My Favorite Reads of 2024

Beginning of a new year typically equates with the opportunity to look back on what happened in the prior lifecycle, and as such, the enumerable lists of the best (and worst) come out. I don’t hold any pretensions of my lists being particularly noteworthy, but for what it’s worth, here are the books I read throughout the year which resonated with me the most (and inspired me the most). Much like the prior year, I set up a reading challenge (documented in GoodReads), of reading 24 books, and managed to surpass that with a final number of 35. These books cross a variety of genres, something that I’ve been deliberately aiming to fulfill: reading books without genre or author bias.

Hope this gives some ideas on what to read next (artwork illustrated below belongs to their authors and publishers).

1. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro

2. Spear, by Nicola Griffith

3. Blackfish City, by Sam J. Miller

4. The House on the Lagoon, by Rosario Ferré

5. A Master of Djinn, by P. Djèli Clark

6. Mrs. Kimble, by Jennifer Haigh

7. Burntcoat, by Sarah Hall

8. The Marriage Portrait, by Maggie O’Farrell

9. The Cabin at the End of the World, by Paul Tremblay

10. Normal People, by Sally Rooney

11. The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman

12. Ordinary Grace, by William Kent Krueger