{"id":2351,"date":"2025-01-01T11:57:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T18:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/?p=2351"},"modified":"2025-01-01T11:58:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T18:58:25","slug":"bookshelf-my-year-in-reading-2024-100-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/?p=2351","title":{"rendered":"Bookshelf \u2013 My Year in Reading: 100 Books in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Books_2024-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2364\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Books_2024-294x300.jpg 294w, http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Books_2024-1002x1024.jpg 1002w, http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Books_2024-768x784.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Books_2024-1504x1536.jpg 1504w, http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Books_2024.jpg 1865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">By November last, I was falling behind on my goal of reading (or listening to) one-hundred books in 2024. So, I said to my wife, from now until year\u2019s end I am only choosing books of fewer than two hundred and fifty pages. That\u2019s cheating, she told me.<br>&nbsp;<br>Fortunately, I ignored her (as she might say I often do), and found myself noshing on a amuse-bouche of titles that were not only delectable but often more tasty than many more portly popular tomes. Among them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Orbital, Samantha Harvey (207 pp.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury (182 pp.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Shadow-Line, Joseph Conrad (192 pp.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eastbound, Maylis de Kerangal (140 pp.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Pole, J.M. Coetzee (166 pp.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Passing Nella Larsen (141 pp.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, Tim O&#8217;Brien (225 pp.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Home, Toni Morrison (147 pp.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Einstein\u2019s Dreams, Alan Lightman (140 pp.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan (166 pp.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the numbers, for those who insist upon them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Print \u2013 69<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Audio \u2013 31 (including Barack Obama\u2019s Dreams from my Father and A Promised Land. His august voice alone remedies current discomforts.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Did Not Finish (DNF) \u2013 4 (read at least fifty pages)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again, thanks to the serendipity of both digital and physical browsing, I found myself delighting in books I might once, limited by a narrower view of the world, never have read. Among them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Safekeep, Yael van der Wouden<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Apeirogon, Colum McCann<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>News of the World, Paulette Jiles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Einstein\u2019s Dreams, Alan Lightman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I have multiples reads from some authors (because why not repeat a good thing?):<br>&nbsp;<br>Ian McEwan (3), Percival Everett (3), Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn (2), Paulette Jiles (2), Jane Harper (2), and among the audio listens for the gym and the trail: Walter Mosely (3), Michael Connelly (3), and Craig Johnson (10).<br>&nbsp;<br>Finally, ten that I loved, in no particular order:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Apeirogon, Colum McCann<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Day, Michael Cunningham<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>James, Percival Everett<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Flags on the Bayou, James Lee Burke<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Trees, Percival Everett<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Salman Rushdie<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Legends of the Fall, Jim Harrison<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eastbound, Maylis de Kerangal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Safekeep, Yael van der Wouden<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The List, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Motherless Brooklyn \u2013 Jonathan Lethem<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Brass Verdict \u2013 Michael Connelly *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nightcrawling \u2013 Leila Mottley<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Women \u2013 Kristin Hannah<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This Other Eden \u2013 Paul Harding<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Godfather \u2013 Mario Puzo *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Day \u2013 Michael Cunningham<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Devil in a Blue Dress \u2013 Walter Mosley *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Invisible Cities \u2013 Italo Calvino<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Amsterdam \u2013 Ian McEwan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Exiles \u2013 Jane Harper *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lessons \u2013 Ian McEwan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Lost Man \u2013 Jane Harper *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Gathering \u2013 Anne Enright<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>California Fire and Life \u2013 Don Winslow *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Generation Loss \u2013 Elizabeth Hand<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tinkers \u2013 Paul Harding<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>News of the World \u2013 Paulette Jiles *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Cold Dish \u2013 Craig Johnson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Friends of Eddie Coyle \u2013 George V. Higgins *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The World Made Straight \u2013 Ron Rash<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Death Without Company \u2013 Craig Johnson *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enemy Women \u2013 Paulette Jiles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ordinary Human Failings \u2013 Megan Nolan **<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zero Days \u2013 Ruth Ware **<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Red