Best Book I Read in 2024

This year, I want to recommend just one book—Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa. A friend recommended this to me, pitching it as a good book to get back into the reading habit. And that’s exactly what it did.

It’s not a groundbreaking or profound novel—quite the opposite. And therein lies its beauty. It is a simple, easy read that helped me reset my dopamine level and bring books back into my life.

After becoming a first-time father this year, parenting and child-rearing books dominated my reading list. I was at a point where I had stopped reading for leisure simply because finding uninterrupted time and energy was a challenge. Deep-focus came at a premium too. So this book was a blessing in restoring calm to a hectic first year of fatherhood.

I’d highly recommend it.

I hope you have a great new year. Let me know if you have book suggestions for me. Here are the lists from previous years: Best of 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016

P.S. If you’re ever looking for parenting book suggestions, hit me up.