Welcome to the annual Community Library Reading Awards! A completely subjective and biased awards ceremony in which all the prizes go to the books I read and liked best in 2024.

The Awards:

• Biggest Surprise


• Biggest Accomplishment


• Most Thought-Provoking


• Favourite Cover


• Favourite Speculative Fiction


• Favourite Translated Fiction


• Favourite Mystery / Thriller


• Favourite Nonfiction


• Favourite 2024 Release

The Books:

Essays in Love by Alain de Botton, 1993

Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy, 1976

Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, 2023

Siblings by Brigitte Reimann, 1963, translated by Lucy Renner Jones

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, 1995, translated by Ros Schwartz

The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende, 1982, translated by Magda Bogin

The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, 1987, translated by Hong-Li Wong

West of Eden by Jean Stein, 2017

Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino, 2024

@angourierice / @the_community_library / our book!

Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning