Books 2024: Highlights

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Fiction:

• Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun 
• Rama Mehta, Inside the Haveli 
• May Ayim, Blues in Schwarz-weiss + Nachtgesang 
• Deena Mohamed, Shubeik Lubeik 
• Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint of Bright Doors 
• Francis Spufford, Cahokia Jazz 
• Angélica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial 
• Percival Everett, The Trees 
• Syou Ishida, We'll Prescribe You a Cat 
• Dora Heldt, Wir sind die Guten 
• Andrew Hunter Murray, The Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering (co-host of a fandom twice-removed adjacent podcast of mine)
• Sarah Brooks, The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands
• Sophie Kinsella, Christmas Shopaholic (re-read at Christmas and had tear in my eye)

Non-fiction:

• Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing
• Thomas Halliday, Otherlands
• Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You
• Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
• Francis Spufford, Red Plenty
• Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jean-Loup Amselle, In Search of Africa
• Kristian Nairn, Beyond the Throne (def. fandom adjacent)
• Cynthia Enloe, Twelve Feminist Lessons of War

This was the year of the fab non-fiction books. This was the year of the non-fiction audiobooks, thanks to Spotify including 10 monthly hours of audiobook in my subscription. Five of the above non-fictions I listened to as audio.