Books Read 2024 Table

Category	Books
Literary Fiction	The Nix (Nathan Hill) Villa E (Jane Alison) The Adventures of Augue March (Saul Bellow) The Light Pirate (Lily Brooks-Dalton) Playground (Richard Powers) Northwoods (Amy Pease) The Cartographers (Peng Shepherd) The Wren, the Wren (Anne Enright) Table for Two (Amor Towles) Let Us Descend (Jesmyn Ward) The Book of Form and Emptiness (Ruth Ozeki) James (Percival Everett) Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald) The Passenger (Cormac McCarthy) White Noise (Don DeLillo) A Tale for the Time Being (Ruth Ozeki)
Mystery / Crime / Thriller	The Cuckoo's Calling (Robert Galbraith) Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Benjamin Stevenson) The Thirst (Jo Nesbø) Nothing to Lose — Jack Reacher #12 (Lee Child) The Secret — Jack Reacher #28 (Lee Child) One Good Turn (Kate Atkinson) Beware the Woman (Megan Abbott)
Horror / Dark Fiction	Horror Movie (Paul Tremblay) Cell (Stephen King) You Like It Darker (Stephen King)
Classics	It Can't Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey) What Maisie Knew (Henry James) Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
Poetry	Felon: Poems (Reginald Dwayne Betts) You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World (Ada Limon) You Could Make This Place Beautiful (Maggie Smith) Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds (Billy Collins) Splitting an Order (Ted Kooser) William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (Randell Jarrell, ed.)
Essays / Literary Nonfiction	The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (John Green) 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write (Sarah Ruhl) Zeitoun (Dave Eggers) A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous (Caspar Henderson) Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places (John R. Stilgoe) At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Bill Bryson) Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier (Kevin Kelly)
Nature, Environment & Practical	Zugunruhe: The Inner Migration To Profound Environmental Change (Jason F. McLennan) Permaculture for the Rest of Us: Abundant Living on Less than an Acre (Jenni Blackmore) Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times (Katherine May)
Philosophy, Mindfulness, Psychology & Spirituality	Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Jane Bennett) Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong (Norman Fischer) Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears (Pema Chödrön) Memories, Dreams, Reflections (C.G. Jung) When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen (Norman Fischer) How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen (David Brooks)
History, Biography & Politics	The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (David Grann) A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (Timothy Egan) Master of the Senate — The Years of Lyndon Johnson #3 (Robert A. Caro) Hubert Humphrey: A Biography (Carl Solberg) Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers (Deborah Heiligman) The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World's Most Notorious Atheist (Larry Alex Taunton)
Music, Art & Culture	The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Rick Rubin) Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World's Most Notorious Horror Movie (Gunnar Hansen) Cahokia Jazz (Francis Spufford) Reinventing Bach (Paul Elie) Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers (Deborah Heiligman)
Reading, Writing & Ideas	Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life (Dani Shapiro) Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature (Sarah Hart) Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places (John R. Stilgoe)
Memoir & Personal Writing	Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life (Dani Shapiro) I Want to Thank You: How a Year of Gratitude Can Bring Joy and Meaning in a Disconnected World (Gina Hamadey) Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Claire Dederer) Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World's Most Notorious Horror Movie (Gunnar Hansen)
Drama	Leopoldstadt (Tom Stoppard)