Books of 2024
These are the books I read in 2024. I put an asterisk (*) next to the ones I especially enjoyed. I read 64 books.
*A Sunny Place for Shady People (Mariana Enríquez)
Parade (Rachel Cusk)
Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics (Ernesto Londoño)
Making Babies: Stumbling Into Motherhood (Anne Enright)
Not Even This (Jack Underwood)
*Sea of Tranquility (Emily St John Mandel) [reread]
And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready (Meaghan O’Connell)
Intermezzo (Sally Rooney)
Carrie (Stephen King)
Babel (RF Kuang) [audiobook]
Daughters of Eve (Lois Duncan) [reread; childhood fave]
Boy Parts (Eliza Clark)
Death of a Bookseller (Alice Slater)
Penance (Eliza Clark)
Question 7 (Richard Flanagan)
The Day That Went Missing (Richard Beard)
*My Good Bright Wolf (Sarah Moss)
*Small Rain (Garth Greenwell)
A Frozen Woman (Annie Ernaux)
Creation Lake (Rachel Kushner)
*A Woman’s Story (Annie Ernaux)
Simple Passion (Annie Ernaux)
*A Girl’s Story (Annie Ernaux)
*The Mosquito Coast (Paul Theroux) [reread]
Alphabetical Diaries (Sheila Heti)
George’s Marvellous Medicine (Roald Dahl) [reread] [childhood fav]
Three Days in June (Anne Tyler)
James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl) [reread] [childhood fav]
Molly (Blake Butler)
*Our Share of Night (Mariana Enriquez)
Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times (Elizabeth Oldfield)
*Every Day is For the Thief (Teju Cole)
*Tremor (Teju Cole)
The Last Unicorn (Peter S. Beagle)
Shame (Annie Ernaux)
Fourth Wing (Rebecca Yarros) [audiobook]
A Man’s Place (Annie Ernaux)
Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood (Lucy Jones)
Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History (Nellie Bowles)
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (Naomi Wood)
Short War (Lily Meyer)
*The Coin (Yasmin Zaher)
Liars (Sarah Manguso)
The Goblin Emperor (Katherine Addison)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis) [reread] [childhood fav]
Prince Caspian (C.S. Lewis) [reread] [childhood fav]
Tell Me Everything (Elizabeth Strout)
All Fours (Miranda July)
We the Animals (Justin Torres)
*Undiscovered (Gabriela Wiener)
Day Zero (C. Robert Cargill)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) [reread]
*Play Thing (Bea Setton)
James (Percival Everett)
Paradais (Fernanda Melchor)
Purple Hibiscus (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
*Life and Fate (Vasily Grossman)
Tidal Waters (Velia Vidal)
The Ministry of Time (Kaliane Bradley)
*Wild Houses (Colin Barrett)
*My Dead Parents: A Memoir (Anya Yurchyshyn)
*Berlin (Bea Setton)
The Vaster Wilds (Lauren Groff)
*The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen) [reread]