The Books I Read in 2024
A complete list of what I read over the course of 2024.
Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice by Jennifer Mullen
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
Chrysalis by Anuja Varghese
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine
Walden by Henry David Theoreu
The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter
What If You & Me by Roni Loren
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems by Melanie Luisa Marte
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
Better Hate than Never by Chloe Liese
Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
The Deadly Intersections of COVID-19: Race, States, Inequalities, and the Global Society by Sunera Thobani
Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest
Conflict Resolutions for Holy Beings: Poem by Joy Harjo
An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
Evil Eye by Etaf Rum
Mickey Chambers Shakes It Up by Charis Reid
Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by Carla bergman and Mick Montgomery
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
For You & No One Else by Roni Loren
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Toward Psychologies of Liberation by Mary Watkins and Helene Shulman
This Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativity by Richard Deming
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Willer
Annie of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Nevada by Imogen Bonnie
Tiny Traumas: When You Don’t Know What’s Wrong, but Nothing Feels Quite Right by Meg Arroll
Collective Trauma, Collective Healing: Promoting Community Resilience in the Aftermath of Disaster
Yes & I Love You by Roni Loren
The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
The Eternal Ones by Namina Forna
The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power by Katherine Morgan Schafler
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
Some of It Was Real by Nan Fischer
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D.G. Kelley
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi
The Name-Bearer by Natalia Hernadez
Mass Trauma: Impact and Recovery Issues by Kathryn Gow
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue
Only and Forever by Chloe Liese
Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
The Guest by Emma Cline
Pomegranate by Helen Elaine Lee
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
You Dreams of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
From the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma and the Making of International Politics By Adam B. Lerner
The Roommate Risk by Talia Hibbert
Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruhr Benjamin
If Only You by Chloe Liese
Want Me: A Sex Writer’s Journey Into the Heart of Desire by Tracy Clark-Flory
Olive by Emma Gannon
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
A Sentimental Education by Hannah McGregor
Happy Place by Emily Henry
You’re the Only One I’ve Told: The Stories Behind Abortion by Meera Shah
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma by Mariel Buqué
Mood Swings by Frankie Barnet
Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You by Ali Abdaal
In Charm’s Way by Lana Harper
A Rogue of One’s Own by Evie Dunmore
Her Husband: Hughes and Plath - A Marriage by Diane Middlebrook
The Witches of Moonshyne Manor by Bianca Marais
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
A Perfect Vintage by Chelsea Fagan
A Demon’s Guide to Wooing a Witch by Sarah Hawley
Bloodline by Jenn Alexander
Back in a Spell by Lana Harper
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
A Holly Jolly Ever After by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
Martyr! by Karen Akbar
In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain by Tom Vitale
The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss
The Extinction of Irena Ray by Jennifer Croft
Little Big Bully by Heid E. Erdrich
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
Me (Moth) by Amber McBridge
I’m missing one book and I’m not sure where it got lost.