Best of Books 2024

On Episode #138 I share my favorite reads and audiobook listens from 2024 as well as some favorite backlist titles I read this past year.

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Books Recommended:
Clean by Alia Trabucco Zeran
Still Life With Remorse by Maira Kalman
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
James by Percival Everett
The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
Bear by Julia Phillips
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Peggy by Rebecca Godfrey
The Wedding People by Alison Espach

Audiobooks Recommended:
Long Island by Colm Toibin
Mother Doll by Katya Apekina
The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas
This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud

Backlist Recommended:
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Jackie by Dawn Tripp
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Whale Fall by Elizabeth O'Connor
The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk

Other Books Mentioned:
From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley et al