My Year in Books

A loosely ranked list of books I read in 2024

1. Journey by Moonlight (Antal Szerb, 1937)

   

2. Jazz (Toni Morrison, 1992)

   

3. Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez, 1981)

   

4. No Room at the Morgue (Jean-Patrick Manchette, 1973)

   

5. Cold Nights of Childhood (Tezer Özlü, 1980)

   

6. Chess Story (Stefan Zweig, 1941)

   

7. Machines in the Head (Anna Kavan)

   

8. Cowboy Graves (Roberto Bolaño, 2017)

   

9. Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Gabriel García Márquez, 1981)

   

10. Malicroix (Henri Bosco, 1948)

    

11. Malina (Ingeborg Bachmann, 1971)

12. The Beast in the Jungle (Henry James, 1903)

13. Beloved (Toni Morrison, 1987)

14. Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison, 1977)

15. Trust (Hernan Diaz, 2022)

16. The Sweet Hereafter (Russell Banks, 1991)

17. Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion, 1968)

18. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Olga Tokarczuk, 2009)

19. My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Ottessa Moshfegh, 2018)

20. Dune (Frank Herbert, 1965)

21. The Spirit of Science Fiction (Roberto Bolaño, 2016)

22. The Drowned World (J. G. Ballard, 1962)

23. Foregone (Russell Banks, 2021)

24. Territory of Light (Yūko Tsushima, 1979)

25. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over (Anne de Marcken, 2025)