When you're a friendless loser with no social life, it opens up lots of opportunities to read good books. This year was no exception. One thing has changed for me is incorporating what I might call junk food into my literary diet in the form of murder mysteries. They are a bit hit or miss, although I did love Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club series. The others. Eh, kind of hit or miss. Most of my reading is still non-fiction and there were a few real bangers this year, including an excellent biography of Keith Haring (book #29) a book on a disputed Warhol that read more like a thriller combined with an insider's look at how high end art is sold (book #10), a riveting accounting of the biggest bribery scandal in the history of the U.S. Navy (book #21), and a meditation on the "greed is good" 1980s (book #25). I hope you found some gems in your own reading and look forward to seeing what 2025 will bring.
1. The Man Who Died Twice, Richard Osman
2. The Bullet That Missed, Richard Osman
3. The Book of General Ignorance, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
4. The Dictionary People, Sarah Ogilvie
5. The Christmas Guest, Peter Swanson
6. World Within A Song, Jeff Tweedy
7. The Last Devil To Die, Richard Osman
8. Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice For Murderers,
9. The Sopranos Sessions, Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz
10. Warhol After Warhol, Richard Dorment
11. The Maid, Nita Prose
12. The Framed Women of Ardmore House, Brandy Schillace
13. Takeover, Hitler’s Final Rise to Power, Timothy Ryback
14. How To Solve Your Own Murder, Kristen Perrin
15. Palestine 1936, Oren Kessler
16. The Mystery Guest, Nita Prose
17. Nuclear War - A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen
18. A Shot In The Dark, Lynne Truss
19. Challenger, Adam Higginbotham
20. Life Sentence, Mark Bowden
21. Fat Leonard, Craig Whitlock
22. The Demon of Unrest, Erik Larson
23. The Golden Spoon, Jessa Maxwell
24. When The Clock Broke, John Ganz
25. Triumph of the Yuppies, Tom McGrath
26. Cue The Sun!, Emily Nussbaum
27. The Future Was Now, Chris Nashawaty
28. The Wide Wide Sea, Hampton Sides
29. Radiant, The Life and Line of Keith Haring, Brad Gooch
30. The Greatest Game Ever Pitched, Jim Kaplan
31. There Was Nothing You Could Do, Steven Hyden
32. We Solve Murders, Richard Osman
33. Paris In Ruins, Sebastian Smee
34. The Machine, Joe Posnanski
35. The Mistletoe Mystery, Nita Prose
36. Lost - Back to the Island, Emily St. James and Noel Murray
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