a_book_and_a_bee's
2024
Reading Wrap-Up

a_book_and_a_bee finished reading 207 books, across 58,788 pages!

First book
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki

My Year of Meats
Last book
Oracle by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Oracle

a_book_and_a_bee's 2024 StoryGraph

A mood map of a_book_and_a_bee's reading

Lighter books push the line up and darker books pull the line down

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a_book_and_a_bee explored the shadows of the human psyche, engaged in introspective musings, and traversed landscapes of the heart.

The narratives flowed at a comfortable, engaging tempo.

Books and pages read per month in 2024

Line chart showing books and pages read each month in 2024. The data for books read per year are as follows: January - 24 books, February - 19 books, March - 19 books, April - 16 books, May - 24 books, June - 12 books, July - 14 books, August - 13 books, September - 9 books, October - 16 books, November - 29 books, December - 12 books. The data for pages read per year are as follows: January - 7098 pages, February - 4986 pages, March - 5802 pages, April - 5032 pages, May - 5968 pages, June - 3910 pages, July - 3441 pages, August - 4015 pages, September - 2697 pages, October - 4810 pages, November - 6852 pages, December - 4132 pages.
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a_book_and_a_bee met their reading goal!

103%

The genres a_book_and_a_bee spent the most time with in 2024

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The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Alexander J. Newall, Jonathan Sims

The Magnus Archives: Season 5

Alexander J. Newall, Jonathan Sims

Longest book
16 hours, 18 minutes
Shortest book
24 pages
We are All Superstitious by Chan Chau

We are All Superstitious

Chan Chau

The average length of the books a_book_and_a_bee read was 288 pages and it took them around 13 days to finish each book!

Orochi: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 3 by Kazuo Umezu

Orochi: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 3

Kazuo Umezu

Least time spent
1 day
Most time spent
556 days
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

Swamplandia!

Karen Russell

The authors a_book_and_a_bee spent the most time with in 2024

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a_book_and_a_bee was part of 14 completed buddy reads.

So, 7% of their 2024 reading was shared with friends! 😊

2024's average rating was...

3.86

2024 5reads

My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Magnus Archives: Season 2 by Alexander J. Newall, Jonathan Sims
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
The Magnus Archives: Season 3 by Alexander J. Newall, Jonathan Sims
The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
My Death by Lisa Tuttle
The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren
What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall
Heartstopper Volume 5 by Alice Oseman
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Magnus Archives: Season 4 by Alexander J. Newall, Jonathan Sims
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro
The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Alexander J. Newall, Jonathan Sims
We Won't Be Here Tomorrow: And Other Stories by Margaret Killjoy
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak
The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
Welcome Back, Alice, Vol. 7 by Shuzo Oshimi
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede
FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Pluralities by Avi Silver
Seasons of Purgatory by Shahriar Mandanipour
We are All Superstitious by Chan Chau
Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield

a_book_and_a_bee's 2024 ratings

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Some months were better than others...

August

Highest average rating
4.29

Turns out September wasn't a_book_and_a_bee's favorite month, with an average rating of 3.5.

January

Most pages read
7098 pages

Other StoryGraph users and a_book_and_a_bee's 2024 reads

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Normal People

Sally Rooney

Most shelved
457,211 users
a_book_and_a_bee's rating: 5.0
We are All Superstitious by Chan Chau

We are All Superstitious

Chan Chau

Least shelved
28 users
a_book_and_a_bee's rating: 5.0
The Magnus Archives: Season 4 by Alexander J. Newall, Jonathan Sims

The Magnus Archives: Season 4

Alexander J. Newall, Jonathan Sims

Highest rated
4.78
a_book_and_a_bee's rating: 5.0

a_book_and_a_bee explored the works of 136 new authors, including Rita Mae Brown, Leslie J. Anderson, and Susanna Clarke!

Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
Inside Mari, Vol. 2 by Shuzo Oshimi

34 of the books a_book_and_a_bee read were part of a series.

a_book_and_a_bee revisited a total of 4 books this year.

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future by Esmé Louise James

a_book_and_a_bee decided not to finish 3 of the books they picked up this year.

a_book_and_a_bee read 13 books from their own shelves this year!

