The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Breakable Things

By Cassandra Khaw,

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C. S. E. Cooney ❤️ loved this book because...

This collection of short stories spans Khaw's early career. You can see them learning how to a write a short story. The early work is mostly "vibes," dark and romantic and melancholy and rageful. The later work is fully realized, ambitious, nuanced. It's all worth reading. All of it. Khaw's language is deeply interesting. It's visceral. It feels everything. It's also horror, so... CW for guts.

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    ❤️ Loved it

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    🐕 Good, steady pace
Breakable Things

By Cassandra Khaw,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

Cassandra Khaw's dynamic and vibrant debut collection, Breakable Things, explores the fragile and nebulous bonds that weave love and grief into our existence. This exquisite and cutting collection of stories showcases a bloody fusion of horrors from cosmic to psychological to body traumas.
“Khaw (Nothing but Blackened Teeth) packs a gruesome punch with the 23 bite-size horror stories ... the distinctive authorial voice and uncanny atmospherics will surely find some fans.” Publishers Weekly

“A delicious bowl of razor blades. With coiled prose and whetted instinct, Khaw’s stories put a finger on the dark pulse of being human.” Rich Larson, author…

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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

The Siege of Burning Grass

By Premee Mohamed,

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C. S. E. Cooney ❤️ loved this book because...

This is an incredible secondary-world fantasy, set in a war-torn world that features a pacifist protagonist who looks like a hulking brute of a monster, but who has a gentle heart. Premee Mohamed's writing is pristine; her worldbuilding is gorgeous; the book was profoundly beautiful. I felt full of philosophical thoughts and difficult conversations by the end, and was never not entertained throughout.

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    ❤️ Loved it

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    🐕 Good, steady pace
The Siege of Burning Grass

By Premee Mohamed,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

The Empires of Varkal and Med'ariz have always been at war.

Alefret, the founder of Varkal's pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a 'visionary' scientist. But now they're offering him a chance of freedom.

Ordered to infiltrate one of Med'ariz's flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy's population and provoke them into an uprising against their rulers.

He should refuse to serve the warmongers, but what if he could end this pointless war once and for all? Is…

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My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

By Heather Fawcett,

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C. S. E. Cooney ❤️ loved this book because...

What a romp! I listened to this one as an audiobook, then read the next one in the series on the page, because I couldn't devour it fast enough. Fans of Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series, and Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver will adore this. It alternate-history earth, with deep fairy folklore, engaging characters, laugh-out-loud moments, and true feelings of danger.

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    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Writing

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    ❤️ Loved it

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    🐇 I couldn't put it down
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

By Heather Fawcett,

Why should I read it?

11 authors picked Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love in the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series.

“A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic.”—Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is…

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Saint Death's Daughter: Volume 1

By Claire Suzanne Elizabeth Cooney,

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What is my book about?

WINNER OF THE 2023 WORLD FANTASY AWAY FOR BEST NOVEL

Nothing complicates life like Death.

Lanie Stones, the daughter of crown-appointed killers, was born with a gift for necromancy—and a literal allergy to violence. For her own safety, she was raised in isolation in a crumbling mansion by the family’s mouldering revenant.

When Lanie’s parents are murdered, she and her psychotic sister Nita must settle their extensive debts or lose their ancestral home. When Liriat’s ruler, too, is murdered, it throws the whole nation’s future into doubt.

Hunted by Liriat’s enemies, terrorised by family ghosts and tortured by a forbidden love for a childhood friend, Lanie will need more than luck to get through the next few months—but when the goddess of Death is on your side, anything is possible.