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*

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

Currently Reading

Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch, Rivka Galchen*

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

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