My annual “Best Books of the Year” episode with Carla Jean Whitley is always such a highlight for me (and I know for all of you)! Below are her picks for 2024. Enjoy!
The Best Books She’s Read This Year:
Nonfiction —
Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts by Oliver Burkeman (also adding in Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals for good measure, as well)
Heartbreak is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Musicby Rob Sheffield
Memoirs —
Just Like Glass: A Family Memoir by Amy Wight Chapman
Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley
Fiction —
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
The Best Books She’s Reread This Year:
Looking for Alaskaby John Green
The Giver by Lois Lowry
We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
Tom Lakeby Ann Patchett
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
The Books She Is Anticipating for 2025:
Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays by Nicole Graev Lipson (coming March 4, 2025)
The Bright Yearsby Sarah Damoff (coming April 22, 2025)
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd (coming March 18, 2025)
The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue: A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street by Mike Tidwell (coming March 25, 2025)
Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green (coming March 18, 2025)
Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson (coming May 13, 2025)
