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A bookshelf set up in the street during a literature festival. (Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images)
Here & Now Scott Tong checks in with Here & Now go-to book expert Traci Thomas, creator and host of “The Stacks” to get her top ten book picks for 2024.
Traci Thomas’ top 10 books of the year
Fiction
- “James” by Percival Everett
- “Martyr!” by Kaveh Akbar
- “Colored Television” by Danzy Senna
- “Come & Get It” by Kiley Reid
Nonfiction
- “Another Word for Love” by Carvell Wallace
- “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space” by Adam Higginbotham
- “The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports” by Michael Waters
- “What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures” by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
- “Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis” by Jonathan Blitzer
- “How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom” by Johanna Hedva
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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