The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Little

Gretchen McCullough ❤️ loved this book because...

I loved the quirky characters in this novel, set during the I French Revolution. I loved the black humor in the novel.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Edward Carey,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2020

LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019

LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2019

LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA CROWN AWARDS 2019

A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year, Little tells the extraordinary story of a singular, diminutive crumb of a servant girl turned entertainment mogul.

'A startlingly original novel' Times

Born in Alsace in 1761, the unsightly, diminutive Marie Grosholtz is quickly nicknamed 'Little'. Orphaned at the age of six, she finds employmet in Bern, Switzerland, under the charge of…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Lacuna

Gretchen McCullough ❤️ loved this book because...

: I loved the vivid characterizations of real historical characters: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Leo Trotsky. I also loved how she interspersed diaries and documents throughout the story.

: This is a wonderful read for anyone interested in Mexican artists in the thirties. Great descriptions of Mexico. Well-researched and insightful about the paranoia during the Red Scare of the fifties.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Barbara Kingsolver,

Why should I read it?

4 authors picked The Lacuna as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

**DEMON COPPERHEAD: THE NEW BARBARA KINGSOLVER NOVEL IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2010

THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER

'Lush.' Sunday Times
'Superb.' Daily Mail
'Elegantly written.' Sunday Telegraph

From Pulitzer Prize nominee and award winning author of Homeland, The Poisonwood Bible and Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s America in the shadow of Senator McCarthy.

Born in America and raised in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salome. When he starts…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Little Red Chairs

Gretchen McCullough 👍 liked this book because...

I am interested in how characters can recreate themselves in another environment. Because he is outside of his own turf and the Irish villagers do not know his background, Dr. Dragan becomes the embodiment of their fantasies.

  • Loved Most

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

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Edna O'Brien,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

A fiercely beautiful novel about one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal from the 2018 winner of the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.

One night, in the dead of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives in the small Irish town of Cloonoila. Broodingly handsome, worldly, and charismatic, Dr. Vladimir Dragan is a poet, a self-proclaimed holistic healer, and a welcome disruption to the monotony of village life. Before long, the beautiful black-haired Fidelma McBride falls under his spell and, defying the shackles of wedlock and convention, turns to him to cure her of her deepest pains.…


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Shahrazad's Gift

By Gretchen McCullough,

Book cover of Shahrazad's Gift

What is my book about?

Shahrazad’s Gift is a collection of linked short stories set in contemporary Cairo—magical, absurd and humorous. The author focuses on the off-beat, little-known stories, far from CNN news: a Swedish belly dancer who taps into the Oriental fantasies of her clientele; a Japanese woman studying Arabic, driven mad by the noise and chaos of the city; a frustrated Egyptian housewife who becomes obsessed by the activities of her Western gay neighbor; an American journalist who covered the civil war in Beirut who finds friendship with her Egyptian dentist. We also meet the two protagonists of McCullough's Confessions of a Knight Errant, before their escapades in that story. These stories are told in the tradition of A Thousand and One Nights.

Book cover of Little
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Book cover of The Little Red Chairs

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