As the year wraps up and we hope that our gifts for loved ones will arrive on time, I am continuing the tradition started several years ago to share my top books for 2024. I hope you find something new or see that one of your favorites made my list! As in the past, I love to hear from all of our subscribers about their favorite books of the year and will publish a selection with my January column. Please email me or comment on social media with the books you loved this year. I always love to talk about books.
Fiction
James by Percival Everett
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Nonfiction
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León
Like Love: Essays and Conversations by Maggie Nelson
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Whiskey Tender: A Memoir by Deborah Jackson Taffa
Poetry
Wrong Norma by Anne Carson
Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss
Water, Water: Poems by Billy Collins
Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali
Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space: Poems by Catherine Barnett
Backlist
Information Desk: An Epic by Robyn Schiff
Aetherial Worlds: Stories by Tatyana Tolstaya translated by Anya Migdal
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
Happy Holidays and Happy Reading!
