Books I Read in 2024

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It’s been well over a year since I’ve posted anything. Its been hard trying to scrape together enough energy for something as pointless as blogging while the world is crumbling around us, but I got myself some ADHD meds and I’m hoping it’ll spark joy again, so I’m back baby! 

I may have stopped writing reviews, (or rather, editing my disorganized thoughts into something legible), but I didn’t stop reading. I don’t remember everything I read in 2024 because I was not consistent about keeping track and I have the memory of a goldfish with a traumatic brain injury, but Ive pieced this list together from my sporadic use of Goodreads, my notebooks, and my audible history. 

Several of these books I also read multiple times, sometimes back to back because they made me happy. When I finished everything that Becky Chambers had ever written, I went through a period of very real grief. My partner tried to console me with promises that “there are other books out there just as good!” I am sure there are, but I haven’t found any, so for about three months I just read the Wayfarer books before bed and listened to A Psalm for the Wild-Built A Prayer for the Crown Sky while gardening. It was lovely. 

Having spent a year (2023) on a strict reading schedule and the next (2024) doing whatever the fuck I wanted, there are definitely benefits and drawbacks to both strategies. I simply cannot read 100 books every year because there are often just not that many books I want to read. The only thing worse than not reading is forcing yourself to read drivel. 

Aiming for so large a number also disincentives me from picking longer books because I’m tracking books and not pages count. (Now that I think about it maybe I should track pages instead…) I did read a fair number of chonkers in 2023, but I ended up having to go back to several of them later to reread chapters I didn’t feel like id fully absorbed.

On the other hand, without set milestones and the constant feeling of falling behind keeping me motivated, in 2024 I found myself just forgetting that books even existed for months at a time. Object permanence is not one of my strengths. 

In no particular order, here are the books I think I read in 2024. I will come back and publish reviews for some of them as I feel the desire to. 

  1. American: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges 
  2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  3. The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw 
  4. The House on the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune 
  5. Under the Whispering Door by T. J. Klune
  6. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
  7. Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carrol
  8. Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang 
  9. John Donne’s Poetry 
  10. The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore 
  11. Ten Myths about Israel by Ilan Pappe 
  12. The Gnostic Gospels by Eliane Pagels 
  13. Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers 
  14. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
  15. A Prayer for the Crown Sky by Becky Chambers
  16. To Be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers 
  17. The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
  18. A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
  19. Howls Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 
  20. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G Wells 
  21. The Complete Poems and Translations by Christopher Marlowe
  22. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
  23. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin 
  24. The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan 
  25. The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan
  26. The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan 
  27. The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail by W. Jeffrey Bolster
  28. The Devine Comedy by Dante 
  29. Debt by David Graeber
  30. Shakespeare for Squirrels by Christopher Moore 
  31. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
  32. Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
  33. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
  34. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics Marc Lamont Hill
  35. The Columbian Exchange by Alfred Crosby 
  36. Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
  37. Who Rules the World by Noam Chomsky 
  38. TS Elliot Selected Poems 
  39. The Triumph of Tradition: The Emergence of Whitman College, 1859-1924 by G. Thomas Edwards
  40. Contact by Carl Sagan
  41. Cosmos by Carl Sagan
  42. The House at Pooh Corner by A.A Milne
  43. Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman
  44. A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
  45. A Room with a View by EM Forster 
  46. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 
  47. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight

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