Best of 2024: Director Picks

MCPL Director and CEO Aaron Mason shares the books for both youth and adults he enjoyed most in 2024!

Every December, MCPL staff reflect on the past 12 months and share their favorite reads, listens, and watches of the past year. It’s a fun way to swap notes, get to know each other, and add titles to everyone’s TBR (to be read) lists. We asked MCPL Director and CEO Aaron Mason to share his favorites of the past year, and—as you’d expect from a Library Director—he had a long and varied list! Check out his “Best of 2024” picks below. 

Director’s “Best of 2024” Picks: 

Youth Books 

• The Eyes & the Impossible by Dave Eggers 
• Two Together by Brendan Wenzel 
• The Night Librarian by Christopher Lincoln 
• Weirdo by Tony Weaver 

Adult Books: 

• The Brutalists: Brutalism’s Best Architects by Owen Hopkins 
• Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford 
• Autocracy Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum 
• Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuvan Noah Harari 
• The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing An Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt 
• The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind by Melissa S. Kearney