Have I Read The 144 Most Read Books of the 2024 Goodreads Reading Challenge | Bookmas Day 8

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Welcome back to Such Fun Read.

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I wanted to do an episode that included Goodreads at some point. When I looked at the 2024

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Goodreads Choice Award winners, I knew that was not going to happen with that. I have barely read

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any of the winners this year or probably any of the nominees, but now I see that they have a list

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of the 144 most read books for the 2024 reading challenge. And I want to see how many of these

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books I have read. I think I might fare better with this than the Choice Award since I didn't

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really read a bunch of new releases this year. And maybe I'll end up surprising myself on a book

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I've read this year being on this list. So let's take a look at the list and find out.

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And it looks like they have them in order. At least I think they're in order. They're numbered.

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So, but the first book is Yellowface by RF Kwong. I did not read that book this year,

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but I have read this book. I read this book last year and it was actually one of my favorite books

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I read in 2023. I really like this book. I really like it. It's set in the publishing world.

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Woman decides to pretend to be someone that she's not and there are consequences. I like this book.

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Number two, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. I started this book and I was

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enjoying it. I started last year was the year before. I don't know, but I started and I was

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enjoying it, but I never finished it. I should probably finish it. I'm looking at my copy right

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now. I really should finish this book. I know it's a popular book. I know a lot of people have loved

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this book and why didn't I finish it? I'm rather confused. I don't know. Number three, Remarkably

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Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. I don't know what this book is. This is something I don't know.

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It says an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope tracing a widow's unlikely connection

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with a giant Pacific octopus. I've never heard of this book. Oh, it looks like it has a sticker,

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a Read With Jenna sticker. And that's one of those book clubs. I think it's a Today's Show book club.

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I've never heard of this book. I really haven't. So, okay, I'll have to add it to a possibility

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list for me to maybe check it out. Number four, Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. This is one of Reese's

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book club picks. I've seen this book in bookstores. I've thought about it many times picking it up,

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but for some reason I haven't done it yet. Number five, we have Hello Beautiful by Ann

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Napolitano. Napolitano. I don't think I've heard of this book either. Huh. Interesting. At number

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six, we have Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingslover. No, no, not Kingslover. Kingslover.

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I haven't heard of this book. Looks like it was published in 2022. Hmm. No idea. Number seven,

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I've heard of this. I have also seen the TV show. Haven't read the book yet. It is on my shelf,

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but I haven't read the book yet. I know. I know. But the book is Normal People by Sally Rooney.

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And then number eight, we have Mad Honey by Jodie Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boland. Man,

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there are a number of books I have not heard of. From the first eight, I've read one. I own three,

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including the one I've read. So yeah, I think we're starting out very great. And this is going to go.

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Oh, this is going to be funny. Number nine is Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

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I believe this is a book set in the tennis world. I've wanted to read this and I haven't picked it

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up yet. Number 10 is A Little Life by Hanya Yonagihara. I haven't read this. I think I have

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a paperback of it somewhere on one of my shelves. All I've heard is this book is gut-riching

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and it will break you and all this stuff. And I don't know if I want to read that. I really don't.

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I don't know if that's something I want to read. At number 11 is Good Material by Dolly Alderton.

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This I have on my shelf. This I haven't read yet. And number 12 is The Secret History by Dona Tart.

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Another book I have on my shelf. Another book I haven't read. I know. I know. I need to read this.

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I should probably mention that those first 12 were all fiction. So maybe. Okay, so that

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that kind of makes me feel better. Maybe this means that I will have books read that are on this list

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later on in different categories. The next category is historical fiction. And I will say

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from the look of it, I've read one. I've read two books. So there are 12 books here. I've read two

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and I own four others. So moving on up on how many books I've read in the categories. Like on here

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at number one is Lessons of Chemistry by Bonnie Garmis. Number two is The Seven Husbands of Evelyn

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Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I own both of those books. Haven't read them yet. At number three is

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Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I've read this one. So there's that. At number four,

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The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. I don't own this. I don't think I own this.

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I thought about buying it last year, but I didn't. So I'm pretty sure it's on my shelf somewhere.

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The next two I also own and haven't read and that is The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah and

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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Those two sitting on my shelf. I actually see them.

