Here’s the last gasp of the Best Books of 2024 theme.
10 Beloved Authors We Lost in 2024
Tertulia profiles 10 authors who died during 2024 and recommends one representative book for each.
The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of 2024
From Literary Hub.
These were the most-borrowed books from public libraries in 2024
NPR compiled this list from “the most-borrowed lists of 18 public libraries across the country [the U.S.].”
The Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of 2024
Literary Hub offers “a frank analysis of our most clicked-on pieces” of the more than 2,500 “features, blog posts, reading lists, excerpts, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.”
Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories from 2024
The Lit Hub editors choose “the best writing at the site this year.”
Australian Dictionary Chooses ‘Enshittification’ As The Word Of The Year
Several different dictionary producers chose a word or phrase of the year. My favorite of them all is the one chosen by Australia’s oldest dictionary, Macquarie Dictionary. It’s a term that was made famous by tech critic Cory Doctorow in 2023.
Here’s the definition:
noun Colloquial: the gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online platform, and as a consequence of profit-seeking.
People Are Sharing The One Book That Has Stood Out To Them In All Their Years Of Reading
Hannah Loewentheil of the BuzzFeed staff “browsed through the subreddit r/books and parsed through responses from the BuzzFeed Community” to find “the very best books to put on your bucket list, according to avid readers like you.”
The result is a list of 31 books ranging from classics to more recent works. You’ll recognize a lot of the titles.
© 2024 by Mary Daniels Brown
