My book list for 2024 (to date) consists of suggestions from friends, family, and my own search. The only genre of books I will not read is self-help. However, I will read research-based personal development books from authors such as Cal Newport, Adam Grant, etc. Those are vastly different from shitty self-help books.
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My daughter, Amber, has recommended the King Author Series by Jack Whyte and the Saxon Series by Bernard Cornwall; I didn’t list these separately because they’re extensive.
My Current List for 2024
Fiction
Non Fiction/Memoir
- These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant
- The Guest by Emma Cline
- The Mythmakers by Keziah Weir
- The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
- Doppelganger – A Trip into the Mirror Word by Naomi Klein
- The Group by Mary McCarthy
- Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- Vera Clark and the Etruscan Escapades by Kara Remington
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Dog of the South by Charles Portis
- The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien
- King Author Series by Jack Whyte
- Saxon Series by Bernard Cornwall
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John
- Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Short Stories
- The Swimmer by Don Cheever
- A & P by John Updike
- In Blue Lily’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard
- A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung
- Hunger – A Memoir of (My)Body by Roxane Gay
- IKIGAI – The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles (Translated by Heather Cleary)
- A Quaker Book of Wisdom – Life Lessons In Simplicity, Service, And Common Sense by Robert Lawrence Smith
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Speak Your Truth – Connecting With Your Inner Truth and Learning to Find Your Voice by Fearne Cotton
- The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
- The Wave, by Susan Casey