2024 Book List

Motherhood provides a new dimension in my reading adventures. Logged titles are found in baby love's Beanstack account. Those rhyming, irreverent passages don't exactly quench my soul's thirst to dally through novel, thought-provoking verbal expressions. It felt like a chore logging my own reading pursuits while baby love cruised through her first solar revolution. 2024 will be a free-form laundry list of my conquest over 200 non-juvenile titles. Yes, I included juvenile titles in the past, but I want to encourage myself to explore my own leisure delights intended for deeper interpretive sleuthing. I enjoy the wonderment of the vivid illustrations and musical passages of board books and other visual presentations intended for beginners of the English language, but I want to continue to challenge myself to reach a wider breadth of thought. The free-form list is less intimidating.

July 10 Addendum: I want to log the books I've started to read to reveal the breadth of thoughts I started to encounter and wrestle with, but was occupied with other fascinations or untimely distractions that I didn't pivot away from.

In Progress

1. The Greatness Guide - Robin Sharma (eBook)
2. Off the Books - Soma Mei Sheng Frazier (eBook)
3. The Inner Clock - Lynne Peeples (eBook)
4. The Power of Fun - Catherine Price (eBook)
5. Triggers - Marshall Goldsmith (eBook)
6. Excuse Me While I Disappear - Laurie Notaro (Hardcover) - Book Club pick
7. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families - Stephen R. Covey and Sandra Merrill Covey (Paperback)
8. Instant Mom - Nia Vardalos (eBook)
9. Operating Instructions - Anne Lamott (eBook)
10. A Firehouse of Falsehood - Teri Kanefield (Hardcover - Graphic Novel)
11. Uptime - Laura Mae Martin (eBook)
12. Your Duck is My Duck - Deborah Eisenberg (eBook)
13. Long Island Compromise - Taffy Brodesser-Akner (eBook)
14. Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win - Jo Piazza (Hardcover)
15. Glory Days - Simon Rich (eBook)
16. Lessons from an American Stoic - Mark Matousek (Audio)
17. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl (eBook) - Book Club pick
18. Horse - Geraldine Brooks (Hardcover) - Book Club pick
19. Practical Optimism - Sue Varma (eBook)
20. Surrounded by Energy Vampires - Thomas Erikson (Paperback)
21. The Risk It Takes to Bloom - Raquel Willis (Hardcover)
22. How to Know a Person - David Brooks (Audio)
23. My Grandmother's Hands - Resmaa Menakem (Audio)
24. The Art of Thinking Clearly - Rolf Dobelli (eBook)
25. The Organized Mind - Daniel J. Levitin (eBook)
26. Generations - Jean M. Twenge (eBook)
27. Wild Houston - Suzanne Simpson and John Williams (eBook)
28. Sorry I'm Late, I Didn’t Want to Come - Jessica Pan (eBook)
29. Vanished Houston Landmarks - Mark Lardas (eBook)
30. Ultra-Processed People - Chris van Tulleken (Audio)
31. Doppelganger - Naomi Klein (Audio)
32. Son of a Southern Chef - Lazarus Lynch (eBook)
33. Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris (eBook)

Completed Titles

1. 10/9/24 - Anxiety Rx - Russell Kennedy (Audio)
2. 9/26/24 - 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think - Brianna Wiest (Audio)
3. 9/26/24 - The House of Hidden Meaning - RuPaul (Audio)
4. 9/16/24 - El Poder de Espejo - Louise Hay (Paperback)
5. 9/7/24 - Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants and - Melissa Washburn (eBook)
6. 8/22/24 - Ayiti - Roxane Gay (eBook)
7. 8/7/24 - The Art of Ruth E. Carter (Hardcover)
8. 8/6/24 - When I was Your Age - Kenan Thompson (Hardcover)
9. 7/26/24 - I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf - Grant Snider (eBook - Graphic Novel)
10. 7/22/24 - BE SEEN - Jen Gottlieb (eBook)
11. 7/20/24 - Choose Your Enemies Wisely - Patrick Bet-David (Audio)
12. 7/13/4 - The Women - Kristin Hannah (Hardcover) - Book Club pick
13. 7/11/24 - The 5 Hypnotic Wealth Spells - Derek Rydall (eBook)
14. 7/10/24 - How to Be Old - Lyn Slater (Hardcover)
15. 7/6/24 - Be Useful - Arnold Schwarzenegger (Hardcover)
16. 7/2/24 - Yoke - Jessamyn Stanley (eBook)
17. 6/23/24 - And Then We Rise - Common (Hardcover)
18. 6/23/24 - Protect Your Peace - Trent Shelton (eBook)
19. 6/21/24 - The Good Enough Job - Simone Stolzoff (eBook)
20. 6/16/24 - Slow Mode is Your Power - Ashly Torian (eBook)
21. 6/16/24 - Becoming a Virtual Assistant - Kristen Mucken (eBook)
22. 6/9/24 - How to Manifest - Laura Chung (eBook)
23. 6/2/24 - Straight Up - Trent Shelton (Audio)
24. 5/28/24 - Alison - Lizzy Stewart (Hardcover - Graphic Novel)
25. 5/25/24 - Remaining You While Raising Them: The Secret Art of Confident Motherhood - Alli Worthington (Paperback)
26. 5/25/24 - The Inheritance Games - Jennifer Lynne Barnes (Paperback) - Book Club pick
27. 5/21/24 - Super Attractor - Gabrielle Bernstein (eBook)
28. 5/8/24 - I Must be Dreaming - Roz Chast (Hardcover)
29. 5/4/24 - Black Cake - Charmaine Wilkerson (Hardcover) - Book Club pick
30. 5/1/24 - Here We Go Again - Tiffani Thiesen (eBook)
31. 4/21/24 - Metamorphosis: The Awakening (A Poetry Book) - Krystal Frenchwood (Paperback)
32. 4/8/24 - Batman One Bad Day Bane - Joshua Williamson, Howard Porter, and Tomeu Morey (Hardcover - Graphic Novel)
33. 4/4/24 ‐ Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus (Audio)
34. 4/1/24 - The 5 Secrets to a Life of True Success - Debra Poneman (eBook)
35. 3/23/24 - Njuta - Niki Brantmark (Hardcover)
36. 3/23/24 - O's Little Book of Happiness - Oprah Magazine (Audio)
37. 3/18/24 - 7 Simple Ways to Increase Abundance, Happiness, and Health - Jason Prall (eBook)
38. 3/13/24 - One Italian Summer - Rebecca Serle (eBook) - Book Club pick
39. 2/14/24 - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman (eBook) - Book Club pick
40. 1/17/24 - Living an Unsinkable Life - Sonia Ricotti (eBook)
41. 1/15/24 - Honey, Baby, Mine - Laura Dern and Diane Ladd (eBook)