My Favorite Books of 2024

Every year at this time, I kick off the end of the year with my list of favorite books from the last 12 months. Invariably, sometime between now and New Year’s Eve, I will realize that I’ve forgotten one or two and wish I could redo the list. If I waited for a perfect memory, though, this would never get done. Here they are, in alphabetical order by author. Wendell Berry, Another Day: Sabbath Poems, 2013-2023 (Counterpoint) My great-grandmother lived to be 104 years old. This meant th