My Goodreads Reading Challenge 2024
Welcome Readers!
At the beginning of 2024 I’ve set myself the challenge of reading 110 books. I managed to read 140 books in 2023 and this year I’m also going to try the 52 Book Club 2024 Challenge for the first time – mainly to read more variety and different genres.
I’m in two bookclubs – a local group where we meet each month in person with a book supplied from the local library and a small online group which meets over Zoom every few weeks.
In our online group we’ve been reading the Classics – starting with the Bronte sisters & Jane Austen, slowly in pre-arranged chunks, and incorporating a cooking session after we finish each book. We moved onto other classics in 2023 and we’re continuing these in 2024 and beyond.
As a group we also started a monthly blogging challenge in 2021, What’s on your Bookshelf, and encourage others to join in to share their love of books.
All my WOYBS posts can be found here
January 2024 – 9 books
Starting 2024 with some great books #WOYBS
- The Fossil Hunter – Tea Cooper – Audible 4*
- Blue Lightning – Ann Cleeves – paperback 4*
- Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus – BorrowBox 3.5*
- The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart – Holly Ringland - Audible 4*
- The Talented Mrs Greenway – Tea Cooper – Audible 4*
- Lola in the Mirror – Trent Dalton – paperback (gift) 5*
- The Seven – Chris Hammer – BorrowBox 4*
- Blink – K.L.Slater – Kindle 4*
- Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng – Bookclub from library 4*
February 2024 – 7 books
My 52 Book Club Reading Challenge takes off
- The Family Remains – Lisa Jewell – library paperback – 3*
- Inheritance – Nora Roberts – library paperback 4*
- Foul Play at Seal Bay – #1 Morwenna Mutton Mystery – Judy Leigh – kindle unlimited – 4*
- The Philosopher’s Daughters – Alison Booth – paperback 4*
- Don’t Hang Up – Benjamin Stevenson – Audible 4*
- Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone – Benjamin Stevenson – BorrowBox 4*
- Where Butterflies Wander – Suzanne Redfearn – Kindle Unlimited 4*
March 2024 – 12 books
A childhood favourite didn’t disappoint
- Secrets of Starshine Cove – Debbie Johnson- Kindle Unlimited 4*
- No Ordinary Life – Suzanne Redfearn – Kindle Unlimited 3*
- Escape to Starshine Cove – Debbie Johnson – Kindle Unlimited 4*
- A Tale of Two Cities– Charles Dickens – Kindle Unlimited 4*
- Lucy by the Sea – Elizabeth Strout -BorrowBox ebook 3*
- The Painting – Alison Booth – paperback (bookclub) – 4*
- Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery – childhood copy 5*
- Dancing with Dragons – Jenni Ogden – NetGallery – 4*
- Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year – Joanna Nell – library paperback 3*
- The Last Summer – #1 The Wild Isle series – Karen Swan – BorrowBox 5*
- Kill Your Brother – Jack Heath – Audible 3*
- The Invisible Hour– Alice Hoffman – Library book 3*
April 2024
An Update on my 52 Book Club Reading Challenge #WOYBS
- The Revenge Club – Kathy Lette – Kindle Unlimited 4*
- Devil’s Kitchen – Candice Fox – Kindle 4*
- The Stolen Hours – #2 The Wild Isle Series – Karen Swan BorrowBox 4*
- The Burnout – Sophie Kinsella – BorrowBox 3*
- Anne of Avonlea – LM Montgomery – hardcover 5*
- Yeah, Nah! – William McInnes 4*
- The Village Bakeoff – Judy Leigh – Kindle Unlimited 3*
- Howards End – EM Forster – Audible
- Everyone on This Train is a Suspect – Benjamin Stevenson – BorrowBox
- Bloodshed on the Boards – #2 Morwenna Mutton Mystery – Judy Leigh – Kindle Unlimited
- How to Babysit a Grandma – Jean Reagan illustrated by Lee Wildish – softcover 5*
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I have included links to Goodreads on each of these titles, so if you want more information on what the book is about, click the title and away you go! I read a wide range….just saying!
Please note I’m fairly strict with what I give 5 stars to, so you can be assured that these are my favourites. It’s all about sharing the love of reading so I base my ratings on whether I’ve enjoyed a book enough that I’d recommend it to you once I’ve finished it. Obviously we all have different tastes!!
My personal rating code is:
- 1* did not finish/terrible – wouldn’t recommend
- 2* OK – not necessarily worth recommending
- 3* enjoyable – might recommend to the right person
- 4* really good- would recommend
- 5* excellent – definitely would recommend
Let’s see how many I get up to this year! I don’t set any rules or follow any plans, I just read what I feel like, what friends have recommended and what takes my eye. I rarely start a book and not finish it, but it does happen sometimes!
Are you on Goodreads? – you can join me 🙂
What did I read in 2023?
I read 140 books last year and had set my goal as 120 books! My post with my top reads can be found here.
You can find my reading lists for these years by clicking on the links below:
I’d love to hear what you’re reading too. And any recommendations are always welcome 🙂
Deb xx
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Deb is a young-at-heart & active 60+ blogger/retiree, after being made redundant from her 22-year career managing education programs in a men’s correctional centre (jail). She now spends her time reading, blogging, riding her ebike and travelling. Deb was awarded a Bravery Award from the Queen when she was 17 after a tragic accident – a definite life changing moment! She is married with 3 grown-up daughters & has 4 grandchildren. You can read more of Deb’s story here
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My online book club very much enjoyed Lessons in Chemistry. And PC and I enjoyed the first season of the TV series. But I just hate that months and months pass before the second season becomes available. My poor 65 year old brain forgets everything in that period of time. Hoping 2024 is a stellar reading year for us both.
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I’ve not watched the series Leslie, and I understand the problem with waiting for new episodes! Hope all is well with you and PC. x
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