366 days come and gone, 40 books consumed. Here's my 2024 list of books read in chronological order. Asterisks mark my top four. NF denotes non-fiction, F is fiction. Previous years are here: 2023, 2022, 2020.
Marsbound, Joe Haldeman (F)
Starbound, Joe Haldeman (F)
Earthbound, Joe Haldeman (F)
Rooted, Lyanda Lynn Haupt (NF)
The Reading List, Sara Nisha Adams (F)
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (F)*
Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (F)*
Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (F)
The Hacienda, Isabel Canas (F)
Into the Raging Sea, Rachel Slade (NF)*
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus (F)
In the Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick (NF)
Demon of the Waters, Gregory Gibson (NF)
Breaking Through: My Life in Science, Katalin Kariko (NF)
The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks (F)
The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams (F)
The Vegetarian, Han Kang (F)
Tender is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica (F)*
Lake of Souls, Ann Leckie (F)
Milo Talon, Louis L'Amour (F)
Lone Women, Victor Lavalle (F)
North Woods, Daniel Mason (F)
Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl (NF)
Talking God, Tony Hillerman (F)
The Horse, Willy Vlautin (F)
Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt (F)
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Reif Larson (F)
Behind Japanese Lines, Richard Dunlop (NF)
The Ride of Her Life, Elizabeth Letts (NF)
These Precious Days, Ann Patchett (NF)
The Riddles of the Sphinx, Anna Shechtman (NF)
The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick (F)
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, Douglas Adams (F)
The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham (F)
Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stewart (NF)
Sharks Don't Sink, Jasmin Graham (NF)
The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (F)
All Systems Red, Martha Wells (F)
In the Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson (NF)
Stories of Your Life, Ted Chiang (F)
I read more fiction in 2024. Typically in recent years, it's been 50/50 fiction to non-fiction. I also discovered a new (to me) author that I love: Silvia Moreno-Garcia, managed to squeeze just one classic Western in, and revisited a very weird book I first read about 20 years ago (The Wasp Factory). I did not care at all for The Vegetarian, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2016 and all kinds of acclaim since and I was surprised how much I liked Ann Patchett's These Precious Days. North Woods was a top contender for an asterisk, as was The Day of the Triffids, a classic British SF story which was fantastic. Also finally got around to reading The Man in the High Castle after it's been sitting on my coffee table for about seven years. Readers, if I say I'm gonna read something, I'm gonna read it. It just might take me a decade to get to it.
Here's to another good year of reading.
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