The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

The Girl with the Louding Voice

By Abi Daré,

Book cover of The Girl with the Louding Voice

Gayle Forman ❤️ loved this book because...

I listened to this one on audio--and a book like this was made for audio. Adjoa Andoh (of Bridgerton fame) narrates and her storytelling made this one of the most compelling immersive stories I've listened to or read in a long time.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Writing

  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it

  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down
The Girl with the Louding Voice

By Abi Daré,

Why should I read it?

7 authors picked The Girl with the Louding Voice as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The most uplifting debut of 2020

'Unforgettable' New York Times 'Impressive' Observer 'Remarkable' Independent 'Important' Guardian 'Captivating' Mirror 'Luminous' Daily Mail 'Sparkling' Harper's Bazaar 'Beautiful' Herald

THE NEW YORK TIMES AND TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE FOR FICTION
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I don't just want to be having any kind voice . . .
I want a louding voice.

At fourteen, Adunni dreams of getting an education and giving her family a more comfortable home in her small Nigerian village. Instead, Adunni's father sells her off to become the third wife of an old man. When tragedy…

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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

The Anxious Generation

By Jonathan Haidt,

Book cover of The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Gayle Forman ❤️ loved this book because...

As a parent, it's been pretty easy to see the pernicious impact of social media on children. But this incredible book gave me such context not just on how tech has changed childhood, but how mammals have evolved in ways that makes us humans so susceptible to social media. It sent me down a rabbit hole reading everything else Jonathan Haidt has written.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Teach 🥈 Thoughts

  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it

  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down
The Anxious Generation

By Jonathan Haidt,

Why should I read it?

5 authors picked The Anxious Generation as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

An urgent and insightful investigation into the collapse in youth mental health, from the influential social psychologist and international bestselling author

Jonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking truth and wisdom in some of the most difficult spaces - communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the mental health emergency hitting teenagers today in many countries around the world.

In The Anxious Generation, Haidt shows how, between 2010 and 2015, childhood and adolescence got rewired. As teens traded in their flip phones for smartphones packed with social media apps, time online soared, including time spent…

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My 3rd favorite read in 2024

On a Wing and a Tear

By Cynthia Leitich Smith,

Book cover of On a Wing and a Tear

Gayle Forman ❤️ loved this book because...

This was my favorite children's book of the year, a road trip story about an Indigenous family from Chicago traveling to Georgia with a talking bat and squirrel who need to attend a mythic ballgame between the animals. It was hilarious and original and a glimpse into Muksogee and Cherokee and other first nations in modern times. I absolutely loved it!

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Immersion

  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it

  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down
On a Wing and a Tear

By Cynthia Leitich Smith,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked On a Wing and a Tear as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 8, 9, 10, and 11.

What is this book about?

A living legend roosting in the backyard. An unmissable game. A hair-raising mystery. A road trip full of adventure and danger. And all the overlapping circles that connect us throughout Creation.

Melanie “Mel” Roberts and Ray Halfmoon may be from different Indigenous Nations, but the friends have become like siblings since the Robertses moved in with the Halfmoons. And they soon welcome a distinguished guest: Great-grandfather Bat, whose wing is injured, has taken refuge in their old oak tree.

A rematch of the legendary Great Ball Game is coming up, with Bat as the star player. Grampa Charlie Halfmoon offers…

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Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Not Nothing

By Gayle Forman,

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What is my book about?

Alex is twelve, and he did something very, very bad. A judge sentences him to spend his summer volunteering at a retirement home where he’s bossed around by an annoying and self-important do-gooder named Maya-Jade. He hasn’t seen his mom in a year, his aunt and uncle don’t want him, and Shady Glen’s geriatric residents seem like zombies to him.

Josey is 107 and ready for his life to be over. He has evaded death many times, having survived ghettos, dragnets, and a concentration camp—all thanks to the heroism of a woman named Olka and his own ability to sew. But now he spends his days in room 206 at Shady Glen, refusing to speak and waiting (and waiting and waiting) to die. Until Alex knocks on Josey’s door…and Josey begins to tell Alex his story.

As Alex comes back again and again to hear more, an unlikely bond grows between them. Soon a new possibility opens up for Alex: Can he rise to the occasion of his life, even if it means confronting the worst thing that he’s ever done?

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