Wednesday, January 1, 2025

My Year in Books

My Year in Books
65,757
pages read
Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance
315
books read
Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance
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The Christmas Story by Robert Sabuda
Shortest Book
12
pages
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Longest Book
817
pages
Average book length in 2024
208
pages
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Most Shelved
4,044,871
people also shelved
One Woman’s Men by Sharon Goodwin
Least Shelved
0
people also shelved
My average rating for 2024
4.1
Madame Bovary by Gustave "Flaubert "
Highest Rated on Goodreads
it was amazing
5.00 average
Things to Look Forward To by Sophie Blackall

My first review of the year

it was amazing
During the pandemic, children's author/illustrator Sophie Blackall started a list of 52 things to look forward to, with illustrations. This is that list. It's aimed at grownups.

So much to love about this little book. ...more
MY 2024 BOOKS
Things to Look Forward To by Sophie Blackall
it was amazing
The Photo Ark by Joel Sartore
Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis
What If Jesus Was Serious? by Skye Jethani
Wild Houston by Suzanne Simpson
All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley
Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend
Above Ground by Clint Smith
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta
it was amazing
Baking Yesteryear by B. Dylan Hollis
The Book of (More) Delights by Ross Gay
How to Know a Person by David Brooks
Live Your Best Life by Stuart Farrimond
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse by Kaveh Akbar
A Winter in New York by Josie Silver
Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
101 Ways To Read A Book by Timothée de Fombelle
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
it was amazing
The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Half Magic by Edward Eager
A Butterfly Is Patient by Dianna Hutts Aston
The Urban Sketching Handbook Sketch Now, Think Later by Mike Yoshiaki Daikubara
The Night Lives On by Walter Lord
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
it was amazing
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
America the Beautiful? by Blythe Roberson
The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill
Hollowpox by Jessica Townsend
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
Prairie Up by Benjamin Vogt
The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
The Fourth Quarter of Your Life by Matthew Kelly
The Hue and Cry at Our House by Benjamin Taylor
The Underworld by Susan Casey
it was amazing
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Magic by the Lake by Edward Eager
Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist by Donald Kroodsma
Conrad by Christine Nöstlinger
Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler by Gene Kemp
Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum
it was amazing
Adventures of the Wishing Chair by Enid Blyton
The Talk by Alicia D. Williams
Freedom's School by Lesa Cline-Ransome
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton
The Me I Choose To Be by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
it was amazing
Giant Steps to Change the World by Spike Lee
That Is My Dream! by Langston Hughes
My People (Coretta Scott King Award - Illustrator Winner Title by Langston Hughes
Once Upon an Alphabet by Oliver Jeffers
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
Relish by Lucy Knisley
This Is Your Time by Ruby Bridges
He's Got the Whole World in His Hands by Kadir Nelson
it was amazing
Stacey’s Extraordinary Words by Stacey Abrams
I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
Goin' Someplace Special by Patricia C. McKissack
The ABCs of Black History by Rio Cortez
Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper
Preaching to the Chickens by Jabari Asim
it was amazing
I Am Enough by Grace Byers
Little Legends by Vashti Harrison
Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy
Unspeakable by Carole Boston Weatherford
Lillian's Right to Vote by Jonah Winter
Standing in the Need of Prayer by Carole Boston Weatherford
Little Leaders by Vashti Harrison
PROOF by Janany Harrichandiran
Write for Your Life by Anna Quindlen
Begin Again by Oliver Jeffers
it was amazing
Counting Descent by Clint Smith
One of a Kind by Richard Michelson
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Inspired by Matt Richtel
The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
The Real Wizard of Oz by Rebecca Loncraine
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum
How to Get Ideas by Jack Foster
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Mindfulness is better than chocolate by David Michie
Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir
Getting Unstuck by Pema Chödrön
Every Day Is a Gift by Tammy Duckworth
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
it was amazing
Of Time and Turtles by Sy Montgomery
The Dog of the North by Elizabeth Mckenzie
 
