Best Books of 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. Watch me recommend books on The Mark Thompson Show. Win a copy of Guilt and Ginataan. Click here to enter. Closes Thursday, January 2nd, 2024. Read Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luisella with me on Substack starting January 6th. 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 Support the show Get your Books Are My People merch here! I hope you all have a wonderfully bookish week!