The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Ministry for the Future

Douglas Weissman ❤️ loved this book because...

It takes a look at the complexities of a globally connect world through government and trade, while breaking down the elements of climate change that are impacting daily life but keeping governments around the world form changing their practices. It was nuanced, digestible in small bites, and completely immersive.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Kim Stanley Robinson,

Why should I read it?

25 authors picked The Ministry for the Future as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR

“The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem
 
"If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein (Vox)

The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Pomegranate Gate

Douglas Weissman ❤️ loved this book because...

It was one of the rare books I've found that created full fantasy based of Jewish myths and legends, rather than stop at magical realism. It was incredibly immersive in its world-building with established characters and a great sense of wonder that permeated every page, with a pace that kept pushing both in the "real" world and in the magical one.

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    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Ariel Kaplan,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked The Pomegranate Gate as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The first adventure in the Mirror Realm Cycle, a Spanish Inquisition-era fantasy trilogy inspired by Jewish folklore, with echoes of Naomi Novik and Katherine Arden.

Toba Peres can speak, but not shout; sleep, but not dream. She can write with both hands at once, in different languages, but she keeps her talents hidden at her grandparents' behest.

Naftaly Cresques sees things that aren't real, and dreams things that are. Always the family disappointment, Naftaly would still risk his life to honor his father's last wishes.

After the Queen demands every Jew convert or face banishment, Toba and Naftaly are among…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Great Transition

Douglas Weissman ❤️ loved this book because...

This was another book about climate change but also about living life in a world that is changing and has changed. It feels split between those who want to live their life and are happy to live their life and those who don't feel living is good enough—they must take action instead. But it also shows that solving one problem doesn't mean you're solving every problem—demonstrated through the lens of a broken family and the length the father and daughter will go to find their missing piece.

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

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Nick Fuller Googins,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

For fans of Station Eleven and The Last Thing He Told Me, this richly imaginative, immersive, and "profound" (Alice Elliott Dark, author of Fellowship Point) novel is the electrifying story of a family in crisis that unfolds against the backdrop of our near future.

Emi Vargas, whose parents helped save the world, is tired of being told how lucky she is to have been born after the climate crisis. But following the public assassination of a dozen climate criminals, Emi's mother, Kristina, disappears as a possible suspect, and Emi's illusions of utopia are shattered. A determined Emi and her father,…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Girl in the Ashes

By Douglas Weissman,

Book cover of Girl in the Ashes

What is my book about?

France has fallen to the Nazis and as people flee, Odette Lefebvre uses the chaos to kill men she finds deserving. After succumbing to the sinister charms of the new German doctor running the hospital, Odette must keep her head down to avoid unwanted attention or risk exposing her murderous secret and endangering those she loves. But the secrets of those close to her could unknowingly mean her death.