Top 20 must-read books of 2024: Festival season edition
2024. Mark the start of festival season and the harbingers of change with a great new read; or 20 of them. Here’s an entire list:
CREATION LAKE BY RACHEL KUSHNER
A disgraced FBI agent-turned-freelance operative infiltrates a rural French commune of environmental anarchists in Kushner’s latest thriller, which grapples with a question that has preoccupied philosophers and scientists for centuries: What, at our core, makes us human?
SMALL RAIN BY GARTH GREENWELL
A writer discovers that he has a rare disease and lands in the ICU. Confined to the bed and forced to confront his mortality, the narrator contemplates love, art, beauty, family — everything that makes up the complicated terrain of life.
COLORED TELEVISION BY DANZY SENNA
After her agent and publisher reject her sophomore novel, Jane directs her attention to something potentially more lucrative: Hollywood. But a series of white lies and bad decisions lead her down the path of self-destruction.
GUIDE ME HOME BY ATTICA LOCKE
In the final volume of Locke’s Highway 59 trilogy, Detective Darren Matthews comes out of early retirement to investigate the disappearance of a young Black woman. To solve the case, he must reconcile with his estranged mother, sort out his alcohol dependence and mend his strained relationship with the woman he loves.
ENTITLEMENT BY RUMAAN ALAM
A young Black woman goes to work for a billionaire eager to give his fortune away. The more she becomes enmeshed in his world, the more she adapts to his lifestyle and world views, abandoning her
