I read over a hundred books in 2024 (it can be done!) and today I’m counting down my ten favorites. A thread:
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I’m lucky to get a book a year
jan 4, 2025, 1:25 am • 0 0 • view
I managed somewhere between 70-75 last year (lost count unfortunately). I'd love to make 80 this year but -wise I think I'll have to have that goal. 40 it is. Through 8 of them, a bit behind I think
mar 10, 2025, 4:33 am • 1 0 • view
over 100 is a solid effort. I did a lot of reading this year and was reading book 99 when the clock struck 12!!!.....so 98.5 for me
jan 3, 2025, 10:54 pm • 13 0 • view
we'll just round that out to a hundred
jan 3, 2025, 10:56 pm • 15 0 • view
@skyview.social unroll this thread of great reads from @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social please.
apr 18, 2025, 6:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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apr 18, 2025, 6:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I want to smell the books!!
jan 3, 2025, 10:30 pm • 11 0 • view
Of course. It's a given!
jan 5, 2025, 10:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh God I thought it was just me🤭.
jan 4, 2025, 12:03 am • 10 0 • view
Bibliosmia, sometimes vellichor the scent of books 📚
jul 17, 2025, 6:11 am • 2 0 • view
Bravo-brava!
mar 19, 2025, 3:06 am • 0 0 • view
I read 157 -my favs Playground - Powers James - Everett Pearce Oysters - Takacs Crow Talk - Garvin When the Angels Left the Old Country - Lamb Coming Home - Griner The Ministry of Time - Bradley I Am Rome -Posteguillo Where the Falcon Flies - Shoalts Locked In - Adler-Olsen
jan 3, 2025, 11:45 pm • 8 0 • view
reading The Ministry of Time now!
jan 4, 2025, 8:03 am • 4 0 • view
I read it because a friend said she didn’t like it so I was curious. I *loved* it - I was always interested in the Franklin Expedition so that made it all even better.
jan 4, 2025, 7:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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jan 4, 2025, 8:47 am • 0 0 • view
Impressive
jan 4, 2025, 1:44 am • 3 0 • view
I love book cover art/illustration. ♥️
jan 3, 2025, 11:37 pm • 5 0 • view
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jan 4, 2025, 10:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Can I say congratulations on your fabulous bookshelf?
jan 3, 2025, 11:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Um, I've read 50+ in the last 3 months.
jan 4, 2025, 12:04 am • 5 0 • view
I've read over 100 E Books since Nov 5th ... trying to de-stress ... it was working until the plane crash and we lost 67 souls ... most Brilliant Future Olympians ... why couldn't it have been 47 and his minions ??
jan 31, 2025, 9:30 pm • 2 0 • view
I read an average of 120 every year.
aug 31, 2025, 4:16 am • 0 0 • view
Used to read Henty at my prep school 60 yrs ago.
jan 4, 2025, 8:22 pm • 3 0 • view
😯 Wow! Over a hundred? 🥰
jan 4, 2025, 1:55 am • 0 0 • view
I read 50 books in the 4th grade and got a certificate for it. Me and this other dork were in a race with each other.
jan 3, 2025, 11:41 pm • 0 0 • view
jan 3, 2025, 10:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow... 👏👏👏
jan 5, 2025, 8:59 am • 0 0 • view
Impressive! What a beautiful library! How did you decide what to read ?
feb 20, 2025, 3:37 pm • 0 0 • view
I love the passion @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social ❤️
jan 3, 2025, 10:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Good luck with that,i tried for several years to break down my top ten, strange as it seems it is far easier to nail down a Ten than it is to say a Twenty or Fifty for some reason,or maybe it is just me.
jan 4, 2025, 1:47 pm • 3 0 • view
I read 127 books in 2024, 160 in 2023. A few of your favorites are in my TBR. Some of mine were Chris Whitaker’s Tall Oaks and All the Colors of the Dark; Jayne Anne Phillips’ Night Watch; and Kevin Fedarko’s A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon.
jan 4, 2025, 10:42 am • 1 0 • view
No paperbacks detected.
apr 29, 2025, 6:53 pm • 0 0 • view
01 03 2025 - I’ve finished my first book 🫶🏾
jan 4, 2025, 2:44 am • 4 0 • view
Impressive.
jan 3, 2025, 11:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Those are some beautiful bindings
jan 4, 2025, 12:45 am • 1 0 • view
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jan 4, 2025, 1:36 am • 0 0 • view
I'm shamelessly making notes.
