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My 2024 Reading List - Books I Gave 3+ Stars
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items I read over 100 books in 2024. Here are the ones that I rated three, four, or five stars. (list in progress.)
Sections
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Fiction
Nonfiction
Forever Rereading
Fiction
One of The New York Times Top 10 Books of the Year Winner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year, the Nero Gold Prize, and the Nero Book Award for Fiction Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Writers' Prize for Fiction Finalist for the Kirkus Priz...
The Bee Sting a book by Paul Murray
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 - INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize "A prophetic masterpiece." -- Ron Charles, Washington Post On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and...
Prophet Song: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) a book by Paul Lynch
Sula a book by Toni Morrison
An international bestseller and one of The Times' "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the fir...
Foster a book by Claire Keegan
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK - New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death A Most Anticipated...TODAY.com, HipLatina, Book Riot, Kirkus, and more! "Anita de Monte Laughs Last is a cry for justice. Writing with urgency and rage, Gonzalez speaks up for those who have been othered and deemed unworthy, robbed of their legacy." ―The Washington Post "Anita De...
Anita de Monte Laughs Last: Reese's Book Club Pick (a Novel) a book by Xochitl Gonzalez
A visionary neo-Western blend of magical realism, mystery, and horror, Valley of Shadows sheds light on the dark past of injustice, isolation, and suffering along the US-Mexico border. Solitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost hi...
Valley of Shadows a book by Rudy Ruiz
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film--and awakens one woman's hi...
Silver Nitrate a book by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A 2024 November LibraryReads Pick Told in alternating timelines, The Lake of Lost Girls is a haunting novel that will thrill fans of All Good People Here and We Are All the Same in the Dark. Using suspenseful podcast clips to weave a twisty tale of a...
The Lake of Lost Girls a book by Katherine Greene
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A twisting, pulse-pounding thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Coworker! Sometimes the truth kills... Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. They thin...
Never Lie a book by Freida McFadden
From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn't Have Come Here comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet. After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sor...
Home Is Where the Bodies Are a book by Jeneva Rose
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In the propulsive debut novel from the host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie, a journalist uncovers her hometown's dark secrets when she becomes obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor--and ...
All Good People Here a book by Ashley Flowers
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, "A captivating mystery: beautifully written, with a rich sense of place, a cast of memorable characters, and lots of deep, dark secrets."--Kate Morton, New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter "Extr...
The Daughters of Foxcote Manor a book by Eve Chase
National Bestseller Named a must read by NPR, People, Vanity Fair, Electric Literature, Nylon, Alta Journal, CrimeReads and Debutiful Named a most anticipated book by Elle, The Millions, Bustle, Lit Hub, Dandelion Chandelier, Zibby Mag, Bookpage, and...
The Extinction of Irena Rey a book by Jennifer Croft
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Today, Electric Literature, Alta, the Chicago Review of Books, and The Millions. One of NPR's Books We Love. "Told by machines from the future, Blackburn's idiosyncra...
Dead in Long Beach, California a book by Venita Blackburn
A young couple's toxic Instagram crush spins out of control and unleashes a sinister creature in this twisted, viciously funny, "bananas good" story (Carmen Maria Machado). "Um, holy shit...This novel will be the most fun you'll have this summer." --...
A Touch of Jen a book by Beth Morgan
"[A] blistering psychological thriller." --The New York Times Book Review "A compelling debut that fizzes with tension from start to finish, blending the subtle erudition of literary fiction with the drama and suspense of the very best thrillers. Mas...
Bad Fruit a book by Ella King
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolate...
We Have Always Lived in the Castle: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Deluxe) a book by Shirley Jackson, Jonathan Lethem, and Thomas Ott
The greatest haunted house story ever written--the inspiration for the hit Netflix horror series! One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed ...
The Haunting of Hill House a book by Shirley Jackson and Laura Miller
Now with the restored original artwork, the beloved classic story of a young prince's travels throughout space--a profound tale about loneliness and loss, and love and friendship. A pilot crashes in the Sahara Desert and encounters a strange young bo...
The Little Prince a book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
From the national bestselling author of Bad Summer People - "Another irresistible summer read." ―W Magazine - "A darkly funny mystery." --TIME - "Juicy and hilarious." ―Glamour - "Fun, page-turning." ―People - A high-stakes, high-drama novel that rea...
Very Bad Company a book by Emma Rosenblum
A National Bestseller A USA TODAY Bestseller A New York Times Editors' Choice A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, Electric Literature, Tor, and Literary Hub From the critically ac...
Rouge a book by Mona Awad
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[An] exceedingly complex, inventive, resourceful examination of harm and power." --The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice "A lightning rod . . . brilliantly crafted."--The Washington Post Recommended by The...
My Dark Vanessa a book by Kate Elizabeth Russell
"Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don't we ever get that movie?" India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actor. Armed with a stack of index cards (for research/line memorization/make-shift confetti...
