A Year of Books | Everything I’ve Read in 2024

It’s time to say a fond farewell to a year of reading (before excitingly starting a whole new one imminently) and as I’ve been a bit ropey with wrap ups this year. Why not have a look back at 2024 and wrap up everything I’ve read. It’s the longest video I’ve ever done, so god speed and good luck to you embarking on it. Hahaha. How was your reading year? Happy New Year! Thanks for being here in 2024, it means a lot. Here’s to 2025!!!! #booktube #readingwrapup #reader #books #wrapup
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[@angelawebb7676]

You going on about how long your video while I already know I will watch it at least 3 more times just to gather my 2025 TBR. Thank you Simon! Happy New Year

[@SavidgeReads]

Wow. Thats some serious dedication and some serious hours of KZbin watching. Hahaha.

[@juditkovacse]

An hour 43 minutes of video from Simon? Wow what a bangin end to the year. 😃

[@SavidgeReads]

Hahaha. That’s very kind of you to say. I have been worried that a video this long might make people think ‘who on earth does he think he is’ I tried so hard to be succinct but it’s 120+ books lol.

[@Ali-AvidReader]

Thanks for this Simon, I’ve been working my way through this slowly and adding to my list.

[@SavidgeReads]

An absolute pleasure, thanks for watching.

[@ecw199]

1 hour 43 minute video... absolutely wonderful! More long videos in 2025 please Simon, it is so lovely to spend time with you. Thank you and Happy New Year

[@SavidgeReads]

Hahaha. Be careful what you wish for hahaha. I enjoyed doing this video once I let go of the stress of trying to make it short at the start. Hahaha. Glad you enjoyed it! Here’s to 2025!!!!

[@janepeacock3704]

aww thanx Simon 👍 (you too 😘) I can get distracted & that’s one of my reading NY resolutions - to stay more focused (eg read those 📚already waiting on my shelves lol 😏)🤞

[@SavidgeReads]

I’m filming my reading intentions later today. I switched to intentions as they can be more changeable and sway-able than resolutions.

[@mradcaqbdb]

An hour and 43 minutes from Simon? IT’S CHRISTMAS! Wait. Well, not quite. But thank you! 😘

[@SavidgeReads]

Hahaha. I thought people would think this was faaaaaaaar too long a video from me, thrilled people seem to be happy I did it. Lol. Never again this long though, never again.

[@sofiabotelho3183]

Thank you for this video, Simon! It was delightful to go through your year in reading. My first read of the year here is Orbital, loving it. Happy 2025! ✨🥂

[@SavidgeReads]

Ooh I love Orbital, I love Samantha Harvey. Can’t recommend heading to The Western Wind enough next!

[@jacquelinemcmenamin8204]

Perfect New Year’s Eve. In bed with big mug of decaf tea and watching Simon on booktube 💕🥰😍

[@SavidgeReads]

Awwww that’s a lovely comment to get. Happy New Year Jacqueline. I hope it’s a fabulous 2025 for us all!

[@kimswhims8435]

This is a marathon effort Simon....and I'm so here for that. So many books I want to read, so many books I've also enjoyed. I'm #readingfrommyshelves in 2025...and trying not to be distracted by shiny new releases....but you know I'm still going to watch videos of new releases. Hope you have a great reading year in 2025.

[@SavidgeReads]

Here’s to a great reading year for us all!

[@janepeacock3704]

Bravo - well done Simon 📚👏🏻 Happy New Year & best wishes 🤓 I just double-checked how many 2024 ‘Savidge Prompts’ I have outstanding & it’s 6 🫣 (thought it was just 3 or 4!) So, I’ll try & catchup with those while reading the 2025 ones (already got those lined up!) TC x

[@SavidgeReads]

No pressure at all Jane. They’re just meant to be fun. Here’s to a fab reading year prompt completing or not. Ha!

[@carolbresnahan1244]

Wow! What an absolute treat that was!! Thank you . Hope you and Chris have a very happy year ❤

[@SavidgeReads]

Here’s to a fabulous 2025 for us all!

[@cherylynlarking191]

wow! what a wrap up to do. Appreciated the time you needed to gather and tell us all about. Happy New Year.

[@SavidgeReads]

It was actually waaaaay more fun than I thought it would be - I was quite nervous. It was also waaaaay longer than I thought it would be too TBF.

[@juliehughes1258]

Simon, once again I am astounded by the breadth and depth of your reading, and by all of the authors you had the privilege of interviewing in 2024. Your interview with Kate Atkinson in the Newcastle cinema where you and your mom went when she was at the university is such a lovely story, made better because your mom was there with you for the interview.

