Top Ten Books I’ve Read in 2024

You’ve heard of Spotify wrapped get ready for books wrapped. This isn’t like Spotify wrapped in the sense that it’s not the books I’ve read this year it’s the books that have had the biggest impact on me or I’ve enjoyed the most. I loved all of them equally so this is a list not necessarily a ranking of them.

1. 100 Best Beatles song: A Passionate Fan’s Guide by: Stephen J Spighesi and Micheal Lewis 

This book reviews 100 of the best Beatles songs, providing everything about them, from their origins to trivia. I like this book because I’m a realy big Beatlemaniac and I love learning about the Beatles. My favorite Beatle is Ringo and I wish I go back in time and watch them perform.

2. The Librarian of Aushwitz by: Antonio Itrube and Lilitžrklan Thwaites Monstrouz 

TW: Holocaust

Based on the story of Dita Kraus this story is about a 13 year old girl in the Auschwitz concentration camp who every day moves a small group of books into a different hiding place so the S.S officers can’t find them. My favorite part of the book is in the appendix where the author describes her interactions with the person that the character in the book in based on.

3. T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us by: Carole Hooven

An interesting book about the hormone testosterone. This book has deeply explored the hormone testosterone and how it affects humans and animals alike. My favorite part of the book the part of the book that shows testosterone’s effects on emotions.

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4. Turn Me On, Dead Man: The Complete Story of the Paul McCartney Death Hoax By: Andren J. Reeve and Joel F. Glazier 

Calling all Beatles fans! This book discusses the origin of the “Paul is dead” hoax and the “evidence” people have supposedly found to support it. My favorite part of the book is where the book shows the pop culture impact of the hoax.

5. The Sting of the Wild by: Justin O. Schmidt 

TW: mentions of stings and stinging bugs 

How many times have been stung by something? This book explains the science of stinging insects. The author even has a chart in the book of the different stings he’s had and rating how painful they were. My favorite part of the book is where is the scale he has at the end of the book with everything he’s been stung by and how much it hurt on his subjective pain scale.

6. Laughing at my Nightmare by: Shane Burgaw 

In this book, Shane Burcaw shares stories from throughout his life with spinal muscular atrophy and dealing with abelism. My favorite part of the book is when he tried to lift his brother that was attached to a rope into a basketball hoop he succeed but it ended up breaking his wheelchair.

7. The Museum of Other People by: Adam Kuper 

This book talks about the dark history of when archeology and colonization join together. It shares stories of artifacts that have been taken their places of origin and put in European museums often damaging the artifacts in the process. My favorite part of book is the part where they point out how many artifacts have been damaged by museums especially European ones mistreatment of the artifacts.

8. Escape from St. Hell by: Lewis Hancox 

This book is the sequel to the graphic memoir of Escape from St. Hell. The first book in the series focuses more on his gender journey through out childhood and adolescent. This graphic memoir focuses more on his gender journey as a young adult, the struggles he has as a trans man and his anxiety. My favorite part of the memoir is where he’s finally able to leave his old town and go to college.

9. Unwell Women by: Elinor Cleghorn

This book discusses the history of medicine and how women’s health concerns have been brushed under the rug in the Western world for millennia. My favorite part of the book is where Elinor takes about her own journey with lupus.

10. Remarkably Bright Creatures by: Shelby Van Pelt

TW: Suicide and death of family members 

Tova from Wisincon, Cameron who can’t seem to keep a job, and an octopus. After Tova injures herself from falling off an old step stool she’s forced to take a medical leave. Meanwhile, Cameron’s girlfriend kicks him out of their apartment for getting sacked once again. After his friend takes him in he decides to go to California to look for his father. He fills in the temporary position of the cleaning person at the So Well Bay Aquarium. Tova still comes to clean and meets Cameron. They find out they have something in common. My favorite part of the book is when Cameron and Tova find out what they have in common.