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The Favorites: A Psychological Novel of Revenge | Rosemary Hennigan

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Here are my favorite reads from 2024. This overlaps 83% with my #AuldLangSpine list, but I still want to memorialize another fantastic reading year. The top 4 spots go to Winterson's The Passion, Butler's Kindred, Awad's Rouge, and Murata's Convenience Store Woman. I read 3 of those 4 in the first three months of the year, so hopefully that means I'm due for some early favorites in 2025🤞🤞

BarbaraBB So many favorites among them. I loved The Passion and Dr No and Castle for example! 9mo

Reggie Kindred and Convenience Store Woman! ❤️❤️❤️ 9mo

sarahbarnes So many on here that I want to read! And I loved Rouge, too. 9mo

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Billypar @BarbaraBB Those three have a lot of freewheeling, manic energy to spare! 9mo

Billypar @Reggie I liked Kindred even more than the already strong Parable books. And I don't think I ever read anything quite like Convenience Store Woman - I think it may have been your review that interested me originally, so thank you for that 😀 9mo

Billypar @sarahbarnes Rouge was definitely a trip of a novel to live inside for a couple weeks 🪼🙃 9mo

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The Buried Giant: A novel | Kazuo Ishiguro

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It worked out that I had 22 5-star reads this year (I was tempted to bump one of the ratings up 🤓). Here they are in rough order of enthusiasm and broken down by fiction and nonfiction (+1 poetry).
-The Buried Giant wins for my favorite of the year, as I knew it would immediately after finishing it.
-Strangest Read: Stranger to the Moon
-Best Essay Collection: Pulphead
-Best Memoir: The Man Who Could Move Clouds
Happy reading in 2024!!

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Ruthiella Such an eclectic list! Love it‘ 👍 2y

sarahbarnes I still really want to read Buried Giant! Great list! 2y

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merelybookish Great list! I have that Dorthe Nors book on my tbr. 2y

BarbaraBB The Buried Giant. Such a lovely book. I also loved The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Dept of Speculation! 2y

Billypar @Ruthiella Yeah, I enjoyed the variety - it was a good reading year! 2y

Billypar @sarahbarnes I was looking forward to it, but I never imagined going in that it would be my favorite of the year. I still have a lot more Ishiguro to read - that was only my second one. 2y

Billypar @merelybookish I really liked it - the kind of essays that blend descriptions of the landscape with history and personal experiences in a way that's totally seamless. 2y

Billypar @BarbaraBB Both DoS and RF have such daring styles. They're not going to be for everyone, but they really sold me. 2y

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Megabooks @BarbaraBB I need to get to both Buried Giant and Reluctant Fundamentalist. Fantastic list @Billypar ! 2y

Billypar @Megabooks Both of those were my second read from each author. I think the other two were 5 stars also, so I should definitely check out some more from them! 2y

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Counternarratives | John Keene

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Thanks for the tags @Centique and @Nute
There were certainly lots of great reads to consider. Unlike other years where I've had one favorite in particular, I think it was a three-way tie between Counternarratives, Written on the Body, and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. Close behind are Gorilla My Love, The True Deceiver, and The Intuitionist.

Tagging any other fellow procrastinators on choosing their year-end picks!

Centique Yay there‘s The Go Between and Lolly Willowes! I have taken a screen shot to add more to my TBR 😍 4y

BarbaraBB I loved Tove and Olga too but I‘ll have to take a screenshot too! 4y

Ruthiella Eclectic mix! I read A Grain of Wheat
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o in 2020 and am keen to read more. Maybe I‘ll make this one the next I read...

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LeahBergen I see lots of our NYRBs! 👏🏻 4y

Billypar @Centique Those were both good in very different ways. The Go Between felt like a better version of a familiar setup, and Lolly Willowes wasn't like anything else I've read. 4y

Billypar @BarbaraBB It was my first read of both of those authors - I can't wait to read more. 4y

Billypar @Ruthiella Based on your review of A Grain of Wheat, it sounds like that should be my next of his! 4y

Billypar @LeahBergen Yeah, I really connected with so many of them this year! 4y

batsy Oooh! This is a great list and I'm definitely taking notes 📝 4y

Billypar @batsy It's fun to see everyone's NYRB picks on these lists - it looks like we have True Deceiver in common. That one was very memorable. 4y

merelybookish Great list! The Copenhagen trilogy made my list too! And I'm currently listening to Drive Your Plow. Not far in but it's making me laugh. 4y

Billypar @merelybookish Yeah, The Copenhagen Trilogy was really excellent, as sad of a story as it was. I was not expecting Drive Your Plow to be so funny. I was laughing out loud at the police letters - I think you'll enjoy those if you haven't reached them yet 🙂 4y

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