Year in Reading – 2024

Selected 2024 Reading:

Fiction Novels/Novellas

  • The Garden by Clare Beams
  • Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker
  • Road to Dalton by Shannon Bowring
  • Where the Forest Meets the River by Shannon Bowring
  • Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton 
  • Day by Michael Cunningham 
  • Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
  • And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliot
  • James by Percival Everett 
  • Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall
  • I Could Live Here Forever by Hanna Halperin
  • Goldenseal by Maria Hummel
  • Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Foster by Claire Keegan
  • Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
  • Very Cold People: A Novel by Sarah Manguso
  • Liars by Sarah Manguso
  • North Woods by Daniel Mason
  • The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride 
  • Cosmere books by Brandon Sanderson: Oathbringer, Rhythm of War, Dawnshard, Elantris, Warbreaker, White Sands, Tress Of The Emerald Sea, and the Wax and Wayne series
  • Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
  • Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
  • State of Paradise by Laura van den Berg
  • To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Short Stories

  • The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories by Stacie Shannon Denetsosie
  • Craft by Ananada Lima

Graphic Memoirs

  • Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls
  • Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: an Introvert’s Story by Debbie Tung
  • Spinning by Tillie Walden

Art

  • The Public Library: A Photographic Essay by Robert Dawson
  • Mary Cassatt: Paintings and Prints by Frank Getlein 
  • The Art of Lee Miller by Mark Haworth-Booth
  • Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows by Vivian Maier, Richard Cahan, Michael Williams
  • Encampment, Wyoming by Lora Webb Nichols
  • Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning by Elizabeth Partridge
  • The Writers: Portraits by Laura Wilson

Poetry

  • Best New Poets Anthology
  • Landlock X by Sarah Audsley 
  • The Pressure of All That Light by Holly Painter
  • Steel by Alison Prine

Nonfiction

  • Molly by Blake Butler
  • Any Person is the Only Self by Elisa Gabbert
  • Shift by Penny Guisinger
  • The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel
  • Splinters by Leslie Jamison
  • Trespasses: a memoir by Lacy M Johnson
  • This American Ex-Wife by Lyz Lenz 
  • The Quickening by Elizabeth Rush
  • Art of Recklessness by Dean Young