Death \u2013 Walter Mosley *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be Mine \u2013 Richard Ford<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sharp Objects \u2013 Gillian Flynn *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Annie Bot \u2013 Sierra Greer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>James \u2013 Percival Everett<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kindness Goes Unpunished \u2013 Craig Johnson *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Flags on the Bayou \u2013 James Lee Burke<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Until August \u2013 Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>City of Dreams \u2013 Don Winslow *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Liliana\u2019s Invincible Summer \u2013 Cristina Rivera Garza<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>City in Ruins \u2013 Don Winslow *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Trees \u2013 Percival Everett<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine \u2013 Gail Honeyman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Another Man&#8217;s Moccasins \u2013 Craig Johnson *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Great Fire \u2013 Shirley Hazzard **<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Einstein\u2019s Dreams \u2013 Alan Lightman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>White Butterfly \u2013 Walter Mosley *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On Chesil Beach \u2013 Ian McEwan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brooklyn \u2013 Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Dark Horse \u2013 Craig Johnson *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Salvage the Bones \u2013 Jesmyn Ward<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Maltese Falcon \u2013 Dashiell Hammett<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Reformatory \u2013 Tananarive Due **<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Lede \u2013 Calvin Trillin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder \u2013 Salman Rushdie<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pet Sematary \u2013 Stephen King *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Junkyard Dogs \u2013 Craig Johnson *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anxious People \u2013 Fredrik Backman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Between the World and Me \u2013 Ta-Nehisi Coates *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nightwoods \u2013 Charles Frazier<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An American Marriage &#8212; Tayari Jones<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Legends of the Fall \u2013 Jim Harrison *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Human Stain \u2013 Philip Roth<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Autocracy Inc. \u2013 Anne Applebaum<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nobody\u2019s Angel \u2013 Thomas McGuane *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler&#8217;s Berlin \u2013 Erik Larson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Atonement \u2013 Ian McEwan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hell is Empty \u2013 Craig Johnson *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Speedboat \u2013 Renata Adler<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Long Island \u2013 Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Nearest Exit \u2013 Owen Steinhauer **<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home \u2013 Tim O\u2019Brien<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fade Away \u2013 Harlan Coben *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Almost Moon \u2013 Alice Sebold<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Heart in Winter \u2013 Kevin Barry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dreams from My Father \u2013 Barack Obama *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sofrito \u2013 Phillippe Diederich<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Passing \u2013 Nella Larsen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Breafast at Tiffany\u2019s \u2013 Truman Capote<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Pole \u2013 J.M. Coetzee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eastbound \u2013 Maylis de Kerangal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Wife \u2013 Meg Wolitzer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Promised Land \u2013 Barack Obama *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fat City \u2013 Leonard Gardner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Girls of Slender Means \u2013 Muriel Spark *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Shadow-Line \u2013 Joseph Conrad<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Overlook, Harry Bosch \u2013 Michael Connelly *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Burn \u2013 Peter Heller<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Creation Lake \u2013 Rachel Kushner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>9 Dragons, Harry Bosch \u2013 Michael Connelly *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pedro P\u00e1ramo \u2013 Juan Rulfo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Home \u2013 Toni Morrison<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Serpent\u2019s Tooth \u2013 Craig Johnson *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Marian Chronicles \u2013 Ray Bradbury<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Erasure \u2013 Percival Everett<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fortune Favors the Dead \u2013 Stephen Spotswood *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parade \u2013 Rachel Cusk<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Journey Into Fear \u2013 Eric Ambler<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Any Other Name \u2013 Craig Johnson *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Orbital \u2013 Samantha Harvey<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dry Bones \u2013 Craig Johnson *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I Remember Nothing \u2013 Nora Ephron<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Invisible Hour \u2013 Alice Hoffman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Safekeep \u2013 Yael van der Wouden<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mildred Pierce \u2013 James M. Cain<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>*&nbsp;&nbsp; Audio<br>** Did Not Finish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By November last, I was falling behind on my goal of reading (or listening to) one-hundred books in 2024. 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