Books read in 2024:

24 books read in 2024

Favorite reads of 2024:

1. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

2. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

3. The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels #2) by Elena Ferrante

4. My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels #1) by Elena Ferrante

5. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

6. Liars by Sarah Manguso

7. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

8. The Idiot by Elif Batuman

9. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Books read in December:

• Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne, finished on the 28th

Books read in November:

• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, finished on the 28th

• Orbital by Samantha Harvey, finished on the 24th

Books read in October:

• The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante, finished on the 24th

Books read in September:

• Men Have Called Her Crazy by Anna Marie Tendler, finished on the 13th

• Liars by Sarah Manguso, finished on the 4th

• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, finished on the 1st

Books read in August:

• All Fours by Miranda July, finished on the 27th

• Yellowface by R.F. Kuang, finished on the 24th

• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, finished on the 13th

Books read in July:

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, finished on the 31st

• Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein, finished on the 22nd

Books read in June:

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, finished on the 22nd

• I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, finished on the 14th

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, finished on the 12th

Books read in May:

• Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie, finished on the 6th

• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, finished on the 2nd

Books read in April:

• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, finished on the 22nd

Books read in March:

• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, finished on the 26th

Books read in February:

• Calypso by David Sedaris, finished on the 25th

• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, finished on the 13th

• The Idiot by Elif Batuman, finished on the 5th

Books read in January:

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, finished on the 30th

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, finished on the 5th

Favorite reads over the past few years…

Finished 27 books in 2023

Favorite reads of 2023:

1. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

2. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

4. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

5. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong

6. Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

7. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

8. Clean: The New Science of Skin by James Hamblin

9. Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

10. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Finished 32 books in 2022

Favorite reads of 2022:

1. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, finished on February 14th

2. Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller, finished on June 17th

3. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, finished on May 23rd

4. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, finished on November 11th

5. Educated by Tara Westover, finished on September 15th

Finished 43 books in 2021

FAVORITE READS OF 2021:

1. What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Dr. Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey

2. What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey

3. We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer

4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

5. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton

6. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottleib

7. The Handmaid's Tale & The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

8. Still Alice by Lisa Genova

9. The Course of Love by Alain de Botton

10. Immortality by Milan Kundera

Finished 33 books in 2020

FAVORITE READS OF 2020:

1. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

2. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

3. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

4. On Fire by Naomi Klein

5. Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

6. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

7. The Big Short by Michael Lewis

8. Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho

9. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate by Naomi Klein

10. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera