Read In 2024

October 29, 2024
99 Books
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Two short because I reread 'The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store' and 'Leviathan Wakes' twice in the same year.

Position	Details	Rating
#1	The Princess Bride William Goldman	4.21
#2	Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens	4.08
#3	A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin	3.89
#4	Monstrilio Gerardo Sámano Córdova	4.16
#5	The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers	3.45
#6	As I Lay Dying William Faulkner	3.57
#7	The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride	4.01
#8	Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food Chris van Tulleken	4.48
#9	Wool Hugh Howey	4.11
#10	The Reading List Sara Nisha Adams	4.01
#11	A Fever in the Heartland A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them Timothy Egan	4.13
#12	Red Rising Pierce Brown	4.12
#13	The Goldfinch Donna Tartt	3.97
#14	The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder David Grann	4.11
#15	The Coddling of the American Mind Jonathan Haidt Greg Lukianoff	3.96
#16	King: A Life Jonathan Eig	4.43
#17	The Will of the Many James Islington	4.54
#18	East of Eden John Steinbeck	4.5
#19	The Burnout Society Byung-Chul Han Erik Butler (Translator)	3.53
#20	All Systems Red Martha Wells	4.07
#21	A Deadly Education Naomi Novik	3.95
#22	The Last Graduate Naomi Novik	4.2
#23	The Golden Enclaves Naomi Novik	4.06
#24	The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami	4.1
#25	The Belan Deck Matt Bucher	2
#26	The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon	3.78
#27	Great Expectations Charles Dickens	3.56
#28	The Golden Compass Philip Pullman	4.04
#29	The Overstory Richard Powers	4.05
#30	Our Share of Night Mariana Enríquez Megan McDowell (Translator)	3.96
#31	The Book Thief Markus Zusak	4.34
#32	Verity Colleen Hoover	3.74
#33	The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer Annie Barrows	4.13
#34	Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion	4.1
#35	Leviathan Wakes James S. A. Corey	4.24
#36	Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng	3.92
#37	The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck	3.77
#38	The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams	3.82
#39	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Tom Stoppard	4.22
#40	Watchmen Alan Moore	4.44
#41	Carrie Stephen King Ingrid Nijkerk (Translator)	3.73
#42	Pachinko Min Jin Lee	4.25
#43	The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard	0
#44	Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates	4.54
#45	Invisible Man Ralph Ellison	3.77
#46	Here We Go Again Alison Cochrun	3.82
#47	All the Sinners Bleed S. A. Cosby	4.32
#48	Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Giulia Arborio Mella (Translator)	3.92
#49	Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace David Lipsky	4
#50	David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace	3
#51	Hamlet William Shakespeare Millôr Fernandes (Translator)	4.04
#52	Wagner Mark Owen Lee	0
#53	The Ministry of Time Kaliane Bradley	3.67
#54	The Library at Mount Char Scott Hawkins	4
#55	I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith	3.63
#56	There There Tommy Orange	3.94
#57	Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier	3.77
#58	The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	4.21
#59	Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl	4.05
#60	Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder Salman Rushdie	3.86
#61	Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace	4.24
#62	The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides	3.77
#63	The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas	4.29
#64	On the Same Page Haley Cass	4.31
#65	Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston	3.97
#66	Gone Girl Gillian Flynn	3.93
#67	Against the Loveless World Susan Abulhawa	4.55
#68	The Fire Next Time James Baldwin	4.57
#69	The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston	3
#70	S. Doug Dorst	3.99
#71	Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone Benjamin Stevenson	3.79
#72	Song of Solomon Toni Morrison	4.32
#73	The Great Santini Pat Conroy	4.07
#74	Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin	4.16
#75	Blue Sisters Coco Mellors	4.13
#76	Catch-22 Joseph Heller	3.98
#77	Daughters of Shandong Eve J. Chung	3.5
#78	The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession Michael Finkel	3.99
#79	The Inferno Dante Alighieri John Ciardi (Translator)	4.3
#80	Martyr! A Novel Kaveh Akbar	4.11
#81	The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood	4.09
#82	The Small and the Mighty Sharon McMahon	4
#83	The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern	3.88
#84	Gideon the Ninth Tamsyn Muir Jelena Katić Živanović (Translator)	4.06
#85	Harrow the Ninth Tamsyn Muir	4.17
#86	Orbital Samantha Harvey	3.89
#87	Scandalized Ivy Owens	3.61
#88	Nona the Ninth Tamsyn Muir	4.29
#89	The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath	3.91
#90	Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy	3.9
#91	The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Robert A. Caro	4.77
#92	Small Things Like These Claire Keegan	4.17
#93	Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries Heather Fawcett	4.11
#94	Annie Bot Sierra Greer	4.08
#95	Intermezzo Sally Rooney	4.11
#96	Trust Hernan Diaz	3.79
#97	To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee	4.15
#98	Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver	4.43
#99	James Percival Everett	4.53

