2024 in Books/Movies/TV

Books Read

It was a record-breaking book year for me. Like ok, me; get your read on. Got to escape the horrors of reality somehow! All bolded books are ones I got from the library for free (get a library card motherfuckers). All italicized books are ones I got discounted or free secondhand. And all the ones linked were my absolute favey faves of the year that I'd recommend to fellow book lovers.

1. The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
2. Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey
3. The Five-Star Weekend by Erin Hilderbrand
4. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
5. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
6. The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
7. Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
8. Remember When 1 by T. Torrest
9. Remember When 2 by T. Torrest
10. Remember When 3 by T. Torrest
11. Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
12. The One Hundred Years of Lenny and Margot by Marianne Cronin
13. Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
14. It's On Me: Accept Hard Truths, Discover Your Self, and Change Your Life by Sara Kubric
15. The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
16. The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
17. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
18. This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
19. This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens
20. Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
21. Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
22. Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
23. The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn
24. Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
25. Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
26. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab
27. Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
28. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing An Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
29. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir by Anna Marie Tendler
30. Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell
31. Crescent City 1: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
32. Room by Emma Donoghue
33. Crescent City 2: House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
34. Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
35. Crescent City 3: House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas
36. Grief is for People by Sloane Crosby
37. The Women by Kristin Hannah
38. All Fours by Miranda July
39. The Love of My Afterlife by Kristy Greenwood 
40. The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

Movies Watched

I feel like I normally watch SO MANY more movies but there wasn't a whole lot out there. Or maybe there was but I just preferred to read. Regardless, I linked the trailers for all the movies I really enjoyed this year below. 

1. Luck
2. Dune: Part II
3. Dream Scenario
4. The Idea of You
5. The Greatest Hits
6. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
7. It Ends with Us
8. His Three Daughters
9. A Family Affair
10. Woman of the Hour
11. Plus One
12. Inside Out 2
13. My Old Ass
14. The Fall Guy
15. The Holdovers

 TV Shows Watched

My tastes range from true crime to trash. From comedy specials to documentaries. From critically acclaimed dramas to book-inspired limited series. From sci-fi to young adult. And just about everything in between. You know the drill now, I linked the trailers for all the shows I super duper enjoyed this year below. 

1. The Curious Case of Natalia Grace
2. American Nightmare
3. Love is Blind: Sweden
4. Love on the Spectrum (S2)
5. For All of Mankind (S4)
6. Queer Eye: New Orleans
7. Slow Horses (S1-3)
8. Love is Blind: South Carolina
9. One Day
10. Lessons in Chemistry
11. Quiet on Set 
12. Fallout
13. Shogun
14. Conan O'Brien Must Go
15. Baby Reindeer
16. Such Brave Girls
17. Bad Blood Taylor vs. Scooter
18. Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
19. The Man with 1,000 Kids
20. Nikki Glaser's Someday You'll Die
21. The Bear (S3)
22. Simone Biles Rising
23. Too Hot to Handle (S6)
24. Love is Blind: UK
25. American Murder: Laci Peterson
26. So Notorious
27. Extraordinary
28. A Good Girls Guide to Murder
29. Selling Sunset (S8)
30. Dark Matter
31. Will & Harper
32. Ali Wong's Single Lady
33. Tim Dillon's This is your Country
34. Sweet Bobby
35. English Teacher
36. School Spirits
37. Shrinking (S2)
38. Cobra Kai (S6 PI & PII)
39. Martha
40. Kaos