I appreciate the gifted link! I love year-in-review lists. Going to add a few of these to my reading queue. All the Worst Humans, Challenger, The Hidden Globe, and Private Revolutions all sound...
I appreciate the gifted link! I love year-in-review lists.
Going to add a few of these to my reading queue. All the Worst Humans, Challenger, The Hidden Globe, and Private Revolutions all sound really interesting to me (I’m a nonfiction buff).
I also read my share of nonfiction. I'm glad you found books to explore and I hope you talk about them on the what are you reading this week thread or otherwise on tildes
I also read my share of nonfiction. I'm glad you found books to explore and I hope you talk about them on the what are you reading this week thread or otherwise on tildes
The Entire List Title Author Genre Similar... All Fours Miranda July Sexy Perimenopause Fiction Big Swiss by Jen Beagin Beautyland Marie-Helene Bertino Speculative Fiction The Book of Strange New...
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All Fours
Miranda July
Sexy Perimenopause Fiction
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
Beautyland
Marie-Helene Bertino
Speculative Fiction
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber and Contact by Carl Sagan
Black River
Nilanjana Roy
Noir
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Bluff
Danez Smith
Poetry
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes and Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey
The Book of Love
Kelly Link
Fantasy Epic
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo and Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl
The Bright Sword
Lev Grossman
Arthurian Fantasy
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Coin
Yasmin Zaher
Literary Fiction
The Guest by Emma Cline and My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Colored Television
Danzy Senna
Mixed-Race Dramedy
Erasure by Percival Everett and All Fours by Miranda July
Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner
Literary Fiction With a Soupçon of Spy
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton and Already Dead by Denis Johnson
Dead in Long Beach, California
Venita Blackburn
Speculative Fiction
Death Valley by Melissa Broder and The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
The Empusium
Olga Tokarczuk
Historical Fiction
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut and Trust by Hernan Diaz
The Familiar
Leigh Bardugo
Historical Fantasy
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik and Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
A Film in Which I Play Everyone
Mary Jo Bang
Poetry
The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands by Nick Flynn and Exit Opera by Kim Addonizio
Forest of Noise
Mosab Abu Toha
Poetry
The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forché
Funny Story
Emily Henry
Summer Rom-Com
Georgie All Along by Kate Clayborn and Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory
Ghostroots
’Pemi Aguda
Horror
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
The God of the Woods
Liz Moore
Thriller
The Fever by Megan Abbott and Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin
Godwin
Joseph O’Neill
Literary Fiction
The Darling by Russell Banks
Good Material
Dolly Alderton
Romantic Comedy
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld and Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Great Expectations
Vinson Cunningham
Political Fiction
Primary Colors by Anonymous
Headshot
Rita Bullwinkel
Punchy Debut
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
The Hunter
Tana French
Thriller
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
Sad Irish Millenial Fiction
The Idiot by Elif Batuman and Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
James
Percival Everett
Reimagined Classic
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver and The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Joy in Service on Rue Tagore
Paul Muldoon
Poetry
The Rain in Portugal by Billy Collins and House of Lords and Commons by Ishion Hutchinson
Long Island Compromise
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Family Saga
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray and White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar
Uncategorizable
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga and Empty Hearts by Juli Zeh
The Mighty Red
Louise Erdrich
Literary Fiction
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Modern Poetry
Diane Seuss
Poetry
Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry by John Murillo and Context Collapse by Ryan Ruby
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book 2
Emil Ferris
Graphic Novel
Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
Janice Hallett
Mystery
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Neighbors and Other Stories
Diane Oliver
Literary Fiction
Slapboxing With Jesus by Victor LaValle and Drown by Junot Díaz
Our Evenings
Alan Hollinghurst
Literary fiction
NW by Zadie Smith
The Pairing
Casey McQuiston
Gourmet Eurotrip Romance
The Day of the Duchess by Sarah MacLean and Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
Piglet
Lottie Hazell
Literary Fiction
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender and Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
The Practice, the Horizon and the Chain
Sofia Samatar
Science Fiction
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Praiseworthy
Alexis Wright
Down Under Fever Dream
Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran
Rakesfall
Vajra Chandrasekera
Science Fiction
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Reboot
Justin Taylor
Literary Fiction
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Rejection
Tony Tulathimutte
NSFW Stories
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden
Literary Fiction
Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal and We Do What We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart
The Sequel
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Publishing World Thriller
Palace of the Drowned by Christine Mangan and Last Resort by Andrew Lipstein
Shred Sisters
Betsy Lerner
Literary Fiction
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite and The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
The Silence of the Choir
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Literary Fiction
The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Smoke Kings
Jahmal Mayfield
Thriller
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Someone Like Us
Dinaw Mengestu
Literary Fiction
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill and Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee
Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange
Historical Family Saga
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Whale Fall
Elizabeth O’Connor
Historical Fiction
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks and The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
What Does It Feel Like?
