Book Selections for 2024

You Suggested Them, I'm Gonna Read Them (Day 63)

Last week, I asked you all for suggestions on what to read in 2024 and you delivered! I received about two dozens suggestions. Some I had heard of, some I hadn’t.

So my rules for selecting were: Nothing I had already read. Other than that, I wanted to pick a nice mix of different genres. In one case, it was already a book on my reading list and in another, a friend had been begging me to read this book so now is the time.

For all of you whose book I didn’t select, thank you thank you! I’ll keep them on my “to get to” list. My goal will also be to do a quick review of each book as I read them.

An aside: I have a friend and fellow Substacker, Rob Greene, who just posted his end of 2023 reading list. He read more than 100 books! That’s, that’s just… I can’t even.

(Quick note about Rob - he’s also an excellent writer with several books out and you should go over to his journal called “Twenty-First Century Blues” and immediately subscribe. He’s super cool.)

Anyway, I mention Rob because I do hope to read more than 5 books in 2024 but I have to start somewhere and this seems like a good place to start. Anyway, enough chitter-chatter. Here are the five.

Palestine by Joe Sacco - I’m a big fan of graphic novels and this seems relevant.

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang - A recommendation from a friend whose opinion I trust!

Trail by Ethan Gallogly - I mean look at it, hiking memoirs are my thing.

The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron - A popular author and nice guy who did an event at my library. It’s about time I read one of his books.

Goodbye to Clocks Ticking by Joseph Monninger - A long delayed project of mine is a biography of Dr. Herman Sander, a end of life doctor, so this looks interesting.

What books are sitting on your night stand waiting for you to crack open the first page?

Moving on, an amusing aside: So yesterday’s quick history piece on Horse Manure clocked in as the second highest read post - over a 24 hour period - on Day By Day in the 14 months that I’ve been writing this journal. I mean, I love you all, but really? Are you all suggesting I write about more - uh - earthy topics? This is a New Hampshire thing, I assume? Anyway, thanks I think! See you all tomorrow!