Favorite books in 2024

My favorite reads this year, in the order I read them (individual book reviews are linked from the reading log):

Nonfiction

• Super-Infinite, by Katherine Rundell
• Becoming, by Michelle Obama
• Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise, by Katherine Rundell
• The Disappearing Spoon, by Sam Kean
• The Education of an Idealist, by Samantha Power
• A Midwife’s Tale, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• The Wager, by David Grann
• The Power Broker, by Robert A. Caro
• Young Stalin, by Simon Sebag Montefiore
• An Immense World, by Ed Yong
• Medieval Horizons, by Ian Mortimer
• The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, by Benvenuto Cellini
• The Small and the Mighty, by Sharon McMahon
• The Notebook, by Roland Allen
• Brunelleschi’s Dome, by Ross King
• Skunk Works, by Ben R. Rich & Leo Janos
• The Dark Queens, by Shelley Puhak

Fiction

• Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
• I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith
• The Heroes, by Joe Abercrombie
• The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, by Shannon Chakraborty
• The Hallowed Hunt, by Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, by Beth Brower (all eight volumes so far)
• The Big Score, by K. J. Parker
• The Witness for the Dead, by Katherine Addison
• The Redoubtable Pali Avramapul, by Victoria Goddard
• The Butcher of the Forest, by Premee Mohamed
• Komarr, by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Witches of Lychford, by Paul Cornell
• The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman
• City of Last Chances, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Over Sea, Under Stone, by Susan Cooper
• The Lost Child of Lychford, by Paul Cornell
• The Tusks of Extinction, by Ray Nayler
• The Warden, by Anthony Trollope