Sophie Kinsella
Poignant Autofiction
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green and Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
Wild Houses
Colin Barrett
Literary fiction
Close to Home by Michael Magee and Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan
The Women
Kristin Hannah
Historical Fiction
Absolution by Alice McDermott and The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
You Dreamed of Empires
Álvaro Enrigue
Hallucinogenic Historical Fiction
Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants by Mathias Énard and Civilizations by Laurent Binet
You Should Be So Lucky
Cat Sebastian
Queer Sports Romance
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
The Achilles Trap
Steve Coll
Biography
The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer and Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
All the Worst Humans
Phil Elwood
Feel-Bad Memoir
Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley
All Things Are Too Small
Becca Rothfeld
Essays
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss and Stranger Faces by Namwali Serpell
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
The Kids Are Not All Right
Who’s Raising the Kids?: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children by Susan Linn and My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind by Scott Stossel
Be Ready When the Luck Happens
Ina Garten
Culinary Memoir
Love, Loss and What We Ate: A Memoir by Padma Lakshmi and Eat a Peach: A Memoir by David Chang
The Black Box
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Literary Criticism
Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race by Thomas Chatterton Williams and The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart
The Black Utopians
Aaron Robertson
Philosophical Family Memoir
The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis and The New Naturals by Gabriel Bump
The Bluestockings
Susannah Gibson
Feminist History
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch and The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike
Challenger
Adam Higginbotham
Narrative nonfiction
Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World by John Vaillant
Chop Fry Watch Learn
Michelle T. King
Food Biography
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing by Anya von Bremzen and Appetite For Life: The Biography of Julia Child by Noel Riley Fitch
Circle of Hope
Eliza Griswold
Religion
The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta and Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
Cocktails With George and Martha
Philip Gefter
Film History
Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater’s ‘Dazed and Confused’ by Melissa Maerz
Cold Crematorium
József Debreczeni
WWII Memoir
Fateless by Imre Kertész and Night by Elie Wiesel
Connie
Connie Chung
Media Memoir
The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters by Susan Page and Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at ‘60 Minutes,’ by Ira Rosen
Cue the Sun!
Emily Nussbaum
TV History
When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Do Something
Guy Trebay
Glitzy Downtown Memoir
Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes and M Train by Patti Smith
Every Valley
Charles King
Classical Music History
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph by Jan Swafford
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
Jonathan Blitzer
Current Events
Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora and One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965 by Jia Lynn Yang
Fi
Alexandra Fuller
Grief Memoir
Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir by Jayson Greene and The Long Goodbye: A Memoir by Meghan O'Rourke
Health and Safety
Emily Witt
Sex, Drugs & Techno Memoir
The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez and The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen
The Hidden Globe
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Economics
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies by Alastair Bonnett and How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain by Peter S. Goodman
I Heard Her Call My Name
Lucy Sante
Transition Memoir
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan by Darryl Pinckney and Just Kids by Patti Smith
I Just Keep Talking
Nell Irvin Painter
Essays
Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against ‘the Apocalypse’ by Emily Raboteau
John Lewis
David Greenberg
Political Biography
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingam That Changed America by Paul Kix and King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
Knife
Salman Rushdie
Survival Memoir
Experience: A Memoir by Martin Amis
Language City
Ross Perlin
Linguistic Anthropology
Names of New York: Discovering the City’s Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place Names by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro and New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time by Craig Taylor
Lovely One
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Supreme Court Memoir
Becoming by Michelle Obama and Up Home: One Girl’s Journey by Ruth J. Simmons
Madness
Antonia Hylton
American History
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa and The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Current Events
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall and The Question of Palestine by Edward Said
The New India
Rahul Bhatia
Current Events
I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India by Rollo Romig and A Burning by Megha Majumdar
The New York Game
Kevin Baker
Sports
Summer of ’49 by David Halberstam
No One Gets to Fall Apart
Sarah LaBrie
Family History Memoir