Cheerfulness by Garrison Keillor
The Dog of the North by Elizabeth Mckenzie
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
it was amazing
Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine? by Mark Todd
Wellness by Nathan Hill
How to Hug a Porcupine by June Eding
Frank Herbert's Dune by Brian Herbert
Ferris by Kate DiCamillo
1000 Words by Jami Attenberg
A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
Sapiens by David Vandermeulen
it was amazing
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
A Swiftly Tilting Planet (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet) by L'Eng... by Madeleine L'Engle
On Getting Better by Adam Phillips
Three Simple Lines by Natalie Goldberg
The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum
Mean Margaret by Tor Seidler
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
On Love and Barley by Matsuo Bashō
The Trouble With Poetry - And Other Poems by Billy Collins
Kingbird Highway by Kenn Kaufman
What It's Like to Be a Bird (Adapted for Young Readers) by David Allen Sibley
A to Zen by Ruth Wells
The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
it was amazing
City on Fire by Bill Minutaglio
God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam
The Time Garden by Edward Eager
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
it was amazing
Heaven on Earth by Wendy Cope
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
The Best of Brevity by Zoë Bossiere
From Where You Dream by Robert Olen Butler
Somehow by Anne Lamott
Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians by James Patterson
Just Because by Matthew McConaughey
World of Pies by Karen Stolz
it was amazing
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
2x
Coffee by Dinah Lenney
The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Eat Cake for Breakfast by Viola Sutanto
Whatever You Are, Be a Good One by Lisa Congdon
Funny Story by Emily Henry
Switchers by Kate Thompson
Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter
Minnow on the Say by Philippa Pearce
it was amazing
Historias a Fernandez by Ema Wolf
My Girragundji by Meme McDonald
Apoutsiak, le petit flocon de neige by Paul-Émile Victor
Pit Pony by Joyce Barkhouse
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
The King of the Copper Mountains by Paul Biegel
The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
The Road to Character by David Brooks
James by Percival Everett
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Summer by Edith Wharton
The Year of Living Constitutionally by A.J. Jacobs
The Well-Lived Life by Gladys McGarey
Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy
it was amazing
Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Great Book of Journaling by Eric Maisel
It's Not You by Ramani Durvasula
Jackie and the Mona Lisa by Debbie Rovin Murphy
Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
it was amazing
The White Stone by Gunnel Linde (1966-01-01) Hardcover by Gunnel Linde
Countdown by Deborah Wiles
Marshmallow by Clare Turlay Newberry
The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center
How the Mountains Grew by John Dvorak
The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson
The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
Te deseo más by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
really liked it
Dakota Crumb and the Secret Bookshop by Jamie Michalak
How Science Saved the Eiffel Tower by Emma Bland Smith
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Polyvagal Practices by Deb Dana
French Windows by Antoine Laurain
À la Mère de Famille by Julien Merceron
Let's Eat Paris! by François-Régis Gaudry
Paris and Her Cathedrals by R. Howard Bloch
Mastering the Art of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge
Clara Reads Proust by Stéphane Carlier
The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Joie by Ajiri Aki
Mesmerized by Mara Rockliff
it was amazing
A Taste of Paris by David Downie
Captain Fracasse by Théophile Gautier
Coco Chanel by Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara
Germinal by Émile Zola
it was amazing
The Stolen Child by Ann Hood
Jacqueline in Paris by Ann Mah
Olivetti by Allie Millington
Un peu de Paris by Jean-Jacques Sempé
The Last Giants by François Place
The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan
Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr
 
Writing on Empty by Natalie Goldberg
The Wedding People by Alison Espach
The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum
North Woods by Daniel Mason
Here by Richard McGuire
Birding with Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb
Madame Bovary by Gustave "Flaubert "
it was amazing
Writers and Their Notebooks by Diana Raab
Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
The Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens
Daily Rituals by Mason Currey
CatStronauts by Drew Brockington
Rinkitink in Oz by L. Frank Baum
Census by Jesse Ball
it was amazing
Ben & Me by Eric Weiner
Ben & Me by Robert Lawson
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird
That Librarian by Amanda Jones
The Algebra of Happiness by Scott Galloway
Pictured Worlds by Leonard S. Marcus
Hurricane Carla by Warren L. Hogan
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
it was amazing
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
Masterpiece by Elise Broach
The Leadership Journey by Doris Kearns Goodwin
We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida
The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Colored Television by Danzy Senna
Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
it was amazing
The Min-Min by Mavis Thorpe Clark
Entitlement by Rumaan Alam
A Land So Strange by Andrés Reséndez
it was amazing
The Yellow Bus by Loren Long
The Last Zookeeper by Aaron Becker
The Paper Chase by John Jay Osborn Jr.
The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Playground by Richard Powers
The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Build the Life You Want by Arthur C. Brooks
really liked it
Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi
What I Ate in One Year by Stanley Tucci
100 Years by Joshua Prager
The Truth About My Unbelievable Summer . . . by Davide Calì
Bob's Saucer Repair by Jerry Boyd
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon by Bill McKibben
Walking with Sam by Andrew McCarthy
Star Wars by Rodney Barnes
really liked it
The Book of Saints by Weldon Owen
All That Happiness Is by Adam Gopnik
The Dictionary Story by Oliver Jeffers
The Hotel Balzaar by Kate DiCamillo
The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
What the Chicken Knows by Sy Montgomery
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Zen and Zen Classics Vol. 1 by R.H. Blyth
it was amazing
Last Dance on the Starlight Pier by Sarah Bird
Batpig by Rob Harrell
Meditations on the Parables of Jesus by Thomas Keating
Stick Man by Julia Donaldson
Tree of Cranes by Allen Say
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree by Gloria Houston
One Woman’s Men by Sharon Goodwin
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Everything Is OK by Debbie Tung
The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Bone of the Bone by Sarah Smarsh
Tree. Table. Book. by Lois Lowry
it was amazing
The Women by Kristin Hannah
The Best Christmas Ever by Chih-Yuan Chen
The Story of Holly & Ivy by Rumer Godden
Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon
K Is in Trouble by Gary Clement
it was amazing
The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll by Patricia C. McKissack
The Happiness Passport by Megan C. Hayes
Niksen by Olga Mecking
The Nights Before Christmas by Tony Ross
The Snow Queen by Anthea Bell
The Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie dePaola
An Orange for Frankie by Patricia Polacco
What Dogs Want for Christmas by Kandy Radzinski
Great Joy by Kate DiCamillo
it was amazing
Night Tree by Eve Bunting
A Creative Companion by SARK
The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti
Nine Days to Christmas by Marie Hall Ets
Merry Christmas, Squirrels! by Nancy Rose
Christmas Alphabet by Robert Sabuda
 
The Greatest Gift by Philip van Doren Stern
it was amazing
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore
The Christmas Story by Robert Sabuda
Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss

My last review of the year

it was amazing
The Grinch is a lonely and bitter fellow, living all alone except his dog at the top of a cold mountain, watching the happy Whos go about their happy preparations for Christmas. He is determined to spoil the holiday for them, and he robs them of all their Christmas foods and decorations and gifts. But somehow he doesn't ruin Christmas for them, and pondering this paradox changes the Grinch and he is welcomed into the fold.

I love this story. ...more

 

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