My 2024 Booklist
I have starred My 5-Star reads for the year. Let me know what you loved.
Here we go folks, but once again I will say I set a reading goal for myself, an arbitrary fun 24 for 2024 (this year is 25 for 2025). But reading is reading. No need to be competitive, just find a good book, get a warm drink, sit your butt in that cozy spot and let yourself imagine.
The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin*
The Rules of Magic, Alice Hoffman
Dracula, Bram Stoker*
The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese
A Field Companion for Wandering, Conner Bouchard-Roberts
The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern*
The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
The Sentence, Louise Erdrich
The Maidens, Alex Michaelidis
The Storyteller, Dave Grohl
Smart But Scattered, Peg Dawson, EdD and Richard Guare, PhD
Less, Andrew Sean Greer
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Lori Gottlieb
A Court of Thorn and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
The Business of Writing for Children, Aaron Shepard
Court of Mist and Fog, Sarah J. Maas
The Bookshop on the Corner, Jenny Colgan
Signal Fires, Dani Shapiro*
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern*
Let Us Descend, Jesmyn Ward*
The Guest, Emma Cline
Pineapple Street, Jenny Jackson
Magic Words, Cheryl Klein
How to Write One Song, Jeff Tweedy
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
What You Are Looking For is in the Library, Michiko Aoyama*
Wellness, Nathan Hill*
The Kissing Quotient, Helen Hoang
The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle, Matt Cain
Turn of the Key, Ruth Ware
Everyday Matters, Danny Gregory
Edgar and Lucy, Victor Lodato
Conscious Creativity, Philippa Stanton
Hag-Seed, Margaret Atwood
Dickens and Prince, Nick Hornby
Happiness Falls, Angie Kim
Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
James, Percival Everett**
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Creating a Life Worth Living, Carol Lloyd
The Address Book, Sophie Calle
Truth and Beauty, Ann Patchett
The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah
Help, Thanks, Wow: The 3 Essential Prayers, Anne Lamott
North Woods, Daniel Mason
Breathe, Mama, Breathe, Shonda Moralis
Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain*
Love in a Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Mighty Red, Louise Erdrich
The Reading List, Sara Nisha Adams
The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelidis
And I have begun Yoga and Ayurveda by David Frawley, Ghost Girl, Banana by Wiz Wharton and Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid for the beginning of 2025.
As always, let me know what you loved this year.
x A
p.s. The Podcast diving deeper into these reads is on its way.