jan 4, 2025, 1:33 am • 2 0 • view
I👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 reading / yay!
jan 3, 2025, 11:06 pm • 0 0 • view
I set a goal of 100 last year but came up short at 83.
aug 23, 2025, 11:19 am • 0 0 • view
Thank you for your service. Some of these definitely piqued my interest.
jan 5, 2025, 12:34 am • 1 0 • view
Oh, look at those covers! 😍
jan 4, 2025, 12:12 am • 0 0 • view
I'm retired, live in a small fishing village on an island and listen to audiobooks.
jan 4, 2025, 3:02 am • 26 0 • view
That sounds like a great life my friend!
jan 4, 2025, 6:37 am • 8 0 • view
I read (gulp) 222 books in 2024
jan 3, 2025, 10:37 pm • 22 0 • view
Is your job to read?
jan 4, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Woah.. I did 100 in 2023 and that effort almost killed me. Which is why I’ve signed up for 100 this year too
jan 4, 2025, 12:32 am • 18 0 • view
Thankyou for such a good list, I managed to find Sir Gawain on Libby at the library.
jan 3, 2025, 11:33 pm • 6 0 • view
My 2024 count was 150, a few more than the year before. This year will be no different. 📚👀 #ReadAllTheBooks
jan 4, 2025, 6:17 am • 4 0 • view
👏👏👏 💜💜💜
feb 10, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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jan 5, 2025, 1:05 am • 0 0 • view
Hope they’re books that help you grow & not just for entertainment
jan 4, 2025, 12:19 am • 1 0 • view
If you’re reading 100 books, you’re developing your mind, vocabulary, mental acuity, memory, concentration, intellect and countless other factors. Celebrate reading, unlike red states that ban books.
jan 4, 2025, 12:25 am • 12 0 • view
Every book you read helps you grow in some way, whether it's being introduced to a new word, a new perspective, or a new culture. You don't have to suffer to read. Entertainment is not shameful.
jan 4, 2025, 12:30 am • 2 0 • view
Reading is entertainment.
jan 4, 2025, 5:31 am • 0 0 • view
Books that help me grow entertains me. You are right about this.
jan 4, 2025, 11:20 am • 1 0 • view
I realise this isn't the point of the thread, but what a very handsome set of spines!
jan 28, 2025, 10:51 pm • 4 0 • view
Beautiful library,.
jan 3, 2025, 11:18 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm super impressed and also jealous...I used to be a voracious reader but lost that ability courtesy of depression.
feb 22, 2025, 7:34 am • 2 0 • view
@Zephyr_Sword
mar 14, 2025, 11:50 am • 3 0 • view
Wow. Just curious, do ya'll have full-time jobs?
jan 4, 2025, 12:12 am • 0 0 • view
Enlightenment, by Sarah Perry. The story of a gay astronomer and his friendship with a young woman, and how that relationship changes over the years, reads like a Victorian novel set in the present day. Perry grew up reading Dickens, Hardy and the King James Bible, and it shows.
jan 3, 2025, 10:24 pm • 105 8 • view
I really enjoyed The Essex Serpent; will have to check this out.
may 15, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
The Wide Wide Sea, by Hampton Sides. One of the more haunting narrative histories of recent years, Sides’ latest recounts Captain James Cook’s fateful last voyage along the Oregon coast towards Alaska, and the storm of mistakes and miscalculations that cost him his life.
jan 3, 2025, 10:24 pm • 81 6 • view
The Welsh Fairy Book and The Chinese Fairy Book. I’ve been reading piles of vintage fairytale books for a writing project, and these were two of the best. In them, fathers become dragons, tea cups become weapons, and peasants stumble on the slumbering King Arthur.
jan 3, 2025, 10:24 pm • 106 7 • view
Chinese fairy tales were my favorite in elementary school (70’s), I loved them and read them over and over.
jan 4, 2025, 11:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, by Walter Skeat. Skeat was offered the job of supervising the OED but turned it down so he could write this, still the best dictionary of English word origins. He’s also sly and sarcastic, like a Mr Norrell of linguistics.
jan 3, 2025, 10:24 pm • 113 12 • view
Passing, by Nella Larsen. When they meet again as adults, Irene is dismayed to learn that her childhood friend Clare is “passing” as white and married to a murderously hateful racist. A story of rare emotional power that becomes almost hypnotic in its final pages.
