Everything I read in 2024

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Here is what I read in 2024, so far, in order. If the title has a link, it’s to a review if I wrote one. This will be cross-posted on both Reading While Fat and bbwesquire. I will also do a more formal analysis and goals for 2025.

Legend for parentheses (Div = non-white author or editor; BG = book group; A = audio)

  1. We Could Be So Good, by Cat Sebastian
  2. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia, by Kate Manne
  3. The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper (Div, A)
  4. My Big Fat Desi Wedding, edited by Prerna Pickett (Div)
  5. Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse (Div)
  6. Except the Dying by Maureen Jennings
  7. Under the Dragon’s Tail by Maureen Jennings
  8. Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue
  9. Les Be Honest by Sarah Robinson
  10. Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan (A, BG)
  11. Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline (Div)
  12. Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo (Div, A)
  13. The Belly of the Beast: Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shawn Harrison (Div)
  14. Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie (Div)
  15. The Kneeling Man: My Father’s Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Leta Mcullough Seletzy (Div, A)
  16. Noor by Nnedi Okorafor (Div, A)
  17. The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin (Div)
  18. Big Time by Ben H. Winters
  19. At First Spite by Olivia Dade
  20. Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara (Div, A)
  21. Really Cute People by Marcus Harwood-Jones
  22. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan (A, BG)
  23. Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds by Samira Ahmad (Div)
  24. Pod by Laline Paull (Div, A)
  25. Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin (Div, BG)
  26. The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow (Div)
  27. The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqui (Div, A)
  28. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (Div, A)
  29. Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image by Siobhan Gallagher
  30. When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
  31. Scent of a Garden by Namrata Patel (Div, A)
  32. A Delicate Deception by Cat Sebastian (A)
  33. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (Div, A)
  34. Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert (Div)
  35. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (BG)
  36. Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram (Div)
  37. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembya (Div, A)
  38. Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H. (Div)
  39. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley (A)
  40. The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo (Div)
  41. Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg
  42. Here Comes the Sun by Nicola Dennis-Been (Div, A)
  43. The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma (Div)
  44. Evergreen by Naomi Hirahara (Div, A)
  45. Be Holding: A Poem by Ross Gay (Div)
  46. The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell
  47. The Make-Up Test by Jenny L. Howe
  48. Maame by Jessica George (Div)
  49. Bodies to Die For by Lori Brand
  50. Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created by Nick Tabor (A)
  51. The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (A)
  52. Real Americans by Rachel Khong (Div, BG)
  53. Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (Div)
  54. The Guncle by Steven Rowley (A)
  55. The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg
  56. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (Div, A)
  57. Movement For Every Body: An Inclusive Fitness Guide for Better Movement–Build mind-body awareness, overcome exercise barriers, and improve mobility by Marcia Dernie (Div)
  58. The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali (Div)
  59. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nazhukumatathil (Div, BG)
  60. The Days of Afrikete by Asali Solomon (Div, A)
  61. Tell It to Me Singing by Tita Ramirez (Div)
  62. You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian
  63. James by Percival Everett (Div, A)
  64. In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life by Amy Schneider (A)
  65. What You Are Looking For is In the Library by Michiko Aoyama (Div, A)
  66. The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust, Volume II by Philip Pullman
  67. Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (Div)
  68. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Div, A)
  69. How to Read Now: Essays by Elaine Castillo (Div)
  70. Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow by Damilare Kuku (Div)
  71. Ash by Malinda Lo (Div, A)
  72. The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
  73. Go As a River by Shelley Read (BG)
  74. Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
  75. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (A)
  76. The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang (Div)
  77. The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley (A)
  78. The Final Curtain by Keigo Higashino (Div)
  79. We Need No Wings by Ana Davila Cardinal (Div)
  80. The Sons of El Rey by Alex Espinoza (Div, A, BG
  81. Big Chicas Don’t Cry by Annette Chavez Macias (Div, A)
  82. Body Phobia: The Western Roots of Our Fear of Difference by Dianna E. Anderson
  83. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez (A)
  84. A Bluestocking’s Guide to Decadence by Jess Everlee
  85. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See (Div)
  86. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Div, BG)
  87. No Boy Summer by Amy Spalding
  88. The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (Div, A)
  89. Because Fat Girl by Lauren Marie Fleming
  90. Fat Girls Dance by Cathleen Meredith (Div)
  91. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (Div)
  92. Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens (A)
  93. Ghost Book by Remy Lai (Div)
  94. Petal to the Metal by Annabel Chase (A)
  95. Blessed Water by Margo Douaihy (Div)
  96. A Jingle Bell Mingle by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
  97. Think of England by K.J. Charles (A)
  98. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (BG)
  99. The Bird Hotel by Joyce Maynard (A)
  100. Body Image Inside Out: A Revolutionary Approach to Body Image by Deb Schacter and Whitney Otto
  101. All In Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today by Elizabeth Comen (A)
  102. Bellies by Nicola Dinan (Div)
  103. Death In the Spires by K.J. Charles (A)
  104. Not For the Faint of Heart by Lex Croucher
  105. Apartment Women by Gu Byeong-mo (Div)
  106. I’m So (Not) Over You by Kosoko Jackson (Div, A)
  107. Private Rites by Julia Armfield
  108. The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi (Div, A)
  109. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (BG)
  110. Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives by Amelia Possanza (A)
  111. The Shutouts by Gabrielle Korn
  112. Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse (Div)
  113. How To Get a Life in Ten Dates by Jenny Howe
  114. The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes (Div, A)
  115. The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (Div)
  116. The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins
  117. Late Bloomers by Deepa Varadaranajan (Div, A)
  118. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years by Joy Harjo (Div)
  119. Spectred Isle by K.J. Charles (A)
  120. Weight and Wisdom: Reflections on Decades of Working for Body Liberation, edited by Nancy Ellis-Ordway and Tigress Osborn (Div)
  121. The Last Bookstore on Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold
  122. All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall
  123. Marriage & Masti by Nissa Sharma
  124. West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge (BG)

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