2024 Goodreads Reading Challenge

Well, first off, welcome to 2025. I won’t lie and say I’m looking forward to this year, but time moves on no matter what we want. I hope 2025 goes better than I currently have reason to expect.

Anyway, another year gone means another reading challenge complete. I’m surprised by how much I read this year. I didn’t feel like I was reading a lot, and there were even times when I read very slowly because I was reading non-fiction.

I find it fascinating to look back and see where I read a lot, where I slowed down, and what I was reading. To facilitate that more easily — and since I’ve gotten tired of Goodreads deleting Harry Potter fan fiction — I also tracked my books manually, this year. Since I’m tired of re-adding books, my numbers on Goodreads don’t quite match my manual tracking.

I finished 129 books in 2024 — 123 according to Goodreads. That averages to approximately 2.5 books a week, or a book every 2.8 days. Of course, there’s more to the story. While I read almost every day of 2024 — only skipping 4 — 5 of the nonfiction books I read during year took me over two weeks to finish, leaving only 278 days for the other 124 books. With those numbers, I was reading an average of 3.1 books a week, or a book every 2.2 days. Phew!

If you’re interested in what I thought of the books I read, you can take a look at my book review posts, or my Reviewed list on Goodreads. I don’t review every book I read, and, even for those I do, they aren’t guaranteed to make it on my blog.

2024 Reading Challenge Details

Per usual, Goodreads provided this year’s edition of “My Year in Books.” Looking only at Goodreads, I read 19 more books than in 2023. While my shortest, longest, and average page counts were below 2023, I still managed to read 2,438 more pages this year — and that doesn’t count the 6 books that Goodreads dropped from my list over the course of the year.

I read a lot of Pride & Prejudice variations again, even re-reading several multiple times during the year. My ADHD brain loves the comfort of a favorite book.

In last year’s post I wrote: “I don’t think I’ll read as much next year as I read this year, but, I certainly didn’t expect to read as much as I did this year. So… we’ll see.” Ha!!

I’m going to say the same again this year because I plan to break out of the chokehold Pride & Prejudice variations have on me. I’m hoping to complete a book bingo challenge over the course of the year that will see me reading at least 15 books that aren’t P&P variations. Wish me luck!

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Do you take part in Goodreads reading challenges? If so, did you meet your 2024 goal? Do you have a reading goal for this year? Let me know in the comments! I’d love to hear from you.

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