Books I Read in 2024

Books I Read in 2024

1. The Biographer's Tale (A.S. Byatt)
2. Working at Play:  A History of Vacations in the United States (Cindy S. Aron)
3. Osebol:  Voices from a Swedish Village (Marit Kapla; translated by Peter Graves)
4. Gris Grimly's Frankenstein (Gris Grimly, based on the novel by Mary Shelley)
5. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive:  Poems (Katie Farris)
6. The Boys in the Boat:  Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for the Gold at the 1936 Olympics (Daniel James Brown; audiobook, read by Edward Herrmann)
7. Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and its Tributaries (John Wesley Powell, et al.)
8. Aug 9- Fog (Kathryn Scanlan)
9. The French Cat (Rachael Hale)
10. Washington:  A Life (Ron Chernow; audiobook, abridged, read by Edward Herrmann)
11. All Boys Aren't Blue:  A Memoir-Manifesto (George M. Johnson)
12. *American Journal:  50 Poems for Our Time (Tracy K. Smith, editor)
13. Ninety-Nine Stories of God (Joy Williams)
14. The World Pushes Back:  Poems (Garrett Keizer)
15. My Kitchen Year:  136 Recipes That Saved My Life (Ruth Reichl; audiobook, read by Ruth Reichl)
16. Until August (Gabriel Garcia Marquez; translated by Anne McLean)
17. Dirtbag, Massachusetts:  A Confessional (Isaac Fitzgerald)
18. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension (Hanif Abdurraqib)
19. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
20. Cards on the Table (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
21. Selected Poems (Gwendolyn Brooks)
22. The Great Taos Bank Robbery and Other True Stories of the Southwest (Tony Hillerman)
23. Breaking Into the Backcountry (Steve Edwards)
24. The Third Girl (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
25. *Longitude:  The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Dava Sobel)
26. Aphorisms (Franz Kafka)
27. A Cat Among the Pigeons (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
28. Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
29. In My Time of Dying:  How I Came Face to Face With the Idea of an Afterlife (Sebastian Junger; audiobook, read by Sebastian Junger)
30. Five Little Pigs (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
31. Inherited Disorders:  Stories, Parables, and Problems (Adam Ehrlich Sachs)
32. Chike and the River (Chinua Achebe)
33. After the Funeral (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
34. The Splendid and the Vile:  A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Erik Larson)
35. In the Language of My Captor (Shane McCrae)
36. The Backwater Sermons (Jay Hulme)
37. James (Percival Everett)
38. The Harvest Gypsies:  On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
39. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
40. Modern Poetry:  Poems (Diane Seuss)
41. Well, This Is Me:  A Cartoon Collection from the New Yorker's Asher Perlman (Asher Perlman)
42. Knife:  Meditations After an Attempted Murder (Salman Rushdie; audiobook, read by Salman Rushdie)
43. Taken at the Flood (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
44. Black Aperture:  Poems (Matt Rasmussen)
45. Pietr the Latvian (Georges Simenon; trans. by David Bellos)
46. Pafko at the Wall:  A Novella (Don DeLillo)
47. Music is History (Questlove; audiobook, read by Questlove, with Ben Greenman)
48. Poirot's Early Cases:  18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Agatha Christie; audiobook, narrated by Hugh Fraser and David Suchet)
49. The Bone and Sinew of the Land:  America's Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality (Anna-Lisa Cox)
50. A Rebel in Auschwitz:  The True Story of the Resistance Hero Who Fought the Nazis from Inside the Camp (Jack Fairweather)
51. The Yellow House (Sarah M. Broom)
52. Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries (Martha Wells)
53. The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser, Isla Blair, and Simon Vance)
54. Vincent & Theo:  The Van Gogh Brothers (Deborah Heiligman)
55. The Under Dog and Other Stories (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser and David Suchet)
56. The English Understand Wool (Helen DeWitt)
57. Chaos:  Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (Tom O'Neill; audiobook, read by Kevin Stillwater)
58. Death on the Nile (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by David Suchet)
59. The Santa Fe Trail:  A Historical Bibliography (Jack D. Rittenhouse)
60. The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser, Joan Hickson, David Suchet, Isla Blair, and Simon Vance)
61. The Book of (More) Delights:  Essays (Ross Gay; audiobook, read by Ross Gay)
62. The Man Who Planted Trees (Jean Giono; wood engravings by Michael McCurdy)
63. Galactic Hot Dogs: Cosmoe's Wiener Getaway (Max Brallier; illustrated by Rachel Maguire and Nichole Kelley)
64. Here (Richard McGuire)
65. Three Tall Women:  A Play in Two Acts (Edward Albee)
66. Foster (Claire Keegan)
67. Forest of Noise:  Poems (Mosab Abu Toha)
68. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass)
69. Doubt:  A Parable (John Patrick Shanley)
70. Life Itself:  A Memoir (Roger Ebert; audiobook, read by Edward Herrmann)
71. Writing to Save a Life:  The Louis Till File (John Edgar Wideman)
72. The White Book (Han Kang; translated by Deborah Smith)

 

Books I Read in 2023

 

Books I Read in 2023

1. The Postman Always Rings Twice (James M. Cain; audiobook, read by Stanley Tucci)
2. The Day the World Came to Town:  9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland (Jim DeFede; audiobook, read by Ray Porter)
3. Rez Dogs (Joseph Bruchac)
4. In Search of the Free Individual:  The History of the Russian-Soviet Soul (Svetlana Alexievich; translated by Jamey Gambrell)
5. All Systems Red:  The Murderbot Diaries, Book 1 (Martha Wells)
6. War and Peas:  Funny Comics for Dirty Lovers (Jonathan Kunz and Elizabeth Pich)
7. Star Child:  A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler (Ibi Zoboi)
8. American Sirens:  The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics (Kevin Hazzard; audiobook, read by Gilbert Glenn Brown)
9. Catch the Light:  Why I Write (Joy Harjo)
10. 4:50 from Paddington (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Joan Hickson)
11. Aliens:  Dead Orbit (James Stokoe)
12. And There Was Light:  Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle (Jon Meacham; audiobook, read by Jon Meacham)
13. Rocket Men:  The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon (Robert Kurson; audiobook, read by Ray Porter)
14. South to America:  A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (Imani Perry; audiobook, read by Imani Perry)
15. The 13 Clocks (James Thurber)
16. Above Ground:  Poems (Clint Smith)
17. River of the Gods:  Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Candice Millard; audiobook, read by Paul Michael)
18. The Best Strangers in the World:  Stories from a Life Spent Listening (Ari Shapiro; audiobook, read by Ari Shapiro)
19. My Dog May Be a Genius (Jack Prelutsky; audiobook, read and sung by Jack Prelutsky)
20. The Inheritance Games (Jennifer Lynn Barnes)
21. Alive at the End of the World:  Poems (Saeed Jones)
22. These Precious Days:  Essays (Ann Patchett; audiobook, read by Ann Patchett)
23. Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Gabriel Garcia Marquez; translated by Edith Grossman)
24. Liberation Day:  Stories (George Saunders; audiobook read by George Saunders, Tina Fey, Michael McKean, Edi Patterson, Jenny Slate, Jack McBrayer, Melora Hardin, and Stephen Root)
25. Mountains Beyond Mountains:  The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Tracy Kidder)
26. This is How You Lose the Time War (Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone)
27. Amoralman:  A True Story and Other Lies (Derek Delgaudio)
28. *Assassination Vacation (Sarah Vowell)
29. 55 Strong: Inside the West Virginia Teachers' Strike (edited by Elizabeth Catt, Emily Hilliard, and Jessica Salfia)
30. The Evidence of Things Not Seen (James Baldwin)
31. I Do Everything I'm Told:  Poems (Megan Fernandes)
32. Death in a Prairie House:  Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders (William R. Drennan; audiobook, read by Jim Fleming)
33. Stupid Hope:  Poems (Jason Shinder)
34. Musical Tables:  Poems (Billy Collins)
35. Hallowe'en Party (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
36. The Mystery of the Blue Train (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
37. The Skull (Jon Klassen)
38. ABC Murders (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
39. Hickory Dickory Dock (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
40. Master of the Senate:  The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 3 (Robert Caro)
41. Murder in Three Acts (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
42. Yellowface (R.F. Kuang; audiobook, read by Helen Laser)
43. The Book of Delights:  Essays (Ross Gay; audiobook, read by Ross Gay)
44. Sleeping Murder (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Stephanie Cole)
45. The Passage of Power:  The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4 (Robert Caro)
46. Minor Threats, Volume 1:  A Quick End to a Long Beginning (Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, Scott Hepburn, Ian Herring, and Nate Piekos)
47. A Fortune for Your Disaster:  Poems (Hanif Abdurraqib; audiobook, read by Hanif Abdurraqib)
48. The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove (Christopher Moore)
49. Death in the Clouds (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
50. The Body in the Library (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Stephanie Cole)
51. Thirteen at Dinner (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
52. White Cat, Black Dog:  Stories (Kelly Link)
53. At Bertram's Hotel (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Stephanie Cole)
54. One Above & One Below:  New Poems (Erin Belieu)
55. The Tragedy of Brady Sims (Ernest J. Gaines)
56. Robot Dreams (Sara Varon)
57. Sing To It:  Stories (Amy Hempel)
58. Your Pal Fred (Michael Rex)
59. A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens; audiobook, abridged, read by Patrick Stewart)
60. Old in Art School:  A Memoir of Starting Over (Nell Irvin Painter; audiobook, read by Nell Irvin Painter)