2024 Books & Reading

The books I read and/or listened to this past year, and previous years:

2024 — 2023 — 2022 — 2021 — 2020 — 2019 — 2018 — 2017

Here’s my ongoing list of books completed. Any burning thoughts were shared there and also in the newsletter throughout the year, upon completion. This is my excuse for not summarizing them here. :) But I love a good visual list. You can shop most of these books here.

Starting at the beginning of the year:

Book Resources + Things

For organization:

• GoodReads — For saving and categorizing to-read books, logging personal reading, perusing reviews, and connecting with other readers. (Others may not love the idea of it or find it doesn’t serve them well - that’s fine! It makes sense for and works for me.)

For audiobooks:

Most of the books I get to are because I’m able to listen to audiobooks as I go about certain tasks and housekeeping duties (i.e. occupied hands and eyeballs). I’m in a very physically demanding season of life, so this works for me. Plus—in hindsight—I’ve been an audio learner from childhood. And you do not, in fact, need to be robbed by Audible in order to listen to a few per month.

• Hoopla — One option for free audio or ebooks through your library. This one tends to have more of the smaller authors/less popular titles.

• OverDrive (Libby app) — Another option for free audio or ebooks through your library. This one tends to have more of the bigger names/popular titles

• Everand (formerly Scribd) — It’s $17 a month for three audiobooks (or more generally “unlocks” of any kind). It includes access not only to audiobooks but ebooks, as well as related podcasts and articles. A no-brainer for me, as it fills in lots of the gaps in books not offered for free via the library system or Libro.

• Libro.fm — Like Audible, but supports local bookstores instead of Amazon.

• Audible — This is the last resort. If I’ve bought an audiobook here, it’s because 1) the book is one I really, really wanted to listen to and 2) it was not found at the places above.

• Kindle ebooks — For certain books not available on audio that, for whatever reason, I’d like to have in this medium.

For physical books:

• ThriftBooks — A great place to look for used books. I love the Wish List feature, both for myself and my husband… but especially for children’s books.

• BetterWorldBooks — I’m loyal to ThriftBooks simply because that’s where our Wish List is. But this is another option.

• Bookshop — If you must buy a new book, support your local bookstore as you do so. This online option is as easy as buying from Amazon. (I’ll continue adding to and sharing books from my Bookshop storefront this year.)

• Libraries — Don’t forget about yours.

Cheers,

Haley

(Last year's post)