The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Message

Lena Derhally ❤️ loved this book because...

I believe Ta-nehisi Coates is the best writer of our time. This book is brave, inspiring, emotional, educational, and delivers the most important moral message of our time.

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    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Ta-Nehisi Coates,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities.

“Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose. . . . These pilgrimages, for him, help ground his powerful writing about race.”—Associated Press

“Coates exhorts readers, including students, parents, educators, and journalists, to challenge conventional narratives that can be used to justify ethnic cleansing or camouflage racist policing. Brilliant and timely.”—Booklist (starred review)

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Forest of Noise

Lena Derhally ❤️ loved this book because...

Heartwrenching, inspiring, thought provoking poetry from Gaza. I don't often read poetry books, but this was a must for me. The prose is haunting, depressing, yet beautiful all at once.

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    ❤️ Loved it
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    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Mosab Abu Toha,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

"A powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet.

Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed and destroyed his house, pulverizing a library he had painstakingly built for community use, he and his family fled for their safety. Not for the first time in their lives.

Somehow, amid the chaos, Abu Toha kept writing poems. These are those poems. Uncannily clear, direct, and beautifully tuned, they form one of the most astonishing…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of My Brother, My Land

Lena Derhally ❤️ loved this book because...

A beautiful, true story of Palestinian resistance, struggle, and heartbreak, this book is not only informative and educational but incredibly thought provoking.

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    🥇 Thoughts 🥈 Emotions
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    ❤️ Loved it
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    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Sami Hermez, Sireen Sawalha,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked My Brother, My Land as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A riveting and unapologetic account of Palestinian resistance, the story of one family's care for their land, and a reflection on love and heartache while living under military occupation.

In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Palestinian village of Kufr Ra'i. From Sireen's early life growing up in the shadow of the '67 War and her family's work as farmers caring for their land, to the involvement of her…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

The Facebook Narcissist: How to Identify and Protect Yourself and Your Loved Ones from Social Media Narcissism

By Lena Derhally,

Book cover of The Facebook Narcissist: How to Identify and Protect Yourself and Your Loved Ones from Social Media Narcissism

What is my book about?

The Facebook Narcissist is the first book dedicated to exploring the relationship between narcissism and social media. Lena Derhally, a licensed psychotherapist certified in Imago therapy, delves into how social media enhances individual and cultural narcissism and how it may create or exacerbate toxic narcissistic tendencies in people who use it. Using her clinical expertise, along with scientific research and interviews with other experts in the field, she thoroughly examines: how narcissism on social media contributes to false narratives and ruptures relationships; how to identify a narcissist on social media (including how to spot the more subtle sub-types of narcissist, such as the covert, communal, and collective narcissist); how narcissism relates to the “influencer” and celebrity culture; narcissism and cyberbullying, cyberstalking, trolling, and victim blaming on social media; narcissism related to racism and politics on social media; the ways social media can create a problem of narcissism in children as they grow up, the implications of "sharenting"; and more. Readers will discover case studies and real examples of narcissists and how they present on social media.

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