20240 Pages

For the past four years (2020) and (2021) and (2022) and (2023), I set reading goals tied to the year — 20200 pages, 20210 pages, 20220 pages, and 20230 pages. As of December 30th (which is the date GoodReads last updated my reading stats), I hit 19,676 pages with 56 books, but I’m not sure it counted my final book of the year (Over My Dead Body). Um… it’s close to a win?

I still wish GoodReads would give you a running page count throughout the year.

To stay on-brand, I set 20250 as a goal for 2025.

My favourite things I’ve read this year:

• All the Queen’s Men and Murder Most Royal (SJ Bennett)
• Spaceman of Bohemia (Jaroslav Kalfar)
• Green Dot (Madeleine Gray)
• First Lie Wins (Ashley Elston)
• I Promise It Won’t Always Hurt Like This (Clare Mackintosh)
• Malice (Keigo Higashino)
• Moderate Becoming Good Later (Katie Carr)
• How To Solve Your Own Murder (Kristen Perrin)
• The Husbands (Holly Gramazio)
• Wives Like Us (Plum Sykes)
• Lies and Weddings (Kevin Kwan)
• Very Bad Company (Emma Rosenblum)
• The Twist of a Knife (Anthony Horowitz)
• Long Island Compromise (Taffy Brodesser-Akner)
• The Wedding People (Alison Espach)
• The In Crowd (Charlotte Vassell)
• The Examiner (Janice Hallett)
• Pony Confidential (Christina Lynch)
• We Solve Murders (Richard Osman)
• You Are Here (David Nicholls)
• You’d Look Better as a Ghost (Joanna Wallace)
• The City and Its Uncertain Walls (Haruki Murakami)
• Over My Dead Body (Maz Evans)

What is on your list of favourite reads this year? (Feel free to list movies or television shows if books are not your thing.)