Wrapping Up the Sirens Reading Challenge and Other Challenges for 2024

2024 is coming to a close and it is time to wrap up my reading challenges for the year! Thank you to all who joined in on the Sirens Reading Challenge this year - I hope you enjoyed it! I also am reporting back on my 24 in 24 challenge, and the longlists for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and Stella Prize for this year.
These are the books I read for the Sirens Reading Challenge:
The Colony - Audrey Magee
The Resilience Myth - Soraya Chemaly
Psykhe - Kate Forsyth
Passing Strange - Ellen Klages
Salonika Burning - Gail Jones
A Month in the Country - J L Carr
Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All - Chanel Miller
Enter Ghost - Isabella Hammad
These are the books I had on my 24 in 24 Challenge:
Strong Female Character - Fern Brady
Another Day in the Colony - Chelsea Watego
All Our Families - Jennifer Natalya Fink
Monsters - Claire Dederer
A Room with a View - EM Forster
A Month in the Country - JL Carr
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Razor's Edge - W Somerset Maugham
Sanditon - Jane Austen
This All Come Back Now - edited by Mykaela Saunders
Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett
A Psalm for the Wild Built - Becky Chambers
Heartstopper Vol. 1 - Alice Oseman
Autumn - Ali Smith
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams - Richard Flanagan
When Women Were Dragons - Kelly Barnhill
Of Women and Salt - Gabriela Garcia
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
Devotion - Hannah Kent
The Marriage Portrait - Maggie O'Farrell
Song of the Sun God - Shankari Chandran
Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood
Briefly, A Delicious Life - Nell Stevens
The Conversion - Amanda Lohrey
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The Sirens Reading Challenge 2024:
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[@carolinen323]

I love the idea of prioritising 25 in 25 from my physical tbr, I need the additional motivation to read books I already own!

[@curatoriallyyours]

It worked at least a bit for me - I read half of the books I had put aside!

[@deegrows7589]

Reading SHOULD be about enjoyment rather than achieving goals. 🙂📚

[@curatoriallyyours]

@@deegrows7589 for me goal setting is about intentionality - it’s something I enjoy and setting the goals helps me prioritise reading. I think it can be both 😊

[@enjay5087]

The Gail Jones sounds interesting but I agree with you about using fictionalised versions of real people. It always makes me a little uncomfortable.

[@curatoriallyyours]

@@enjay5087 I’m sure some readers can easily keep the fictionalised version of the person and the real person separated in their heads but I am not that reader!