Jill’s 2024 Book List

1. The Paleontologist, Luke Dumas*

2. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Matthew Perry*

3. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir, Azar Nafisi*

4. Sam, Allegra Goodman*

5. Radiance, Catherynne M. Valente

6. The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession, Susan Orlean*

7. The Bone Shard War (The Drowning Empire #3), Andrea Stewart*

8. Thirty Names of Night, Zeyn Joukhadar*

9. House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City #3), Sarah J. Maas*

10. The Heiress, Rachel Hawkins*

11. My Year Abroad, Chang-Rae Lee*

12. The Last Love Note, Emma Grey*

13. The Berry Pickers, Amanda Peters

14. The Swallowed Man, Edward Carey

15. The Women, Kristin Hannah*

16. Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting, Clare Pooley*

17. Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie*

18. A Certain Slant of Light, Laura Whitcomb*

19. The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern*

20. The Witch’s Heart, Genevieve Gornichec

21. The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett*

22. Gold Diggers, Sanjena Sathian*

23. When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill

24. Weyward, Emilia Hart

25. The Unhoneymooners, Christina Lauren

26. Gracie: A Love Story, George Burns

27. The Villa, Rachel Hawkins*

28. Professional Troublemaker: The Fear Fighter Manual, Luvvie Ajayi Jones*

29. Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, Rivka Galchen*

30. Listen for the Lie, Amy Tintera*

31. How It All Began, Penelope Lively

32. The Echo Wife, Sarah Gailey*

33. The House in the Cerulean Sea, T.J. Klune*

34. Mad Honey, Jodi Picoult*

35. Piglet, Lottie Hazel*

36. ADHD for Smart Ass Women: How to Fall in Love with Your Neurodivergent Brain, Tracy Otsuka

37. The Butchers’ Blessing, Ruth Gilligan

38. Throne of Glass, Sarah J. Maas

39. Crown of Midnight, Sarah J. Maas

40. The Assassin’s Blade, Sarah J. Maas

41. Come and Get It, Kiley Reid

42. The House in the Pines, Ana Reyes

43. The German Wife, Kelly Rimmer

44. The Candy House, Jennifer Egan

45. Black Bird Oracle, Deborah Harkness

46. Lives of Girls and Women, Alice Munro

47. Beyond That, the Sea, Laura Spence-Ash

48. Heir of Fire, Sarah J. Maas

49. A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan

50. Butcher and Blackbird, Brynne Weaver

51. Queen of Shadows, Sarah J. Maas

52. Empire of Storms, Sarah J. Maas

53. Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, Steve Silberman

54. How It Had to Be, Marissa Vanskike

55. Leather and Lark, Bryn Weaver

56. Lies and Weddings, Kevin Kwan

57. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough

58. The Butcher and the Wren, Alaina Urquhart

59. Girl, Serpent, Thorn, Melissa Bashardoust

60. To Have and to Hold, Jane Green

61. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story, Olga Tokarczuk

62. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros

63. Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros

64. Follow Me to Ground, Sue Rainsford

65. A Novel Love Story, Ashley Poston

66. What Strange Paradise, Omar El-Akkad

67. Sorrowland, Solomon Rivers

68. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, Erik Larson

69. This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan

70. The Complete Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

71. 11/22/63, Stephen King

72. Love, Theoretically, Ali Hazelwood

73. The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew #1), Carolyn Keene

74. The Midnight Library, Matt Haig

75. Funny Story, Emily Henry

76. The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare

77. Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, Mary Norris

78. The Chosen and the Beautiful, Nghi Vo

79. Not in Love, Ali Hazelwood

80. The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West, Carrot Quinn

* = Multimedia reading experience (partially read and partially listened to on audiobook)

Currently Reading

Our Tragic Universe, Scarlett Thomas (this is a DNF that has not quite accepted its fate)