These are the books I finished reading this year.

1. The Last Samurai – Helen DeWitt
2. Against the Day – Thomas Pynchon
3. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
4. The Novel: An Alternate History – Steven Moore
5. The Life of Tu Fu – Eliot Weinberger
6. Reading Genesis – Marilynne Robinson
7. 84 Charing Cross Road – Helene Hanff
8. The Shakespeare Wars – Ron Rosenbaum
9. Either/Or – Elif Batuman
10. Quantum Criminals – Alex Pappademas
11. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
12. Will in the World – Stephen Greenblatt
13. Unspooled – Rob Drew
14. The Arabian Nights: A Companion – Robert Irwin
15. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 – James Shapiro
16. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street – Helene Hanff
17. The Church of Baseball – Ron Shelton
18. There Was Nothing You Could Do – Steven Hyden
19. Blood Sweat & Chrome – Kyle Buchanon
20. Long Road – Steven Hyden
21. When the Clock Broke – John Ganz
22. God Only Knows – David Leaf

And these are the books I read but did not finish in 2024.

1. The Path to Power – Robert Caro
2. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
3. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
4. Paradise Lost – John Milton
5. Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson
6. The Tale of the Heike – Royall Tyler (trans.)
7. Orientalism – Edward Said
8. The Valmiki Ramayana – trans. Bibek Debroy
9. Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways – CLR James
10. James – Percival Everett
11. The Penguin Classics Book – Henry Eliot
12. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
13. Count Magnus & Other Ghost Stories — M.R. James
14. Reckless Daughter – David Yaffe