It is always a weird feeling to look back at all the books I read in any given year. Some books I loved, some books I remember strongly and evoke a specific emotion, and honestly there are some in here that I have to look up to remember the slightest thing about them.

Fire Weather was both an important read and a total page turner, and it was one of the best books I read this year. Say Nothing was also outstanding, as was this year’s excellent Hulu limited series based on this book.

There was some very fun diversions, like Our Band Could Be Your Life about the American punk scene, and Goth about, well, the Goth scene written by one of it’s pioneers.

Some others that really jump at my as I reflect on this list are Knife, 1Q84, How the World Ran Out of Everything, and the fantastically well-written Zeitoun.

Here are all the books I read in 2024 in the order I read them…

1. Why We Sleep — Matthew Walker 
2. The Sympathizer — Viet Thanh Nguyen 
3. The Zone of Interest — Martin Amis 
4. Firewater — Harold R. Johnson
5. World Within a Song — Jeff Tweedy
6. Eve — Cat Bohannon 
7. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry — Gabrielle Zevin 
8. Our Band Could Be Your Life — Michael Azerrad 
9. Trust — Hernan Diaz 
10. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine — Rashid Khalidi 
11. Burn Book — Kara Swisher 
12. How to Know a Person — David Brooks 
13. Goth — Lol Tolhurst 
14. All the Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr 
15. Erasure — Perceval Everett 
16. Great Expectations — Vinson Cunningham
17. Fire Weather — John Vaillant 
18. Say Nothing — Patrick Radden Keefe 
19. I Shall Not Hate — Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish 
20. Rogues — Patrick Radden Keefe
21. Kitchen Confidential — Anthony Bourdain 
22. The Deluge — Stephen Markley
23. Knife — Salman Rushdie
24. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo — Taylor Jenkins Reid 
25. In My Time of Dying — Sebastian Junger 
26. Limitarianism — Ingrid Robeyns
27. A Children’s Bible — Lydia Millet
28. The Talented Mr. Ripley — Patricia Highsmith 
29. Justin Trudeau on the Ropes — Paul Wells
30. Becoming Earth — Ferris Jabr
31. Comedy Book — Jesse David Fox
32. Darth Plagueis — James Luceno 
33. Aurora — Kim Stanley Robinson 
34. Crooked Teeth — Danny Ramadan
35. The Marrow Thieves — Cherie Dimaline
36. 1Q84 — Haruki Murakami 
37. The Will To Change — bell hooks
38. The Undoing Project — Michael Lewis 
39. Rest is Resistance — Tricia Hersey
40. Misfit — Gary Gulman 
41. Ripley Under Ground — Patricia Highsmith 
42. Our Crumbling Foundation — Gregor Craigie 
43. Age of Revolutions — Fareed Zakaria
44. The Message — Ta-Nehisi Coates
45. Nexus — Yuval Noah Harari 
46. Revenge of the Tipping Point — Malcolm Gladwell
47. Reconciling History — Jody Wilson-Raybould 
48. Hunting by Stars — Cherie Dimaline 
49. Red Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson
50. How the World Ran Out of Everything — Peter S. Goodman
51. The Spamalot Diaries — Eric Idle 
52. Zeitoun — Dave Eggers
53. At a Loss for Words — Carol Off
54. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord — Daniel J. Levitin 

I also saw lots of great films and many amazing shows in 2024.