enjoyed: Luciano Bianciardi! Both incredibly funny and soul-crushing.
My Favorite Book of the Year: I always have trouble picking out favourite books, but it has to be either The Left Hand of Darkness or Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.
Books I Read in 2024 That I Recommend: As above, plus most of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles (the first three, for sure) and It's a Hard Life by Bianciardi.

In 2025:

My Reading Goal: I'm aiming for a book a week, which will be more or less feasible depending on how much I'll have to work this year.
I'm Going to Challenge Myself: I don't really do structured challenges, except that I'm always sort of trying to tick off books from the Gilmore Girls reading list, but let's say that that's more of a multi-year type of project.
My TBR List: I have a partial log of what I want to read on what has now turned into a 800+ line Excel spreadsheet...
Books I'm Especially Interested in Reading in 2025: Definitely more Le Guin, which is the most embarrassing gap I have in my knowledge of SFF. I also slept on The Book of Love by Kelly Link, which I shouldn't have.
A Book Coming Out in 2025 That I'm Excited About: Alecto the Ninth, should it get a 2025 release date. Besides that, I'm not reading many sagas, and I usually don't keep up to date with specific authors as to know with a ton of advance when they're coming out with a new book. I'm also just very slow at catching up with what I set my eyes on. Maybe the new Torrey Peters, but I won't rush to the shop to get it.
Other Book-Related News for 2025 I'm Interested In: The Raven Cycle graphic novel adaptation is coming out this year, which doesn't really register as a new release for me, but it's something I might even pre-order, even if only out of nostalgia and not genuine enthusiasm. Like, I'm sure it'll be great, they picked a beloved fanartist for it (best case scenario), and I'm sure I'll have an amazing time reading it, but I'm definitely not waiting for it with the same energy as I did with any Stiefvater-related property five years ago.

[olivermoss]

I really need to read some fiction by Le Guin this year, I've only read non-fiction by her so far. I've been to a talk by her and a local project is being named for her. This is a stupidly big gap for me.

[milo_r]

Seconded, my girlfriend looked at me like I was crazy when I told her, then lent me The Dipossessed, which I'll tackle soon, I think. I really enjoyed LHoD and it's not a long book by any means, so I'd recommend it as a starting point.

[peaceful_sands]

Ooooh, I read 'The Left Hand of Darkness' last year - it wasn't my favourite by her, but still glad to have read it. I have Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow on the TBR pile so I'm looking forward to that.

Wishing you a great year of reading adventures.

[milo_r]

From what I've been told about The Dispossessed I think I'll like that one more, but LHoD was still a solid read for me. I loved the protagonists of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, that was the main appeal for me (I've read that other readers who were mainly into it for the plot about game dev were somewhat disappointed).

Wishing you a good year as well!

[silversea]

Honestly I have a similar gap with Le Guin, so you're not the only one. I already have some books by her, I just need to actually start reading them.

Ooh, I did not hear about The Raven Cycle graphic novel adaptation. And the art looks so pretty!

[milo_r]

Yes, I've only seen it mentioned a couple of times on Stief's blog, but I'm also not very into what's left of the online TRC fandom so I don't know how much it's actually getting talked about online/elsewhere. Really looking forward to that but it's coming out in the summer!