BOOKS READ IN 2024

• My favorite read of the year was: The Trees by Percival Everett [ I also loved Long Island ]
• My favorite sci-fi (sortof) read of the year was: Water Moon
• My favorite Fantasy read of the year was: Somewhere Beyond the Sea
• My favorite uplit read of the year was: The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
• My favorite nonfiction read of the year was: Loving What Is
• My favorite Historical Fiction read of the year was: Fayne
• My favorite Mystery read of the year was: Famous Last Words
• My favorite Magical Realism read of this year was: When the World Tips Over
• My favorite poetry read of this year was: Instructions for Traveling West: Poems
• My favorite graphic novel read of the year was: Your Wish Is My Command

Here are a few other books I loved:

• One Year Ago in Spain
• Her Golden Coast
• Disappointing Affirmations
• The Dragon Behind the Glass
• The Rom-Commers
• Bear
• The Same Bright Stars
• Somehow: Thoughts on Love
• Slow Dance
• Margot’s Got Money Troubles
• Here One Moment
• Sky Full of Elephants
• The Night We Lost Him
• Same As it Ever Was
• Tell Me Everything
• Like Mother, Like Mother
• James
• Here After
• Mothers and Sons
• More or Less Maddy
• Meditations for Mortals
• Three Days in June
• Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
• The Strange Case of Jane O.
• The Internal Family Systems Workbook
• Broken Country
• Brooklyn
• What Happened to the McCrays?
• A Sea of Unspoken Things
• Embracing Hope: On Freedom, Responsibility & the Meaning of Life

Here are all the books I’ve read this year in reverse chronological order. You can see my goodreads reviews here

