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
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
