#Matthew Desmond O'Connor

[the-unforgotten]

2024 reading list

my list of 50+ something books I plan to read this year. a mix of random fiction some series as well as classics fiction and philosophy and some political stuff

Little Women Louisa May Alcott Meditations Marcus Aurelius Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Flowerheart Catherine Bakewell Bookshops & Bonedust Travis Baldree Blood Debts Terry J. Benton-Walker A Broken Blade Melissa Blair Utopia for Realists Rutger Bregman Break the Cycle Dr. Mariel Buqué Small Pleasures Clare Chambers The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Suzanne Collins Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman Evicted Matthew Desmond Ripe Sarah Rose Etter Polysecure Jessica Fern The Wicked + The Divine (2014), Volume 1 Kieron Gillen Fear of Black Consciousness Lewis R. Gordon The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work John Gottman, PhD, Nan Silver A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin Seraphina Rachel Hartman Royal Assassin Robin Hobb Ain't I a Woman Bell Hooks Five Survive Holly Jackson The Queen of the Tearling Erika Johansen Time Squared Lesley Krueger Yellowface R. F. Kuang Jade City Fonda Lee Six Crimson Cranes Elizabeth Lim What We Owe the Future William MacAskill Earth Logic Laurie J. Marks The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels One of Us Is Lying Karen M. McManus Killing Commendatore Haruki Murakami How High We Go in the Dark Sequoia Nagamatsu Hello Beautiful Ann Napolitano Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Murder in an Irish Village Carlene O'Connor 1984 George Orwell Boy, Snow, Bird Helen Oyeyemi Children of Chicago Cynthia Pelayo Murder on Black Swan Lane Andrea Penrose The Republic Plato Mort Terry Pratchett Everything's Fine Cecilia Rabess Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Benjamin Alire Sáenz A Gathering of Shadows V. E. Schwab Vicious V. E. Schwab The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare Frankenstein Mary Shelley They Both Die at the End Adam Silvera How Fascism Works Jason Stanley Dracula Bram Stoker She Is a Haunting Trang Thanh Tran Womb City Tlotlo Tsamaase The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Stuart Turton The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde

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after the creation of this list two weeks ago I've already added more

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis Dean Spade

The Complete Maus Art Spiegelman

[carmillaseries]

This 🍔 (& everything else in The Carmilla Movie) is BAE  💯🌈 

[dearhummingbird]

rec us these nonfiction books you speak of

I’ve been on a bit of a kick with these three categories lately but I think there’s something for everyone on this list. I have more if you want specific recommendations but I think this’ll do for now, so here you go, go forth—

Memoir / Autobiography / Character study:

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo—and the Evil That Swallowed Her (Richard Lloyd Parry)

Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” (Zora Neale Hurston)

Heavy: An American Memoir (Kiese Laymon)

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Caroline Fraser)

The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (Anne-Marie O'Connor)

The Descent of Man (Grayson Perry)

All The Truth is Out (Matt Bai)

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster (Sarah Krasnostein)

The Cost of Living (Deborah Levy)

The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Jill Lepore)

Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster (Stephen L. Carter)

Assata: An Autobiography (Assata Shakur)

Eve: A Biography (Pamela Norris)

A Cup of Water Under My Bed (Daisy Hernández)

Social justice:

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Matthew Desmond)

Violence All Around (John Sifton)

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Ta-Nehisi Coates)

Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? (Michael J. Sandel) 

Columbine (Dave Cullen)

Negroland (Margo Jefferson)

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (Jill Leovy)

Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger (Rebecca Traister) 

The Killer Angels (Michael Shaara)

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Michelle Alexander)

The Lines Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border (Francisco Cantú)

A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America (T. Christian Miller, Ken Armstrong)

Laramie Project (Moisés Kaufman & Tectonic Theater Project)

The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump (Michiko Kakutani)

History:

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Candice Millard)

Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia (Peter Pomerantsev)

Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992 (by Brandon Stosuy, Dennis Cooper, Eileen Myles)

The Library Book (Susan Orlean) 

A History of Bombing (Sven Lindqvist tr. by Linda Haverty Rugg)

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (John Carreyrou)

Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (Hunter S. Thompson)

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South (Radley Balko)

The Library Book (Susan Orlean) 

Misc:

The Fall of Language in the Age of English (Minae Mizumura)

Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (David Shields)

Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World (Anne Jamison)

[fuzzysparrow]

RIP 2017

Sir Roger Moore

Sir John Hurt

Mary Tyler Moore

Robert Hardy

Tim Pigott-Smith

Adam West

Martin Landau

Richard Hatch

Erin Moran

Sashi Kapoor

Om Puri

Bill Paxton

Barry Norman

Gordon Kaye

Liz Dawn

Roy Barraclough

Hywel Bennett

Peter Sallis

Jane Freeman

Geoffrey Bayldon

Rodney Bewes

Keith Barron

Tony Booth

Roy Dotrice

Tony Hagarth

Sir Peter Hall

Rosemary Leech

Sara Coward

Sir Bruce Forsyth

Keith Chegwin

Sean Hughes

John Noakes

Brian Cant

Carol Lee Scott

Andy Cunningham

Desmond Carrington

Brian Matthew

Steve Hewlett

Heinz Wolff

William G Stewart

Clare Hollingworth

Frank Delaney

Colin Dexter

Michael Bond

Alan Simpson

Jerry Lewis

Antonio Carluccio

Jill Saward

Christine Keeler

Martin McGuiness

Cormac Murphy-O'Connor

Lord Snowdon

Tam Dalyell

Rhidri Morgan

Sir Gerald Kaufman

Rodney Bickerstaff

Paul Weitz

Hans Rosling

Ian Brady

Max Clifford

Charles Manson

Jana Novotna

Baroness Heyhoe Flint

Graham Taylor

Joost van der Westhuizen

Ugo Ehiogu

Tommy Gemmell

Sir Colin Meads

Ronnie Moran

Jake LaMotta

John Surtees

Tim Gudgin

Tom Petty

Glen Campbell

Don Williams

Joni Sledge

Walter Becker

Malcolm Young

Gregg Allman

John Geils Jr

David Cassidy

Peter Sarstedt

Peter Skellern

Johnny Hallyday

Fats Domino

Chris Cornell

Chuck Berry

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson

Hugh Hefner

RIP to everyone who lost their life this year. Reblog and add anyone else's name who is missing from the list.

[mabith]

2016 Reading! Total read - 278 61% Adult Non-Fiction to 39% Adult Fiction 64% all of reads had been on a to-read list for more than three months 38% of authors from outside the US or UK (53 unique nationalities total) 58% by women 65% Audiobooks 31 Re-reads (all fiction) Full text list below.