#pretty bleak month for me bookwise. not a lot of great stuff here

[gideonthefirst]

January Books

bolded is favorites, [x] is least favorites

fiction

Caribou Island by David Vann

Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories by Leonard Cohen

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Harrow by Joy Williams

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

nonfiction

The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Megan O'Rourke

Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman by Greg Grandin

I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 by Ernesto Che Guevara

The Art Thief by Michael Finkel [x]

Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse

Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975 by Richard Thompson

Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba & Then Lost it to the Revolution by T.J. English [x]

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy [x]

other

Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie by Maya Angelou

The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib

#2024 books #pretty bleak month for me bookwise. not a lot of great stuff here #the che letters book was really really really awesome though. so that's nice #personal