Hello!
As you years rolls to a close, I ask you all:
What’s your top non-fiction book of 2024?
Top fiction book?
Top film?
Please share with us all!
As you years rolls to a close, I ask you all:
What’s your top non-fiction book of 2024?
Top fiction book?
Top film?
Please share with us all!
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Non Fiction - The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing. A beautiful diary and reflection on resurrecting a neglected garden, and of course the role of gardens in the (particularly English) psyche.
Fiction - Cuddy by Benjamin Myers even though it was published last year.
top nonfiction: Cynthia Carr's Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar (audio version is perfectly read by Justin Vivian Bond)
top film: His Three Daughters
top fiction: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
And though you didn't ask,
top television: Deadloch.
Top Fiction: All Fours ( Miranda July) & Black River (@nilanjanaroy.bsky.social)
Top Non-fiction: The Day I Became a Runner ( Sohini Chattopadhyay) & Burning Earth (Sunil Amrith)
Best Films: His Three Daughters & All of Us Strangers
Best TV: Tokyo Vice & Hacks
#booksky #filmsky
Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang (from 2020, but read this year).
All Of Us Strangers predictably made me bawl. American Fiction also excellent.
Top fiction: Maggie O'Farrell; Hamnet
Top film: All of Us Strangers
Top TV: The Mirror and the Light