Unabridged: Our Most Anticipated Books of 2024 with Cree Myles and Sara Hildreth
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.
NW by Zadie Smith
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Intimations by Zadie Smith
Feel Free by Zadie Smith
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
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
“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
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
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)
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
The Weight of Gold (Brett Rapkin, 2020)
Michelle Kwan: Heart of a Champion by Michelle Kwan
Ours by Phillip B. Williams
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)
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
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Another Word for Love by Carvell Wallace
The Sixth Man by Andre Iguodala and Carvell Wallace
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
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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