Favorite Books of 2024, Pt 2:

Abandon Me by Melissa Febos (NF)
The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods (F)
All Systems Red by Martha Wells (F)
Geisha by Mineko Iwasaki (NF)

Favorite books of 2024, Pt 1:

Redshirts by John Scalzi (F)
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch (F)
The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen (NF)
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (F)
Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story by David Levithan (F)
Looking for Alaska by John Green (F)

Honorable Mentions for 2024, Pt 2:

Wordslut by Amanda Montell
Chef's Kiss by T.J. Alexander (F)
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels by Jason Schreier (NF)
Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life by Alan Cumming(NF)

I present my list of favorites and honorable mentions from 2024 for your consideration! Honorable mentions, Pt 1:

Milk Fed by Melissa Broder (F)
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (F)
Rememberings by Sinead O'Coner (NF)
Teacher of the Year by M.A. Wardell (F)

I had an opportunity to watch the National Theatre's production of Amadeus this past weekend.

My head damn near exploded at how amazing it was.

Favorite reads of 2021:
The Lover's Dictionary
Kink: Stories
Not My Father's Son
Hamnet
The City We Became
The Book of M
Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage
Beyond the Gender Binary
Binti: Night Masquerade
The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Favorite reads of 2022 (in no particular order):
Girlhood
The Starless Sea
Loveless
Madam
The Perfect Marriage
Neverwhere
355
There, There
Ninth House
Wanting: Women Writing About Desire

A few of these are 2023 books that counted for my 2022 reading (it's complicated and not important).

Favorite reads of 2023 (in no particular order):
The Castle on Sunset
Piranesi
The Lost King
Ajax Penumbra 1969
Legends and Lattes
Bodywork
Ocean at the End of the Lane
Kaiju Preservation Society
My Dearest Darkest
and a tie between Fangirl and Will Grayson, Will Grayson

2023 Reading Challenge—finis!
I’ll be highlighting some of my favorites soon!

@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Thank you so much for the wonderful reading and Q&A at NJPAC today. We love your books and can’t wait to read and see you again 😁

It’s Piesgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

@scalzi.com On the recommendation of a partner I read “Kaiju Preservation Society” and I want to thank you—because I laughed out loud every few pages. I’ll be reading “Starter Villain” for one of my 2024 reading challenges—because I can’t even look at the cover without grinning!