Position	Details	Rating
#1	The Princess Bride William Goldman	4.21
#2	Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens	4.08
#3	A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin	3.89
#4	Monstrilio Gerardo Sámano Córdova	4.16
#5	The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers	3.45
#6	As I Lay Dying William Faulkner	3.57
#7	The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride	4.01
#8	Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food Chris van Tulleken	4.48
#9	Wool Hugh Howey	4.11
#10	The Reading List Sara Nisha Adams	4.01
#11	A Fever in the Heartland A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them Timothy Egan	4.13
#12	Red Rising Pierce Brown	4.12
#13	The Goldfinch Donna Tartt	3.97
#14	The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder David Grann	4.11
#15	The Coddling of the American Mind Jonathan Haidt Greg Lukianoff	3.96
#16	King: A Life Jonathan Eig	4.43
#17	The Will of the Many James Islington	4.54
#18	East of Eden John Steinbeck	4.5
#19	The Burnout Society Byung-Chul Han Erik Butler (Translator)	3.53
#20	All Systems Red Martha Wells	4.07
#21	A Deadly Education Naomi Novik	3.95
#22	The Last Graduate Naomi Novik	4.2
#23	The Golden Enclaves Naomi Novik	4.06
#24	The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami	4.1
#25	The Belan Deck Matt Bucher	2
#26	The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon	3.78
#27	Great Expectations Charles Dickens	3.56
#28	The Golden Compass Philip Pullman	4.04
#29	The Overstory Richard Powers	4.05
#30	Our Share of Night Mariana Enríquez Megan McDowell (Translator)	3.96
#31	The Book Thief Markus Zusak	4.34
#32	Verity Colleen Hoover	3.74
#33	The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer Annie Barrows	4.13
#34	Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion	4.1
#35	Leviathan Wakes James S. A. Corey	4.24
#36	Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng	3.92
#37	The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck	3.77
#38	The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams	3.82
#39	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Tom Stoppard	4.22
#40	Watchmen Alan Moore	4.44
#41	Carrie Stephen King Ingrid Nijkerk (Translator)	3.73
#42	Pachinko Min Jin Lee	4.25
#43	The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard	0
#44	Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates	4.54
#45	Invisible Man Ralph Ellison	3.77
#46	Here We Go Again Alison Cochrun	3.82
#47	All the Sinners Bleed S. A. Cosby	4.32
#48	Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Giulia Arborio Mella (Translator)	3.92
#49	Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace David Lipsky	4
#50	David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace	3
#51	Hamlet William Shakespeare Millôr Fernandes (Translator)	4.04
#52	Wagner Mark Owen Lee	0
#53	The Ministry of Time Kaliane Bradley	3.67
#54	The Library at Mount Char Scott Hawkins	4
#55	I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith	3.63
#56	There There Tommy Orange	3.94
#57	Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier	3.77
#58	The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	4.21
#59	Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl	4.05
#60	Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder Salman Rushdie	3.86
#61	Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace	4.24
#62	The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides	3.77
#63	The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas	4.29
#64	On the Same Page Haley Cass	4.31
#65	Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston	3.97
#66	Gone Girl Gillian Flynn	3.93
#67	Against the Loveless World Susan Abulhawa	4.55
#68	The Fire Next Time James Baldwin	4.57
#69	The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston	3
#70	S. Doug Dorst	3.99
#71	Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone Benjamin Stevenson	3.79
#72	Song of Solomon Toni Morrison	4.32
#73	The Great Santini Pat Conroy	4.07
#74	Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin	4.16
#75	Blue Sisters Coco Mellors	4.13
#76	Catch-22 Joseph Heller	3.98
#77	Daughters of Shandong Eve J. Chung	3.5
#78	The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession Michael Finkel	3.99
#79	The Inferno Dante Alighieri John Ciardi (Translator)	4.3
#80	Martyr! A Novel Kaveh Akbar	4.11
#81	The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood	4.09
#82	The Small and the Mighty Sharon McMahon	4
#83	The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern	3.88
#84	Gideon the Ninth Tamsyn Muir Jelena Katić Živanović (Translator)	4.06
#85	Harrow the Ninth Tamsyn Muir	4.17
#86	Orbital Samantha Harvey	3.89
#87	Scandalized Ivy Owens	3.61
#88	Nona the Ninth Tamsyn Muir	4.29
#89	The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath	3.91
#90	Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy	3.9
#91	The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Robert A. Caro	4.77
#92	Small Things Like These Claire Keegan	4.17
#93	Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries Heather Fawcett	4.11
#94	Annie Bot Sierra Greer	4.08
#95	Intermezzo Sally Rooney	4.11
#96	Trust Hernan Diaz	3.79
#97	To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee	4.15
#98	Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver	4.43
#99	James Percival Everett	4.53

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