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First Monday Book Day

First Monday Book Day: New Year

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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?