The Literary Entirety of 2024

Here are all the books I have managed to read this year. If you are looking for just the ones I have enjoyed the most then you will find that on a post entitled The Best Books of 2024. If you are here because you want to see all the books I've read this year then here we go. Here you will find books I have loved, books I have not loved so much and books that I haven't even reviewed. You will also find some re-reads among the books in the list. This includes books like The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson that, for some reason I had an urge to re-read earlier this year.

You might be thinking to yourself: how and why does she read so much? Well, there is a simple answer to that.

1. I don't have that much social media. I only have Twitter and Bluesky and I'm not really into arguing or commenting. I post and leave. I don't really doom-scroll unless I am literally out of anything to read (and that is so rare you would not believe)
2. I read in multi-formats. I read books on my Kindle, my iPhone, my MacBook (Kindle Cloud Reader), paperback, hardback and basically anywhere else I can read
3. I read every morning and every night in order to stay sane. If I don't start my day and end my day with my book then I will not be pleasant the next morning, that I can guarantee you
4. I read into the strange hours of the night and more than often have I read all the way to the next morning because the book was too good to put down (here's looking at The Romantic by William Boyd, which kept me up for more than 24 hours because I kept going back to various chapters and re-reading them)
5. I only watch television on Saturday. I don't care for TV otherwise. And even then it's only in the evening for around 20 minutes or however long an inoffensive episode of "Seinfeld" is.

I've always said: you'll be surprised at how much time you have to read if you cut down your social media and television...and perhaps your sleep as well. Though that last one wasn't done on purpose.

I've answered the how but honestly, the why eludes me. Perhaps it is because I love stories so much that I often cannot stand to be away from them.

Have a lovely New Year and I hope we remain friends.

