I didn’t read as many books as I had hoped in 2024, but some “bigger” books, plays, and poetry collections made my list this year. Here they are, in no particular order.
Dog Songs: Poems, Mary Oliver
Bright Dead Things, Ada Limon
Enough Already, Valerie Bertinelli
The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov
The Measure, Nikki Erlick
Varina Palladino’s Jersey Italian Love Story, Terri-Lynne DeFino
Book Lovers, Emily Henry
The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman
Cinderland, Amy Jo Burns
Mercury, Amy Jo Burns
Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
Blood Makes Me Faint But I Go For It, Natalie Lyalin
Shift Happens, J. Albert Mann
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
These Precious Days, Ann Patchett
Expiration Dates, Rebecca Serle
The Cliffs, J Courtney Sullivan
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese
Our Town, Thorton Wilder
Night Bitch, Rachel Yoder
Wanderers, Chuck Wendig