Here are the books I most enjoyed reading in 2024. I want to write about the two books pictured above at some point, so we’ll see how that goes . . . (From previous years: 2023, 2022.)
Non-Fiction
Nuclear War: A Scenario — Annie Jacobson (2024)
The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth — Josh Levin (2009)
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder — David Grann (2023)
I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition — Lucy Sante (2024)
Cosmic Scholar : The Life and Times of Harry Smith: The Filmmaker, Folklorist, and Mystic Who Transformed American Art — John Szwed (2023)
Cinema Speculation — Quentin Tarantino (2022)
The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City — Kevin Baker (2024)
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression — Morris Dickstein (2009)
Fiction
The Third Realm — Karl Ove Knausgaard (2024)
A Visit From The Goon Squad — Jennifer Egan (2011, Winner, Pulitzer Prize)
Thanks for sharing! Once again, we had some overlap. I also read Lucy Sante's memoir, which was also a good NYC read. Future reads for me: I'll read Baker's book and I'll read anything by David Grann, but probably not this year.
I would love to read Annie Jacobson's book, because she is amazing, but that one is a no-go for me. Unless we can get some of those bite-to-die pills the spies use.
Perhaps I did not "enjoy" reading a book about the real possibility of nuclear holocaust, but it was gripping and extremely informative.