2024 Book List

A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes

A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning
Ray Jackendoff

American Prometheus: The triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

Animal, Vegetable, Junk
Mark Bittman

Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Blindness
José Saramago

Breaking Bad News: 12 Essential Crisis Communication Tools
Jeff Hahn

Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
Tom and David Kelley

Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
Ian Leslie

Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver

Dracula
Bram Stoker

El Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges

Emma
Jane Austen

Escaping the Housing Trap
Charles L. Marohn Jr., Daniel Herriges

Factfulness
Hans Rosling

Fight: How Gen Z is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Save America
John Della Volpe

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez

Gaudy Night
Dorothy Sayers

Hidden Potential
Adam Grant

In His Majesty's Service
Naomi Novik

In the Lake of the Woods
Tim O'Brien

Ishmael
Daniel Quinn

Jayne Eyre
Charlotte Brontë

Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro

Laura
Vera Caspary

Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus

Look again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
Tali Sharot and Cass R. Sunstein

Material World. The Six Raw Materials that Shape Modern Civilization
Ed Conway

Memory Wall
Anthony Doerr

On Bullshit
Harry Frankfurt

On Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed

Personality Types: Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery
Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

Piranesi
Susanna Clarke

Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
Paco Calvo

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein

Robinson Crusoe and Cast Away
Daniel Defoe

Symposium
Plato

The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking
Burger and Starbird

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Richard Preston

The Language of God
Francis S. Collins

The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Cal Newport

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks

The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins

The Singing Witch
Yvon Delville

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
Sydney Padua

The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power our Lives
Ernest Scheyder

Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician's Journey Through Narcissistic Number
Matt Parker

This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
David Foster Wallace

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin

Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom

Wonderhell: Why Success Doesn't Feel Like It Should . . . and What to Do About It
Laura Gassner Otting