The Books I’m Reading in 2024

My reading log with links to reviews (13)

Mauricio Matiz
The Ink Never Dries
2 min readFeb 27, 2024

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A colorful bookshelf. (DeepAI from author’s prompt; copyright free)

This is a running tab of the books read this year. At the end of the year, I convert this into a summary, including the highlights from a year’s worth of reading. Each entry has a link to the short reviews I post as I finish each book.

If you’re interested in picking up any of these, the list is replicated at my Bookshop.org affiliate stand.

  1. Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession (2020) review (1/18)
  2. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (2021) review (1/23)
  3. Foster by Claire Keegan (2022) review (1/23)
  4. Trust by Hernan Diaz (2022) review (2/17)
  5. Crossing State Lines: An American Renga edited by Bob Holman and Carol Muske-Dukes (2011) review (2/18)
  6. Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement (2014) review (2/27)
  7. The Best American Short Stories 2023 selected by Min Jin Lee (2023) review (4/23)
  8. These Precious Days by Ann Patchett (2021) review (5/15)
  9. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2004) review (7/22)
  10. Alexander’s Bridge by Willa Cather (1912) review (7/30)
  11. Knife by Salman Rushdie (2024) review (8/6)
  12. The Promised Party by Jennifer Clement (2024) review (8/17)
  13. All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (1992) review (8/29)

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Mauricio Matiz
The Ink Never Dries

The essays, stories, and poems I've released on Medium are collected at The Ink Never Dries (medium.com/matiz).