The English title of Claudia Durastanti's novel is actually Strangers I Know. Sorry :( !
All twenty are fantastic and the top ten are absolute gems.
What were YOUR favorite books you read in 2024?
All the books mentioned in this video (from the top 20 and from the "highlights" in the early part of the video), with links to my review (if I've filmed one), in alphabetical order:
Beard - Americanitis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kild5XHXDjA
Cognetti - The Eight Mountains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkANV1695vM
Durastanti - Strangers I Know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tSZy7becLI
Erdrich - The Night Watchman
Grouazel & Locard - Révolution vol. 1
Hazan - A People's History of the French Revolution
Homes - The Unfolding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hPPxeu347E&t
James - A Brief History of Seven Killings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5obDhY3tbg
Kraushaar - La società degli uomini-barbagianni
Mari - Verdigris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX4tMHPiwdM
McDowell - The Blackwater Saga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqfj3s-jsfQ
McNeil & McCain - Please Kill Me
Millhauser - Martin Dressler
Oliveri - Sabato Champagne - my review (in Italian) on La Balena Bianca: https://www.labalenabianca.com/2024/10/07/berlusconismo-interstellare-sabato-champagne-di-alice-valeria-oliveri/
Reynolds - Rip It Up & Start Again
Reza - Happy Are the Happy
Rushdie - The Golden House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7w5Jri7I5A
Schulz - The Complete Peanuts
Scianna - Qualcosa c'inventeremo
Tokarczuk - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKOsF39MHok
Zambra - Chilean Poet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiETcSC5tmk
Waldman - Help Wanted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pz3vtPPX8A
Whitehead - Sag Harbor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHsX5_rYoSU
Zeniter - The Art of Losing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XYRxRfN75w
Zerocalcare - Quando muori resta a me
Zola - The Belly of Paris
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