2024 Wrap Up

Literary Fiction

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori (reread)

The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai, translated by Donald Keene

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Tokyo Ueno Station by Yū Miri, translated by Morgan Giles

What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Adult Fiction

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Classics: Fiction

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Red Pony by John Steinbeck

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (reread)

Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Stoner by John Williams

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (reread)

In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Classics: Nonfiction

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut

Poetry

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills by Charles Bukowski

Historical Fiction

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

The Tattooist of Auchwitz by Heather Morris

Nonfiction

All About Love by bell hooks

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks

How to Become a Straight-A Student by Cal Newport

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Narrative Nonfiction/Memoir/Essays

I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections by Nora Ephron

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Jay Allison

The Art of the Handwritten Note: A Guide to Reclaiming Civilized Communication by Margaret Shepherd

Romance

Verity by Colleen Hoover

It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover

Shelter Mountain by Robyn Carr

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Too Beautiful to Break by Tessa Bailey

Young Adult Fiction

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Graphic Novel/Manga

Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson, illustrated by Emily Carroll

Jujutsu Kaisen: Volume 1 by Gege Akutami 

My Hero Academia: Volume 1 by Kohei Horikoshi

Children's Literature

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (reread)

Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl (reread)

Esio Trot by Roald Dahl (reread)

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (reread)

George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl (reread)

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

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