I did it! Book challenge 2024

This was my first year of taking part in this challenge and I finished it with just a few hours to spare.  My final book was Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver which was quite a tough read as the subject matter is bleak and it's a long book.  

I also managed another 14 books bringing my total for the year to 66 which I'm very happy with.

The next job will be to try and work out where I can fit the books on my TBR teetering pile into the 2025 challenge list which contains some quite tricky prompts.

Thankfully I have a jump start because my daughter and my very bookish daughter-in-law (her total for the year was 200 books!) both gave me books at Christmas which will fit several prompts on the list.

This is a full list of the books I read:

Demon Copperhead	Barbara Kingsolver	5*
Mad Honey	Jodi Picoult	5*
My Other Husband	Dorothy Koomson	5*
Revelation	CJ Sansom	5*
Tell Me Everything	Elizabeth Strout	5*
The Banker’s Wife	Cristina Alger	5*
The Secret Garden	Frances Hodgson Burnett	5*
The Storyteller	Jodi Picoult	5*
The Stranger	Harlan Coben	5*
The Stranger Diaries	Elly Griffiths	5*
Wrong Place Wrong Time	Gillian McAllister	5*
A Spark of Light	Jodi Picoult	4*
Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt	Lucinda Riley	4*
Bleeding Heart Yard	Elly Griffiths	4*
Die Trying (Jack Reacher #2)	Lee Child	4*
Grace after Henry	Eithne Shortall	4*
How to Disappear	Gillian McAllister	4*
Killers of the Flower Moon	David Grann	4*
Life of Pi	Yann Martel	4*
Long Shadows	David Baldacci	4*
Lucy by the Sea	Elizabeth Strout	4*
Oh William!	Elizabeth Strout	4*
One Day with You	Shari Low	4*
Sing you Home	Jodi Picoult	4*
The Girl in the Spider’s Web	David Lagercrantz	4*
The Midwife’s Confession	Diane Chamberlain	4*
The Mother-in-law	Sally Hepworth	4*
The Murders at Fleat House	Lucinda Riley	4*
The Only Suspect	Louise Candlish	4*
The Paris Apartment	Lucy Foley	4*
The Postscript Murders	Elly Griffiths	4*
The Women	Kristen Hannah	4*
Wish You Were Here	Jodi Picoult	4*
A Vintage Wedding	Katie Fforde	3*
All Good People Here	Ashley Flowers	3*
Becoming	Michelle Obama	3*
David Copperfield	Charles Dickens	3*
Even Dogs in the Wild	Ian Rankin	3*
Friends with Secrets	Christine Gunderson	3*
Headstrong: 52 Women who changed Science and the World	Rachel Swaby	3*
Life Begins at 50	Celia Anderson	3*
Nine Perfect Strangers	Liane Moriarty	3*
One Italian Summer	Rebecca Serle	3*
Pieces of my Heart	Sinead Moriarty	3*
Reasons to Stay Alive	Matt Haig	3*
Silent Voices	Ann Cleeves	3*
Sleep	CL Taylor	3*
Sweet Caress	William Boyd	3*
The Dream House	TM Logan	3*
The Exchange	John Grisham	3*
The Paris Secret	Karen Swan	3*
The Perfect Couple	Elin Hilderbrand	3*
The Phoenix Crown	Kate Quinn	3*
The Prisoner	BA Paris	3*
The Queue	Alexandra Heminsley	3*
The Serial Killer’s Daughter	Alice Hunter	3*
Twice Shy	Sarah Hogle	3*
Weyward	Emilia Hart	3*
Woman in Cabin 10	Ruth Ware	3*
Anxious People	Fredrik Backman	2*
It Ends with Us	Colleen Hoover	2*
Normal People	Sally Rooney	2*
Spectacles	Sue Perkins	2*
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	2*
The Last Word	Elly Griffiths	2*
The Slap	Christos Tsiolkas	1*