The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Gates of Eden

Mike Russell ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Ethan Coen,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

“A distinctive voice and an offbeat worldview...All of these stories take place in Coen Brothers Land, a parallel universe similar to our own--except it’s weirder, funnier, and better edited." — New York Times Book Review

The fiction debut of one of the most distinctive filmmakers working today, Ethan Coen.

In Gates of Eden, Ethan Coen exhibits on the printed page the striking, twisted, yet devastatingly on-target vision of modern American life familiar from his movies. The world within the world we live in comes alive in fourteen brazenly original tragicomic short stories—from the Midwest mob war that fizzles due to…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Man in the High Castle

Mike Russell ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Story/Plot 🥈 Originality
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Philip K. Dick,

Why should I read it?

7 authors picked The Man in the High Castle as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

'Dick's best work, and the most memorable alternative world tale...ever written' SCIENCE FICTION: THE 100 BEST NOVELS

It is 1962 and the Second World War has been over for seventeen years: people have now had a chance to adjust to the new order. But it's not been easy. The Mediterranean has been drained to make farmland, the population of Africa has virtually been wiped out and America has been divided between the Nazis and the Japanese. In the neutral buffer zone that divides the two superpowers lives the man in the high castle, the author of an underground bestseller, a…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Hearing Trumpet

Mike Russell ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Thoughts
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Leonora Carrington,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel.

Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the earth’s rebirth. In between we are swept off to a most curious old-age home run by a self-improvement cult and drawn several…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Nothing Is Strange

By Mike Russell,

Book cover of Nothing Is Strange

What is my book about?

20 mind-expanding short stories. Inspiring, liberating, otherworldly, magical, surreal, bizarre, funny, disturbing, unique… all of these words have been used to describe the stories of Mike Russell so put on your top hat, open your third eye and enjoy… Nothing Is Strange!

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