Unabridged: The Best Books of 2024…So Far with Cree Myles and Sara Hildreth

For today’s Unabridged, book lovers Cree Myles (All Ways Black) and Sara Hildreth (Fiction Matters) are back by popular demand to discuss the best books 2024, so far. We also get into our most disappointing reads, our favorite backlist titles, and what we’re most looking forward to for the rest of the year.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find what we talked about on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

• All Ways Black

• Fiction Matters

• “Unabridged: Our Most Anticipated Books of 2024 with Cree Myles and Sara Hildreth” (The Stacks)

• James by Percival Everett

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

• Prince

• Ernest Hemingway

• James Baldwin

• No Name in the Street by James Baldwin

• Come and Get It by Kiley Reid

• Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

• Audre Lorde

• Happy Place by Emily Henry

• Beach Read by Emily Henry

• People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

• Drake

• The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes

• Another Word for Love by Carvell Wallace

• Hanif Abdurraqib

• Heavy by Kiese Laymon

• Rooted by Brea Baker

• Piglet by Lottie Hazell

• Croquembouche

• Sara’s Summer Reading Guide

• Charlie Hustle by Keith O’Brien

• Pete Rose

• Paradise Falls by Keith O’Brien

• Fly Girls by Keith O’Brien

• Splinters by Leslie Jamison

• You Get What You Pay For by Morgan Parker

• “Big Pimpin’” (Jay-Z, 1999)

• Serena Williams

• Mercury by Amy Jo Burns

• The Laughter by Sonora Jha

• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guinn

• Erasure by Percival Everett

• “Ep. 304 Erasure by Percival Everett — The Stacks Book Club (Zach Stafford)” (The Stacks)

• Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

• “Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare with Traci Thomas” (Novel Pairings)

• Survival Math by Mitchell S. Jackson

• Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

• The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

• The Coin by Yasmin Zaher

• You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat

• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

• Tehrangeles by Porochista Khakpour

• Shahs of Sunset (Bravo)

• Entitlement by Rumaan Alam

• Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

• Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

• Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

• My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

• Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones by Priyanka Mattoo

• Colored Television by Danzy Senna

• New People by Danzy Senna

• Caucasia by Danzy Senna

• The Guest by Emma Kline

• The Palace of Eros by Caro de Robertis

• The Gods of Tango by Carolina de Robertis

• Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis

• Cupid and Psyche myth

• Forest of Noise by Mosab Abu Toha

• The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich

• The Great Hemisphere by Mateo Askirapour

• Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

• Abortion by Jessica Valenti

• Bringing Ben Home by Barbara Bradley Hagerty

• Range by David Epstein

• Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi

• There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

• Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

• Parade by Rachel Cusk

• The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner

• The Idiot by Elif Batuman

• The Gaze by Elif Shafak

• 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak

• The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

• Elif Batuman

• Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

• Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

• Pulitzer Prize

• Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer

• National Book Award

• Dana Canedy

• South to America by Imani Perry

• The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk

• The Stackies

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