[@SavidgeReads]

That’s very kind of you to say. I got some fab books to read and events to host last year. The event with Kate did have a real magic to it. An extra special something for so many reasons.

[@sbeale276]

I enjoyed this video and with it being longer than usual was a delight with a cuppa a tea and a slice of cake because its the law you can’t have tea without cake 😂 thank you for you bookish chats this year and looking forward to what you share with us all in 2025. Happy new year 🎉😊

[@SavidgeReads]

I think the law is cake or biscuits. Hahaha.

[@sbeale276]

@ true biscuits too 😂

[@Nadia-ox8yo]

What a treat, Simon, thank you for such a wonderful view of your reads this year, very excited for crime time with Pip returning! Happy New Year to you too

[@SavidgeReads]

Hope you had a lovely New Year’s Eve, delighted you enjoyed this.

[@louisetilley3813]

Loved this video, watched it twice , Happy New year to you Chris and cats

[@SavidgeReads]

Twice!!!! Wowsers!!!!

[@sarahkerr6618]

I who have never known men was one of my faves in 2024! I picked it up after watching your rave review, so thank you 👍

[@SavidgeReads]

Sooooo pleased you loved I Who Have Never Known Men and sooooo thrilled I led you to it, as it were!

[@TanyaWestley]

What a lovely video to sit and watch with a cuppa. I have just bought a ticket to your event with Lottie Hazell at Daunt so looking forward to that!

[@SavidgeReads]

Ooooh lovely that you’ll be at that event. See you then!!!

[@alche1197]

Fabulous video Simon.. Thank you! Have a great 2025!

[@SavidgeReads]

Here’s to a fab 2025 for all of us!

[@cecilialau_]

Loooove a Savidge wrap-up. What a treat to get your thoughts on all your 2024 reads! Well done btw! Enjoyed every minute as always. -Feel very fangirly with how excited I am to watch the prompts unfold tmrw 😄

[@SavidgeReads]

Ha. I hope it was a treat. Cos it was bloody long if it wasn’t. Hahaha. I hope people enjoy the prompts. There are some corkers!

[@woodlandbunny]

The perfect NYE treat! a long video with tons of book recommendation in = perfection. Wishing you a Happy New Year, Simon 😊

[@SavidgeReads]

Glad you’re enjoying it. A very very Happy New Year to you too!!

[@carolinebrown8186]

thank you so much! (busily adding to my tbr 🙂) -- happy new year!

[@SavidgeReads]

And a very happy new year to you too!

[@nothingtoseehere316]

Happy New Year Simon- to you, Chris, the Duchess all your furry babies 🥰 and your family. Are you planning a January- solo rest trip to Edinburgh? Huggs xxx

[@SavidgeReads]

I have been mulling a January solo trip but not to Edinburgh this year. Still debating options… or if I might just want a long weekend at home. Hahaha.

[@LouiseReader]

Wow! That sure was something. I'm going to pick up the audio of Monique Roffey's Passiontide from all the gems discussed.

[@SavidgeReads]

A very good choice indeed. Hope you enjoy it!

[@jenisalwaysreading]

I do love a nice long video from you. I saw the time and went "oooo, nice" so I enjoyed myself!

[@SavidgeReads]

I’m thrilled to hear it! Thank you.

[@janethansen9612]

Happy New Year Simon. I have a no buy January so I can get through some of my physical tbr before the madness (FOMO really) starts again pre book prize season. So many books, so little time.

[@SavidgeReads]

Ooh good luck with the no buy. Though so far I’ve not bought anything in 2025 so I’m very proud of myself… a whole day and a bit in 😉

[@janethansen9612]

@@SavidgeReads Such restraint!

[@kathleenwalsh3556]

Soooo good! Thanks heaps, Simon, loadsa work there. Agree about Burnam Wood. Thanx to Oscar for introducing the cat's tail element. Hi to Chris. Still to report on Raising Hare.

[@SavidgeReads]

Hahahaha. This was actually one of the easiest videos to film and edit. Just very long. I have spent 4 hours editing an hour video down to 32 mins today! Apparently I wanted to talk a lot at the end of 2024, hahaha.

[@grrrumpypanda]

you were in great form for this one. i watched it while pottering around the flat on new year's day. lovely jubbly!

[@SavidgeReads]

So glad you enjoyed it. With no edits you literally got me in the full natter mode my IRL friends get me in, well I do pause for breath and let them talk, ha!

[@JennieRavn]

What a joy to start the year with this 🥰 also my TBR list got some new friends 📚

[@SavidgeReads]

So pleased you enjoyed it and delighted your TBR will have new friends joining them. What a lovely way of thinking of it.

