2024 READING LIST

FICTION

Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart
Adams, Douglas: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Adjeh-Brenyah, Nana Kwame: Chain-Gang All-Stars
Alderman, Naomi: The Power
Armfield, Julia: Our Wives Under The Sea
Atwood, Margaret: Oryx and Crake
Baldwin, James: Giovanni’s Room
Bazterrica, Agustina: Tender Is the Flesh
Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Butler, Octavia E.: Parable of the Sower
Card, Orson Scott: Ender’s Game
Choy, Wayson: The Jade Peony
Clarke, Susanna: Piranesi
Collins, Suzanne: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Faulkner, William: As I Lay Dying
Guterson, David: Snow Falling on Cedars
Han, Kang: The Vegetarian
Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea
Hoke, Henry: Open Throat
Hosseini, Khaled: The Kite Runner
Howard, Scott Alexander: The Other Valley
Jedrowski, Tomasz: Swimming in the Dark
Kawabata, Yasunari: Snow Country
Kawaguchi, Toshikazu: Before The Coffee Gets Cold
Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible
Klune, TJ: The House in the Cerulean Sea
Le Guin, Ursula K.: A Wizard of Earthsea
Le Guin, Ursula K.: The Farthest Shore
Le Guin, Ursula K.: The Lathe of Heaven
Le Guin, Ursula K.: The Left Hand of Darkness
Le Guin, Ursula K.: The Tombs of Atuan
Lockwood, Patricia: No One Is Talking About This
McCarthy, Cormac: The Road
Morrison, Toni: Beloved
Morrison, Toni: Song of Solomon
Morrison, Toni: Sula
Morrison, Toni: The Bluest Eye
Ogawa, Yoko: The Memory Police
Oliveira, Anthony: Dayspring
Ozeki, Ruth: A Tale for the Time Being
Plath, Sylvia: The Bell Jar
Sayaka, Murata: Earthlings
Shute, Nevil: On the Beach
Sūskind, Patrick: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Tartt, Donna: The Secret History
Tokarczuk, Olga: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Vuong, Ocean: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Winn, Alice: In Memoriam
Zevin, Gabrielle: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

SHORT FICTION

MacLeod, Alistair: Island: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod
O’Brien, Tim: The Things They Carried

NONFICTION

Prose, Francine: Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Satrapi, Marjane: Persepolis: The Story Of A Childhood
Spiegelman, Art: The Complete Maus