em_ory's
2024
Reading Wrap-Up

em_ory finished reading 124 books, across 34,526 pages!

First book
The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei

The Deep Sky
Last book
Human Acts by Han Kang

Human Acts

em_ory's 2024 StoryGraph

A mood map of em_ory's reading

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

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em_ory engaged in introspective musings, explored the shadows of the human psyche, 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 - 14 books, February - 9 books, March - 12 books, April - 15 books, May - 8 books, June - 2 books, July - 4 books, August - 10 books, September - 10 books, October - 19 books, November - 9 books, December - 12 books. The data for pages read per year are as follows: January - 3729 pages, February - 2271 pages, March - 3804 pages, April - 3607 pages, May - 1932 pages, June - 907 pages, July - 1690 pages, August - 2764 pages, September - 2937 pages, October - 4517 pages, November - 3012 pages, December - 3341 pages.
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em_ory met their reading goal!

124%

The genres em_ory spent the most time with in 2024

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East of Eden by John Steinbeck

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

Longest book
601 pages
Shortest book
24 pages
Dyke (geology) by Sabrina Imbler

Dyke (geology)

Sabrina Imbler

The average length of the books em_ory read was 269 pages and it took them around 6 days to finish each book!

The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

The Waiting

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

Least time spent
1 day
Most time spent
35 days
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux

The authors em_ory spent the most time with in 2024

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em_ory was part of 3 completed buddy reads.

So, 2% of their 2024 reading was shared with friends! 😊

2024's average rating was...

3.76

2024 5reads

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
The Cabinet by Un-su Kim
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics by Andrea Abi-Karam, Kay Gabriel
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez
Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. by Noor Hindi
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee
Paradise by Toni Morrison
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic by Richard A. McKay
Walking Practice by Dolki Min
Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
The Dead Take the A Train by Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung
My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen
1984 by George Orwell
Life Ceremony: Stories by Sayaka Murata
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Human Acts by Han Kang

em_ory's 2024 ratings

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Some months were better than others...

August

Highest average rating
4.5

Turns out June wasn't em_ory's favorite month, with an average rating of 3.25.

October

Most pages read
4517 pages

Other StoryGraph users and em_ory's 2024 reads

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas

Most shelved
689,775 users
em_ory's rating: 1.0
Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State by Lyle C. May

Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State

Lyle C. May

Least shelved
41 users
em_ory's rating: 4.0
Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State by Lyle C. May

Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State

Lyle C. May

Highest rated
4.58
em_ory's rating: 4.0

em_ory explored the works of 111 new authors, including Diana Wynne Jones, Ling Ma, and Olga Tokarczuk!

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

13 of the books em_ory read were part of a series.

It was only new stories and ideas for em_ory this year. No rereads!

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin

em_ory decided not to finish 6 of the books they picked up this year.

em_ory read 39 books from their own shelves this year!

Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

2024 at a glance

The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Mitchell Plitnick, Marc Lamont Hill
The Cabinet by Un-su Kim
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Black Star by Eric E. Glover
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Bell in the Fog by Lev AC Rosen
Death Valley by Melissa Broder
Dyke (geology) by Sabrina Imbler
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi
How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
The Apology by Jimin Han
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics by Andrea Abi-Karam, Kay Gabriel
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
Gruesome Playground Injuries/Animals Out of Paper/Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo: Three Plays by Rajiv Joseph
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
Unshrinking by Kate Manne
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez
Crossroads by Laurel Hightower
The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong
Homie: Poems by Danez Smith
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice Is Justice for All by Shon Faye
Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. by Noor Hindi
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State by Lyle C. May
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
Delicates by Brenna Thummler
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara
Wednesday's Child: stories by Yiyun Li
Paradise by Toni Morrison
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church by Rachel L. Swarns
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
There Are Trans People Here by H. Melt
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell
Alley by Junji Ito
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic by Richard A. McKay
Walking Practice by Dolki Min
Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music by Anna Beer
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
The Split by Kit Frick
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee
Abolish Rent by Leonardo Vilchis, Tracy Rosenthal
Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against Imprisonment by Rachel Herzing, Justin Piche
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese
The War of the Worlds by Vikas Adam, H.G. Wells
The White Book by Han Kang
Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
The Dead Take the A Train by Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
Palestine in a World on Fire by Ilan Pappé, Katherine Natanel
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung
My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen
Come Closer by Sara Gran
Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on by Franny Choi
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen
Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments by Nathan J. Robinson
1984 by George Orwell
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
Life Ceremony: Stories by Sayaka Murata
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Blankets by Craig Thompson
On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
Gay Girl Prayers by Emily Austin
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat by Aubrey Gordon
Bad Dolls by Rachel Harrison
Human Acts by Han Kang

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