[@tirarosaurioreads]

This is making my first day at work after the Xmas hols :) Thank you. I wanna read "Local Fires" now because of you.

[@SavidgeReads]

Can’t recommend Local Fires enough. I don’t want to be a bad influence when you’re at work though. 😱

[@thatothernigeriangirl]

Oh Dazzling! We started off interestingly. I have a copy and I really want to read because I rarely read Igbo mythology

[@SavidgeReads]

It’s a good book, just the book to start a year off with. Bonkers. Lol.

[@MoniqueBourgeois]

Thanks so much...I added a few to my TBR...Excited:)

[@SavidgeReads]

Hope you enjoy those books you added!

[@jennymcevoy8961]

Fabulous video...Happy New Year Simon 😊

[@SavidgeReads]

Thank you and a happy new year to you and yours!

[@ellenturnbull1303]

What a feast of a video Simon! I now have a really long list of notes on my phone.. (and you are really challenging my no book buying in January 😅) Happy New Year 🎉

[@SavidgeReads]

Hahaha. A feast! What a compliment. Hope it wasn’t too much though!

[@alisonbell3475]

Fantastic video x

[@SavidgeReads]

Awww thank you!

[@thatothernigeriangirl]

Noting down Joshua Jones. I love short stories collections - and Brotherless Night AND The Bee Sting! I’ve also now added Bad Habit and Adam. Omg 😂

[@SavidgeReads]

Soooo many good books there.

[@sorina1306]

What a treat! Happy New Year!!

[@SavidgeReads]

And a very happy new year to you too, glad you enjoyed this (possibly too) long video. Haha.

[@thatothernigeriangirl]

I’ve read The Pachinko Parlour and being wanting to get to Winter in Sokcho! And I actually kinda enjoy Western Lane. Really enjoyed how it portrays grief. Oh and I also read Riambel. It was nice to read a book set in Mauritius but I also thought it could have been longer and more in-depth

[@SavidgeReads]

Yeah I was definitely hoping for more with Riambel. You’ve a quiet but beautiful treat ahead with Winter in Sokcho.

[@nathansnook]

what are you doing with my nooks??? 😭😭😭 to many more buddy reads in 2025!!! can't wait to do the Mishima with you

[@SavidgeReads]

Your nooks will never be the same!!! Even more so after February’s buddy read 😱

[@leeh4343]

Loved your interview with Akwaeke Emezi - one of my Booktube highlights of the year. 😊 here’s to a fab 2025 full of great books ! (Like This Motherless Land 💕). I have A History of Dreams out from the library - need to find me a coven in Melbourne. 😆

[@SavidgeReads]

You’ve a treat with Jane’s book. I’m so excited she’s got a new book coming out this year. Non fiction about nature - yes please!!!! Oh and thrilled you enjoyed the interview with Akwaeke. One of my highlights of 2024!

[@wooshell11]

Wow. Great video. Have a fabulous new year!

[@SavidgeReads]

And a very fabulous New Year to you too!

[@spexi513]

😂 I’m obsessed w Nathan andddd you 💚

[@SavidgeReads]

Delighted to be in the same company as Nathan. Am determined we will do a collab at some point.

[@cindyhaiken5644]

Well done!!!! I know it was a long video but honestly it flew by! Of all those books, the ones that I’ve read that really stood out for me this year were I Who Have Never Known Men, Clear, Stone Yard Devotional, You Are Here and Long Island. High up on my 2025 TBR are the new Coe, the new Natasha Brown and the new Ingrid Persaud. Anne Enright is a glorious writer. Try The Gathering. And how wonderful to finish the year with Alan Bennett! Also that t-shirt is fab! Here’s to bookish delights galore in 2025!

[@SavidgeReads]

I’m very excited for 2025. I feel like 2024 was a bit of a ‘mid’ year if you know what I mean. Books wise and personally. But I think that’s actually quite good after the panny d and post panny d years. I want 2025 to be ‘very good’ minimum. Hahaha. No pressure on it at all on day one.

[@cindyhaiken5644]

@ I definitely know and agree about 2024 being a mid year. Fingers crossed for 2025!

[@inkylabyrinth]

Passiontide, Little Rot, and River East River West all made it into my top 10. The latter I don't think I would have read if it weren't for the Women's Prize. Thank you for a year of book chats!!

[@SavidgeReads]

A pleasure. I am still not 100% decided on my top 10. A few keep moving here and there. Will give it a few more days to settle.

[@racheldemain1940]

I bought Stoneyard Devotional from your Booker Read video and it will be much decond book of 2025. Will let you know what i think.

[@SavidgeReads]

Oooh do!!!!

