Sunday, December 29, 2024

Best Books I Read This Year

These are my favorite books which I read this year, regardless of when they were published, in roughly the order in which I read them:

Getting By in Tligolian, by Roppotucha Greenberg -- I reviewed this for Interzone 297. It's a weird, beautiful book, with time-traveling public transit.

Laurie Frankel, Family Family

Jane Gardam, A Long Way from Verona

Natasha Pulley, Mars House

Aubrey Woods, Bang Bang Bodhisattva. Reviewed for Asimov's, it's a near-future novel about the the current generation's response to the collapse of capitalism, among other things.

John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest in

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Father Time -- nonfiction study of how men affect the babies they're around (or not around). The title means time that fathers spent (or don't spend) with babies. Great book.

Richard Powers, Playground


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