Our Most Anticipated Books of 2024 (The First Bit of It, At Least)

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🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca run through some of their personally most-anticipated books of the first-ish half of 2024. Plus, they have some other Book Riot editors weigh in with their picks. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! 2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: First Edition! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Read Harder 2024 is alive! Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson The Bloodied Nightgown by Joan Acocella Until August by Gabriel García Márquez This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud The Unicorn Woman by Gayl Jones The Z Word by Lindsay King-Miller State of Paradise by Laura Van Den Burg A Chance Meeting by Rachel Cohen The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting by Lee Gutkind The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez Splinters by Leslie Jamison The Last Fire Season by Manjula Martin The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner Legacy by Uché Blackstock Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts by Crystal Wilkinson The Other Significant Others by Rhaina Cohen Acts of Forgiveness by Maura Cheeks This American Ex-Wife by Lyz Lenz Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg Optimal by Daniel Goleman & Cary Cherniss And How Does That Make You Feel by Joshua Fletcher Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan The Cliffs by Scott Cawthorn Looking for a Sign by Susie Dumond Jewel Me Twice by Charish Reid The American Daughters by Maurice Carlos Ruffin 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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0:28.0	This is the Bookwright Podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill.
0:34.0	And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
0:35.0	And today we are talking about the most anticipated books of 2024,
0:41.0	which really means if you know the business, the most anticipated book through whoever
0:46.4	has catalogs up for however long they're up.
0:48.9	It's like mostly up through April and then a sprinkle of May June July for me.
0:54.7	And then a couple things, especially Random House,
0:58.1	I guess PRH, they tend to have catalogs a little deeper
1:01.0	into the year at this point of going up for bigger books or things
1:04.2	that have on the calendar for a while.
1:06.3	But anyway, so this is just something, insider baseball.
1:09.0	You're reading most anticipated books of 2024.
1:11.6	I saw time, LIDHUB, The Millions does a great preview.
1:14.8	Actually there's a seasonal. Anything that says 2024 without the season is that we know
1:19.7	about right now. And since fall is the biggest year, it's kind of like a de facto I would say a
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