Bethany’s 2024 Book List

  1. Anya Kamenetz, The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children’s Lives, and Where We Go Now
  2. Elliot Ackerman, Halcyon
  3. Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
  4. Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
  5. T.J. Kline, The House in the Cerulean Sea
  6. Blake Crouch, Recursion
  7. Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Small Fry
  8. Percival Everett, Erasure
  9. Percival Everett, James
  10. Natalie C. Anderson, Let’s Go Swimming on Doomsday
  11. Ishmael Reed, The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda
  12. Lucian K. Truscott IV, Dress Gray
  13. Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
  14. Khashayar J. Khabushani, I Will Greet the Sun Again
  15. Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
  16. Rachel Khong, Real Americans
  17. Lucian K. Truscott IV, Full Dress Gray
  18. Stephen E. Ambrose, Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
  19. Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
  20. Julia Quinn, The Duke & I
  21. S.A. Bodeen, The Compound
  22. S.A. Bodeen, The Fallout
  23. NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names
  24. Natalie Wexler, The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System—and How to Fix It
  25. Deborah Harkness, The Black Bird Oracle
  26. Alexis Landau, The Mother of All Things
  27. Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
  28. Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
  29. Rufi Thorpe, Margo’s Got Money Troubles
  30. Liz Moore, The God of the Woods
  31. Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!
  32. Ann Patchett, The Patron Saint of Liars
  33. Ann Brashares and Ben Brashares, Westfallen
  34. Dennis Lehane, Small Mercies
  35. Ian Fritz, What the Taliban Told Me
  36. Rachel Hawkins, The Villa
  37. Lionel Shriver, Mania
  38. Francine Prose, 1974: A Personal History
  39. Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto