The Most Read Books of the 2024 Reading Challenge (So Far)
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2023
My Year in Books
30,866
pages read
Nora Currie
83
books read
Nora Currie
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O poço e o pêndulo by Edgar Allan Poe
Shortest Book
128
pages
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
Longest Book
705
pages
Average book length in 2023
371
pages
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Most Shelved
9,649,369
people also shelved
A Manhattan Heiress in Paris by Amanda McCabe
Least Shelved
78
people also shelved
Nora’s average rating for 2023
4.5
4.5
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.59 average
The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton

Nora’s first review of the year

it was amazing
I really loved everything about this book! I was very interested in finding out more about the Spanish American War and the history of Cuba’s independence. I had no idea about the tragic history of the reconcentration camps and the infamous women’s prison from which Evangelina Cisneros escaped from and how she was compared in this book to Helen of Troy. I enjoyed reading about the war between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst since I ha ...more
NORA’S 2023 BOOKS
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
it was amazing
Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
O poço e o pêndulo by Edgar Allan Poe
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
it was amazing
Her Lessons in Persuasion by Megan Frampton
Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara
The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons
Malice by Heather Walter
it was amazing
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco
A Royal Affair by Allison Montclair
A Duchess by Midnight by Charis Michaels
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye
Duke Most Wicked by Lenora Bell
Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson
A Manhattan Heiress in Paris by Amanda McCabe
Clash of Steel by C.B. Lee
it was amazing
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
When in Rome by Sarah Adams
Paper Targets by Steve S. Saroff
Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maniscalco
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
it was amazing
The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey
America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray
Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal
it was amazing
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao
A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
A Tip for the Hangman by Allison Epstein
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
it was amazing
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson
Shopping for a Highlander by Julia Kent
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell
Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
it was amazing
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab
Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier
A Trace of Poison by Colleen Cambridge
My Brilliant Friend by Chiara Lagani
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Our Last Days in Barcelona by Chanel Cleeton
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
it was amazing
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

Nora’s last review of the year

really liked it
The reason why this book is getting four stars instead of five is because the author is a man writing from a young woman's pov and obviously does not know how to write about young women. However even though that being said, I have never met Brandon Sanderson irl we have obviously crossed paths because like the heroine of our story I too have been an outcast and have been bullied my entire life and I too have had professors tell me that I would ne ...more
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