When we say Best of the Year we mean the WHOLE damn year (we need all the time we can get to read all the books from all the other lists!) so here it is, in mid-January, our Best of 2024 roundup. We’re joined by a very special guest, our friend and fellow bookclub member, Addison Kirst, owner of des pair books in Echo Park, Los Angeles.
Books and Authors mentioned in this Episode:
Sally Rooney - Intermezzo
Percival Everett - James
Miranda July - All Fours
Richard Flanagan - Question 7
Yael vanderwooten - The Safe Keep
Trisha Romano - The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture
Dolly Atherton - Good Material
Claire Dederer - Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma
Robert Plunket - Love junkie
Louis Ferdinand Celine - War
Elizabeth Beller - Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
Kaveh Akbar - Martyr!
Rachel Kushner - Creation Lake
Garth Greenwell - Small rain
Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
William Faulkner
Louis Ferdinand Celine - Journey to the End of the Night
H.G. Wells
Rebecca West
Anton Chekhov
Richard Flanagan - Death of a River Guide
Rick Rubin - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Cookie Mueller - Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
Sofia Coppola - Archive
Simone de Beauvoir - The Woman Destroyed
Otessa Moshfegh - Homesick For Another World
James Baldwin - Giovanni’s Room
Eve Babitz - Sex and Rage
Sarah J Maas - A Court of Thorns and Roses
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Salman Rushdie - Knife -
Elif Shafak - There are Rivers in the Sky
Liz Moore - God of the Woods
Martin MacInnes - In Ascension
Charles Burns - Final Cut
Danzy Senna - Color Television
Tony Tulathimutte - Rejection
Jordan Harper - Last King of California
Hanif Abdurraqib - There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Stefan Zweig - Beware of Pity
Magda Szabo
Stacy Horn - Killing fields of East New York
Nicholas Carr - Superbloom
Karen Russell - The Antidote
Sarah Silgar - Vantage Point
Ali Smith - Gliff
Emma pattee - Tilt
Han Kang - We Do Not Part
Florence Knapp - The Names
Joyce Carol Oates - Fox / Butcher
Rebecca Yarros - Onyx Storm
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie- Dream Count
S A Cosby - King of Ashes
Jon Savage - The Secret Public
Samantha Harvey - Orbital
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