jan 3, 2025, 10:24 pm • 116 7 • view
I was assigned to read Passing by Nella Larson last semester in my Literature class and it's easily one of my favorite books!! It hardly felt like an assignment and I finished it before anybody else. Movie was a great watch too. The Harlem Renaissance gave us some fantastic literature
jan 4, 2025, 8:20 am • 1 0 • view
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight and Orfeo, translated by J. R. R. Tolkien. We can argue all day about the best version of Homer, but Tolkien is the master of Old and Middle English translations and his “Sir Gawain” retains all the terror and sublime joy of the original.
jan 3, 2025, 10:24 pm • 150 11 • view
The Crooked Hinge, by John Dickson Carr. I read three mystery novels by Carr this year, each one stranger than the previous, and this—with its impossible murder, coven of witches, mechanical men, and a resolution you will not see coming—was the strangest of all.
jan 3, 2025, 10:24 pm • 76 5 • view
I read all the Dr Fells in 2024, and Crooked Hinge was my favorite. 2025 shall be the year I read all the Sherlock Holmes...
jan 3, 2025, 10:36 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm making this the year I read all the Fells. I'm just about done with Hag's Nook.
jan 3, 2025, 10:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Agreed! This is a really vivid description of an ocean voyage. Carr has a wonderful way of evoking past places, the sounds, the sources of light, the weather.
jan 3, 2025, 10:37 pm • 1 0 • view
The Midnight Folk / The Box of Delights, by John Masefield. It’s a CRIME that Masefield’s children’s books aren’t better known in the US. Wonderfully English, featuring Cockney rats, wicked old ladies, dodgy pirates, and a bit of time-travel, they rival the best of C. S. Lewis.
jan 3, 2025, 10:24 pm • 93 8 • view
They're great, among my favourite books. Have you read the rest of the sequence though, which wouldn't fall under children's fiction (ODTAA, Sard Harker and The taking of the Gry)? They are most peculiar.
mar 9, 2025, 4:45 pm • 0 0 • view
In the Shadow of Young Girls, by Marcel Proust. The second book of Proust’s seven-volume In Search of Lost Time is even funnier, stranger and sharper than the first, centering on a trip via train to the French coast where Marcel makes new friends and falls in love.
jan 3, 2025, 10:24 pm • 97 4 • view
My absolute favorite volume of the Search....gorgeous...Planning trip to Cabourg & Le Grand Hôtel one day.
jan 4, 2025, 11:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Tell us about the gorgeous picture?
jan 3, 2025, 10:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh. If I read a better book this year, I can’t think what it was. Charles Ryder’s Oxford is the best portrayal of the city in print, and the story of his fraught relationship with the Flyte family over several decades is unbearably moving.
jan 3, 2025, 10:24 pm • 114 3 • view
I love these, and had to import a copy of one from the USA to UK, for it to match the other! The TV series on BBC iPlayer is rather delicious, too.
jan 4, 2025, 8:39 am • 0 0 • view
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mar 18, 2025, 11:02 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm surprised this may be the first I've heard of Carr. I've devoured so many other mystery authors of the time. I just added a bunch to my wishlist, thank you!
jan 3, 2025, 11:32 pm • 2 0 • view
He’s endless.
apr 20, 2025, 8:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m still looking for a good one. Maybe this?
jan 4, 2025, 1:06 am • 1 0 • view
Brilliant. Now I want to read a dictionary too.
jan 4, 2025, 2:29 am • 0 0 • view
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jan 4, 2025, 4:12 am • 0 0 • view
WHY HAVEN’T I HEARD OF THIS?
jan 3, 2025, 10:35 pm • 1 0 • view
it really is astonishing. I recently found a decent ebook for eighteen dollars on amazon, but at some point I'll have to buy it in hardback. our university library has a lovely edition.
jan 3, 2025, 10:40 pm • 2 0 • view
You inspired me to buy ‘A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language’ Walter S Skeats hardcover £41.49 Amazon UK A handy reference book for my library, alongside other reference books, classics, & digital books which I enjoyed so much I bought the hardcover to re-read in future
jan 5, 2025, 2:40 am • 1 0 • view
I enjoyed it a lot, also.
jan 3, 2025, 10:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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jan 4, 2025, 7:58 am • 0 0 • view
I read a *lot* but I've never logged before. After chatting to a friend about it I now have the GoodReads app to log my books. My book of the year (well, more series) was probably the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. Though The Lies of Locke Lamora are is a close second...
jan 4, 2025, 11:12 am • 10 0 • view
I wish I was a faster reader and could get thru even 3 books a year.
jan 3, 2025, 10:40 pm • 0 0 • view
I can be a speed reader but I really like to savor a good book not wanting it to end.
