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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