Top Reads of 2024
So here are, it’s a new year and it’s the perfect opportunity to recap the previous. One of my goals each year is to read a certain amount of books and now, in this era of life, I’m reading everything from books off the Banned Books list to biographies to dive deeper into subjects to teach my kids and because I’m just hungry for knowledge now that my full-time gig is, well, education. Previously I didn’t divert much from success and self-help books but now I’m at a point where I’ve implemented things from those and I now am focusing on where my interests lie, which are mostly classic literature, classic gothic novels and non-fiction ranging in all of the subjects.
So here’s the list:
O Pioneers - Willa Cather
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
The Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
The Castle of Otranto - Horace Wallpole
Ghosts & Haunted Houses of Maryland - Trish Gallagher
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Leonardo Da Vinci - Walter Isaacson
The Black Angels - Maria Milios
Dumbing Us Down - John Gatto
The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum - Margalit Fox
Sarah Winchester: Beyond the Mystery - Bennett Jacobstein
To Hell and Back - Audie Murphy