I didn’t go into 2024 with any goal of how many books I wanted to read. I just thought it would be fun to see how many I did get through because I knew it was more than I had a chance to read since before I had kids. What are the chances that it would be such an epic and round number?! 50. Pretty darn cool if you ask me. Definitely a record for me, and yet I kind of want to beat it in 2025 😉
I was on an Audiobook kick and would find myself making excuses to run errands so that I could listen. Because as a mom of two, working part time, as well as trying to make myself known as a writer, the only time I seemed to have any time to “read” was in the car. Living on an acreage outside of town made it a little easier too since the commute is generally 45 min to an hour each way. The problem was that the books were so good that I would want to stay in my car and keep listening, sometimes making me dangerously close to being late for work. lol.
So without further ado, here is the list of books I read/listened to (because like 95% of them were in audiobook form). There are a few favourites that I had previously read that got pulled back into rotation in between audible credits and books on hold at the library.
Books of 2024
- A very punchable face – Colin Jost
- If you ask me – Betty White
- Wild – Cheryl Strayed (repeat)
- The billionaire murders – Kevin Donovan
- Cilka’s Journey – Heather Morris
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris (repeat)
- Night – Elie Wiesel (repeat)
- Born a crime – Trevor Noah
- The man in the Rockefeller suit – Mark Seal
- The librarian of Auschwitz – Antonio Iturbe
- A Stolen Life – Jaycee Dugard
- The betrayal of Anne Frank – Rosemary Sullivan
- Counting the Cost – Jill Duggar, Derick Dillard, Craig Borlase
- This is going to hurt – Adam Kay
- The diary of a young girl – Anne Frank (repeat)
- Go set a watchman – Harper Lee
- To kill a mockingbird – Harper Lee (repeat)
- When the air hits your brain – Frank T Vertosick Jr. MD
- It ended badly – Jennifer Wright
- American Heiress – Jeffrey Toobin
- Silent Sisters – Joanne Lee, Ann Cusack, Joe Cusack
- It ends with us – Colleen Hoover
- It starts with us – Colleen Hoover
- First they killed my father – Loung Ung
- Three sisters, three queens – Phillippa Gregory
- Scrappy Little Nobody – Anna Kendrick
- I’m glad my mom died – Jenette McCurdy
- Brain on fire – Susannah Cahalan
- The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah
- The Paris Apartment – Lucy Foley
- Yearbook – Seth Rogan
- Girl walks into a bar – Rachel Dratch
- Sure, I’ll be your black friend – Ben Philippe
- The other Boleyn girl – Philippa Gregory (repeat)
- The White Queen – Philippa Gregory
- Yes Please – Amy Poehler
- Paris – Paris Hilton
- Escape from Alcatraz – Eric Braun
- The lost girls – John Glatt
- Lost and found – John Glatt
- The perfect father – John Glatt
- Cook County ICU – Cory Franklin MD
- Mengele – David G Marwell
- I escaped from Auschwitz – Rudolph Vrba
- They called me number one – Bev Sellars
- Stolen Girls – Wolfgang Bauer, Eric Frederick Trump
- The bodies keep coming – Brian H. Williams
- Lilies and anxieties – Anik Bellefleur
- The last girl – Nadia Murad
- Missing from me – Heather Shtuka
​What should I read in 2025?