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Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber
Book Marks logo It’s abacus and laurels time here at Book Marks HQ. We, the industrious and sun-starved Book Marks miners, have spent 12 months chiseling reviews from more than 150 publications—from the Washington Post to the Irish Times , the San Francisco Chronicle to the London Review of Books —all so that we can now tell you, our dear readers, with absolute mathematical certitude, that these are the best reviewed fiction titles of 2024. Happy reading! Brought to you by Book Marks , Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * Rita Bullwinkel_Headshot Cover 1. Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel (Viking) 16 Rave Read an excerpt from Headshot here “It takes focus and discipline and a certain single-mindedness to become a good prize fighter. It takes those same qualities to write a book as fresh and strong and sinuous as Headshot … Make room, American fiction, for a meaningful new voice … To remark that Bullwinkel is observant about Reno and its casinos would be an understatement … There is no whimsy in Headshot. Instead, there is astringency … The impact of this novel, though, lasts a long time, like a sharp fist to your shoulder. It is so enveloping to read that you feel, at times, that you are writing it in your own mind.” –Dwight Garner ( The New York Times ) Hisham Matar_My Friends Cover 2. My Friends by Hisham Matar (Random House) 18 Rave • 1 Positive “Amid this refined climate of melancholy acceptance arrives the unexpected revolutionary fervor of the Arab Spring of the early 2010s, whose tensions and excitements My Friends captures as well as any novel I have read … Matar weighs these complexities with tremendous sensitivity, and My Friends is not only indispensable for a full understanding of Libyan émigrés but is, more generally, a great novel of exile.” –Sam Sacks ( The Wall Street Journal ) This Strange Eventful History 3. This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud (W. W. Norton & Company) 22 Rave • 2 Positive Read an interview with Claire Messud here “This monumental novel, which is a […]
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Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber
The Mallorcan Joana Marcús is a young bestseller in Spain and America, writer of young adult novels with a romantic