1. The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)
2. Secrets of Adulthood: Simple Truths for Our Complex Lives
3. Saltwater
4. Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)
5. Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
6. The Hush
7. This Book Will Bury Me
8. Twist
9. I Cheerfully Refuse
10. Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
11. Mink River
12. The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
13. The Perfect Son
14. The Third Rule of Time Travel
15. The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
16. A Sea of Unspoken Things
17. What Happened to the McCrays?
18. The Knitting Circle
19. Havoc
20. You Are Here
21. Witness 8 (Eddy Flynn, #8)
22. The Dream Hotel
23. A Great Country
24. Beautiful Ugly
25. Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear (Wayward Children, #10)
26. Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
27. The Only One Left
28. Behind Closed Doors
29. The Family Experiment
30. Broken Country
31. The City and Its Uncertain Walls
32. The Internal Family Systems Workbook (Sounds True Inner Workbooks)
33. The Dollhouse Academy
34. Open When…
35. The Art of Us
36. The Strange Case of Jane O.
37. The Black Book (Billy Harney, #1)
38. Invisible (Invisible, #1)
39. Unsolved (Invisible, #2)
40. When We Grow Up
41. The Fine Print (Dreamland Billionaires, #1)
42. Famous Last Words
43. Lies He Told Me
44. Don’t Believe Her
45. Fayne
46. An Eye for an Eye (Detective Kate Young, #1)
47. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
48. Breakfast at Tiffany’s: A Short Novel and Three Stories
49. In an Instant
50. All the Sinners Bleed
51. What Does It Feel Like?
52. Three Days in June
53. Intermezzo
54. The Last One at the Wedding
55. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
56. The Spellshop
57. We Are Too Many: A Memoir
58. A Forty Year Kiss
59. The Boyfriend
60. The Love of My Afterlife
61. Two Can Play
62. Water Moon
63. Very Bad Company
64. An Academy for Liars
65. More or Less Maddy
66. The Business Trip
67. The In-Between Bookstore
68. Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
69. How to Hide in Plain Sight
70. The Summer Swap
71. Mothers and Sons
72. Blue Sisters
73. The Life Impossible
74. Echoes of Memory
75. House of Glass
76. Daughter of Mine
77. Embracing Hope: On Freedom, Responsibility & the Meaning of Life
78. Lock In (Lock In, #1)
79. The Trees
80. Sweet Filthy Boy (Wild Seasons, #1)
81. James
82. The Day He Never Came Home
83. Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
84. Evenings and Weekends
85. Sweet Vidalia
86. All Fours
87. The Best Lies
88. Like Mother, Like Mother
89. The God of the Woods
90. Home Before Dark
91. Liars
92. Her Golden Coast
93. The Last Letter: A Novel
94. The Paris Widow
95. All Good People Here
96. Kill for Me, Kill for You
97. Business Casual (Lovelight, #4)
98. Hidden Pictures
99. DallerGut Dream Department Store
100. Three Keys
101. Unburdened Eating: Healing Your Relationships with Food and Your Body Using an Internal Family Systems (IFS) Approach
102. Bitter House
103. Husbands & Lovers
104. The Plea (Eddie Flynn, #2)
105. The Excitements
106. A Novel Love Story
107. The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
108. Run
109. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
110. Lies and Weddings
111. When the World Tips Over
112. The Unwedding
113. The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)
114. I Hope This Finds You Well
115. The Slowest Burn
116. Same As It Ever Was
117. Four Squares
118. A Reason to See You Again
119. The Night We Lost Him
120. Sky Full of Elephants
121. Here One Moment
122. In Our Likeness
123. Not in Love
124. Burn
125. Here After
126. Think Twice (Myron Bolitar, #12)
127. Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend
128. The Pairing
129. One Year Ago in Spain
130. The Return of Ellie Black
131. No Road Home
132. Slow Dance
133. This Summer Will Be Different
134. How to End a Love Story
135. One Big Happy Family
136. Real Americans
137. The Paradise Problem
138. Toward Eternity
139. Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder
140. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
141. Waking Up to Your Self: A Guide to Living Your Truth
142. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
143. Christa Comes Out of Her Shell
144. Like Mother, Like Daughter
145. Funny Story
146. The Stranger
147. Anita de Monte Laughs Last
148. The Same Bright Stars
149. Bear
150. She’s Not Sorry
151. In the Hour of Crows
152. No One Can Know
153. The Husbands
154. Reunion
155. Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
156. Sandwich
157. Green Dot
158. Listen for the Lie
159. The Couple in the Photo
160. This Day Changes Everything
161. Good Material
162. Annie Bot
163. Then She Was Gone
164. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)
165. Betting on You
166. The Split
167. The Burnout
168. The Breakaway
169. Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake, #1)
170. Tell No One
171. Gone for Good
172. The Book of Love
173. Margo’s Got Money Troubles
174. Some of It Was Real
175. The Rom-Commers
176. Bride
177. The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World’s Most Coveted Fish
178. Middletide
179. One
180. In Universes
181. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems
182. The Teacher
183. Interesting Facts about Space
184. The 30-Day Embroidery Challenge: A Day-by-Day Guide to Learn New Stitches and Create Beautiful Designs (30-Day Craft Challenge)
185. Watercolor Textures for Artists: Explore Simple Techniques to Create Amazing Works of Art
186. This Strange Eventful History
187. Worry Lines: You’re Doing Really Well Given the Circumstances
188. Pink Whales
189. Bright Side (Bright Side, #1)
190. The Gathering
191. Mercury
192. Your Wish Is My Command
193. Until I Love Myself: The Journey of a Nonbinary Manga Artist, Vol. 2
194. One of the Good Guys
195. Disappointing Affirmations
196. First Lie Wins
197. Thirteen (Eddie Flynn, #4)
198. The Live Your Values Deck: Sort Out, Honor, and Practice What Matters Most to You
199. Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper, #5)
200. Going Zero
201. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
202. The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine, #1)
203. The Five Year Lie
204. Until I Love Myself: The Journey of a Nonbinary Manga Artist, Vol. 1
205. The Adults
206. The Eternal Return of Clara Hart