all 116 books I read in 2024, reviewed in one sentence each

this is a poetry collection with some good lines but you really do have to sift through it to find them

this is a great way to read more mythology and to view it from a kind of queer Theory lens I just wish it had been curated in a more interesting Way

This book includes the line but what shall I do on Christmas night if no one has given me a book so true bestie

I have never and will never know what it feels like to take a bra off at the end of the day but I imagine it feels like reading this book it was a satisfying read

I came to this book because John Foss had just won the Nobel Prize for literature and I am nothing if not curious but I stayed for The Vibes

is very relatable because if I found someone else's diary I would read the entire thing in one sitting and be captivated by it

whenever I Read Mary Oliver I want to throw my cellular device in the water... she's just all about loving and respecting and learning from the natural world and I feel like I'm a better person when I read her poetry

my mom told me that if I have nothing good to say then just to say nothing at all and so that's what I'm choosing to do here

one of the most memorable characters I have ever read I cannot stop thinking about her... I genuinely considered etching Miranda ji the author's name into my floorboards

I realized I cared so little about what was going on that I just never replaced my copy... I think that's a good reason to dnf it

am moment of appreciation for that title oh my God

it is so rare that a book is laugh out loud funny but this one will have you snorting like Charlie XCX when she was making brat

I found the first two chapters so boring... but then I watched the movie and it was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen so I definitely need to give this another go

I know that this book was clever and I enjoyed the discussion about brexit that was really interesting but unfortunately I just the rest of the book I just didn't care it was just a little too abstract for me

this is a good poetry collection contemplating identity the art of poetry class immigration and also translation

this book just like crushed me in a good way

is for me an instant by author I love the way that she strings a sentence together like little jewels on a chain

this hit me like a boulder and I'm still kind of crushed under it I also think this is proof that literary fiction can be erotic

releasing a book called brat the same year that Charlie XX released the album brat is brave... it did succeed on that front for sure

this is split into three sections firstly it kind of contemplates language and translation then it contemplates the transformative nature of poetry and then the third section contemplates one's own position within their family

I thought it was a fascinating dissection of women in Japanese Society... I did think that it was about 150 Pages too long and so repetitive to the point of monotony

this book I love but it is like that friend that's just too woke... this book made me feel like Pier Morgan

I think that vagar would have been the coolest guest at any dinner party he ever attended

it was okay it's like aggressively okay it's the Queen's Gambit if it was written by a 15-year-old

if you like the dizzying lyrical pros of Osamu Desai or Sylvia plat the belgar mixed with the intensity of dov's white nights and Madonna and a ferco two books I love read this book

what the hell was this bestie I loved Kylie Reed's first book so I actually am going to be wearing all black for all of 2025... I don't know why it was written

this book includes rants about how Pastor is the ultimate Italian scam... and also how graffiti is worse than murder in this character's perspective honestly iconic

these are just comforting reads they talk about how it's okay to slow down and take things at your own pace

the best part about this book is the way that it captures the idiosyncrasies and the little details that tile together to create the Mosaic of a person

it tells the same story I want to say like 17 times from 17 different perspectives which I enjoyed the first four times maybe the first five but by number eight or nine I was bored

I love this because I too want to write a whole poem every time my dog does anything sweet or acknowledges my existence

is a fascinating discussion about the in congruity between the way that we perceive ourselves and the way we are perceived by others... this was my favorite non-fiction book of the year

I really recommend this if you're looking to read more Palestinian literature as we all should be this is a really important collection

this book kind of reads like a Wes Anderson film if it was a book it's an interesting discussion about how trauma sells and a fun allegory about the way that people especially in the publishing industry take advantage of other people's trauma

this is written like a Victorian novel and I mean that in the most derogatory way

