The best books of 2024

This list is part of the best books of 2024.

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Three-Body Problem

Robert Pettus ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Thoughts 🥈 Teach
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (translator),

Why should I read it?

15 authors picked The Three-Body Problem as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon - soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.

1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind.

Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Tender Is the Flesh

Robert Pettus ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Thoughts 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Agustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses (translator),

Why should I read it?

6 authors picked Tender Is the Flesh as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

It all happened so quickly. First, animals became infected with the virus and their meat became poisonous. Then governments initiated the Transition. Now, 'special meat' - human meat - is legal.

Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans - only no one calls them that. He works with numbers, consignments, processing. One day, he's given a gift to seal a deal: a specimen of the finest quality. He leaves her in his barn, tied up, a problem to be disposed of later.

But she haunts Marcos. Her trembling body, and watchful gaze, seem to understand. And soon, he becomes…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Horns

Robert Pettus ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Thoughts 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Joe Hill,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

Now a major Hollywood film starring Daniel Radcliffe: read it first, if you dare ...

Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with one hell of a hangover, a raging headache ... and a pair of horns growing from his temples.

Once, Ig lived the life of the blessed: born into privilege, the second son of a renowned American musician, and the younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, Ig had security and wealth and a place in his community. Ig had it all, and more - he had the…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Abry.

By Robert Pettus,

Book cover of Abry.

What is my book about?

Life in Abry is just about as normal as it can get. Church, school, football games-those things make up the pillars of the community. ¿But not everyone fits in, and that includes teenager Edward Marsh, who doesn't WANT to fit in. Edward just wants to be himself, and if that means hanging out in a graveyard with his friends or pulling a prank on the uptight football coach, the town can deal with it. This tale of small-town life set at the turn of the century will have you yearning for a simpler time. And it will make you realize that simpler times were never really all that simple.