New York Times Best Books of 2024.
What do we think of this list?
I have only read 2
Fiction
All Fours - Miranda July ✅
Good Material - Dolly Alderman
James - Percival Everett ✅
Martyr! Kayeh Akbar
You Dreamed of Empires - Álvaro Enrigue
NF
Cold Crematorium -
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
I Heard Her Call My Name
Reagan
The Wide Wide Sea
6 NONFICTION books completed in November—setting up a few interesting matches. The tagged book was my pick. And my enjoyment of it pushed it ahead of its competitor from September. However, I‘m still thinking about the wild card memoir—so I gave it the nod to move on. But in the end, my love of a well-written narrative nonfiction propels “Challenger” into the finals. What a fun year this has shaped up to be!
#2024ReadingBrackets
pickWhat an absolutely delightful little book! Helen McGill is my new favorite heroine.
pickFinished this one in November. I like this author‘s style of storytelling where it‘s a bit magical but still reality. Eileen is on her way to NY from GA and pulls into a small town and gets stuck there. It just so happens it‘s the small town from her favorite series. She gets to hang out with her favorite characters and maybe fall in love. It is a romance.
🤩 I rearranged and dusted one of my bedroom bookshelves on Friday. That felt good, and ooh, I think I see a few open spaces on there now!
🔝 This is just the top. There are 4 more shelves on the bottom.
#shelfie #shelfiesunday
so-so3⭐️ It was okay; it felt a bit too convoluted at times. #2024 #fiction #booksaboutbooks #translation #contemporary
As always, I am stuck in the past...
But it's fun to see if I recognize any of NYT's "100 Notable Books of 2024".
pickAre you a big book nerd? Have you always wanted to know how people become librarians or booksellers? Then this collection of interviews might be perfect for you! My lament…I wish it had more interviews of truly independent bookstore owners and employees. It felt like the majority of interviews were from bookstore chains … and those stores are super important to the book economy!….i just wanted more of the one off, mom and pop stores!
I‘m surprised with how good I‘m doing on #tenbeforetheend! 5 read and 5 more to go! Of course I have all the chunksters left! 😊
Thank you for the gift link @Chelsea.Poole - I love a list, although it‘s not good for my TBR!
Lots of the non-fiction I‘d never even heard of…. 🤔
And I‘m only part-way through two of these, Someone Like Us from the #ToBlonglist and Language City.
