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Here are the books I read in 2024

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Here is a list of my favorites, and below is a link to a google doc of all the books and some words about each one.

1. Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See

2. I'm Glad My Mom is Dead by Jeannette McCurdy

3. Sleeping Giants by Rene Denfield

4. Her Right Mind by Kate Kasten

5. James by Percival Everett

6. Our Strangers by Lydia Davis

7. I Must Be Dreaming by Roz Chast

8. Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come by Jessica Pan

9. Murder and Gold and Hunting Gold by Ann Aptaker

10. Gonna Take a Homicidal Journey by Sandra Scoppettone

11. (Currently reading The Book Collectors by Amy Stewart)

Link to the books I read in 2024 is here.

Also, I'm nearly finished with my 51st book of the year, and it is definitely one of my favorites. The book is The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession by Amy Stewart. These are individual tales of people who collect trees or wood or seeds, etc. Interesting, I've learned some things. And the water color illustrations by Amy Stewart are beautiful. I swear I'm not biased simply because she lives in Portland. I don't know her personally, but I do follow her substack, and you might want to as well. It's here.

If you buy any of the books, and I encourage you to buy books if you can, please use bookshop.org because it supports independent bookstores.

In 2025, I’ll be reading the Hilary Mantel Cromwell trilogy with Simon Haisell in his substack Footnotes and Tangents. Link is here in case you want to join in.

Please feel free to leave your own list in comments, or ask questions, or share information, whatever is your wont.