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Dec 2024
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Book Talk Etc.’s Best Books of 2024: Our...

Tina @tbretc and Hannah @hanpickedbooks
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In Episode 182 of Book Talk, Etc., Tina and Hannah reflect on a fantastic year of reading as they share their top 20 books of 2024! We share our absolute favorites, the reads that stood out most to us, and a little bit about why these books made our best-of-the-year list.

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Loving Lately
Dyson Air Wrap (T)
Loop Earplugs (H)

Latest Read (Community Read)
Rental House | Weike Wang
Joan is Okay | Weike Wang (mentioned)

Bookish Superlatives Mentioned:
Allow Me to Introduce Myself
Maeve Fly
Dixon Descending
The Eyes are the Best Part
Everyone is Watching
Patricia Wants to Cuddle
All This & More
Margo’s Got Money Troubles
I Who Have Never Known Men

Favorites of the Year!!!!
If We Were Villains | ML Rio (T)
The Lost Story | Meg Shaffer (H)
The Paper Palace | Miranda Cowley Heller (T)
The Indifferent Stars Above | Daniel James Brown (H)
We Used to Live Here | Marcus Kliewer (T)
Just for the Summer | Abby Jimenez (H)
The Safekeep | Yael van der Wouden (T)
The Mighty Red | Louise Erdrich (H)
Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi (T)
Stealing | Margaret Verble (H)
A Place for Us | Fatima Farheen Mirza (T)
The God of the Woods | Liz Moore (T)
These Impossible Things | Salma El Wardany (T)
I Who Have Never Known Men | Jaqueline Harpman (H)
Fingersmith | Sarah Waters (T)
The Secret History | Donna Tartt (H)

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