Non Fiction 

• Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
• 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History and How It Shattered a Nation
• The Happiest Man on Earth
• Silent Spring
• The Federalist Papers
• Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
• Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
• The Lion Women of Tehran
• Mark Twain
• Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
• Code Name Hélène
• Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service
• The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America’s 16th President and Why It Failed
• Nuclear War: A Scenario

Fiction

• Atmosphere
• James
• Theo of Golden
• Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
• The Correspondent
• Refugee
• Deacon King Kong
• War Games
• Buckeye
• My Friends
• Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1)
• Blue Sisters
• The Overstory
• Small Things Like These
• Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
• Conclave
• The Nightingale
• The Frozen River

Older List: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

One Battle After Another
Sinners
Marty Supreme
No Other Choice
Blue Moon
Warfare
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Hamnet
Train Dreams
It Was Just An Accident
Eddington
Bugonia

Honorable Mentions

Nuremberg, Caught Stealing, Sentimental Value, The Phoenician Scheme, 28 Years Later, Black Bag, A House of Dynamite, Paddington in Peru, Spinal Tap 2, The Naked Gun, The Secret Agent, Frankenstein, Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning

Previous lists: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

Civil War
Monkey Man
Dune 2
Anora
A Complete Unknown
Furiosa
Kneecap
Sing Sing
Perfect Days
Nickel Boys
Small Things Like These
Flow
The Wild Robot

Honorable Mentions

The Brutalist, Nosferatu, Evil Does Not Exist, All We Imagine is Light, Inside Out 2, Deadpool & Wolverine, A Quiet Place Day One, Thelma, The Fall Guy, Hit Man, Challengers, Conclave

Previous lists: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

We will start this year with books, this one is a little different in that the books didn’t have to come out this year, BUT they had to be a new read to me (or a reread of something I may not have grasped when younger). I read/listened to 109 books this year! So here are my top (recommended) books of 2024, in no particular order but split it into fiction and nonfiction, Bolded are my TOP 3. There are a lot because, I read a lot!

Non Fiction 

• The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
• The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
• The Message
• We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People
• King: A Life
• Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
• The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
• Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
• The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
• On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service
• War
• The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
• Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
• Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
• Between Two Trailers
• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
• Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

Fiction

• Wandering Stars
• The Lost Bookshop
• The Life Impossible
• A Calamity of Souls
• Extinction
• The Art Forger
• Defy the Storm (Star Wars: The High Republic)
• Book Lovers
• Table for Two
• Tom Lake
• Age of Vice
• The Idiot
• His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes)
• Erasure

Older List: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

Spider Man Across the Spider Verse
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
The Zone of Interest
Killers of the Flower Moon
Flora & Son
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Poor Things
They Cloned Tyrone
TMNT Mutant Mayhem
The Holdovers
The Killer

Honorable Mentions

Air, Barbie, Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning, John Wick 4, Rye Lane, Red White & Brass, Joy Ride, Asteroid City, All of Us Strangers, Somewhere in Queens, Wonka, Dream Scenario

Previous lists: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

We will start this year with books, this one is a little different in that the books didn’t have to come out this year, BUT they had to be a new read to me (or a reread of something I may not have grasped when younger). I read/listened to 109 books this year! So here are my top (recommended) books of 2023,  in no particular order but split it into fiction and nonfiction, Bolded are my TOP 3. There are a lot because, I read a lot!

Non Fiction 

• Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
• The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
• Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
• Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn’t Food
• How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
• Poverty, by America
• A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
• How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
• Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
• Johnny Cash: The Life
• Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
• The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
• The Creative Act: A Way of Being
• The Miracle of Dunkirk
• Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans

Fiction

• Wellness
• Demon Copperhead
• Remarkably Bright Creatures
• On the Come Up
• The Berry Pickers
• The Fraud
• All the Lovers in the Night
• The Paris Bookseller
• Ring Shout
• Chain-Gang All-Stars
• The Covenant of Water
• Giovanni’s Room

Older List: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

Top Gun Maverick
Everything Everywhere All At Once
RRR
Tar
The Fabelmans
After Yang
The Northman
The Banshee of Inisherin
Emergency
Decision to Leave

Honorable Mentions

All Quiet on the Western Front, Aftersun, The Woman King, Knives Out: Glass Onion, Apollo 10 ½, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, NOPE, Hustle, Belle, Kimi, Marcel the Shell, Three Thousand Years of Longing, Women Talking

Previous lists: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

We will start this year with books, this one is a little different in that the books didn’t have to come out this year, BUT they had to be a new read to me (or a reread of something I may not have grasped when younger). I read/listened to 126 books this year, a new record for me! So here are my top (recommended) books of 2022,  in no particular order but split it into fiction and nonfiction, Bolded are my TOP 3. There are a lot because, I read a lot!

Non Fiction 

• The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
• How to Raise an Antiracist
• Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
• Raising Critical Thinkers: A Parent’s Guide to Growing Wise Kids in the Digital Age
• Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again
• And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States
• Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
• Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
• Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
• A Black Women’s History of the United States
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• Humankind: A Hopeful History
• How to Stand Up to a Dictator
• The Backyard Adventurer

Fiction

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
• Empire’s End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)
• Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)
• The Cartographers
• Project Hail Mary
• Little Women
• Pachinko
• Upgrade

Older List: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

Inside
Dune
CODA
Licorice Pizza
Little Fish
Drive My Car
Don’t Look Up
Old Henry
The Lost Daughter
C’mon C’mon
King Richard
The Power of the Dog
A Quiet Place Part II

Honorable Mentions

The Last Duel, Last Night in Soho, Mass, The Suicide Squad, The Mitchells vs the Machines, Belfast, The Harder They Fall, Raya and the Last Dragon, West Side Story, The Green Knight, Nightmare Alley, Encanto, The French Dispatch

Previous lists: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

We will start this year with books, this one is a little different in that the books didn’t have to come out this year, BUT they had to be a new read to me (or a reread of something I may not have grasped when younger). I read/listened to 105 books this year, a new record for me! So here are my top (recommended) books of 2020,  in no particular order but split it into fiction and nonfiction, Bolded are my TOP 3. There are a lot because, I read a lot!

Non Fiction 

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
• Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
• Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently
• Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
• Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
• Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
• We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
• Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency
• The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
• The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
• Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
• Twelve Years a Slave
• Peril
• Will

Fiction

• Cloud Cuckoo Land
• The House in the Cerulean Sea
• The Lincoln Highway
• Project Hail Mary

Honorable Mentions

• The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move (Non Fiction)
• Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Non Fiction)
• John Quincy Adams (Non Fiction)
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
• Turtles All the Way Down
• The Queen’s Gambit
• The Song of Achilles
• The Vanishing Half
• Concrete Rose
• Zone One

Older List: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020