For today’s Unabridged, book lovers Cree Myles (All Ways Black) and Sara Hildreth (Fiction Matters) join us to reveal their most anticipated reads for the first half of 2024. We talk about our reading goals for the year, list a few 2024 books we’ve already liked, and get into the books we’re most looking forward to.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find what we talked about on Amazon.

• All Ways Black
• Penguin Random House
• Fiction Matters Substack
• Novel Pairings
• NW by Zadie Smith
• The Fraud by Zadie Smith
• Intimations by Zadie Smith
• Feel Free by Zadie Smith
• Zadie Smith in The New Yorker
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
• Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
• Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
• Fiction Matters on Instagram
• James Baldwin
• Lorraine Hansbury
• LA Times Book Prize
• Monsters by Claire Dederer

• “Ep. 286 Monsters by Claire Dederer — The Stacks Book Club (Brittany Luse)” (The Stacks)
• Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses
• “Reading in Public No. 22: The state of book criticism with Traci Thomas of The Stacks” (Sara Hildreth, Fiction Matters)
• “Unabridged: One for the Books with Sam Sanders and Danyel Smith” (The Stacks)
• Shine Bright by Danyel Smith
• James by Percival Everett
• Erasure by Percival Everett
• Dr. No by Percival Everett
• Colored Television by Danzy Senna
• James McBride
• “Ep. 119 All About the Drive with James McBride” (The Stacks)
• The Trees by Percival Everett
• American Fiction (Cord Jefferson, 2023)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain” (Novel Pairings)
• The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
• True Grit by Charles Portis
• Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
• “Ep. 261 All at Once with Clint Smith” (The Stacks)
• Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
• Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2023
• Read With Jenna Book Club Picks (Today)
• Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky
• Chouette by Claire Oshetsky
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Sula by Toni Morrison
• “A Fresh Look at Grief, Featuring an Ever-Present Sidekick” (MJ Franklin, The New York Times)
• How The Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
• A Map of Future Ruins by Lauren Markham
• The Far Away Brothers by Lauren Markham
• Riverhead Books
• The American Daughters by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
• We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
• “Ep. 84 We Cast A Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin– The Stacks Book Club (Chris L. Terry)” (The Stacks)
• “The Short Stacks 25: Maurice Carlos Ruffin//We Cast a Shadow” (The Stacks)
• One World Books
• The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach
• Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach
• You Have to Fucking Eat by Adam Mansbach
• Outofshapeworthlessloser by Gracie Gold
• Grace Kelly
• The Weight of Gold (Brett Rapkin, 2020)
• Michael Phelps
• Michelle Kwan: Heart of a Champion by Michelle Kwan
• Ours by Phillip B. Williams
• Kiese Laymon
• Mutiny by Phillip B. Williams
• The Book of Love by Kelly Link
• The Love Songs of W. E. B. DuBois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
• The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• “Magic Johnson’s ‘I’m not gonna be here’ quote is the newest NBA meme” (Charles Curtis, For The Win)
• The Hunter by Tana French
• In the Woods by Tana French
• The Likeness by Tana French
• The Secret Place by Tana French
• There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, 2023)
• Hanif Abdurraquib event at Reparations Club
• We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian
• The Unclaimed by Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans
• The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
• Homesick by Jennifer Croft
• Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
• Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
• Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
• Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
• Real Americans by Rachel Khong
• Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
• The Way that Leads Among the Lost by Angela Garcia
• “The 10 Best Books of 2023” (Books Staff, The New York Times)
• Blackouts by Justin Torres
• Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
• American Gun by Cameron McWhirter
• Mitchell S. Jackson
• Rodrigo Corral
• Jenna Johnson
• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
• Another Word for Love by Carvell Wallace
• The Sixth Man by Andre Iguodala and Carvell Wallace 
• Golden State Warriors
• The Sixth Man by Andre Iguodala and Carvell Wallace (audiobook)
• Cecilia by K-Ming Chang
• Bestiary by K-Ming Chang
• Organ Meats by K-Ming Chang
• Coffee House Press
• I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This by Chelsea Devantez
• Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
• The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare

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