Best Reads 2024

[@yenasung]

Lol i appreciate your thumbnail and including an entire series as one of the top 10-it totally counts! Happy to have seen your reading life unfold all year, excited to see how 2025 fares ❤

[@BookishAdventuresInWellbeing]

A couple of these are very much on my radar to read soon. Happy new year!

[@SupposedlyFun]

Thanks for a great year of reading and book talk. I've fallen very far behind on watching videos, so it was fun to use this one to begin catching up. I still need to get to Rejection! And maybe this will finally be the year I read Stoner. We'll find out! Happy New Year!

[@rororeads]

@@SupposedlyFun Happy new year Greg! I’ve also fallen quite behind on watching videos. House moving over Xmas…never fun! I’d love to hear your thoughts on stoner!

[@SupposedlyFun]

@@rororeads Oof, I've moved over Christmas and can confirm that is indeed never fun.

[@CharlieBrookReads]

Two of these are my faves as well. Great list Andy 📚❤️

[@katrianamacmillan]

1. Soldier Sailor- Claire Kilroy 2. The Love Songs of WEB DuBois-Honoree Jeffers 3. There Are Rivers In The Sky- Elif Shafek 4. And So I Roar- Abi Daré 5. James Percival Everett 6. Wellness- Nathan Hill 7. Little Rot- Akwaeke Emezi 8. The Vaster Wilds- Lauren Groff 9. I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together- Maurice Vellekoop 10. Ohio- Stephen Markley (I had this book for years and your review motivated me to finally read it)

[@Paromita_M]

Nice list. Happy New Year and Happy reading!

[@zenzibear]

First time viewer and already love your content! I personally haven’t read Annie Bot (and I didn’t initially intend to), but I have consistently seen this book be on either “The Best of 2024” videos or “The Worst of 2024” videos. The massive contradictions in opinion I’ve seen on this novel are now making me want to read it.

[@Shelf_Improvement]

Really happy to have found you channel this year. It's nice to find someone with similar reading taste (except for Stoner lol). Here's to great books in 2025. My top 5 this year were 1)Wellness 2)Small Things Like These 3)Eileen 4) The Rachel Incident 5) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

[@Annaoreally]

I started reading the First Law series following your rec and excited to read more. Gonna try to pick up Rejection and Annie Bot v soon too. LOVED James. My other fave was Justin Torres Blackouts

[@nathansnook]

was not surprised to find the Tony on this list!!! and two John Williams??? what a list!!! wishing you a sexy reading year in 2025 king!!!

[@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd]

One thing I already know for sure about you: You LOVE this Abercrombie guy! Anyway hope to read Rejection next week if my local library comes through. Be well, Happy New Year!⚛❤

[@SavidgeReads]

What a corking selection of books. I have been wanting to read Foster Dade since I first saw you talk about it - just need to get my mitts on the edition you showed. Butcher's Crossing sounds great, love a beautiful but brutal book. I will be reading Rejection early in the new year, am excited for the uncomfortableness ahead.

[@benreadsgood]

The thumbnail 😂 Very pleased to see Soldier Sailor here. James too. Bloody loved them both. Glad you liked Rejection - I’m looking forward to it getting its UK release in the new year. And this is the second video in a row I’ve watched with Stoner at number one… sign from the universe maybe? 👀

[@rororeads]

@@benreadsgood without a doubt a sign Ben! Get on it! x

[@BookishTexan]

Our top 10 lists have James and Soldier Sailor in common. I will be trying Joe Abercrombie in the coming year thanks to you.

[@readandre-read]

Annie Bot and Rejection are already on my TBR; James was my #1 of the year. My video also posted today. Now I’m also interested in Foster Dade. This was fun to watch!

[@Tensytheneedlesmith]

Love your list! Hyperion, James and Stoner were also some of my favorite books. Annie Bot and Soldier Sailor were two of my least favorites last year. That is the magic of books, something for everybody. Rejection is on my tbr list but going into it with some trepidation.

[@RossGregg-z3p]

Great list. I am looking forward to Rejection. His 2016 novel Private Citizens is brilliant.

[@thomasslonka8879]

Favorite novel read in 2024 is the startling In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul 1971; special mention goes to The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann 1924-incredible English translation by H. T. Lowe-Porter 1927. Thanks for your insightful and energetic reviews of serious books.

[@joangavrilik3009]

My top 5 are James, My Friends, Long Island, How to Say Babylon, & Knife. Hit a reading slump (around Election Day). Hope to start the New Year with fresh energy & a long TBR. Happy New Year! ,

[@drawyourbook876]

Soldier sailor was also one of my favourites this year

[@SineadScrap]

Thank you! There's a couple here I want to read. My favourite of 2024 has been "The Sons of El Rey" by Alex Espinoza.

[@janethansen9612]

I very much appreciate the thumbnail. I *think* my tops include James, Committed by Suzanne Scanlon (memoir), The God of the Woods, Soldier Sailor, Ordinary Human Failings, both Brooklyn and Long Island by Colm Toibin, that's off the top of my head, I'll have to look properly at my list. But I feel like it's been quite a conservative reading year.

[@AvAlanchian]

Read Stoner this year too! I read 3 Deborah Levy books this year- they would be my number one this year

[@Rainydays19]

I loved Rejection. It was my surprise for this year. But yes, definitely not for school.

[@jolantadanaziene1323]

O yes, Stoner is one of my favorites 😍

[@OverlyAverageBen]

Both boys with Abercrombie and Stoner on their lists, we're eating this year

[@dogfordinner]

I’m pretty sure that I read Soldier Sailor, Hyperion and Stoner this year because of recommendations from this channel. Rated all highly, although only one made my Top Ten (not ordered!): Private Rites by Julia Armfield North Woods by Daniel Mason All Fours by Miranda July Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy The Bee Sting by Paul Murray Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Intermezzo by Sally Rooney The Safe Keep by Yael van der Wouden Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

[@rororeads]

@@dogfordinner that’s a tasty list!

[@onourpath]

1 I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman 2 Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden 3 Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy 4 Prophet by Paul Lynch 5 Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey 6 James by Percival Everett 7 Again and Again by Jonathan Evison 8 So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan 9 Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro 10 Monstrilio by Gerardo Samano Cordova I could just keep on going..... 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@onourpath]

Also, I absolutely love Annie Bot, but nobody understands my love, dammit! 🤔

[@jobuckley2999]

If anyone wants to really understand what slavery and slaves were like, I would recommend reading 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup. This autobiographical novel is an excellent non-fictional account of a free man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. The story is compelling and the writing excellent. It is factual unlike James and really is a superb book. John Williams is a master and Hyperion was excellent also. Have a Happy New Year. Thanks.

[@PinkysStudio]

I really didn't like The adventures of Huckleberry Finn and couldn't finish it. Would you say James can be understood and enjoyed as much if you haven’t read/didn't like Huckleberry Finn?

[@rororeads]

@@PinkysStudio without a doubt.

[@spexi513]

Rejection slid in 11th hour as one of my top reads and I read based partly on your review so tysm 📖📖🪱💚