2024 Book Superlatives

Where I categorize some books I read this year

I have so much to say about the books I read in 2024!! Because of this, not all my thoughts could fit into the 2024 Wrapped post (or this post, frankly). In an attempt to share more thoughts but not drone on, I have put many of the books I read into weird categories. There are no repeat books across categories, and all of the categories are positive unless otherwise stated. Woohoo!

My current bookshelf in a bit of a messy state

Books That Made Me Sob So Hard My Head Hurt A Bit Afterwards:

1. PS: I Hate You by Lauren Connolly

2. Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas

3. Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun

Give These Leading Ladies A Gun:

1. Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez

2. Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

3. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

4. The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes

5. Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan

Sensory Details So Good You Can Taste the Location:

1. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

2. The Details by Ia Genberg

3. Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns

4. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Wait, Cuuuuute:

1. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson

2. Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean

3. Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

Books That Inspired Visceral Rage:

1. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

3. Gay the Pray Away by Natalie Naudus

4. Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari

5. The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas

Comfy Cozy:

1. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

2. Two Can Play by Ali Hazelwood

3. I Hear the Sunspot by Yuki Fumino

Gay Shit:

1. Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake

2. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

3. The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

4. How Far The Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

5. Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

Taught Me Something New:

1. The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

2. Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems by Alexandra Stein

3. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Centuries edited by Alice Wong

4. The Bride Test by Helen Hoang (autism representation)

5. Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve by Drew Afualo

Straight Romances Where The Girl Is So Cool You Forget You’re Supposed To Be Infatuated With The Guy:

1. The Romantic Agenda by Claire Kann

2. Happy Place by Emily Henry

3. This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan

4. Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey

Horniest Reads:

1. Icebreaker by Hannah Grace (derogatory)

2. Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date by Ashley Herring Blake

3. Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner

4. Tastes Like Shakkar by Nisha Sharma

5. Fangirl Down by Tessa Bailey

Girl, WTF!:

1. Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas (positive)

2. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (negative)

3. Remedial Magic by Melissa Marr (negative)

4. Vicious by V.E. Schwab (positive)

5. The House of Hades by Rick Riordan (positive)

Writing That Had Me Agog:

1. Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

2. Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan

3. The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

4. Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood

5. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton