2024

Books Completed & Reviewed in 2024

  1. The Guest by Emma Cline
  2. Table for Two by Amor Towles
  3. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
  4. Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
  5. In Memoriam by Alice Winn
  6. Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
  7. How to Read a Book by Monica Wood
  8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  9. Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash
  10. My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds by Hannah Pick-Goslar
  11. You Are Here by David Nicholls
  12. Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
  13. Absolution by Alice McDermott
  14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  15. The Coast Road by Alan Murrin
  16. The Caretaker by Ron Rash
  17. True Grit by Charles Portis
  18. The Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor-Roper
  19. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
  20. The Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides
  21. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl
  22. The Lost Americans by Christopher Bollen
  23. Welcome Home, Stranger by Kate Christensen
  24. The General and Julia by Jon Clinch
  25. King Nyx by Kirsten Bakis
  26. Entitlement by Rumaan Alam
  27. The Road to Dalton by Shannon Bowring
  28. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
  29. River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure
  30. I’ve Tried Being Nice: Essays by Ann Leary
  31. Clear by Carys Davies
  32. Women’s Hotel by Daniel M. Lavery
  33. Fresh Waters for Flowers by Valerie Perrin
  34. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
  35. Leaving by Roxana Robinson
  36. Long Island by Colm Toibin
  37. A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
  38. City of Night Birds by Juhea Kim
  39. James by Percival Everett
  40. The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
  41. A Hundred Flowers by Gail Tsukiyama
  42. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
  43. Sweet Vidalia by Lisa Sandlin
  44. Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
  45. Sandwich by Catherine Newman
  46. I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
  47. The Women by Kristen Hannah
  48. Going Home by Tom Lamont
  49. Running With Sherman: How a Rescue Donkey Inspired a Rag-Tag Gang of Runners to Enter the Craziest Race on Earth by Christopher McDougall
  50. Days at the Morisaki Bookstore by Satoshi Yagisawa
  51. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
  52. Twist by Colum McCann
  53. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
  54. Pearly Everlasting by Tammy Armstrong
  55. Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
  56. Sonny Boy by Al Pacino
  57. The Jackal’s Mistress by Chris Bohjalian
  58. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
  59. Brightly Shining by Ingvild H. Rishoi
  60. Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
  61. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
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