Monday Jan 06, 2025

Episode 35 - Best of 2024 Part 2

On this episode, past guests of Books with Betsy and I share our favorite books of 2024! Listen to hear about lots of great 2024 books and the excellent backlist we got to this year. 

 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

Betsy’s Top 11 Books (in no particular order): 

Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe 

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due 

Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad 

Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe 

My Friends by Hisham Matar 

Punk Rock Karaoke by Biana Xunise 

Headshot by Rita Bullwinkle 

Shred Sisters by Betsy Lerner 

We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer 

Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 

James by Percival Everett 

 

Books Highlighted by Guests:

Sam Luchsinger

The Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig

Wellness by Nathan Hill 

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice

Francesca Musumeci 

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace 

One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon 

Nestlings by Nat Cassidy

Cynthia Okechukwu

Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan 

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler 

Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe 

Rachel Kilthorne

The Expanse Series by James S.A. Corey

There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

Anyone’s Ghost by August Thompson

The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors by Erika Howsare

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Annette LaPlaca

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living by Alan Noble

Slough House by Mick Herron 

Mind’s Eye by Hakan Nesser

The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall

Allison Yates

Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer

Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date by Ashley Herring Blake

The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell

The Color Purple by Alice Walker 

Jenn Moland-Kovash

Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck

Take What You Need by Idra Novey

The Husbands by Holly Gramazio 

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect by Will Guidara 

Just For the Summer by Abby Jimenez

Mike Finucane

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders 

The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Come, Have Breakfast: Meditations on God and the Earth by Elizabeth Johnson 

Couldn’t Keep it to Myself: Testimonies from our Imprisoned Sisters ed. Wally Lamb

Carolyn Latshaw

The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric

That Time I got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf by Kimberly Lemming

All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy 

Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales by Nathan Hale

Monika Janas

Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs

Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 

When Among Crows by Veronica Roth

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Elantris by Brandon Sanderson 

Tim Mueller

The Thirteen Ways we Turned Darryl Datson into a Monster by Kurt Fawver

Helliconia Spring by Brian Wilson Aldiss 

The Room by Hubert Selby 

The Terror by Dan Simmons

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 

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