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Actually, nope, yes, I actually see them. I see them on my shelf. I'll get to you. The next are

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Wayward by Amelia Hart and Great Alone by Kristen Hannah. Do not own either of those. Then I have

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The Frozen River by Ariel Lahan and Wear the Crowd That Sing by Delia Owens. I've read the

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Wear the Crowd That Sing. I actually did an episode on that. Then we have The Covenant Water by Abraham

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Verghese and The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters. I think I've heard of The Covenant of Water.

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I have not heard of The Berry Pickers. On to Mystery and Thriller. And we've gone back down.

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I've only read one on this list of the 12 and that one is The Only One Left by Raleigh Sager.

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I don't think I'm going to mention all of them anymore because I'm getting a little depressed.

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Not really. I mean, it's what I feel like reading. So I don't think I need to be depressed. But I read

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The Only One Left last year. I enjoyed it. I do own The Silent Patient and First Lie Winds. Those

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two books are on this list. I do have those. I think that's it. I don't have The Housemaid.

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I haven't really had any interest picking up The Housemaid either. Or I guess The Housemaid's Secret.

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These are both by Frieda McFadden. I haven't really had any interest picking up either of those.

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The Mystery Guest or The Maid. I have, I think The Maid. I have one of these. Whichever one is

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the first book, because I think this is a series by Nita Proes. Whichever one is the first book,

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I think it's The Maid. I have that on my shelf. I do have that on my shelf. So that is something I

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can pick up. Rock, Paper, Scissors by Alice Feeney. I've heard that being popular, but I don't know.

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I haven't really had an interest in picking it up. Maybe that'll change. I don't know.

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All right, we're in the fantasy category. Let's see if this one is better. Barely. Wow. Okay,

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so I pretty much own almost all of these books. And it looks like I've only read two. Of course.

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Of course. I've read Cersei by Madeline Miller and The Poppy War by R.F. Kwong. The two books I

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don't have on this list are Before the Coffee Gets Cold and The Unmaking of June Pharaoh.

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Those two books I do not have. But the other ones I do, The Mindak Library, The Invisible Life of

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Adi La Rue, The Song of Achilles, Babel, Legends and Lattes, Starling House, Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia

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of Fairies, Ninth House. These are sitting on my shelf. I just haven't read them. That's interesting

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that they are. Huh. That's interesting that these are the most popular ones in the fantasy category

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that people have read this year. Interesting. Okay, let's go to Romanticie. And let's see. Okay,

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so I've read three in Romanticie. I've read Forthwing. I've read House of Earth and Blood,

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the first book in the Crescent City series. I've read From Blood and Ash, but I don't remember

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anything in that book. So yeah, so one and two in Romanticie are Forthwing and Iron Flame.

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Surprise, surprise. The next three are Sergio Mas books. You have House of Flame and Shadow,

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which is a book that came out this year. Is this the first book on this list so far that came out

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this year? I don't, I could be wrong. I could be wrong. I could be wrong. Maybe there are some

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others that came out this year from the other categories. I could be wrong. But this one did

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come out in 2024. And then you have A Court of Silver Flames by Sergio Mas. And then I guess

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A House of Earth and Blood, Crescent City series. Then you have The Serpent and Wings of Night. I

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have it on my shelf. Haven't read it. Assistant to the Villain. I do not own that. Manacold.

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Oh, this is, I think, Manacold. Is this a fan fiction? I think this is fan fiction. Is this

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a Jermani fan fiction? Most likely won't read that. Not, I'm not a Draco and Hermione girl. So

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I most likely won't read that. Let's see. There's also Gold by Raven Kennedy. It's the number five

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of The Plated Prisoner. Throne of the Fallen by Carrie Maniscalco. I read a Carrie Maniscalco book

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this year, and I enjoyed it. And I wonder if this is a continuation in that series. What did I read?

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Kingdom of the Wicked? I think that's the book that I read. But I think this one is adult. Well,

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that one is young adult. I don't know. And then we have The Never King, which I don't think I've

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heard of this. It's Vicious Lost Boys number one. Hmm. I don't think I've heard of that one. All

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right, let's carry on. Go to science fiction. Okay. This one. Huh. I've read none of these.

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I have read none of these. None of these in science fiction. I want to read a few of these,

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like Dune is on here. At some point, I would like to read Dune. All Systems Red. I think I have the

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box set of this. Is this a novella? I believe I have the box set. Yeah, the murderbot diaries.

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I have the box set of that. Should probably read that. Dark Matter is on here. I have that somewhere.

