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 Prophet Song

Tony Fry ❤️ loved this book because...

Captured the political nature of the times

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Thoughts 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Paul Lynch,

Why should I read it?

12 authors picked Prophet Song as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 • NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"A prophetic masterpiece." — Ron Charles, Washington Post

On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.

Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new, unraveling country. How far will she…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald

Tony Fry ❤️ loved this book because...

While imperfect its a must read if you like Sebald

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Story/Plot 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Carole Angier,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

'The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands
'Spectacular' Observer
'A remarkable portrait' Guardian

W. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century. Through books including The Emigrants, Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, he pursued an original literary vision that combined fiction, history, autobiography and photography and addressed some of the most profound themes of contemporary literature: the burden of the Holocaust, memory, loss and exile.

The first biography to explore his life and work, Speak, Silence pursues the…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Ideas to Postpone the End of the World

Tony Fry ❤️ loved this book because...

Krenak is an Indigenous Amazonian Indian writer and activist,.
whose people face the end of the world. In this short powerful book
he makes clear that imagination is a key force of survival.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Thoughts 🥈 Teach
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Ailton Krenak, Anthony Doyle (translator),

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked Ideas to Postpone the End of the World as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

"Ailton Krenak's ideas inspire, washing over you with every truth-telling sentence. Read this book." - Tanya Talaga, bestselling author of Seven Fallen Feathers

Indigenous peoples have faced the end of the world before. Now, humankind is on a collective march towards the abyss. Global pandemics, extreme weather, and massive wildfires define this era many now call the Anthropocene.

From Brazil comes Ailton Krenak, renowned Indigenous activist and leader, who demonstrates that our current environmental crisis is rooted in society's flawed concept of "humanity" - that human beings are superior to other forms of nature and are justified in exploiting it…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Evil, Madness, and Truth: Gerda'S Story

By Tony Fry,

Book cover of Evil, Madness, and Truth: Gerda'S Story

What is my book about?

A hybrid novel based on the fictional life and fears of the daughter of an actual WW2 concentration camp convicted war criminal and hung aged 21.

Book cover of Prophet Song
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Book cover of Ideas to Postpone the End of the World

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