I loved this book so much that I ended up speaking about it on TV... this book is an exercise in empathy

was a great way to discover some new poets

this is an analysis of friendship... my favorite parts were when she would talk about like the philosophy of friendship... but obviously it is limited by the fact that it is based on one person's experiences

we bow at the altar of Emily Henry the patron saint of romances

five people look at a hole it's kind of like if Scooby-Doo didn't have a talking dog or any plot development

meline gray succeeded she does not just do it successfully but she does it superbly this is a win in the millennial Olympics

I thought it was authentic and believable and witty

had me mourning the life of someone I didn't even know

I want to read this all the time this made me happy all the time after I read it... it is so brilliant in the way that it captures ordinariness

genius concept it's so good... that creates such a brilliant Arena literally for discussing girlhood in its Myriad forms

I think there's a certain audacity that these two writers both had... they are like the it girls of fiction I felt cooler just reading their work

was a good level of experimental I don't think all of the experiments paid off but I think it was worth the read... meditation on Grief and War and longing

this is a stunning poetry collection about the diaspora and Cyprus every poem is always kind of grappling with two things at once

is a series of motivational Instagram captions disguised and packaged as a book

I found this unreadable... in my head it was like reading alphabet soup it was like a Speech Jammer I couldn't get into this at all

I don't want whatever Holly gomao is smoking this to me was just like aggressively average... all fart and no poo

True Crime fans need to form an orderly queue outside the bookstore and get this one

is not as good as the title makes it sound like it's going to be but I did like it

there was so much going on that it kind of all just merged together into this murky nothingness

I would read your toilet paper everything you write is so perfect

we accept the scraps anyway and say thank you safo because they are beautiful they are stunning

sometimes I found it a little cliche sometimes a little overly abstract there were lines that I loved but not many full poems that I found to be perfect

is an ironic title because I never wanted this to end ever

I missed the person I was before I read this book... I don't know what the point of this was this was a cash grab

is a gorgeous literary retelling it also feels incredibly necessary... this is a literary retelling Done Right

if you look up the definition of the word insufferable in the Oxford English Dictionary I think you will just find either the ISBN number for this book or the complete manuscript

I'm so gutted about this cuz it's a 1984 retelling but really this only reminded me how Untouchable George Orwell's original book actually truly is... the 2014 ification of 1984 is diabolical

this is a love story set before during and after the fall of East Germany and the Berlin Wall which deservingly won the international Booker prize I want to get a labotomy just to wipe this for my brain

it's kind of a hybrid between a novel and a memoir because it's based on interviews with a real life horse trainer and it's about her life and the horses

I don't know what is better this book or the cover design I just think it is so badass to be nearly assassinated and then to write something this good about the experience

I think there's a certain audacity that these two writers both had... they are like the it girls of fiction I felt cooler just reading their work

is another new alltime favorite for me I was kicking my feet because of how good this writing was... I want to buy this for everyone I know

you think you know yearning and then you read Madonna in a fur coat... you think you know lyrical writing and then you read Madonna in a fur coat

I want whatever oesha mosh is smoking and I know that it's strong

is not only a favorite book of the year it's a new favorite book of all time for me... this is a perfect novel absolutely perfect no notes 10 out of 10

cover said that it reads like an Oscar winning movie and that is absolutely the best description of this had me in the palm of its hand

these are just comforting reads they talk about how it's okay to slow down and take things at your own pace

these are concise short stories centering queer characters in Puerto Rico they all end very neatly they're kind of like tied with a little bow which I find very satisfying personally wish there had been more crossover between the stories

I liked the title and let's leave it at that

her debut collection night crawling was so harrowing but also so poetic that I could not wait to read some of her actual poetry

I liked it don't get me wrong and it's an interesting exploration of grief and ghosts of our past and male friendship and fish fishing sure but for me it just felt a little too feathery

Margaret what was this Margaret I'm going to pretend that I didn't read this one because I really like Margaret outward

was the worthy winner of this year's Booker prize and deservedly so... the Earth is something that we have to protect