Family Family a book by Laurie Frankel
A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK - ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME - INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice...
The Secret History: A Read with Jenna Pick a book by Donna Tartt
Finalist for the 2023 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2023 New York Times 2023 Critics' Pick New Yorker Best Book of 2023 (Essential Read) NPR Best Book of 2023 TIME Must-Read Book of 2023 Bookshop.org Best Book of 2023 Chicago Public Library Favorite Book of 2023 Ms. Magazine Best Book of 2023 It's as if her life only began once Moon appeared in it. The desultory copywriting work, the boyfriend, and the want of anything not-Moon quickly fall away...
Y/N a book by Esther Yi
Charlotte Brontë's moving masterpiece - the novel that has been "teaching true strength of character for generations" (The Guardian). Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read A novel of intense power and intrig...
Jane Eyre a book by Charlotte Brontë and Stevie Davies
New York Times bestselling author David Duchovny reimagines the Irish mythological figure of Emer in Miss Subways, a darkly comic fantasy love story set in New York City. Emer is just a woman living in New York City who takes the subway, buys ice cre...
Miss Subways a book by David Duchovny
Though her sisters are keen on finding men to marry, Elizabeth Bennet would rather wait for someone she loves - certainly not someone like Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, whom she finds to be smug and judgmental, in contrast to the charming George Wickham. Bu...
Pride and Prejudice a book by Jane Austen and Anna Bond
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLERS OF THE YEAR "I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie...The alternating points of view keep...
The Guest List a book by Lucy Foley
A dream girls trip to a luxurious French chateau devolves into a deadly nightmare of secrets and lies in this "twisty, well-paced murder mystery that never fully lets go" (Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author). Welcome to picturesque Prove...
The Chateau a book by Jaclyn Goldis
#1 GLOBAL BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD - Meet Elizabeth Zott: "a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention" (The Washington Post) in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes...
Lessons in Chemistry a book by Bonnie Garmus
"Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught." -The New York Times Book Review "Fantastic... a book that feels alive on the page." -The Washington Post From the New York-Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half, the beloved novel about young love and a ...
The Mothers a book by Brit Bennett
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers. "Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life ...
Tom Lake a book by Ann Patchett
1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. "1984" is still the great modern classic "negative Utopia" - a startling original and haunting novel that creates an ...
1984: 75th Anniversary a book by George Orwell, Sandra Newman, and Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Nonfiction
One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Publishers Weekly, Paste, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, Lit Hub, Real Simple, Nylon, BookPage, The Story Exchange, Sunset, and Zibby Mag Disarmingly witty a...
Grief Is for People a book by Sloane Crosley
One of The New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2022. Named one of the best books of 2022 by The New Yorker, Pitchfork, Vanity Fair and TIME. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. "On the internet, fandom can be a route toward cy...
Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It a book by Kaitlyn Tiffany
Lisa Smith was a bright, young lawyer at a prestigious firm in NYC in the early nineties when alcoholism started to take over her life. What was once a way of escaping her insecurity and negativity became a means of coping with the anxiety and stress...
Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir a book by Lisa F. Smith
The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 20 million copies sold! Translated into 60+ languages! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's lea...
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones a book by James Clear
"One of those life-changing reads that makes you see--or, in this case, hear--the whole world differently." --Megan Angelo, author of Followers "At times chilling, often funny, and always perceptive and cogent, Cultish is a bracing reminder that the ...Refinery29.com The New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Magical Overthinking and Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how "cultish" groups, from Jonestown and Scientologists to SoulCycle and social media gurus, use language as the ult...
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism a book by Amanda Montell
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art. "One of the most beautiful ...
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath a book by Heather Clark
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and th...
The Argonauts a book by Maggie Nelson
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that reveals the intimate story of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, told by the woman who lived it. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE PRISCILLA, DIRECTED BY SOFIA COPPOLA Decades after his death...
Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll a book by Sandra Harmon and Priscilla Presley
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NPR'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR INDIE BESTSELLER GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER: BEST MEMOIR & AUTOBIOGRAPHY A laugh-and-cry-out-loud memoir from the beloved star of Netflix's Queer Eye, Jonathan Van Ness Who gave Jonath...
Over the Top: My Story a book by Jonathan Van Ness
Forever Rereading
Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life. First published in 1993, The Virgin Sui...
The Virgin Suicides: A Novel (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition) a book by Jeffrey Eugenides
In 1967, after a session with a doctor she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital that was as renowned f...
Girl, Interrupted a book by Susanna Kaysen
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that became a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gi...
The Hours a book by Michael Cunningham
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good...
The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner a book by Joan Didion
Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is "a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century" (Time). Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time - One of The Atlant...
Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death a book by Kurt Vonnegut
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyon...
Play It as It Lays (Second Edition, Revised) a book by Joan Didion and David Thomson