[@Book_Hugger]

So ready for the Women’s prize in 2025! Thank you for this video

[@SavidgeReads]

Me too. Though wish there was longer to read the books lol.

[@bmasters1981]

Some of what I read in '24: --5 of the medical/hospital thriller novels by former Boston doctor turned author Michael Palmer, M.D. (Flashback from 1988 was the first one I read; the others have been Side Effects from 1985, Natural Causes from 1994, Silent Treatment from 1995 and The Fifth Vial from 2007) --Summer of '49 by David Halberstam, from 1989 (about the pennant race of 1949 in Major League Baseball between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox)

[@SavidgeReads]

Nice!

[@janepeacock3704]

⁠Yes, ‘resolution’ is quite a strict word !! 😬 I intend sounds better 👍💛

[@jackiesliterarycorner]

I loved Yellowface. I listened to it on audiobook.

[@SavidgeReads]

It's a good book. Glad you enjoyed the audio.

[@jackiesliterarycorner]

@@SavidgeReads I would love for it to be adapted.

[@toriareads382]

Happy new year 🎉

[@SavidgeReads]

And a very happy new year to you too.

[@thatothernigeriangirl]

Trinidadian gothic? YES! And I wanted to read Butter last year but 😢

[@SavidgeReads]

Highly recommend Hungry Ghosts, it’s not for the faint of heart though. Lol. Butter you can read this year. Never too late.

[@susprime7018]

I too, dnf the Karen Lord, may get back to it. I am reading The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich and loving it, so nice to read a book with a plot. Had some fails with Christmas reads, I think I'm through participating in that booktube event. I liked Mona of the Manor. Enjoying Chanel on the Riviera by Anne de Courcy and The Diaries of Duff Cooper.

[@SavidgeReads]

I didn’t pick up a single festive book this Christmas… that said, I barely read in December.

[@susprime7018]

​@SavidgeReads Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark is a very enjoyable mystery with Lord Lucan character, next I'll read her Loitering with Intent. Every year I have the same intent to read some Iris Murdoch and so far, I have loitered without real intent, maybe this year I will get to her too. I love pineapple.

[@spexi513]

Your boss regarding the New Year 😂 😂😂

[@SavidgeReads]

It made me laugh so much, just my sense of (slightly macabre) humour.

[@thepaperdavid]

Omg thank you for calling out the saccharin nature of Knife. I feel like I was just shouting into the void about this; I really didn't like it. Congrats on a great year of reading though, haha.

[@SavidgeReads]

Ha. Some of it was so powerfully done. But so much of it was sooooo saccharine. I kind of understand why but it isn’t an emotion I really enjoy 😬

[@amomentwithgod5607]

Happy New Year to you. Great video, thank you but how do you remember what the books you read are about? I forget soon after reading 😂

[@SavidgeReads]

Hahaha. I am asked that a lot and I don’t know. The producers at Sky say it’s my superpower. Lol.

[@amomentwithgod5607]

@@SavidgeReads 🤣

[@EvieM1]

Just started ‘The Shadow Cabinet’ by Juno Dawson.

[@SavidgeReads]

Ooh you’ve a treat ahead there.

[@jacquelinemcmenamin8204]

I’ve visions of Chris using a fork lift to get you off the floor to get to IKEA. I’ve read 20 of the same books. I’ve given 30 books 5 stars this year . I’m having a real difficult time trying to decide which would make a top 10/12. It would end up a list of Best debuts Best Irish Most surprising

[@SavidgeReads]

Hahahaha. I did have to be rescued after taking the thumbnail picture and a load of books collapsing on me. Ha.

[@zakyyakenny1960]

😍

[@SavidgeReads]

📚

[@JenniferRosebruce]

3 books a day?

[@SavidgeReads]

I don’t understand? What’s the context, sorry there a lot of chat in this video. Hahaha.

[@JenniferRosebruce]

@SavidgeReads hi. I noticed you read 120+ books last year. Was wondering if that came out to 3 books read per week. Tx

[@SavidgeReads]

@@JenniferRosebruce oooh. Sorry the first comment was three a day. I’m not a reading robot. Well sometimes I am. How much I read changes every week to be honest but three a week is a fair average. Though it’s been waaaay more some months when I’ve been reading for work.

[@JenniferRosebruce]

@@SavidgeReads thank you. X

[@mariatavares8513]

I loved all of Paula Hawkins books but not the blue hour. No, not for me 😢

[@SavidgeReads]

That’s a shame. Each to their own though.

[@spexi513]

Thissssss video is book worm nerdga5m type sh** . Tysm Simon ! Happy new year I look forward to another year of book stuff from you 📚🪱💚

[@SavidgeReads]

So pleased you enjoyed it! Happy 2025!!