2024 Books in Review

All the books I read this year.

1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson – 1971
2. The Rules of Civility – Amor Towles – 2011
3. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari – 2018
4. The War of Art – Steven Pressfield – 2002
5. The Lost Bookshop – Evie Woods – 2023
6. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole – 1980
7. Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky – 1864
8. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft – Stephen King – 2000 
9. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver – 1998
10. Sea of Tranquility – Emily St. John Mandel – 2022
11. The Likeness – Tana French – 2008
12. Post Office – Charles Bukowski – 1971
13. If It Bleeds – Stephen King – 2020
14. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon – 1990
15. The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers – Betsy Lerner – 2000
16. Filth – Irvine Welsh – 1998
17. Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer – 1996
18. Consumia’s Spiritual Emporium – Rob Weldon – 2022
19. The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton – 2018
20. Circe – Madeline Miller – 2018
21. The Glass Castle – Jeanette Walls – 2005
22. Resurrection – Leo Tolstoy – 1899
23. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood – 2000
24. Hot Water Music – Charles Bukowski – 1983
25. The Splendid and The Vile – Erik Larson – 2020
26. Their Divine Fires – Wendy Chen – 2024
27. Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver – 2022
28. Welcome to the Monkey House – Kurt Vonnegut – 1968
29. Such a Quiet Place – Megan Miranda – 2021 
30. The Night Watchman – Louise Erdrich – 2020 
31. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse – 1927 
32. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald – 1925 
33. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy – 1985 
34. Refuse to be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel – Matt Bell – 2022 
35. The Shell Collector – Anthony Doerr – 2002 
36. The Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead – 2019  
37. The Acid House – Irivine Welsh – 1994
38. Never Lie – Frieda McFadden – 2022 
39. Ghostwritten – David Mitchell – 1999
40. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad – 1899
41. Geek Love – Katherine Dunn – 1989
42. The Institute – Stephen King – 2019
43. We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson – 1962
44. 20th Century Ghosts – Joe Hill – 2005 
45. Tender is the Flesh – Augustina Bazterrica – 2017 
46. Hidden Pictures – Jason Rekulak – 2022 
47. The Girl Next Door – Jack Ketchum – 1989
48. The House by the Cemetery – Lisa Childs – 2024
49. Little Heaven – Nick Cutter – 2017
50. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon – 2001
51. The Death of Ivan Ilych – Leo Tolstoy – 1886
52. The Vegetarian – Han Kang – 2007
53. A Little Life – Hanya Yanigahara – 2015
54. There There – Tommy Orange – 2018