

24 books read in 2024
Favorite reads of 2024:
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels #2) by Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels #1) by Elena Ferrante
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Liars by Sarah Manguso
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Favorite reads of 2023:
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Clean: The New Science of Skin by James Hamblin
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
FAVORITE READS OF 2022:
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, finished on February 14th
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller, finished on June 17th
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, finished on May 23rd
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, finished on November 11th
Educated by Tara Westover, finished on September 15th
FAVORITE READS OF 2021:
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Dr. Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey
What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottleib
The Handmaid's Tale & The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
The Course of Love by Alain de Botton
Immortality by Milan Kundera
FAVORITE READS OF 2020:
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
On Fire by Naomi Klein
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate by Naomi Klein
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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