On Episode #138 I share my favorite reads and audiobook listens from 2024 as well as some favorite backlist titles I read this past year. Watch me recommend books on The Mark Thompson Show. Win a copy of Guilt and Ginataan. Click here to enter. Closes Thursday, January 2nd, 2024. Read Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luisella with me on Substack starting January 6th. Books Recommended:Clean by Alia Trabucco ZeranStill Life With Remorse by Maira KalmanMartyr! by Kaveh AkbarJames by Percival EverettThe Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer CroftBear by Julia PhillipsThe God of the Woods by Liz MoorePeggy by Rebecca GodfreyThe Wedding People by Alison EspachAudiobooks Recommended:Long Island by Colm ToibinMother Doll by Katya ApekinaThe Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas This Strange Eventful History by Claire MessudBacklist Recommended:Horse by Geraldine BrooksJackie by Dawn TrippAusterlitz by W.G. SebaldSay Nothing by Patrick Radden KeefeBriefly, A Delicious Life by Nell StevensCutting for Stone by Abraham VergheseThe Berry Pickers by Amanda PetersWhale Fall by Elizabeth O'ConnorThe Empusium by Olga TokarczukOther Books Mentioned:From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley et alSupport the showGet your Books Are My People coffee mug here!I hope you all have a wonderfully bookish week!

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