Hey everyone!
What’s the best book(s) you read in 2024? I’m building my 2025 TBR and would love to hear your recommendations. Let me know what stood out to you and why!
I’m excited to read about the books you loved and can’t wait to check them out myself!
by watermelon_migraines
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The Measure by Nikki Erlick
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima. Damn near Tolstoyan
The Royal Physician’s Visit by Per Olov Enquist (dark, mysterious atmosphere; subject was a real part of Danish history + I love fiction books that are written as though they are non-fiction)
James by Percival Everett
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
The Betrayal of Thomas True by AJ West
Technically my first read of 2025, but Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar is the best book I’ve read in a long time.
Interface by Neal Stephenson.
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi
The several chapters of book 1 was a bit meh but I devoured the entire series and I had a book hangover for weeks after reading it all.
5 Decembers
James Kestrel
Part mystery/suspense, wartime drama, romance, thriller. It has it all. Quick read too
I finally read The Once and Future King by T.H. White and I’m only angry that it took me this long to do so.
Black No More by George Schuyler— brilliant satire, I’m still thinking about it and I read it months ago!
Fave read published in 2024– Chernobyl Roulette. Damn, talk about the sheer courage of ordinary people caught up in a war…
There Are Rivers in the Sky
Circe, by Madeline Miller
The Madwomen of Paris by Jennifer Cody Epstein and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
For me it is:
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
By: Maria Smilios
This book was a wonderful and enlightening piece that covered on A LOT of US historical happenings while the TB Epidemic was raging. It is ABSOLUTELY wonderful and everyone I have recommended it to has burnt through it and loved it!
Tomorrow tomorrow and tomorrow.
The Wedding People by Alison Espach & The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
Quite easily: The Invention of Morel by Bioy Casares
The book predates so many other really good books and films, that I thought I was being trolled by the publication date (1940). It’s also super short and easy to read.
I read alot of good books last year, so it’s hard to pick just one, but my favorite was:
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Red rising trilogy. Books 2 and 3 are incredible
God of the woods
Nuclear War: A scenario. Scared me shitless.
Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista, hands down. Shaped our TBR list for 2025, it was that good 😂
Unruly by David Mitchell
Demon Copperhead
Its not a the best book ever, but its the only one I read last year that i truly liked. Its yellowface (RF Kuang). Its actually one of the few non-study/working books i read.
James by Percival Everett but I thought it necessary to read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn beforehand.
Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
Go as a River by Shelley Read. The Reformatory by Tananarive Due.
James by Percival Everett.
John Scalzi’s **Starter Villain** is the most entertaining book I’ve read recently. It’s a spoof of the early James Bond movies. A substitute teacher inherits his estranged uncle’s villainy which comes complete with a secret volcanic lair.
Dungeon. Crawler. Carl.
Trust me.
A Storm of Swords (ASOIAF #3)
Stoner by John Williams
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It’s an old book, but what a fun ride.
*The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth* –Jonathan Rauch
So many good ones last year. Maybe try **The Housekeeper and the Professor** by Yoko Ogawa.
11.22.63 by Stephen King.
I finally read No Country for Old Men and it was jaw dropping
The Price Guide to the Occult by Leslye Walton