I’ll have Snakehead finished by the new year—non fiction by Patrick Radden Keafe (Say Nothing, Empire of Pain) about human smugglers and Chinese gangs in NYC. Excellent read.
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart will definitely carry on to the new year. A satire about America becoming a Russian oligarchy beholden to the Chinese won, written about ten ago and cuts an about as close to the bone as I can handle!
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I’m gonna finish The Way of Kings today!! Might end the year with Bookshops & Bonedust.
Just finished Return of the Thief by Megan Whalen Turner and now working towards finishing How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History by Josephine Quinn 🙂 Though I won’t be able to finish that one before the year ends.
I’m bridging Percy’s The Moviegoer. Not an easy read, but a good one.
I want to read Letters to a Young Poet by Reiner Maria Rilke during the last two days of the year. I want something inspiring and beautiful to end the year on a high note
First book I have lined up for next year in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder :)))
The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson. I may try and wrap it up before the 1st though.
Right now, I am reading East of Eden. I always start or end a year with Darcy Coates but I did not expect the “Dead of Winter” to be so good that I got through it in 4 days 🙂
So I jumped into “classic I have yet to read” and since I got a collection of John Steinbeck and E.M.Remarque at home after my uncle this year, I went for the East of Eden. It is great and I could actually see myself reading all day long and finish it still this year but I am too busy at work and with family so I have time basically in the evening before bed only. So that one will bridge me into next year.
But past few years, it was usually Darcy Coates because her new books came out in November (here)
I’m finishing Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry today. It’s the first in the Berrybender Narratives series.
I picked it up because I loved the Lonesome Dove series by the same author.
I am going to finish David Copperfield by Charles Dickens tomorow. Mu first read in the new year will probably be Antigone by Sophocles.
I’ve started a book called Haines Junction, I’m still early in it but I’m on the fence.
Just finished the Witcher Blood of Elves earlier this night. So my last read of 2024 might be that or C.s. Lewis Lion, Witch, & Wardrobe.
Im just using my downtime to try to plow through Albion’s Seed. I understand it’s outdated, but it is still interesting and could probably help my own fantasy world building projects.
I just finished ‘The silent patient’. The book is good. The sudden twist was actually unexpected. I calculated every possibility but not what was in the book.
It looks like *The Round House* by Louise Erdrich will be finished very early into the new year.
I’ve also been slowly working through *100 Years of the Best American Short Stories.* I’m still only 36% of the way through, it’s over 700 pages. I’m up to the mid-60s now and I’ve read some of the all-time greats that I’d never read before: Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Welty, Cheever, Baldwin, Roth. I’m excited to dig into them deeper in 2025.