The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Fire Exit

Anne Elizabeth Moore ❤️ loved this book because...

Morgan Talty cracks open life on Maine's Penobscot Reservation to create a rich narrative infused with doubt, rage, frustration, sorrow, and occasional moments of deep joy. His consideration of gender and race and history and ephemerality are all thoughtful and original, and his wit is sharp. I felt honored to read this brilliant novel.

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    ❤️ Loved it
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    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Morgan Talty,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Fire Exit as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Finalist for the 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

“Remarkable.”―NPR

“Spellbinding”―TIME, A Best Book of Summer

“Utterly consuming. . . . Fire Exit absolutely smolders.”―Tommy Orange

From the award-winning author of Night of the Living Rez, comes a masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture and inheritance, and what, if anything, we owe one another.

From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine’s Penobscot Reservation. He caught brief moments of his neighbor Elizabeth’s life―from the day she came home from the hospital to…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Dr. No

Anne Elizabeth Moore ❤️ loved this book because...

Odd and disjointed, the narrative of Everett's Dr. No is unlike anything I've ever experienced before, but this style is remarkably informed by the characters themselves, who have crafted an odd and disjointed world in which they are perfectly comfortable. Everett's insights are alarming, correct, and laugh-out-loud hilarious. I'm not sure I've ever been so in awe of the way a story came together.

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    🥇 Writing 🥈 Immersion
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    ❤️ Loved it
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    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Percival Everett,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked Dr. No as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

WINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD

A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising

The protagonist of Percival Everett’s puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means “nothing” in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for “nothing.”) He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it. This makes him the perfect partner for the aspiring villain John Sill, who wants to break…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Big Swiss

Anne Elizabeth Moore ❤️ loved this book because...

Hilarious, engaging, weird, and the most fun I had all year reading, Big Swiss quickly became the actual talk of my actual town as everyone who liked to read passed it along to their friend. There's nothing specific to say to recommend this book except for that it deserves to be experienced, and as a writer I will steadfastly refuse to go back and read it to mine all its tricks, because I enjoyed the experience of reading too much to sully it with an investigation of craft.

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    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Writing
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    ❤️ Loved it
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    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Jen Beagin,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

** SOON TO BE A MAJOR HBO SERIES STARRING JODIE COMER **

'Made me laugh and think too much (the right amount?) about sex and death and honesty.' MONICA HEISEY
'Utterly addictive. . . I laughed so hard it ached.' GILLIAN ANDERSON
'Juicy, salacious and compelling. Trauma shouldn't be this fun.' SARA PASCOE

Greta liked knowing people's secrets. That wasn't a problem. Until she met Big Swiss.

Big Swiss. That's Greta's nickname for her - she is tall, and she is from Switzerland. Greta can see her now: dressed top to toe in white, that adorable gap between her two…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes

By Anne Elizabeth Moore,

Book cover of Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes

What is my book about?

Whether for entertainment, under the guise of medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous acts are perpetrated daily on women’s bodies. In Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, award-winning journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy. Weaving together unflinching research and surprising humor, these essays range from investigative—probing the Cambodian garment industry, the history of menstrual products, or the gender biases of patent law—to uncomfortably intimate. Informed by her own navigation of several autoimmune diagnoses, Moore examines what it takes to seek care and community in the increasingly complicated, problematic, and disinterested US healthcare system.

A Lambda Literary Award finalist and a Chicago Review of Books Nonfiction Award shortlist title, Body Horror is “sharp, shocking, and darkly funny. . . . Brainy and historically informed, this collection is less a rallying cry or a bitter diatribe than a series of irreverent and ruthlessly accurate jabs at a culture that is slowly devouring us” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Featuring a new introduction and several original essays, as well as illustrations by Xander Marro, this new edition of Body Horror is a fascinating, insightful portrait of the gore that encapsulates contemporary American politics.