- Annie

The Literary Entirety of 2024

1. A Tidy Ending by Joanna Cannon
2. The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis
3. Any Human Heart by William Boyd
4. The Twilight World by Werner Herzog
5. Glimpses of the Unknown edited by Mike Ashley
6. The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories edited by Michael Newton
7. Stephen Fry’s Ghost Story Collection
8. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
9. Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry
10. Crawling Horror edited by Daisy Butcher and Janette Leaf
11. Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories Volume 1
12. Polar Horror edited by John Miller
13. Mortal Echoes edited by Greg Buzwell
14. The Platform’s Edge edited by Mike Ashley
15. A Phantom Lover edited by Mike Ashley
16. The Outcast edited by Mike Ashley
17. I Am Stone edited by Daniel Pietersen
18. The Lure of Atlantis edited by Michael Wheatley
19. Weird Woods edited by John Miller
20. Celtic Weird edited by Johnny Mains
21. Close to Midnight edited by Mark Morris
22. Before and After by Alison Wilson
23. A Walk in a Darker Wood edited by Duane Pesice et al
24. The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror edited by Stephen Jones
25. Haunters at the Hearth edited by Tanya Kirk
26. The Flaw in the Crystal and Other Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair edited by Mike Ashley
27. The Whisperers and Other Stories edited by Mike Ashley
28. Doomed Romances edited by Joanne Ella Parsons
29. All Hallow’s by Christopher Golden
30. Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn
31. Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories Volume 2
32. We Ate the Dark by Mallory Pearson
33. Mister Magic by Kiersten White
34. The Wager by David Grann
35. Hide by Kiersten White
36. Sam: A Horror Novel by Iain Rob Wright
37. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
38. A Treasury of British Folklore by Dee Dee Chainey
39. Strangers by Taichi Yamada
40. The Jigsaw Murders by Jeremy Craddock
41. The Ghost Stories of MR James edited by Roger Luckhurst
42. Crawlspace by Herbert Lieberman
43. The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror by Joyce Carol Oates
44. City of the Dead by Herbert Lieberman
45. Found edited by Andrew Cull and Gabino Iglesias
46. The Eighth Square by Herbert Lieberman
47. The Haar: a Horror Novel by David Sodergren
48. The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
49. Pharmacopoeia by Derek Jarman
50. Dancing Ledge by Derek Jarman
51. Queer by William S. Burroughs
52. Nevada by Imogen Binnie
53. Zero-Sum by Joyce Carol Oates
54. Insomniac City by Bill Hayes
55. At Your Own Risk by Derek Jarman
56. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
57. The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
58. FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
59. Paris by Julian Green
60. Watermark by Joseph Brodsky
61. The Terror by Dan Simmons
62. The Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
63. Theorem by Pier Paolo Pasolini
64. Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken
65. The Death of King Arthur by Peter Ackroyd
66. The Romantic by William Boyd
67. The Cloisters by Katy Hays
68. A Darker Shade of Noir edited by Joyce Carol Oates
69. Cassandra by Christa Wolf
70. Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee
71. My Heavenly Favourite by Lucas Rijneveld
72. Pure by Andrew Miller
73. The Pram by Joe Hill
74. Them by Jon Ronson
75. The Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor
76. The Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates
77. It Waits in the Woods by Josh Malerman
78. Shy by Max Porter
79. Vulture Capitalism by Grace Blakeley
80. Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier
81. Why We Die by Venki Ramakrishnan
82. Dopamine Nation br Dr Anna Lembke
83. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
84. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
85. The World and All That It Holds by Aleksander Hemon
86. Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
87. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
88. Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
89. Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
90. Magus by Anthony Grafton
91. Among the Trolls by Marianna Spring
92. Alchemy by Rory Sutherland
93. Brother Do You Love Me? Manni Coe and Reuben Coe
94. The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate
95. Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
96. Things Fell Apart by Jon Ronson
97. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate
98. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
99. The Elephant in the Room by Jon Ronson
100. The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
101. Limitarianism by Ingrid Robeyns
102. The Social Distance Between Us by Darren McGarvey
103. How They Broke Britain by James O’Brien
104. Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
105. Sedated by James Davies
106. Can’t Even by Anne Helen Petersen
107. Tell Me How This Ends by Jo Leevers
108. Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
109. Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
110. The Painter’s Daughters by Emily Howes
111. Out of the Shadows by Walt Odets
112. Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
113. Mania by Lionel Shriver
114. Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan
115. The Inner Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
116. Reading Lessons by Carol Atherton
117. Earth by John Boyne
118. What You Are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
119. No Logo by Naomi Klein
120. Watching the English by Kate Fox
121. In Memoriam by Alice Winn
122. Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein
123. All Consuming by Neal Lawson
124. May Contain Lies by Alex Edmans
125. Influenced by Brian Boxer Wachler
126. Herc by Phoenicia Rogerson
127. Rewired by Carl D. Marci
128. Unruly by David Mitchell
129. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
130. Brutes by Dizz Tate
131. The List by Yomi Adegoke
132. When We Were Silent by Fiona McPhillips
133. Henry Henry by Allen Bratton
134. Cardiff by the Sea by Joyce Carol Oates
135. The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard
136. Cunning Folk by Adam Nevill
137. James by Percival Everett
138. Calling Bullshit by Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West
139. Grey Dog by Elliott Gish
140. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
141. Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell
142. Day by Michael Cunningham
143. Determined by Robert Sapolsky
144. The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration (Penguin Books)
145. The White Hare by Jane Johnson
146. The New Life by Tom Crewe
147. The Gathering by CJ Tudor
148. The Other People by CJ Tudor
149. Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey
150. Melmoth by Sarah Perry
151. The Invisible Doctrine by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchinson
152. Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough
153. No One Saw A Thing by Andrea Mara
154. The Sea Gate by Jane Johnson
155. Self by Barry Dainton
156. All Fours by Miranda July
157. Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha
158. The Last Time I Saw You by Jo Leevers
159. My Husband by Maud Ventura
160. I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
161. In the Valley of the Headless Men by LP Hernandez
162. DH Lawrence and Italy by DH Lawrence
163. Parade by Rachel Cusk
164. Crypt by Professor Alice Roberts
165. The Saint of Lost Things by Tish Delaney
166. Selected Letters by John Keats
167. Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
168. Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
169. Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
170. Sister of Mine by Laurie Petrou
171. Go as a River by Shelley Read
172. The Divorcees by Rowan Beaird
173. The Offing by Benjamin Myers
174. Selected Letters by Virginia Woolf
175. The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing
176. The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder
177. The Comeback by Ella Berman
178. Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan
179. Iron in the Soul by Jean-Paul Sartre
180. Medea by Rosie Hewlett
181. Someone in the Attic by Andrea Mara
182. One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall
183. Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson
184. The Empty Space by Peter Brook
185. The Devil and Mrs Davenport by Paulette Kennedy
186. I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue
187. Lilith by Nikki Marmery
188. My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor
189. The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark
190. Utopia by Thomas More
191. Medusa by Rosie Hewlett
192. Penance by Eliza Clark
193. The Centre by Ayesha Manazi Siddiqi
194. Service by Sarah Gilmartin
195. A Lesson in Cruelty by Harriet Tyce
196. Mongrel by Hanako Footman
197. Lost in Trans-Nation by Dr Miriam Grossman
198. O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
199. Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li
200. Chlorine by Jade Song
201. The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
202. Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
203. That Green Eyed Girl by Julie Owen Moylan
204. Second Self by Chloe Ashby
205. A Quiet Life by Beryl Bainbridge
206. Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
207. The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
208. Angela Carter’s Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women
209. 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think by Brianna West
210. This House of Grief by Helen Garner
211. The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
212. The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
213. The Creeper by A.M Shine
214. Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
215. Weirdo by Sara Pascoe
216. Family Album by Penelope Lively
217. The Girls by Kirsty Capes
218. Young Women by Jessica Moor
219. Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
220. Celestial Navigation by Anne Tyler
221. The Editor’s Wife by Clare Chambers
222. Disturbance by Jenna Clake
223. Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
224. Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
225. The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki
226. Sweet William by Beryl Bainbridge
227. Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
228. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
229. Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney
230. Badenheim 1939 by Aharon Appelfeld
231. The Glutton by AK Blakemore
232. The Penguin Book of Japanese Poetry
233. The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories
234. The Penguin Book of English Short Stories
235. A Trace of Sun by Pam Williams
236. Street Haunting and Other Essays by Virginia Woolf
237. The Book Makers by Adam Smyth
238. One Way Street by Walter Benjamin
239. American Supernatural Tales ed. by ST Joshi
240. The Rebel by Albert Camus
241. K by Roberto Calasso
242. Brat by Gabriel Smith
243. Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd
244. The Best of Richard Matheson
245. All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
246. Sweet Caress by William Boyd
247. The Road to San Giovanni by Italo Calvino
248. The Science Fiction Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
249. The Gambler and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky
250. Rub Out the Words by William S Burroughs
251. The Escape by Matthew Slater
252. Spurdogs by Matthew Slater
253. The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd
254. Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
255. Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser Anker
256. After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley
257. Orbital by Samantha Harvey
258. The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
259. Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus
260. Amerika by Franz Kafka
261. Tono-Bungay by HG Wells
262. The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth by William Boyd
263. The Great Wall of China by Franz Kafka
264. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
265. Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
266. A Thousand Feasts by Nigel Slater
267. The Night Ship by Jess Kidd
268. Road Ends by Mary Lawson
269. Lou Reed: King of New York by Will Hermes
270. The Devil and Sherlock Holmes by David Grann
271. The Soft Machine by William S Burroughs.
272. The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
273. Heresy by Catherine Nixey
274. Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
275. Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle
276. Fear in the Blood edited by Mike Ashley
277. Saints by Amy Jeffs
278. When the Body Says No by Gabor Mate
279. Vertigo by Harald Jahner
280. Sonny Boy by Al Pacino
281. Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox
282. The Enlightenment by Ritchie Robertson
283. A Voyage Around the Queen by Craig Brown
284. The Haunted Trail ed. by Weird Walk
285. The Miner by Natsume Soseki
286. The Age of Revolution by Eric Hobsbawm
287. Patriot by Alexei Navalny
288. A New World Begins by Jeremy D. Popkin
289. Frost by Thomas Bernhard
290. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
291. Troubled by Rob Henderson
292. The Peepshow by Kate Summerscale
293. Something Wicked by Carol Ann Lee
294. William by Mason Coile
295. Goethe: His Faustian Life by AN Wilson
296. The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra by Toby Wilkinson
297. A Taste for Poison by Neil Bradbury
298. Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife by Hetta Howes
299. Everybody Lies: What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
300. The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
301. Court Number One: The Old Bailey, The Trials that Defined Modern Britain by Thomas Grant
302. Table for Two by Amor Towles
303. Making Evil: The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side by Julia Shaw
304. Surrounded by Liars by Thomas Erikson
305. Exam Nation by Sammy Wright
306. You’re Not Listening by Kate Murphy
307. Surrounded of Narcissists by Thomas Erikson
308. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
309. The Fate of Mary Rose by Caroline Blackwood
310. The Barn by Wright Thompson
311. Levitation for Beginners by Suzannah Dunn
312. Why Read by Will Self
313. Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
314. Dirt Music by Tim Winton
315. Fire by John Boyne
316. The Sun Down Motel by Simone St James
317. She’s Always Hungry by Eliza Clark
318. Great and Horrible News by Blessin Adams
319. The Riders by Tim Winton
320. Gliff by Ali Smith
321. The Second Volume of Selected Modern Short Stories by Penguin Books
322. Wham! By Andrew Ridgeley
323. The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier
324. Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame
325. Harriet Said… by Beryl Bainbridge
326. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
327. Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst
328. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
329. The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
330. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
331. Rites of Passage by William Golding
332. The Rock Pool by Cyril Connolly
333. The Turning by Tim Winton
334. Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
335. The Harsh Voice by Rebecca West
336. Can’t and Won’t by Lydia Davis
337. Brensham Village by John Moore
338. A Weekend With Claude by Beryl Bainbridge
339. The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
340. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
341. A Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor
342. The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
343. Tiepolo Blue by James Cahill
344. Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco
345. The Weimar Years by Frank McDonough
346. Dead Wake by Erik Larson
347. Into the Raging Sea by Rachel Slade
348. Happy Ever After by Paul Dolan
349. Talking Heads by Shane O'Mara
350. You Are Not Alone by Dr Ken Duckworth
351. The Human Mind by Paul Bloom
352. Surrounded by Vampires by Thomas Erikson
353. This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health by Nathan Filer
354. Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari
355. The Balances Brain by Camilla Nord
356. Careless People by Sarah Churchwell
357. The Man With the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi
358. North Water by Ian McGuire
359. The Professor's House by Willa Cather
360. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
361. Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
362. Black Narcissus by Rumer Goden
363. In the Winter Dark by Tim Winton
364. This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson
365. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
366. August is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien
367. Room at the Top by John Braine
368. Mozart's Letters ed. by Eric Blom
369. The Hunter and the Whale by Laurens Van Der Post
370. The Career of David Noble by Frances Parkinson Keyes
371. Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
372. The Choice Factory by Richard Shotton
373. Lost Connections by Johann Hari
374. Paris was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner
375. Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
376. The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay