Books I Read in 2024
- The Biographer's Tale (A.S. Byatt)
- Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States (Cindy S. Aron)
- Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village (Marit Kapla; translated by Peter Graves)
- Gris Grimly's Frankenstein (Gris Grimly, based on the novel by Mary Shelley)
- Standing in the Forest of Being Alive: Poems (Katie Farris)
- 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)
- Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and its Tributaries (John Wesley Powell, et al.)
- Aug 9- Fog (Kathryn Scanlan)
- The French Cat (Rachael Hale)
- Washington: A Life (Ron Chernow; audiobook, abridged, read by Edward Herrmann)
- All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto (George M. Johnson)
- *American Journal: 50 Poems for Our Time (Tracy K. Smith, editor)
- Ninety-Nine Stories of God (Joy Williams)
- The World Pushes Back: Poems (Garrett Keizer)
- My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life (Ruth Reichl; audiobook, read by Ruth Reichl)
- Until August (Gabriel Garcia Marquez; translated by Anne McLean)
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional (Isaac Fitzgerald)
- There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension (Hanif Abdurraqib)
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
- Cards on the Table (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
- Selected Poems (Gwendolyn Brooks)
- The Great Taos Bank Robbery and Other True Stories of the Southwest (Tony Hillerman)
- Breaking Into the Backcountry (Steve Edwards)
- The Third Girl (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
- *Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Dava Sobel)
- Aphorisms (Franz Kafka)
- A Cat Among the Pigeons (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
- Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
- In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face With the Idea of an Afterlife (Sebastian Junger; audiobook, read by Sebastian Junger)
- Five Little Pigs (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
- Inherited Disorders: Stories, Parables, and Problems (Adam Ehrlich Sachs)
- Chike and the River (Chinua Achebe)
- After the Funeral (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
- The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Erik Larson)
- In the Language of My Captor (Shane McCrae)
- The Backwater Sermons (Jay Hulme)
- James (Percival Everett)
- The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
- The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
- Modern Poetry: Poems (Diane Seuss)
- Well, This Is Me: A Cartoon Collection from the New Yorker's Asher Perlman (Asher Perlman)
- Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (Salman Rushdie; audiobook, read by Salman Rushdie)
- Taken at the Flood (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
- Black Aperture: Poems (Matt Rasmussen)
- Pietr the Latvian (Georges Simenon; trans. by David Bellos)
- Pafko at the Wall: A Novella (Don DeLillo)
- Music is History (Questlove; audiobook, read by Questlove, with Ben Greenman)
- Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Agatha Christie; audiobook, narrated by Hugh Fraser and David Suchet)
- The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality (Anna-Lisa Cox)
- A Rebel in Auschwitz: The True Story of the Resistance Hero Who Fought the Nazis from Inside the Camp (Jack Fairweather)
- The Yellow House (Sarah M. Broom)
- Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries (Martha Wells)
- The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser, Isla Blair, and Simon Vance)
- Vincent & Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers (Deborah Heiligman)
- The Under Dog and Other Stories (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser and David Suchet)
- The English Understand Wool (Helen DeWitt)
- Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (Tom O'Neill; audiobook, read by Kevin Stillwater)
- Death on the Nile (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by David Suchet)
- The Santa Fe Trail: A Historical Bibliography (Jack D. Rittenhouse)
- The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser, Joan Hickson, David Suchet, Isla Blair, and Simon Vance)
- The Book of (More) Delights: Essays (Ross Gay; audiobook, read by Ross Gay)
- The Man Who Planted Trees (Jean Giono; wood engravings by Michael McCurdy)
- Galactic Hot Dogs: Cosmoe's Wiener Getaway (Max Brallier; illustrated by Rachel Maguire and Nichole Kelley)
- Here (Richard McGuire)
- Three Tall Women: A Play in Two Acts (Edward Albee)
- Foster (Claire Keegan)
- Forest of Noise: Poems (Mosab Abu Toha)
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass)
- Doubt: A Parable (John Patrick Shanley)
- Life Itself: A Memoir (Roger Ebert; audiobook, read by Edward Herrmann)
- Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File (John Edgar Wideman)
- The White Book (Han Kang; translated by Deborah Smith)
