The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Repeat Room

❤️ loved this book because...

Though it was at times disturbing and grotesque, this really challenged me and was so original that I find myself thinking about this book weeks later, and a line from it has become my quote of the year: They think that because they haven't thought about it.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Thoughts 🥈 Outlook
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐌 It was slow at times

By Jesse Ball ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Repeat Room as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America’s most brilliant and distinctive writers

In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of this system is the repeat room, where a single juror, selected from hundreds of candidates, is able to inhabit the defendant’s lived experience, to see as if through their eyes.

The case to which Abel is assigned is revealed in the novel’s shocking second act. We receive a record of a boy's broken and constrained life, a tale…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Piglet

❤️ loved this book because...

Piglet is a great manifestation of female rage that is bottled up one way and reveals itself another. I loved her and wanted to be friend!

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Story/Plot
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Lottie Hazell ,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked Piglet as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Discover a deliciously dark and piercing story of food and secrets, a Stylist Best Debut Novel of 2024.

'A sharp, dark, must-read story about appetite, ambition, secrecy and shame' Daily Mail

'If I owned a bookstore, I'd hand-sell Piglet to everyone' New York Times Book Review

'A dark, weird, satisfying tale about greed and desire' i News

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Her life is so full, so why is she hungry?

For Piglet - an unshakable childhood nickname - getting married is her opportunity to reinvent. Together, Kit and Piglet are the picture of domestic bliss - effortless hosts, planning a covetable wedding...…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Sister Golden Calf

❤️ loved this book because...

The prose for this was absolutely phenomenal, like poetry or a dream. A beautiful, strange little story about sisterhood and grief and beauty and finding yourself on a road trip.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Colleen Burner ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Sister Golden Calf as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

"In shiveringly beautiful prose, Colleen Burner maps a wild voyage into grief, love, and radical forms of kinship. Their novel unstitches the fixed seams of self and stranger, inviting us to touch the peculiar, precise commotions that link one creature to another. A truly extraordinary book."
—Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks

"Sister Golden Calf is my favorite kind of novel: compact and meditative, delightfully strange, elegiac but awash in warm light and the promise of ineffable treasure in each sentence. Amid the variegated desert landscape and seductive kismet of the open road, the sisters face questions of longing and…


Book cover of The Repeat Room
Book cover of Piglet
Book cover of Sister Golden Calf

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