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The 144 Most Read Books of the 2024 Reading Challenge
Goodreads regulars will be aware that our 2024 Reading Challenge is coming to a glorious conclusion with the ringing in of the new year. This is, of course, our annual group reading exercise, in which members pledge to read a certain number of books over the course of the calendar year. Think of it as a fitness class for book nerds.
Well, the numbers are in, and they’re kind of eye-popping: More than 9 million readers signed up to read more than 356 million books in the year 2024. It’s inspirational! It’s aspirational! It’s amazing!
Perhaps you’re curious: Which books were the most popular in this year’s Reading Challenge? We were curious, too. Below are the top 12 books marked as Read by participants in this year’s challenge, sorted by genre.
Scroll around and you’ll see that several familiar names placed multiple books in the collection—some across different genres: R.F. Kuang, Alex Michaelides, Ali Hazelwood, Taylor Jenkins Reid, David Grann, Sarah J. Maas. Quite a few hugely popular recent books made the charts, too: Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Demon Copperhead and James McBride’s Kirkus Prize winner, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store.
There’s also a fun scattering of old genre classics, high-school English class favorites, popular memoirs, modern queer fiction classics, deeply weird true stories, and even a bit of fan fiction. Plus, of course, you’ll find the enduring delights of hockey romance.
Click on the book cover images for more information about each title, and use the Want to Read button if you’re already thinking about 2025.
Fiction
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Historical Fiction
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Mystery & Thriller
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Fantasy
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Romantasy
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Science Fiction
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Horror
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Romance
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Young Adult
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Memoirs
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History & Biography
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General Nonfiction
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How many of these books have you read? Let us know in the comments below!
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Jan 07, 2025 02:45PM
Wow, I’ve read 19 on the list!
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I’ve read 5 of these, with another 9 on my Want to Read list.
Ah Dune i want to read this Year...but need to find & good place for reading..And get out from toxic place first 😅
I have read 27 of the books listed. A nice variety of genres. Some were great, some were meh, but none were terrible.
I have read SO many of the young adult books - this is paradise.
Read a book from this challenge but it wasn’t counted! How to fix this?
40 (should be 42, but I see there are 2 that I forgot to add to my read list).
I have read a couple and all of them are horrible. I’m not a fan of modern literature at all.
Read 26 and 33 TBR, lol story of my life.
Demon copperhead, covenant of water, bunny, and things that move the dead were some of my favorite reads for 2024. Just saying.
Read 19 16 want to read
Some of the categories I don’t read
If you’re trying to introduce new authors to readers, there shouldn’t be so many repeats on this list. You do know there are other authors than Sarah J Maas, right?
My bookmark reward isn't working. I just finished a book that's included in this list and the reward isn't showing up
I read only 2 of them so far. Fantasy must be the popular genre and I’m not so sure it’s mine.
Surprising that not one book on health and ways to improve our being have made the “popular’ listings. But then as I look at the human shapes surrounding me I realize that maybe we as a society should make more of an effort to promote wellness above fantasy and romance.
i’m surprised at how many of these i’ve read! whether lately or in the past. the young adult is a little messed up, i think. TOG is definitely fantasy and not for teens (explicit-ness) lol
ive read 2 of these lmao, heartstopper and agggtm, twisted love is tbr bc my bestie is obsessed with the series lmao, the rest kinda seem terrible (especially icebreaker, literally a wattpad fanfic)
As with others I have not received my bookmark for the book I finished last week. And the book appears on another challenge as well so I'm intrigued to see if I get a two for one or not.
I finished Demon Copperhead 3 days ago but I have not received credit for completing the challenge 🤷🏻♂️
I read, "This is how you lose the time war". It hasn't counted for my buzzy book selection. I was wondering why and how I can get credit?
Gross. Fanfiction does not deserve to be on this list. 🙄
Has anyone received their achievement bookmark/credit yet?I'm having the same problem.
Tried to contact Goodreads via the contact us form and got back a VERY fast response that told me to check things I'd already mentioned checking and then said it could take a few hours to receive credit. It's been almost 3 hours and still nothing, and the fact that it's a common comment here makes me think more time isn't goin to help...
Have read 63 of these. But 2024 was my worst reading year since starting goodreads yearly challenges
Carmen wrote: "Has anyone received their achievement bookmark/credit yet?I'm having the same problem.
Tried to contact Goodreads via the contact us form and got back a VERY fast response that told me to check t..."
Marked completed one of them today that also goes into one of the other categories and also reviewed the book. But it does not complete the challenge for some reason..
So yeah I also have the same problem Carmen
I did 17 of them already most last year lol I am so happy to see David Mitchell on here. I adore him!
Read The Housemaid and The Housemaid's Secret. Very good. Hello Beautiful and Remarkably Bright Creatures were 2 of my favorite reads in 2024. 💖
19, maybe 20. I can't remember if I read Into the Wild while on my Krakauer kick. The more I think about it, the more I think I did. Mostly I read a lot of indie horror though, so despite being an avid reader, not many of my books have made the list. I'm definitely think they should be.
Just curious...why isn't there a Banned Book challenge? They cover many of the categories listed, some old classics, some modern. All seem to challenge our ethnic, cultural, religious norms, etc. I've read a total of 42. They are "eye openers", and make you think.
I have read 2 of the "General Non-Fiction" and have a third one that I own and it is in the queue for this year of 2025. I have also read one of the listed "Science Fiction" books but only because it is a famous classic.
I wish I could read every single title listed. That would be the dream.
Read 5 / 15 on the want to read list, many are on my shelf already.
I read Manacled; finished it today and Goodsread didn’t give me the badge. Also… my heart. I literally cried on the bus reading the last epilogue
I read This is How You Lose the Time War this January and it's not showing in my challenge as a "Buzzy Book". I've checked the read date is in January 2025 and yes it is, I've checked that it's showing as "read" on this page and yes it is. It's just not showing as a bookmark in the challenge. I wouldn't mind so much if I hadn't hated reading this particular book and stubbornly just got through it so it'd count towards the genre reading challenge!
7 want to read and 1 read not a very interesting list for me and the majority of the want to read is dry so they're just on the TBR list
Please for hells sake remove the fanfiction off here, its not a book and this labelling fanfiction on goodreads is not what ao3 authors want. You are damaging the fanfiction spaces by binding books, listing them on goodreads. does no one remember when authors were suing fanworks, leave fanfiction on fanfiction sites
I’ve read 48 books on this list. I’m actually pretty impressed with myself.
Helen wrote: "6 read, 16 on my wtr list"same! I wouldn't mind so much but I really didn't enjoy it and finished it thinking at least it would give me the satisfaction of a bookmark.
Lottie wrote: "I have read SO many of the young adult books - this is paradise."Same happened to me. I've checked the date and it's fine. It's showing as "read" on this page so I've no idea why it's not counting. Frustrating!
I had trouble with the Buzzy Book & I contacted Goodreads directly about this. Their suggestion was:Search and find another qualifying book;
Then mark that book as "Read" with a qualifying read date;
Once this has been done, please remove that book from your shelves. This should then refresh your challenge, and the missing achievement should be attributed to your beta challenge.
I tried this & it worked. I used Fahrenheit 451 (I had rated it & read it before, but there was no reading date). I added a read date for today; then, it activated the Buzzy Book Challenge Award. I removed the book from the main reading challenge & the Buzzy Book Award remained.
