2024

These are the books I’ve read or listened to in 2024.

  1. Regeneration, by Pat Barker

  2. How to Relax, by Thich Nhat Hanh

  3. Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood, by Bradley Sides

  4. Speak, Okinawa by Elizabeth Miki Brina

  5. The Woman in the Sable Coat, by Elizabeth Brooks

  6. The Eye in the Door, by Pat Barker

  7. Maigret’s Holiday, by Georges Simenon

  8. Between Two Kingdoms, by Suleika Jaouad

  9. Blind Man’s Bluff, by Baynard Kendrick

  10. Noonday, by Pat Barker

  11. How to Build Stonehenge, by Mike Pitts

  12. Something I Might Say, by Stephanie Austin

  13. HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience, edt. Ayesha Rascoe

  14. Cleopatra and Frankenstein, by Coco Mellors

  15. Foster, by Claire Keegan

  16. The Family Izquierdo, by Rubén Degollado

  17. Maigret, by Georges Simenon

  18. The Poppy War, by R.F. Kuang

  19. The Curators, by Maggie Nye

  20. Unraveled: A Climber’s Journey through Darkness and Back, by Katie Brown

  21. Death by His Grace, by Kwei Quartey

  22. Yawn: Adventures in Boredom, by Mary Mann

  23. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, by Annalee Newitz

  24. Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart, by Jen Sookfong Lee

  25. A Way of Life, Like Any Other, by Darcy O’Brien

  26. Gathering Moss, by Robin Wall Kimmerer

  27. Early Humans, by Nick Ashton

  28. My Friend Maigret, by Georges Simenon

  29. Wild Plums, by Patricia Q. Bidar

  30. Weird: The Power of Being An Outsider in an Insider World, by Olga Khazan

  31. The Woman in Me, by Britney Spears

  32. The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker

  33. Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly, by John Cardina

  34. Tales of a Female Nomad, by Rita Golden Gelman

  35. Midnight Riot, by Ben Aaronovitch

  36. The North Woods, by Daniel Mason

  37. Extreme North: A Cultural History, by Bernd Brunner

  38. Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch

  39. Burmese Days, by George Orwell

  40. The School for Good Mothers, by Jessamine Chan

  41. The Thing About Luck, by Cynthia Kadohata

  42. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, by Bettany Hughes

  43. Honestly Elliott, by Gillian McDunn

  44. The Woman Next door, by Yewande Omotoso

  45. In Search of a Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea

  46. The Talented Miss Farwell, by Emily Gray Tedrowe

  47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum

  48. The Plantagenets, by Dan Jones

  49. The Coaster, by Eric Wurster

  50. The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty, by Jean Zimmerman

  51. Bad Kids, by Zijin Chen

  52. Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson

  53. A Refiner’s Fire, by Donna Leon

  54. David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens

  55. Hispanic America, Texas, and the Mexican War: 1835-1850, by Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier

  56. The World At Night, by Alan Furst

  57. The Spies of Warsaw, by Alan Furst

  58. Pilgrims and Puritans: 1620-1666, by Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier

  59. The Foreign Correspondent, by Alan Furst

  60. Clash of Cultures: Prehistory-1638, by Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier

  61. Night Soldiers, by Alan Furst

  62. GLASS/FIRE, by Mandira Pattnaik

  63. The Book of Eels, by Patrick Svensson

  64. Dark Star, by Alan Furst

  65. Death Threats, by Georges Simenon

  66. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune, by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe

  67. Losing Music, by John Cotter

  68. How to Say Babylon, by Safiya Sinclair

  69. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and A Dangerous Obsession, by Michael Finkel

  70. Play the Fool, by Lina Chern

  71. The Someday Birds, by Sally J. Pla

  72. The Sittaford Mystery, by Agatha Christie

  73. The Polish Officer, by Alan Furst

  74. The Daughters of Madurai, by Rajasree Variyar

  75. From Here to the Great Unknown, by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough

  76. The Woman’s Part, by Jo Gatford

  77. Don’t Look at Me Like That, by Diana Athill

    • Last updated Dec. 31, 2024