A Writer’s Road: What I Read in 2024

Happy New Year everyone! Like all years, 2024 was full of losses and gains. Over the decades that I’ve been writing these blog posts, I’ve learned that looking back on the prose books I’ve read over the past year has helped me think about where I have been and where I hope to go, both literally and metaphorically. And sometimes my reading list gives you some ideas for your own reading. So, here is the list of books I read in 2024. It’s an eclectic list, to be sure, but there are some themes that have emerged. See what you think, and to you, happy reading, and let 2025’s reading bring you joy, pleasure, peace, new ideas and old loves. And PS – even though poetry books aren’t listed here, don’t forget to read your poetry!

Fondly,

Sue

1. A Field Guide to Tequila, by Clayton J. Szczech
2. Horse, by Geraldine Brooks
3. My Friends, by Hisham Matar
4. The Man in the Wooden Hat, by Jane Gardam
5. Last Friends, by Jane Gardam
6. East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
7. The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way, by Charles Bukowski
8. Canary Row, by John Steinbeck
9. Knife, by Salman Rushdie
10. The Hunter, by Tana French
11. The Seeker, by Tana French
12. The Long Run, by Stacey D’Erasmo
13. The Man Who Died Twice, by Richard Osman
14. The Puttermesser Papers, by Cynthia Ozick
15. The Bullet That Missed, by Richard Osman
16. The Lost Letters from Martha’s Vineyard, by Michael Callahan
17. The Magician, by Colm Tóibín
18. The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann
19. The Older You Get, The Shorter Your Stories Should Be, by Robert Bowie
20. The Black Wolf, by Louise Penny