#ReadWomen 2024 Last Quarter aka All The Books I Read in 2024

Here is a list of all the books I read in 2024

I read 53 books in 2024 and 48 of these books were written by women and non-binary authors.

While I can't be certain/haven't researched thoroughly enough, I'm fairly certain this list is 50/50 white vs. non-white authors.

Overall, I feel like I read less non-fiction than I normally do. I also really enjoyed almost all of the fiction I read this year, much more so than my list last year.

  1. What we talk about when we talk about love stories by Raymond Carver
  2. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories: by Kelly Link
  3. This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music edited by Sinéad Gleeson and Kim Gordon
  4. Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  5. Irma Voth by Miriam Toews
  6. This is what it sounds like: what the music you love says about you by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas
  7. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  8. Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories by Lindsay Wong 
  9. A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews 
  10. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing 
  11. Unearthing: a story of tangled love and family secrets by Kyo Maclear
  12. Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee
  13. Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  14. Buffalo is the New Buffalo: Stories by Chelsea Vowel
  15. The Conjoined by Jen Sookfong Lee 
  16. The Lost Journals of Sacajewea: A Novel by Debra Magpie Earling 
  17. Raise high the roof beams, carpenters and Seymour an introduction by J.D. Salinger
  18. Alice by Christina Henry 
  19. The Djinn Waits A Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan
  20. The Best that You Can Do: Stories by Amina Gautier
  21. The Inheritance by Louisa May Alcott 
  22. Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder by Asako Yuzuki (translated by Polly Barton)
  23. The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter 
  24. Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi 
  25. Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai 
  26. Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen
  27. Red Queen by Christina Henry
  28. Murder and Mamon by Mia P. Manansala 
  29. Greasepaint by Hannah Levene 
  30. The Employees by Olga Ravn (translated Martin Aitken)
  31. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna
  32. How to Pronounce Knife: Stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa 
  33. Every Rising Sun by Jamila Ahmed 
  34. The Half-White Album by Cynthia J. Sylvester
  35. Experienced by Kate Young 
  36. Dinner on Monster Island: Essays by Tania De Rozario 
  37. Be Quick - But Don’t Hurry!: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime by Andrew Hill with John Wooden 
  38. The Celestial Wife by Leslie Howard 
  39. The Ardent Swarm by Yamen Manai
  40. Never Been Better by Leanne Toshiko Simpson 
  41. Son of the Trickster by Eden Robinson
  42. Trickster Drift by Eden Robinson
  43. Murder in Williamstown by Kerry Greenwood 
  44. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams 
  45. Cassiel’s Servant by Jacqueline Carey 
  46. Leading with the Heart: Coach K’s Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life by Mike Krzyzewski with Donald T. Phillips 
  47. Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir by Elizabeth Miki Brian
  48. Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak 
  49. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
  50. The Most Wonderful Time by Jayne Allen
  51. The Turnout by Megan Abbott
  52. Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory 
  53. Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Café and Other Stories From Canada’s Chinese Restaurants by Ann Hui

In particular, this year the fiction I read was a lot more experimental in format and general writing style, including:

  1. Buffalo is the New Buffalo: Stories by Chelsea Vowel
  2. The Lost Journals of Sacajewea: A Novel by Debra Magpie Earling 
  3. The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter 
  4. The Employees by Olga Ravn (translated Martin Aitken)
  5. The Half-White Album by Cynthia J. Sylvester
My non-fiction favourite of the year was This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music edited by Sinéad Gleeson and Kim Gordon. My favourite of all my fiction read was either Every Rising Sun by Jamila Ahmed or The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan, I can't decide right now!

Of everything I read, here are the books I thought about the most throughout the year--take that for what you will:
  1. Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories by Lindsay Wong 
  2. Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee
  3. Red Queen by Christina Henry
  4. Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder by Asako Yuzuki (translated by Polly Barton)
  5. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna
  6. The Celestial Wife by Leslie Howard 
  7. The Ardent Swarm by Yamen Manai
  8. Leading with the Heart: Coach K’s Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life by Mike Krzyzewski with Donald T. Phillips 
  9. Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir by Elizabeth Miki Brian
  10. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion


Also this was the first year, ever, that I read a whole novel by someone I know personally, Never Been Better by Leanne Toshiko Simpson, which is def in my top 9 picks of 2024, fiction or non-fiction alike!






I have been doing #ReadWomen for a decade! Find out why here. Want to know what I've read in previous years? Links below!

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