jan 3, 2025, 11:48 pm • 1 0 • view
I have faith in you!
jan 3, 2025, 10:44 pm • 1 0 • view
A lot of Henty there.
jan 3, 2025, 11:31 pm • 0 0 • view
I love this thread! Also, still learning how to even make a thread... lol! I posted my very first video ever online and it's about a banned book club, so I think I definitely fall into the "mad to know more" group (though I only got to 41 books last year). Love your stuff :)
feb 4, 2025, 11:57 pm • 3 0 • view
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jan 3, 2025, 11:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Gorgeous picture
jan 4, 2025, 3:02 am • 0 0 • view
Where do you find such beautiful books?
jan 3, 2025, 11:28 pm • 0 0 • view
That is certainly quite an impressive feat! My congratulations to getting down that many books!
jan 3, 2025, 11:08 pm • 1 0 • view
That's some amazing spine art! I wish my spine liked that good. Unfortunately it's taken up by arthritis at the moment
jan 4, 2025, 2:16 am • 1 0 • view
Thanks for all the great suggestions!
jan 3, 2025, 10:47 pm • 5 0 • view
It was not a good year for me. Hopefully this year goes differently. I have my first book ready to delve into.
jan 3, 2025, 11:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Beautiful shelves of books!
jan 3, 2025, 10:33 pm • 3 0 • view
No one spends money on designing gorgeous covers like that anymore. (I would love to be wrong, btw.)
jan 4, 2025, 1:13 am • 1 0 • view
I read War and Peace in a half hour. It's about Russia.
jan 4, 2025, 1:46 am • 3 0 • view
this joke slayed in 1980
jan 4, 2025, 1:48 am • 4 0 • view
You inspired me to check how many books I’ve read, my kindle says I’ve read 104 digital books in 2024. I can only guess how many physical books, I’d say high teens … a couple I was re-reading. Do audio books count? Approx 6 … they are great in the hot tub.
jan 4, 2025, 1:12 am • 9 0 • view
Audiobooks definitely count. I experience the book in a new way. I usually read the book first, and then I listen to it. It also exercises my focus.
jun 20, 2025, 12:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolutely audio books count!
jan 4, 2025, 2:47 pm • 8 0 • view
I set my goal for 50 books this year. Feeling like an under achiever!
jan 3, 2025, 11:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks; always interested in what other readers are enjoying
jan 3, 2025, 11:00 pm • 5 0 • view
🤜🏼🤛🏻
jan 4, 2025, 12:25 am • 0 0 • view
This post is why I decided to follow you. I’m an English teacher who has been teaching since 1986. It is extremely disheartening to hear my students say they don’t read books as though it’s something to be proud of.
jan 3, 2025, 11:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks for the John Dickson Carr recommendations. I was in a golden age mystery book group and they always chose the first book in a series, despite many of us saying we wanted a strong mid series title. Didn’t care for the one chosen, will try these.
jan 4, 2025, 7:36 pm • 1 0 • view
That said, have you read The Noh Mask Murder by Akimitsu Takagi? It’s a new translation of a Japanese locked room mystery, originally published in 1950. Manages to pull off both locked room and doomed sense of a lost past, both things I love in mysteries.
jan 4, 2025, 7:36 pm • 0 0 • view
My eyeballs were snagged by the picture of the shelves of Hentys! My grandfather had a whole wall bookshelf of them. Just had a hit of nostalgia😀
jan 4, 2025, 12:28 am • 5 0 • view
2018 I read 232 books. I was ill. That helped a lot.
aug 23, 2025, 3:40 am • 0 0 • view
Good going. I read the beginning of these two Buddhist books. I read one of then ten times (the beginning section). It talks about the basics. I need to look into the Four Noble Truths, and use the Eightfold path. Maybe I will make a list of goals for books. I have some Merton and Aquinas after that
jan 3, 2025, 11:20 pm • 2 0 • view
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jan 3, 2025, 11:49 pm • 0 0 • view
When i was a teenager i read alll the banned books and spent many a night sitting on the heat register reading books far into the night
jan 3, 2025, 10:45 pm • 17 0 • view
Was happy with my < 30😊Love your list!
feb 1, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
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jan 4, 2025, 8:37 pm • 0 0 • view
What were your favourites??
jan 3, 2025, 10:45 pm • 3 0 • view
did ... did you read the thread
jan 3, 2025, 11:22 pm • 2 0 • view
No I just saw the post
jan 4, 2025, 4:25 am • 0 0 • view