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A Year of Reading: A Month-by-month Guide to Classics and Crowd-pleasers for You and Your Book Group | Elisabeth Ellington, Jane Freimiller

I read 154 books this year! At the beginning of the year I started drawing the spines in my book journal with a stack for each month & am proud to say I kept it up all year long. I‘m definitely going to continue to do this in 2025 as I love the way these pages turn out… plus it‘s good practice for my art.

In the middle of 2 more books but I don‘t know if I will finish them today. Might wait to post my StoryGraph wrap-up tomorrow just in case.

Julsmarshall So gorgeous! 3w

staci.reads Beautiful! 3w

Librariana Oh my goodness gracious, this is AMAZING!! What a talent you are! 😍😍😍 3w

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TheBookHippie Beautiful. 3w

vlwelser 😍😍😍😍😍 3w

Deblovestoread Love this! 🩵 3w

EKonrad This is gorgeous! You‘re so talented! 3w

BookmarkTavern Beautiful! 3w

TheBookgeekFrau 😍😍 3w

MeganAnn Oh wow! Thank you all for your kind words!! 🥰 Hoping to post this year‘s stacks more regularly. @Julsmarshall @staci.reads @Librariana @TheBookHippie @vlwelser @Deblovestoread @EKonrad @BookmarkTavern @TheBookgeekFrau (edited) 3w

DogMomIrene Those are beautiful! 3w

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Blueberry

A Year of Reading: A Month-by-month Guide to Classics and Crowd-pleasers for You and Your Book Group | Elisabeth Ellington, Jane Freimiller

NataliePatalie 😱 1mo

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Blueberry

A Year of Reading: A Month-by-month Guide to Classics and Crowd-pleasers for You and Your Book Group | Elisabeth Ellington, Jane Freimiller

Your 'year of reading' from Goodreads has a different look this year.
Edit: 😆, it doesn't. It's the same at the website.

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Blueberry

A Year of Reading: A Month-by-month Guide to Classics and Crowd-pleasers for You and Your Book Group | Elisabeth Ellington, Jane Freimiller

5⭐

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Kshakal

The Book of Book Lists: A Bibliophile's Compendium | Johnson

I am starting my list of books I know will be coming out in 2025!!!

TheSpineView You are too organized! 3mo

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Megabooks

Books of the Century: A Hundred Years of Authors, Ideas and Literature | Charles McGrath

Joining in! Not bad considering I didn‘t read much until 2012 and have a severe recency bias.

Really surprised there were none by Maggie O‘Farrell or Lauren Groff or many other authors. Too many by Saunders and Ward. They‘re both fantastic authors, but I feel like they should‘ve chosen no more than one from each author for a wider variety. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤔

peaKnit I agree, was surprise by multiples of Ward. 6mo

LiteraryinPA I agree that a cap of one per author would have been better. 6mo

mdemanatee Was really surprised not to see Groff 6mo

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BarbaraBB You didn‘t read much until 2012? I didn‘t know that! 6mo

BarbaraBB I agree with one book per author. Or one series like the Ferrante one, instead of multiple entries. 6mo

vivastory Chiming in that there should have been a limit of one per author to allow more space for others (edited) 6mo

Megabooks @BarbaraBB I did read some in my pre-vet school years, but with working 2 jobs, going to school, and having 1-2 volunteering things, I didn‘t have time for more than a book a week if that. It was about the same in vet school. I mostly read nonfiction, which still fits what I read more of in stressful years (like this one)! 🙃 6mo

BarbaraBB A book a week is still a lot. But I get what you say. I read less too during uni but for me that was in another century 🤣 6mo

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Amiable

Books of the Century: A Hundred Years of Authors, Ideas and Literature | Charles McGrath

I didn‘t keep track of the exact number, but I also have at least 10 more books from the NYT list sitting in my TBR shelves. Now I want to find and read them so I can re-do this checklist. 😄

Allbymyshelf Wow 30! 🙌 How did you make this graphic, it‘s super cool! 6mo

BarbaraBB @readmyeyes There‘s a free link today to the list and the graphic on https://modernmrsdarcy.com 6mo

Allbymyshelf ⬆️ I figured out the graphic is on the NYT site lol 🤪 6mo

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Allbymyshelf Thank you!! 😊 @BarbaraBB 6mo

Laughterhp I‘ve read 8 😬😬😬 6mo

Amiable @readmyeyes Yes! Thankfully the NYT did the graphic for me because there is no way I could do anything like that myself. 😄 6mo

kspenmoll Yay for you!🙌🏻 6mo

Amiable @kspenmoll It seems like an odd list. But every “best of” list is so subjective, anyway. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 6mo

5feet.of.fury …2. Lol Station Eleven & Fifth Season 6mo

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BarbaraBB

Books of the Century: A Hundred Years of Authors, Ideas and Literature | Charles McGrath

Thanks to the #Bookerprize, the #ToB and the #1001books list I‘ve read a lot of them yet I do think it‘s too America focused. I do love American fiction, but I‘d expected a more international list.

Amiable Good point! 6mo

TrishB Agreed! But well done. 6mo

Ruthiella Yup! So many I‘ve read because they were in a list or part of a challenge. 6mo

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staci.reads Impressive! 6mo

vlwelser I think you're probably the winner. 6mo

vivastory 53! Very impressive 6mo

Megabooks Wow! You definitely have me beat! 6mo

Suet624 Fantastic. 6mo

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