2024: A Year in Reading
Fiction
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray *
The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow
How I Won a Nobel Prize by Julius Tranto
The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
An Honorable Exit by Eric Vuillard
Columba’s Bones by David Greg
Three Fires by Denise Mina
Erasure by Percival Everett
Middlemarch by George Eliot *
To The Dogs by Louise Welsh
The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez Reverte
Absolution by Alice McDermott
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Ann Tyler
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
James by Percival Everett
The Vegetarian by Han Kang *
August Blue by Deborah Levy
Parade by Rachel Cusk
Black Narcissus by Rumor Gordon
The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns
West by Carys Davies
Clear by Carys Davies *
What Hetty Did by J.L. Carr
Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid
Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
John the Revelator by Peter Murphy
Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers
Consider the Lilies by Iain Crichton Smith
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie
Long Island by Colm Toibin
Nonfiction
Unquiet by Linn Ullmann *
The Recovery by Leslie Jamieson
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalamithi
Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel *
We Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
The Creative Act by Ricki
The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal *
The Years by Annie Ernaux *
A Man’s Place by Annie Ernaux
Stolen Lens by Johann Hari
Knife by Salman Rushdie
Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 Panels by Toby Ferris *
The American No by Rupert Everett
She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Towney
The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer
Hitler’s Horses by Arthur Brand *
Every Man for Himself and God Against All by Werner Herzog *
Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
On Death and Dying by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench
The Professor and the Parson by Adam Sisman
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel
Cairn by Kathleen Jamie
Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietila
Just One Thing by Dr. Michael Mosley
Plays
The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett *
Poetry
Patrick Kavanagh Selected Poems
Mayday by Jackie Kay