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Oh, Fahrenheit 451 is on here. I read this in high school. But that was a long time ago. Also,

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did I actually read it? Because there were a lot of high school books that I was assigned to read,

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but I didn't actually read. So there's that. The horror category is next. I don't read a lot of

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horror. I read some. I do own a few of these horror books. Like I have How to Sell a Haunted House by

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Gertie Hendrix, Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The September House by Carissa

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Orlando, and Home Before Dark by Riley Sager. I have those on my shelf. Just some of them.

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Let's just move on. Let's move on. Go to the next category. And we're going to next. Go to the next

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category, which is romance. And I've only read one book on here. And it's the first book and probably

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one of my least favorite reads of all time. And this is the holiday season. I really don't want

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to talk about least favorite reads. I want to talk about joyous occasions and happiness. But I see

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Icebreaker by Hannah Grace. And that's the one I read. And I wasn't really a fan of that book.

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Like I talked last year, I talked about 4th Wing. But I think I'm going to give 4th Wing another chance.

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I think I'm going to reread 4th Wing. I'm going to give it another chance. But I would talk about

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that last year as like my least favorite book. It's because, but the only reason why I said that is

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because I forgot all about Icebreaker. I don't like Icebreaker. Mostly because I'm a huge fan

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of figure skating. And I didn't like how figure skating was represented in this book. I really

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didn't. I didn't like it. Maybe one day I'll talk about it. I don't want to talk about it.

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I want to be happy. So yeah, yeah, that's yeah. But I haven't read any of the others. I see

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Emily Henry book on here. Actually, I see two Emily Henry books on here. And in a secret,

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I can tell you all I've never read a book written by Emily Henry. I own Beach Read. I have it

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somewhere. And I keep saying I'm going to read it. And I keep not doing that. So we'll see. But

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there's no Abby Jimenez on here. I did read Abby Jimenez book last year, Part of Your World. And

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I really enjoyed that. And she's on here. A little disappointed, but that's okay. It's whatever.

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Let's move to the next category. Young adults. The young adult category. I might, this might work

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for me. This one might work for me. Let's see. Yes. It looks like I've read one, two, three, four,

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five, six. I've read six books in the young adult category. So congratulations to myself. Yes. Yes.

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Finally, yes. So on here, the ones I've read Throne of Glass and Crown of Midnight by Sarah J.

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Maas. The Ballad of Somers and Snakes by Suzanne Collins. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly

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Jackson. Powerless by Lauren Roberts. And The Cruel Prince by Holly Black. There are others I

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want to read. Like maybe at some point I'll read The Divine Rivals duology. And maybe at some point

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I'll finally read Heartstopper. I love the show. Speaking of, I need to watch season three. I haven't

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watched that yet. And also Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber. I have the Caraval Series

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trilogy. And then I also have this book. I want to read the Caraval trilogy before I read this book.

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So there's that. And then it looks like it gets into some nonfiction, which I don't really read.

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Although in the memoir category, I do see The Woman and Me by Britney Spears. I haven't read it

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yet, but I do have it. And Crying in H Mart. I have that book somewhere as well. Haven't read it yet,

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but I do see those. But outside of that, I don't really read nonfiction. I don't read a lot of

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nonfiction. Although Aster by Anderson Cooper. I kind of want to read that. I kind of want to read

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that. So because I'm always, I am someone who loves The Guild Age, that time period. So I kind of want

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to read that. And like old money, new money, old money stuff. Yeah, I want to read that. Anyway,

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so those are pretty much the most popular books that people read in 2024 that participate in the

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reading challenge on Goodreads. And I have to say after going through all of this, I did not read

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any of these books this year. Yeah, all the books I have read, I had read previously. So none of them,

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none of them this year. But that's okay. That's okay. It's interesting to see what's been popular

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for people as well as like, the majority of these are older books. And what I mean by older is,

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they weren't released in 2024. And the one that I really see that was released in 2024, and maybe

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there are others as well. But the one that I see that was released in 2024 was the Sarah J. Maas

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book, The House of Flame and Shadow, the third book, I believe it's the third book in the Crescent

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City series. So that was released this year. And it's number three in Romanticy. But Sarah J. Maas

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is a very popular author. So but I'm sure there are others that are out there. Wait, I thought I

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saw a Stephen King book that was on this list. Yes, I did. But that one was published in 2023.

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So I did see Stephen King, but that was published in 2023. So there is that. But yeah, that's an

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interesting list to look at. Have you read any of the books that were on this list? Let me know.

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But thank you so much for listening. Don't forget to subscribe so that you don't miss any new

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