52 Books in 2024

(I’m going to add Amazon affiliate links to my list slowly over time.)

(Bold means finished) (*denotes a book on my “Recommended by Friends 2024” list)

  1. *Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
  2. Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  3. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron (repeat)
  4. Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
  5. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
  6. I Won’t Shut Up by Ally Henny
  7. Glucose Revolution by Jessie Inchauspe
  8. *Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
  9. *The Giver by Lois Lowry
  10. *Insomnia by Stephen King (in process)
  11. *Classic Collection of Short Stories by John Steinbeck
  12. *Summerland by Michael Chabon
  13. *Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
  14. *Believe Me by Eddie Izzard (in process)
  15. *Star of Life by Rick Ellyn
  16. *The Language of Bodies by Suzanne Dewitt Hall
  17. *The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
  18. *Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
  19. *Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
  20. *The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
  21. *The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
  22. *The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi
  23. *The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott by Zoe Thorogood
  24. *Transformations by Anne Sexton
  25. *Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
  26. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
  27. Eleanor and Hick by Susan Quinn (in process)
  28. Come as you are by Emily Nagoski
  29. Unexpected Stories by Octavia Butler
  30. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
  31. The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
  32. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
  33. I will always write back by Caitlin Alifrenka
  34. In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forche
  35. Conflict is not abuse by Sarah Schulman
  36. Let’s talk about hard things by Anna Sale
  37. The Sacred Enneagram by Christopher L. Heuertz
  38. The Crossroads of Should and Must by Elle Luna
  39. Making a Living without a job by Barbara J. Winter
  40. The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
  41. Divine Rebels by Caroline Myss and Andrew Harvey
  42. All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge by Nathan Monk
  43. Russian Sleeper Cell by Nathan Monk
  44. Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger by Justin Murphy
  45. Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
  46. The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll
  47. Hope by Marc Levy
  48. The Code Breaker by Isaac Isaacson
  49. Evicted by Matthew Desmond
  50. Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn
  51. No Walls and the Recurring Dream by Ani DiFranco
  52. Building a Story Brand by Donald Miller
  53. Money Making Mom by Crystal Paine
  54. Bone Music by Christopher Rice
  55. The Flux by Ferrett Steinmetz
  56. Rain Girl by Gabi Kreslehner
  57. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
  58. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  59. The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
  60. How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge by Clay Scroggins
  61. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk
  62. Becoming by Michelle Obama
  63. Nonbinary. Memoirs of Gender and Identity
  64. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
  65. A Demon in my view by Ruth Rendell
  66. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
  67. 1776 by David McCullough
  68. The Virgin of Prince Street by Sonja Livingston
  69. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
  70. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  71. A Season in Hell by Rimbaud
  72. The Undesired by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
  73. Killer Reunion by G.A. McKevett
  74. The Day is Dark by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
  75. Sami Blood
  76. The Heart Keeper by Alex Dahl
  77. Alfons Mucha 1860-1939 : master of art nouveau by Renate Ulmer
  78. The little old lady who broke all the rules by Catherina Ingelman-Sundberg
  79. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
  80. More Myself by Alicia Keys
  81. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  82. American Dirt
  83. The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
  84. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
  85. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
  86. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
  87. A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
  88. How to argue with a racist by Adam Rutherford