Books Read in 2024

Home, sweet home.

Below are the books I've read this year, in reverse chronological order.  An asterisk indicates that it was an audiobook.  

• Sold (Patricia McCormick)
• Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia (Peggy Parish & Lynn Sweat)
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (David Sedaris)*
• The Body Breaks (Vivian Ellison)
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Jesse Andrews)
• Lincoln in the Bardo (George Saunders)*
• The Only Woman (Immy Humes)
• Congratulations, By The Way (George Saunders)
• Congratulations, By The Way (George Saunders)*
• The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness That Stole His Son (Tracie White & Ronald W. Davis)
• A Salty Piece of Land (Jimmy Buffet)
• Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls (David Sedaris)*
• Banned in Boston: The Watch and Ward Society's Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil (Neil Miller)
• The Best of Me (David Sedaris)*
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie)*
• This is Your Mind on Plants (Michael Pollan)*
• Barrel Fever and Other Stories (David Sedaris)*
• Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris)*
• Holding Fire: A Reckoning With the American West (Bryce Andrews)
• When You Are Engulfed in Flames (David Sedaris)*
• Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians (Joan E. Biren)
• Theft By Finding: Diaries 1977- (David Sedaris)*
• The Midnight Library (Matt Haig)
• Keep Going: The Art of Perseverance (Joseph M. Marshall III)*
• We Belong Together: A Book about Adoption and Families (Todd Parr)
• The Children of Men (P.D. James)*
• Golden State (Ben H. Winters)*
• The Girl Prince: Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax (Danell Jones)
• Big Time (Ben H. Winters)*
• Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls (David Sedaris)*
• Frizzy (Claribel A Ortega)
• Man, Underground (Mark Hummel)
• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace One School at a Time (Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin)*
• Wayward Creatures (Dayna Lorentz)
• Mublecusser: And Other Poems (Allen Morris Jones)
• Elinor McGrath, Pet Doctor: The Story of America’s First Female Veterinarian (Jacqueline Johnson)
• Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Jon Krakauer)*
• Conundrum (Jeff Crook)
• What You Need To Be Warm (Neil Gaiman)
• Calypso (David Sedaris)*
• David Sedaris: Live at Carnegie Hall/Live for Your Listening Pleasure (David Sedaris)*
• Banana Rose (Natalie Goldberg)
• The Labrador Pact (Matt Haig)*
• Through the Wilderness:  My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild (Brad Orsted)
• The Power (Naomi Alderman)*
• Take Your Baby and Run (Carol Youngson)
• Lawn Boy (Jonathan Evison)*
• Crash Harrison--Tales of a Bomber Pilot Who Defied Death (Deana J. Driver)
• The Power (Naomi Alderman)*
• Owsley and Me: My LSD Family (Rhoney Gissen Stanley & Tom Davis)
• See You in Le Touquet: A Memoir of War and Destiny (Romie Christie)
• Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances (Neil Gaiman)*
• Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Gnomes (Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman)
• Eternity's Wheel (Michael Reaves, Mallory Reaves, & Neil Gaiman)*
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
• The Bear Who Went to War (Alan Pollock & Bryony Thompson)
• The Silver Dream (Michael Reaves & Neil Gaiman)*
• Just Drive (Robert Cooperman)
• Interworld (Michael Reaves & Neil Gaiman)*
• Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist For Justice (Tommie Smith & Derrick Barnes)
• Full Throttle: Stories (Joe Hill)
• The Dogs of Babel (Carolyn Parkhurst)
• US History in 15 Foods (Anna Zeide)
• Lots of Laughs! volume 18 (Symphony Space)*
• American Gods (Neil Gaiman)*
• The Night Before Valentine's Day (Natasha Wing)
• Assassination Classroom (Yūsei Matsui)
• Big (Vashti Harrison)
• Iron Flame (Rebecca Yarros)*
• Saved By the Dead (Robert Cooperman)
• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (Don Miguel Ruiz)
• Bambombo Snuff Box (Kurt Vonnegut)*
• Tomfoolery!: Randolph Caldecott and the Rambunctious Coming-of-Age of Children's Books (Michelle Markel)
• We Are Starlings: Inside the Mesmerizing Magic of Murmuration (Robert Furrow)
• The Real Mother Goose, volume 4 (Blanche Fisher Wright)
• The Real Mother Goose, volume 3 (Blanche Fisher Wright)
• The Real Mother Goose, volume 2 (Blanche Fisher Wright)
• The Real Mother Goose, volume 1 (Blanche Fisher Wright)
• The Everybody Ensemble: Donkeys, Essays, and Other Pandemoniums (Amy Leach)
• Melissa (Alex Gino)
• Hag-seed (Margaret Atwood)*
• Glitter Everywhere!: Where it Came From, Where It's Found & Where It's Going (Chris Barton)
• Annihilation (Jeff VanderMeer)
• Gopher Baroque and Other Beastly Conceits (Sandra Boynton)
• Travelog (Charles Harbutt)
• Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
• Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales (Soman Chainani)