Books I Read in 2024 (As of Oct. 25)

  • Fri, Mar 29, 2024
  • 3 Min Read
  1. The Craft of Literary Biography, ed. Jeffrey Meyers
  2. North Korea Confidential, by Daniel Tudor
  3. Sycamore Row, by John Grisham
  4. Parisian Lives, by Deirdre Bair
  5. The Professor and the Parson, by Adam Sisman
  6. Royal Holiday, by Jasmine Guillory
  7. The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens, by Claire Tomalin
  8. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the making of Modern Asia, by Gary J. Bass
  9. We Could Be So Good, by Cat Sebastian
  10. Charles Dickens: A Life, by Claire Tomalin
  11. The Palace Papers, by Tina Brown
  12. King: A Life, by Jonathan Eig
  13. The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle, by Anna Shechtman
  14. Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter, by Rachel Shteir
  15. Betting on the Bird, by Cassandra Medcalf
  16. A Spy Alone, by Charles Beaumont
  17. Looking for Lorraine, by Imani Perry
  18. The New Life, by Tom Crewe
  19. The Diana Chronicles, by Tina Brown
  20. High School, by Tegan and Sara Quin
  21. Keep This Off the Record, by Arden Jay
  22. Within My Reach, by Amy Blythe
  23. American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, by Tim Alberta
  24. Requiem for a Mezzo, by Carola Dunn
  25. Somehow: Thoughts on Love, by Anne Lamott
  26. The Secret Life, by Andrew O’Hagan
  27. Very Bad Company, by Emma Rosenblum
  28. With a Mind to Kill, by Anthony Horowitz
  29. Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt, and the Long War on the Crown, by Rory Carroll
  30. Mona of the Manor, by Armistead Maupin
  31. Caledonian Road, by Andrew O’Hagan
  32. Not in the Plan, by Dana Hawkins
  33. Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World, by Yepoka Yeebo
  34. Razorblade Tears, by S.A. Cosby
  35. Emperor of Rome, by Mary Beard
  36. Here We Go Again, by Alison Cochrun
  37. All the Sinners Bleed, by S.A. Cosby
  38. Nine Lives to Die, by Rita Mae Brown
  39. Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives, by Amelia Possanza
  40. My Darkest Prayer, by S.A. Cosby
  41. Thank You for Listening, by Julia Whelan
  42. One Man Against the World, by Tim Weiner
  43. To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories, by Sarah Viren
  44. The Best and the Brightest, by David Halberstam
  45. Romantic Comedy, by Curtis Sittenfield
  46. The Memo, by Rachel Dodes and Lauren Mechling
  47. A Woman of No Importance, by Sonia Purnell
  48. Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory, by Lawrence Wright
  49. The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley
  50. One Last Stop, by Casey McQuiston
  51. Blacktop Wasteland, by S.A. Cosby
  52. Nothing Ever Just Disappears, by Diarmuid Hester
  53. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, by Katherine Rundell
  54. Virginia’s Apple: Collected Memoirs, by Judith Barrington
  55. What Happened, Miss Simone, by Alan Light
  56. The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA, by Liza Mundy
  57. Housemates, by Emma Copley Eisenberg
  58. 10 Things That Never Happened, by Alexis Hall
  59. Munich, by Robert Harris
  60. Death in a Strange Country, by Donna Leon
  61. The Last Dream, by Pedro Almodóvar
  62. Long Island Compromise, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
  63. Cue the Sun: The Invention of Reality TV, by Emily Nussbaum
  64. Murder by the Book, by Claire Harman
  65. There There, by Tommy Orange
  66. The Queer Arab Glossary, ed. Marwan Kaabour
  67. The Pairing, by Casey McQuiston
  68. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America, by Sara B. Franklin
  69. The Safekeep, by Yael van der Wouden
  70. Hampton Heights, by Dan Kois
  71. Our Evenings, by Allan Hollinghurst
  72. Orbital, by Samantha Harvey