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

2024 at a glance

My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Orochi: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 3 by Kazuo Umezu
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez
McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh
Tampa by Alissa Nutting
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Magnus Archives: Season 1 by Jonathan Sims
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Magnus Archives: Season 2 by Alexander J. Newall, Jonathan Sims
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf by Malika Moustadraf
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Orochi: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 4 by Kazuo Umezu
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor by Arthur Kleinman
The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness by Suzanne O'Sullivan
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Man with No Name by Laird Barron
The Magnus Archives: Season 3 by Alexander J. Newall, Jonathan Sims
Human Sacrifices by María Fernanda Ampuero
Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz
Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy
The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Bluebeard's Castle by Anna Biller
Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan
Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
My Death by Lisa Tuttle
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Fisherman by John Langan
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer
Big Machine by Victor LaValle
Interesting Facts about Space by Emily Austin
The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren
Moldy Strawberries by Caio Fernando Abreu
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand
The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall
Wild Things by Laura Kay
The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernández
Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne
Lute by Jennifer Marie Thorne
Heartstopper Volume 5 by Alice Oseman
The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk
My Husband by Maud Ventura
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
Blackouts by Justin Torres
Notice by Heather Lewis
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Cold Girls by Maxine Rae
The Employees by Olga Ravn
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock
The Magnus Archives: Season 4 by Alexander J. Newall, Jonathan Sims
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
Sweet Poolside by Shuzo Oshimi
Welcome Back, Alice, Vol. 6 by Shuzo Oshimi
People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between by Joseph Osmundson
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces by Eric LaRocca
The First Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth by Natalie Haynes
Nothing but the Rain by Naomi Salman
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
The Emissary by Yōko Tawada
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix by Gabe Cole Novoa
Death Valley by Melissa Broder
A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson
The Sluts by Dennis Cooper
Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Lot by Bryan Washington
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Middle of the Night by Riley Sager
血の轍 : 第16集 by Shuzo Oshimi
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
Alley by Junji Ito
Not a River by Selva Almada
The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois
Fluids by May Leitz
The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Alexander J. Newall, Jonathan Sims
We Won't Be Here Tomorrow: And Other Stories by Margaret Killjoy
The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste
Body Music by Jul Maroh
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
Almond by Won-pyung Sohn
Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Welcome Back, Alice, Vol. 7 by Shuzo Oshimi
Betwixt: A Horror Manga Anthology by Ryo Hanada, Aki Shimizu, Shima Shinya, Michael Conrad, Becky Cloonan, Leslie Hung, Hua Hua Zhu, Sloane Leong
A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
The Flowers of Evil - Complete, 1 by Shuzo Oshimi
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
Straight by Chuck Tingle
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson
Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede
We Need to Do Something by Max Booth III
FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Haar by David Sodergren
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza
Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Eynhallow by Tim McGregor
Comemadre by Roque Larraquy
Red Dust by Yoss
Crossroads by Laurel Hightower
The Details by Ia Genberg
Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase
Pluralities by Avi Silver
Seasons of Purgatory by Shahriar Mandanipour
Blood on the Tracks, Vol. 17 by Shuzo Oshimi
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't A Guy At All by Sumiko Arai
H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu by Gou Tanabe
Curfew by Jayne Cowie
Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson
And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin
Inside Mari, Volume 1 by Shuzo Oshimi
Inside Mari, Vol. 2 by Shuzo Oshimi
Inside Mari, Vol. 3 by Shuzo Oshimi
Inside Mari, Volume 5 by Shuzo Oshimi
Inside Mari Volume 4 by Shuzo Oshimi
Homunculus (Omnibus) Vol. 1-2 by Hideo Yamamoto
Garden of Earthly Bodies by Sally Oliver
We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets
A Good Happy Girl by Marissa Higgins
Eartheater by Dolores Reyes
We are All Superstitious by Chan Chau
She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya
Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
Condomnauts by Yoss
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
The Paleontologist by Luke Dumas
Homunculus (Omnibus) Vol. 3-4 by Hideo Yamamoto
In the Company of Men by Véronique Tadjo
Soichi: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito
The Flowers of Evil - Complete, 2 by Shuzo Oshimi
My Lesbian Novel by Renee Gladman
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir
Oracle by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

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