The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Shark Heart

By Emily Habeck,

Book cover of Shark Heart: A Love Story

Maggie Downs ❤️ loved this book because...

When a friend said Shark Heart was one of the most profound reading experiences of her life, I almost didn't believe her. After all, the absurd premise is that a woman's husband turns into a shark. How profound could it be?

Well, buckle up. Because this is a story about loving and losing someone as they change, whether that's because of disease, addiction, or in this instance, a rare marine mutation, and it resonated with me on many levels.

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    🥇 Originality 🥈 Emotions

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    ❤️ Loved it

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    🐕 Steady
Shark Heart

By Emily Habeck,

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

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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

The Mango Tree

By Annabelle Tometich,

Book cover of The Mango Tree

Maggie Downs ❤️ loved this book because...

It's rare to read a memoir that delves into complicated family dynamics where each character is rendered with such dignity and grace. "The Mango Tree” is both humorous and heartrending, capturing the layered realities faced by multiracial families. I really didn't want this story to end.

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    🥇 Writing 🥈 Emotions

  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it

  • Pace

    🐕 Steady
The Mango Tree

By Annabelle Tometich,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

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This “witty, humorous, and heartfelt“ (Cinelle Barnes) memoir navigates the tangled branches of Annabelle Tometich’s life, from growing up in Florida as the child of a Filipino mother and a deceased white father to her adult life as a med-school-reject-turned-food-critic.

When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June morning, she isn’t expecting a collect call from an inmate at the Lee County Jail. And when she accepts, she certainly isn’t prepared to hear her mother’s voice on the other end of the line. However, explaining the situation to her younger…

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My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Bury Your Gays

By Chuck Tingle,

Book cover of Bury Your Gays

Maggie Downs ❤️ loved this book because...

I don’t usually read horror, but I knew of Chuck Tingle from his, uh, unique brand of niche erotica, so curiosity got the best of me. "Bury Your Gays" turned out to be a surprisingly heartfelt, hilariously subversive dive into the horror genre, weaving together humor, sharp social insight, and real emotional depth. Tingle masterfully balances suspense with empathy, creating a story that not only celebrates queer resilience but also skewers outdated tropes with wit and charm.

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    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Originality

  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it

  • Pace

    🐇 Fast
Bury Your Gays

By Chuck Tingle,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Bury Your Gays as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding story about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead.

Misha is a jaded scriptwriter who has been working in Hollywood for decades, and has just been nominated for his first Oscar. But when he's pressured by his producers to kill off a gay character in the upcoming season finale-"for the algorithm"-Misha discovers that it's not that simple.

As he is haunted by his past, and past mistakes, Misha must risk everything to find a way to do what's right-before it's…

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Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Braver Than You Think

By Maggie Downs,

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Newly married and established in her career as an award–winning newspaper journalist, Maggie Downs quits her job, sells her belongings, and embarks on the solo trip of a lifetime: Her mother’s.

As a child, Maggie Downs often doubted that she would ever possess the courage to visit the destinations her mother dreamed of one day seeing. “You are braver than you think,” her mother always insisted. That statement would guide her as, over the course of one year, Downs backpacked through seventeen countries―visiting all the places her mother, struck with early–onset Alzheimer’s disease, could not visit herself―encountering some of the world’s most striking locales while confronting the slow loss of her mother. Interweaving travelogue with family memories, Braver Than You Think takes the reader hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, white–water rafting on the Nile, volunteering at a monkey sanctuary in Bolivia, praying at an ashram in India, and fleeing the Arab Spring in Egypt.

By embarking on an international journey, Downs learned to make every moment count―traveling around the globe and home again, losing a parent while discovering the world. Perfect for fans of adventure memoirs like Wild and Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube, Braver Than You Think explores grief and loss with tenderness, clarity, and humor, and offers a truly incredible roadmap to coping with the unimaginable.

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