Books Read 2024

1. “Tear” — Erica McKeen  (January)
2. “Twelfth Night” — William Shakespeare  (January)
3. “A Box of Matches” — Nicholson Baker  (January)
4. “Gone So Long” — Andre Dubus III  (January)
5. “The Age of Guilt” — Mark Edmundson  (January)
6. “The Cobra and The Key” — Sam Shelstad  (January)
7. “The First Part of King Henry IV” — William Shakespeare  (January)
8. “Not A Life Coach” — James Smith  (February)
9. “Nightmare on Main Street” — Mark Edmundson  (February)
10. “Drug Story” — u. v. ray  (February)
11. “Chaos” — Edmund White  (February)
12. “City Boy” — Edmund White  (March)
13. “Milk Teeth” — Jessica Andrews  (March)
14. “Push Process” — Jonathan Walker  (March)
15. “The World Beyond Your Head” — Matthew Crawford  (April)
16. “Misery” — Stephen King  (April)
17. “A Man Called Ove” — Fredrik Backman  (April)
18. “Idler # 35” — Tom Hodgkinson, Ed.  (May)
19. “Amusing Ourselves To Death” — Neil Postman  (May)
20. “The Reluctant Beatle: George Harrison” — Philip Norman  (May)
21. “Urban Dharma” — Kusala Bhikshu & Rebecca Wilson  (May)
22. “Zen in the Art of Archery” — Eugen Herrigel  (May)
23. “The Dude & The Zen Master” — Jeff Bridges & Bernie Glassman  (May)
24. “Walden” — Henry David Thoreau  (May)
25. “Concord Rebel” — August Derleth  (May)
26. “Martin Eden” — Jack London  (May)
27. “Voluntary Simplicity” — Duane Elgin  (June)
28. “The Rinzai Zen Way” — Meido Moore  (June)
29. “Lightfoot” — Nicholas Jennings  (July)
30. “Zenith Hotel” — Oscar Coop-Phane  (July)
31. “Small Things Like These” — Claire Keegan  (July)
32. “The Spinning Heart” — Donal Ryan  (July)
33. “Such Kindness” — Andre Dubus III  (July)
34. “Some Rain Must Fall” — Karl Ove Knausgaard  (August)
35. “Free Love” — Tessa Hadley  (August)
36. “Snookered” — Ishy Din  (August)
37. “The Man” — James Graham  (August)
38. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — Edward Albee  (August)
39. “Art” — Yasmina Reza  (August)
40. “The God of Carnage” — Yasmina Reza  (August)
41. “Freak” — Anna Jordan  (August)
42. “Red” — John Logan  (August)
43. “The Man with Night Sweats” — Thom Gunn  (August)
44. “When Blue Light Falls” — Carol Watts  (August)
45. “Through” — David Herd  (August)
46. “The Writer” — Ella Hickson  (August)
47. “Playboy” — Constance Debré  (September)
48. “Locker Room Talk” — Gary McNair  (September)
49. “Attempts on Her Life” — Martin Crimp  (September)
50. “How To Wash A Heart” — Bhanu Kapil  (September)
51. “Why Teach?” — Mark Edmundson  (September)  (again)
52. “Run-Out Groove” — Joseph Coward  (September)
53. “Landscape with Light” — Jon Thompson  (September)
54. “Bedouin of the London Evening” — Rosemary Tonks  (September)
55. “Faulty Mothering” — Elaine Randall  (September)
56. “The Poet” — Louisa Reid  (September)  (again)
57. “Bluets” — Maggie Nelson  (September)
58. “Lurex” — Denise Riley  (September)
59. “Lunch Poems” — Frank O’Hara  (October)
60. “Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes” — Billy Collins  (October)
61. “Excellent Sheep” — William Deresiewicz  (October)
62. “Someday There Will Be Machine Shops Full of Roses” — Fred Voss  (October)
63. “Four Quartets” — T. S. Eliot  (October)
64. “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror” — John Ashbery  (October)
65. “Rabbit” — Sophie Robinson  (October)
66. “Frank O’Hara: Selected Poems” — Frank O’Hara w. Ed. Mark Ford  (October)
67. “Word for the Wind” — Theodore Roethke  (October)
68. “The Waste Land & Other Poems” — T. S. Eliot  (October)
69. “What Is This Thing Called Love” — Kim Addonizio  (October)
70. “Dante In China” — John Barr  (October)
71. “The Strange Hours Travelers Keep” — August Kleinzahler  (October)
72. “Getting Into Poetry” — Paul Hyland  (November)
73. “Goodstone” — Fred Voss  (November)
74. “Mindfield” — Gregory Corso  (November)
75. “Musical Tables” — Billy Collins  (November)
76. “The Mersey Sound” — Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Brian Patten (November)
77. “Storm Damage” — Brian Patten  (November)
78. “Zen and The Beat Way” — Alan Watts  (December)
79. “Consent” — Jill Cement  (December)
80. “The Uses of Photography” — Annie Ernaux & Marc Marie  (December)

​Books in bold were particularly good.