Our Favorite Books of 2024: December 17, 2024

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🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Emily discuss their favorite books of 2024, including Come and Get It, Beautyland, Headshot, and more great books! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. At Tailored Book Recommendations, we’ve recommended over 150,000 books to readers of every type. And we’ve got good news— TBR makes a novel gift for the book lover on your list! All your gift recipient has to do is fill out a survey about their reading likes and dislikes, and our expert bibliologists will use their bookish knowledge to round up three personalized recommendations for reads we think they’ll love. Whether they’re a mystery maven, a historical fiction fanatic, or a contemporary connoisseur, we’ve got the chops to match the book lover in your life with their next favorite read. And it only takes a few clicks to gift TBR! Simply head to mytbr.co/gift to get started. You can even schedule the delivery of the welcome email, which means no more waiting on gifts to arrive last minute. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed On the Show: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar Come and Get It by Kiley Reid Interesting Facts about Space by Emily R. Austin Diavola by Jennifer Thorne Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino Funny Story by Emily Henry Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel I Was A Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones Weirdo by Tony Weaver Jr., with Jes and Cin Wibowo Detective Beans: and the Case of the Missing Hat by Li Chen Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay Mouth: Stories by Puloma Ghosh The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim Women and Children First by Alina Grabowski Roland Rogers Isn’t Dead Yet by Samantha Allen Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash Ruin Road by Lamar Giles For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.0	Music That's R-A-K-U-T-E-N. You're listening to All the Books,
1:06.0	a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.
1:10.5	This is episode 493,
1:12.5	and today we are talking about our favorite books of 2024 and more. I'm Liberty Hardy,
1:17.8	here with Emily Martin, and we're coming to you from bookriot.com. Emily, hello. Hello. Happy December.
1:26.7	Yeah, it's December. We're actually recording this a little earlier because
1:30.6	we didn't have to do any reading for it. So we're like, let's just knock it out and give ourselves
1:35.6	the rest of the month off from podcast. We did a lot of reading for this. But it was like throughout
1:41.6	the year. We've been preparing for this all year. Yeah. It's true. But
1:47.1	yes. And I guess like you do it once a month. So I'm getting myself the rest of the month off is I guess what I'm doing. Yeah. But I'm already like starting next year's reading and very excited. Just did that show with Patricia, which hasn't even aired yet when we're recording this.
2:04.8	So I'm so confused as to like what day it is and what's happening.
2:09.8	Just don't make any references to that episode because nobody will know what you're talking about.
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