Trevor and Paul are back with the fourth annual best of the year extravaganza! In Part I, we count down the first half of our en favorite reads of 2024—and we are once again joined by a cast of friends and listeners who share some of their top books and best reading experiences of the year! Another great chance to grow your TBR pile for 2025!
Shownotes
Books
The Postcard, by Anne Berest, translated by Tina Kover
Gabriëlle, by Anne Berest and Claire Berest, translated by Tina Kover
Two Hours, by Alba Arikha
Crooked Seeds, by Karen Jennings
Fathers and Fugitives, by S.J. Naudé, translated by Michiel Heyns
Not Even the Dead, by Juan Gómez Bárcena, translated by Katie Whittemore
Not a River, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott
The Wind That Lays Waste, by Selva Almada, translated by Chris Andrews
Dead Girls, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott
Brickmakers, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott
Any Person Is the Only Self, by Elisa Gabbert
The Unreality of Memory, by Elisa Gabbert
Ex Libris, by Anne Fadiman
Rhine Journey, by Anne Schlee
About Looking, by John Berger
The Inkal, by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius
Pedro Páramo, by Juan Rulfo, translated by Douglas J. Weatherford
The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes, by K.C. Constantine
The Premier, by Georges Simenon
Two Thousand Million Man-Power, by Gertrude Trevelyan
Horror Movie, by Paul Tremblay
A County Doctor, by Franz Kafka
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was, by Angélica Gorodischer, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
Sons, by Robert De Maria
Brothers, by Robert De Maria
Fletch, by Gregory McDonald
Bedlam, by Charlene Elsby
Quarry, by Max Allan Collins
A Tiler’s Afternoon, by Lars Gustfsson, translated by Tom Geddes
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, translated by
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
The Carrying, by Ada Limón
Picnic, Lighting, by Billy Collins
The Peregrine, by J.A. Baker
Bright Dead Things, by Ada Limón
The Hurting King, by Ada Limón
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, compiled by Ada Limón
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, by Rebecca West
Clear, by Carys Davies
Malena, by Ingeborg Bachmann, translated by Philip Boehm
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, by Anne de Marcken
Last Words from Montmartre, by Qin Miaojin, translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich
The Preparation of the Novel, by Roland Barthes, translated by Kate Briggs
Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917 - 1922, by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated by Jamey Gambrell
The Power of Gentleness: Meditation on the Risk of Living, by Anne Dufourmantelle, translated by Katherine Payne and Vincent Sallé
Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood, by Lucy Jones
Question 7, by Richard Flanagan
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death, by Laura Cumming
H Is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald
The Goshawk, by T.H. White
The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller’s Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece, by Laura Cumming
The Ice Palace, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Elizabeth Rokkan
The Birds, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Michael Barnes and Torbjørn Støverud
James, by Percival Everett
The Trees, by Percival Everett
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