A Year in Review: 2024 Book Awards
This post is inspired by dear Willa, over at Willa’s World:
I read a lot this year. A lot of really good things. I beat my personal record of books read in a year, so I’m pretty proud of myself. After reading Willa’s recent post, I started thinking about doing something similar— having my own little awards ceremony for all of the lovely things that I read this year.
CLASSIC BOOKS
NOMINEES:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
NEW BOOKS (published in the last ten years)
NOMINEES:
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Open Throat by Henry Hoke
Conversations With Friend by Sally Rooney
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
North Woods by Daniel Mason
SHORT BOOKS
NOMINEES:
Small Things Like These by Lucy Kincaid
Woolgathering by Patti Smith
Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
NONFICTION
NOMINEES:
No Name in the Street by James Baldwin
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
In the Margins by Elena Ferrante
Women Race & Class by Angela Davis
LEAST FAVORITE
NOMINEES:
Bunny by Mona Awad
Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum
OVERALL FAVORITE BOOK
NOMINEES:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
Stoner by John Williams
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Normal People by Sally Rooney
ESSAYS
NOMINEES:
“How Writing a Novel is Like Wandering Through a Flea Market” by Lisa Ko
“A Woman Out of Time” by Rebecca Solnit
“Dispatches from the Land of Erasure During a Genocide” by Philip Metres
Stay tuned for the winners :p
couldn't even finish bunny!!! it was so ridiculous to me
I love this idea