For our final episode of 2024, we finish our annual best of the year extravaganza! Here we are joined by more friends sharing their favorite reads of the year as we go through our top five.

Happy New Year! We will see you in 2025!

Shownotes

Books

* The Overstory, by Richard Powers

* Septology, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls

* A Shining, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls

* Boathouse, by Jon Fosse, translated by May-Brit Akerholt

* Scenes from a Childhood, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls

* Trilogy, by Jon Fosse, translated by May-Brit Akerholt

* Aliss at the Fire, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls

* Morning and Evening, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls

* We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver

* Big Brother, by Lionel Shriver

* The Stripping of the Altars, by Eamon Duffy

* Scenes from Clerical Life, by George Eliot

* Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot

* Possession, by A.S. Byatt

* Parade’s End, by Ford Madox Ford

* David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens

* Frog, by Stephen Dixon

* I., by Stephen Dixon

* The MANIAC, by Benjamín Labatut

* When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamín Labatut, translated by Adrian Nathan West

* A Game of Hide and Seek, by Elizabeth Taylor

* Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, by Elizabeth Taylor

* Angel, by Elizabeth Taylor

* It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, by Anne de Marcken

* The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, by Beth Brower

* A Touch of Mistletoe, by Barbara Comyns

* Mr. Fox, by Barbara Comyns

* Cold Nights of Childhood, by Tezer Özlü, translated by Maureen Freely

* Your Little Matter: My Mother, a News Item, by Maria Grazia Calandrone, translated by Antonella Lettieri

* My Favorite, by Sarah Jollien-Fardel, translated by Holly James

* Götz and Meyer, by David Albahari, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac

* Escape from Berlin, by Catherine Klein

* February 1933: The Winter of Literature, by Use Wittstock, translated by Daniel Bowles

* Pilgrimage, by Dorothy Richardson

* War and Peace, by Leo Tolstory

* The Tunnel, by William H. Gass

* A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories

* All That Glitters, by Orlando Whitfield

* Lesser Ruins, by Mark Haber

* Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver

* If on a winter’s night a traveller . . . , by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver

* The Baron in the Trees, by Italo Calvino, translated by Ann Goldstein

* Doctor Thorne, by Anthony Trollope

* The Warden, by Anthony Trollope

* Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope

* The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope

* Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, by Max Porter

* The Call of the Wild, by Jack London

* “To Build a Fire,” by Jack London

* Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life, by Sofia Samatar

* Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner & Rosamond Lehmann, by Harriet Baker

* Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, by Naomi Klein

* A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria, by Caroline Crampton

* A Month in the Country, by J.L. Baker

* The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy

* Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy

* Suttree, by Cormac McCarthy

* Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac McCarthy

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