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 Best Categorically (books that…):
Shocked me:
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
None of This is True by Lisa Jewell
The Night House by Jo Nesbø
Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra
Made me Cry:
North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Bee Sting by Paul ...
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 Best Categorically (books that…):
Shocked me:
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
None of This is True by Lisa Jewell
The Night House by Jo Nesbø
Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra
Made me Cry:
North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Underrated:
God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer by Joseph Earl Thomas
Witness by Jamel Brinkley
Victim by Andrew Boryga
Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
Recommend Widely:
Erasure by Percival Everett
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Hard to Recommend:
Yr Dead by Sam Sax
Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
Made me Think About my Life Differently:
When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Books Highlighted by Guests:
Mawuli Grant Agbefe:
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel and Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer
Having and Being Had by Eula Bliss
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Tale of AI, a Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy by Kashmir Hill
Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss by Kim Hong Nguyen
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson
Mapping the Stars: Celebrity, Metonymy and the Networked Politics of Identity by Claire Sisco King
Sam Wilmes:
Such Kindness by Andre Dubus III
We Spread by Iain Read
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro
Amie Medley:
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
Tanima Kazi:
The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig
Home is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose
The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
Stacy Jezerowski:
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
Beautiful Villain by Rebecca Kenney
Sarah Sabet:
Klara & The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Men Have Called Her Crazy by Anna Marie Tendler
The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Anna Deem:
The Nix by Nathan Hill
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna
Cat Shieh:
Give Me Space But Don’t Go Far: My Unlikely Friendship with Anxiety by Haley Weaver
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee
Mo Smith:
The Truth About Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell
The Lightning Bottles by Marissa Stapley
The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop
All The Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
Is She Really Going Out With Him? by Sophie Cousens
Leah @Dishingonbooks:
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
Grief is For People by Sloane Crosley
Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán
James by Percival Everett
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Emily McClanathan:
Babel by R.F. Kuang
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson
Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia Levings
