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Presenting the 40 books I read in 2024! Not that I ever really care about how many I’ve completed, but it is very satisfying to reach a nice round number at the end of the year (even if I did have to sneak a Ray Bradbury short story in there at the eleventh hour). I find it amusing that you can also chart my personal vibe shift about more than halfway through here. The book list never lies!

Many of these books instantly became new favorites of mine: Arrangements in Blue by Amy Key, The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen, What Do We Need Men For by E. Jean Carroll, A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers, Health and Safety by Emily Witt, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet, and Nine and a Half Weeks by Elizabeth McNeill. I also reread both The Surrender and Dangerous Liaisons for the second time and appreciated them anew.

2024 was the year I got really into Sappho, highbrow smut, and nutrition (random). I started and stopped many books on current events. There are plenty of books here that I liked very much while reading but don’t feel any need to revisit. Sadly, Fear of Flying did not hold up to a reread - though I liked seeing everything I’d underlined on my Kindle from 10 years ago when I first read it.

For further lurking into my reading habits, here are the books I read in 2023, 2022, and 2021.