Read for fun. Read to learn. Read to get better at reading. Read easy books. Read short books. Read to remember how to hold your attention. Read boring books. Be bored. Read silly books. Be silly.

Read alone. Read with someone else. Share books. Especially the good ones. Read with kids. Especially the good ones. Read nonfiction and learn a bunch and a week later, let it all float right out of you. Read fiction and forget that it’s just a story. The good ones are never just a story.

Read fast. Read slow. Read and question everything. Write it down. Then delete it. It doesn’t matter, you know. Read for a book club. Start a book club. Or don’t. Read free library books and kindle books and audiobooks and everything counts because who is actually counting?

I guess I’m counting. Here are the books I read this year.

2024 books I’ve read

1. Burnout, Emily and Amelia Nagoski (8 Jan 24) 

2. Animal Farm, George Orwell (10 Jan 24)

3. Carrie Soto is Back, Taylor Jenkins Reid (10 Jan 24)

4. Bad Summer People, Emma Rosenblum (16 Jan 24)

5. The Practice, Seth Godin (18 Jan 24) 

6. We All Want Impossible Things, Catherine Newman (20 Jan 24)

7. It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway, Elizabeth Passarella (23 Jan 24)

8. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky (29 Jan 24)

9. First Lie Wins, Ashley Elston (3 Feb 24) 

10. How to Keep House While Drowning, KC Davis (6 Feb 24)

11. Blue Nights, Joan Didion (20 Feb 24)
    I ended up finding a signed copy of this (!!!!) Then read a library copy on my kindle so I don’t mess it up. Life is so weird.

12. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid (24 Feb 24) 
    This one is Riley’s favorite book so she made me read it. It’s so fun.

13. Welcome to the Monkey House, Kurt Vonnegut (15 March 24)

14. Still I See You, Lisa Gardner (March 24)

15. The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control, Katherine Morgan Shafler (5 April 24) 

16. Grief is for People, Sloane Crosley (8 May 24)
    Book of the year? YES. Was it even published in 2024?

17. So Late in the Day, Claire Keegan (14 May 24)

18. Feel-Good Productivity, Ali Abdaal (20 May 24) 

19. Bad Vibes Only, Nora McInery (14 June 24) 

20. Scarcity Brain, Michael (23 July 24) 

21.  Look Alive Out There, Sloane Crosley (2 August 24)

22. Counting the Cost, Jill Duggar (6 August 24) 

23. All the Colors of the Dark, Chris Whitaker (17 Aug 24)
    This was longer than what I usually ready, but Sam Irby told me to read it and I always do whatever she says. IT WAS VERY VERY GOOD AND WORTH ALL THE PAGES.

24. Yellow Face, R. F. Kuang (20 Aug 24) 

25. The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt (26 August 24) 
    Yes, I know this entire book is trash, and I listened to the podcast that refuted all of the evidence. AND I still liked it and love trash science. You can’t stop me.

26. Somebody’s Daughter, Ashley C. Ford (5 Sept 24)

27. Finding me, Viola Davis (9 Sept 24)
    I would listen to literally anything from Viola Davis. She’s perfect.

28. Sandwich, Catherine Newman (16 Sept 24) 
    Loved this one so much.

29. The Kamogawa Detectives, Hisaski Kashiwai (October 24)
    Got this from the library because it had a cute cat on the cover (what?) and it was so lovely.

30. Everything I Know About Love, Dolly Alderton (22 October 24)

31. The Age of Magical Overthinking, Amanda Montreal (16 Nov 24)
    IS EVERYTHING ACTUALLY CONFIRMATION BIAS? YES. WE ARE ALL IDIOTS.

32. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir, Ina Garten (12 Dec 24)

33. No One Gets to Fall Apart, Sarah LaBrie (27 Dec 24) 

34. Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Rufi Thorpe (31 Dec 24) 

Happy reading!

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