I learned a lot from this book about Elliot Page's career and also about the experience of gender dysphoria but I would say it's a bit of a mix of stories with not a lot of analysis and introspection

again I worship the ground that clariss Spectre walks on

I wish I could roll up every piece of Eva baltazar's writing and just smoke them directly into my lungs

this book doesn't need anything for dinner tonight because it already ate... it's about a woman finding out something terrible about the guy she's about to marry and then she just absolutely Spirals

if I had a nickel for every time Julia Armfield has written a book about being extremely wet I'd have two nickels... this one features a lot of rain a lot of rain weirdo

this is a Charming story about the chaotic reality of being in your 20s... this Irish humor is more dry than the Sahara and I laps it up

if you're wondering what Rebel Wilson could possibly say in a memoir so is she the answer is nothing literally nothing interesting at all

I have to talk about this graphic novel made me viscerally angry I was like shaking with rage

this one actually isn't just a big gimmick it's actually very good

even better than the title makes it sound like it's going to be

I don't remember anything about this book except that it was a Spy book and that I didn't enjoy it

was touted as the ultimate kind of autumn Halloween read and it absolutely did not disappoint this was perfect for that time of year

I can't tell if I thought this was a little basic question mark or whether so many poets have been inspired by my Angelo that's why it felt like I wasn't reading something new

I love weird books I love weird books I love weird books so much... it's a pretty wild ride but told in very straightforward Pros

he uses historical settings in a really smart way and the sense of humor is so razor sharp you could cut your finger on it

this was cheesy but at Christmas time you know when you want like the whole Shaker Board of cheese this was the perfect level of cheesiness for the season

there are some good moments there are some absolute zingers again this is kind of like Instagram captions in a book but if you are already creative you will know all of this already

was so info dumpy right at the beginning that I dumped the book

I loved this at first and it was such a riot... unfortunately in the second half it turned into the ministry of time... the premise just got way too elaborate for me at the end

is cozy a tumnal Vib set in a small town but that's ultimately all this book is it's just Vibes... pretty on the outside but ultimately Hollow on the inside

further proof that literary books can be sexy I loved the tension I loved how much the characters just hated each other

I liked it I didn't say it was good I said that I liked it

a deeply moving book about the enigmatic Lisbon sisters... now I have and I loved it this is an instant classic

stab me in the chest and you will not see blood pouring out you will see the lines of poetry that I read in this book

this is a Sri Lankan book about a murdered War photographer... we get to follow this incredibly witty and absurd man as he discusses the brutality of war and violence

is a kaleidoscopic new horror novel which comes out in 2025 which I actually blobbed it has a really Exquisite ey for detail

I loved the concept I just hated the execution unfortunately in my opinion it should have been written in the first person

is an autofiction story about a woman who realizes that she can trace her ancestry back to both the colonized and the colonizers... and the kind of emotional diarrhea that causes a person

I love dea's writing the one thing I just beat myself up about is that I can't read it in the original French

this book nearly drove me to put my fist through the nearest wall it made me so infuriated... this was not for me

this is about the death of someone's twin sibling can you even imagine what that experience is like well you don't have to because this book is about it

Lord take all of Richard osman's success and give it to bellam macki please this is a funny murder who done it very readable very bingeable

I actually went on tour with Dustin tow to talk about this book... one of my favorite facts about this is that there are some Vietnamese sections where the mom speaks in Vietnamese and these lines were actually written by Dustin's own mom

you think you know love and then you read white nights... it's told through a series of gorgeous conversations in which two deeply lonely people find momentary Bliss with one another and this altered my brain chemistry unfathomably

I also just couldn't get into

I am falling at your feet I will kiss the ground that you walk on... reading this is not enough I need an ivy drip just like pumping this directly into my bloodstream

is a sweet Christmas kind of fairy tale good at Christmas nothing to really write home about

proves that a novel all about two people just going for a walk and talking can actually be really charming and entertaining

is a retelling of When Harry Met Sally which although obviously it can't replicate The Singularity of Norah Efron's tone and humor it is a fun romp with characters that I was genuinely rooting for

I worship the ground that Clarice Spectre walks on