Books DG Read in 2024 - An exhaustive list:

Essays, Poetry and Memoirs 

• Happily by Sabrina Orah Mark *****
• Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer *****
• All Things Are Too Small by Becca Rothfeld *****
• Whose Story Is This? by Rebecca Solnit *****
• The Position of Spoons by Deborah Levy *****

• Sure, I'll Join Your Cult by Maria Bamford
• Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
• Call Them by Their True Names by Rebecca Solnit
• The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Blythell
• Wolfish by Erica Berry
• The Sound of Being Human by Jude Rogers
• Sparrow Envy by J. Drew Lanham
• The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
• Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
• Waiting For the End of the World by Stephanie Valente
• Steep in the Boil by Meagan McShea

Science, History, Education

• Charge by Frank Close *****
• Superheavy by Kit Chapman *****
• Sex Talks by Vanessa Marin *****
• Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs by Kerry Howley *****
• How Humans Learn by Joshua Eyler *****

• Whatever It is, I'm Against It by Brian Rosenberg
• Infusing Critical Thinking into Your Course by Linda Nilsson
• Pedagogy of Kindness by Catherine Denial
• The Emotional Lives of Teenagers by Lisa Damour
• Everything in its Place by Judith Flanders
• The Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend
• The Last Week by Marcus Borg
• If This is the Age We End Discovery by Rosebud Ben-Oni

Novels and Short Fiction

• The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen *****
• Either/Or by Elif Batuman *****
• Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park *****
• Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar *****
• The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) *****
• The Remembered Part by Rodrigo Fresán (translated by Will Vanderhyden) *****
• Melvill by Rodrigo Fresán (translated by Will Vanderhyden) *****
• The Biography of X by Catherine Lacey *****
• Ædnan by Linnea Axelsson (translated by Saskia Vogel) *****
• Clear by Carys Davies *****

• Blackouts by Justin Torres
• A Void by Georges Perec (translated by Gilbert Adair)
• The Murmuration by Carlos Labbé (translated by Will Vanderhyden)
• Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li
• The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
• The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
• Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor
• It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne De Marcken
• The English Experience by Julie Schumacher
• The Complete Stories of Leonara Carrington by Leonara Carrington
• The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter
• The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
• Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (translated by Donald Rayfield)
• Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
• The Employees by Olga Ravn (translated by Martin Aitken)
• Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval (translated by Marjam Idriss)

Science Fiction and Fantasy

• A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine *****
• Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer *****
• Monstress, Volumes 6 & 7 by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda ****
• My Favorite Thing is Monsters Part 2 by Emil Ferris *****
• Lone Women by Victor LaValle *****

• The City Of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer
• Shriek by Jeff Vandermeer
• Finch by Jeff Vandermeer
• Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
• Authority by Jeff Vandermeer
• Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer
• Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer
• Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff Vandermeer
• Monstress, Volumes 1-9 by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
• Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
• Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer
• The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells
• Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
• Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
• Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
• Network Effect by Martha Wells
• Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
• System Collapse by Martha Wells
• Invisible Kingdom, Volumes 1-3 by G. Willow Wilson and Christian Ward
• Malarkoi by Alex Pheby
• The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Naylor
• The House of Sundering Flames by Aliette de Bodard
• Saint Death's Daughter by C.S.E. Cooney
• Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk
• The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
• Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher
• Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
• The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
• Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson

How was your reading in '24? What's on your list for '25?