Pocket Bookclub Votes 2024

It’s a daggy photo of our votes this year. I apologise, I was recovering from COVID-19 and a challenging end to the year and felt rather daggy.

The good news is I DID blog about every single book – some a bit late – but every book, which is an improvement on 2023.

To recap, each Pocket Bookclub member votes for their favourite and least favourite reads of the year.

What does it all mean? Kafka on the Shore got 6 green dots though one person is less enamoured with this surrealist Japanese adventure. The Johnny Walker is relevant to the book!

I binged a book about hoarding. I am not sure what that says. Readable but only 3 green dots and one red. Love Objects by Emily Maguire

Stoneyard Devotional by Charlotte Wood ended up shortlisted for the Booker. Wood deserves more worldwide renown. This was our favourite book of the year with 8 green dots and no red.

Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood was the least-liked book of the year. I am pretty sure the lone green dot is mine. I liked this environmental tragedy! Also, a reason to buy Peanut Slabs.

Lionel Shriver’s The Post Birthday World follows on from Catton with 3 red dots and one green. The green is not mine! This is the only time I have been grateful for an abridged version.

O’breht’s dystopian book The Morningside is also a crowd favourite with 6 green dots and an equal second place. I didn’t love it as much The Tiger’s Wife or Inland but one of those green dots would be mine.

I struggled with The Leaves by Jacqueline Rule for personal reasons and it was not a hit with the bookclub.

Poetry and complex relationships enchanted me but not high on everyone else’s list is The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright with only 3 green and 1 red!

Sofia Laguna’s book, Infinite Splendours, is a fragile tender story; if not for that one red dot would be in equal second place.

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See was well-liked by the group and a history and cultural lesson for me.

Want more? Here is 2023

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