#MyReads2024 For mysteries, I enjoyed George Bellairs and Ruth Rendell. Finished the last unread Chandler. Finally read Hammett's Red Harvest. But the best was When the Sacred Ginmill Closes, by Lawrence Block #booksky 📚💙

#MyReads2024 Non-fiction faves: Here Comes Everybody by Anthony Burgess, The Modern Mind by Peter Watson, Thomas Mann's War by Tobias Boes, Exact Thinking in Demented Times by Karl Sigmund, The Birth of the West by Paul Collins, and Edge of Irony by Marjorie Perloff #booksky 📚💙

#MyReads2024 However, the theme quickly became German Writers: Thomas Mann (Doctor Faustus, New Selected Stories), Grass (The Tin Drum), Hesse (The Glass Bead Game), Kafka (The Trial), Rilke (The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge), and Döblin (Berlin Alexanderplatz) #booksky 📚💙 (2)

#MyReads2024 My #chonklit reads were Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time, Dickens' Our Mutual Friend, and Plato: Complete Works. Oh, and I finally finished Volume 2 of Musil's The Man Without Qualities #booksky 📚💙 (3)

#MyReads2024 I started the year all gothicky: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Castle of Otranto, and Melmoth the Wanderer #booksky 📚💙 (1)