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen and The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang
Private Revolutions
Yuan Yang
Current Events
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang and Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future by Ian Johnson
Reagan
Max Boot
Political Biography
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer
The Rebel’s Clinic
Adam Shatz
Postcolonial Biography
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson and The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud
The Return of Great Powers
Jim Sciutto
Current Events
Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick and New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger with Mary K. Brooks
Salvage
Dionne Brand
Literary Criticism
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Soldiers and Kings
Jason De León
Current Events
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe and Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
Splinters
Leslie Jamison
Uncoupling Memoir
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill and Liars by Sarah Manguso
Stolen Pride
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Politics
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond and An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country by David Finkel
The Swans of Harlem
Karen Valby
Dance History
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
There’s Always This Year
Hanif Abdurraqib
Basketball Memoir
Shooting Stars by LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger
Undivided
Hahrie Han
Religion
Circle of Hope: A Reckoning With Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church by Eliza Griswold
A Walk in the Park
Kevin Fedarko
Adventure Memoir
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
When the Clock Broke
John Ganz
American History
Reaganland: America’s Right Turn, 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein
The Wide Wide Sea
Hampton Sides
Biography
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann and The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World by Greg Grandin
A Wilder Shore
Camille Peri
Biography of a Marriage
The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshall and Alice James: A Biography by Jean Strouse
I'm on my way to 60 books this year and haven't read a single one of these. So many books, so little time. I'm surprised about a couple of omissions. Nexus feels like a hugely popular/important...
I'm on my way to 60 books this year and haven't read a single one of these. So many books, so little time. I'm surprised about a couple of omissions.
Nexus feels like a hugely popular/important philosophical/theory non-fiction book about technology and it's future in the 21st century that's arguably one of the most important books I've read this year, I'm surprised it wasn't on the list.
I keep hearing such amazing things about All Fours, that's one I should prioritize.
I've heard Book of Love was terrible and I will not read it Bright Sword was fantastic, contender for best book of the year in a weaker year but this year was REALLY strong The Familiar eh not...
I've heard Book of Love was terrible and I will not read it
Bright Sword was fantastic, contender for best book of the year in a weaker year but this year was REALLY strong
The Familiar eh not really interested after disliking Ninth House
What does it feel like? was....fine. Read it while waiting out a rainstorm in a bookshop. That kind of book.
The Women I have a physical copy of and I'm excited for but not read yet
haven't heard of a single other book on the list
and this is missing some REALLY good stuff like:
Daughters' War
Mercy of the Gods
Tainted Cup
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Floating Hotel [personal highlight, not making any headlines]
A few of these were already on my TBR list, but I added at least a dozen nonfiction books to my list! I appreciated that a lot of the nonfiction books had something to say about the experiences of...
A few of these were already on my TBR list, but I added at least a dozen nonfiction books to my list! I appreciated that a lot of the nonfiction books had something to say about the experiences of nonwhite or non-Christian people. (There's more I want to articulate, but it's late and the words aren't coming.) Thank you for sharing!
I appreciate the gifted link! I love year-in-review lists.
Going to add a few of these to my reading queue. All the Worst Humans, Challenger, The Hidden Globe, and Private Revolutions all sound really interesting to me (I’m a nonfiction buff).
I also read my share of nonfiction. I'm glad you found books to explore and I hope you talk about them on the what are you reading this week thread or otherwise on tildes
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Thank you, very useful!
I'm on my way to 60 books this year and haven't read a single one of these. So many books, so little time. I'm surprised about a couple of omissions.
Nexus feels like a hugely popular/important philosophical/theory non-fiction book about technology and it's future in the 21st century that's arguably one of the most important books I've read this year, I'm surprised it wasn't on the list.
I keep hearing such amazing things about All Fours, that's one I should prioritize.
haven't heard of a single other book on the list
and this is missing some REALLY good stuff like:
2024 has been an insanely good year in spec fic
A few of these were already on my TBR list, but I added at least a dozen nonfiction books to my list! I appreciated that a lot of the nonfiction books had something to say about the experiences of nonwhite or non-Christian people. (There's more I want to articulate, but it's late and the words aren't coming.) Thank you for sharing!