Best Books of 2024

On today’s A Public Affair, Sam Fuqua takes calls from the audience about their favorite book that they read this past year and why.

  1. Cecelia Girz-“The View from the Center of the Universe” by Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams.
  2. Morrison Brown-“Anything” by Peter Heller.
  3. Karl Hanzel-“The Sparrow” by Mary Doria Russell.
  4. Dick Cole-“The Great River” by Boyce Upholt.
  5. Kezia Tenenbaum-“Crossings” by Ben Goldfarb and “Other Rivers” by Peter Hessler.
  6. Leyla Steele-“Playground” by Richard Powers.
  7. Ginger Perry-“Covenant of Water” by Abraham Vergese.
  8. Ian Summers-“The Jakarta Method” by Vincent Bevins.
  9. David Adamson-“The Story of Upfront, Carbon’ by Lloyd Alters.
  10. Dave Anderson-“When the Clock Broke: Con Men. Conspiracists and how America Cracked up in the Early 1990s” by John Ganz.
  11. Tina Jayroe-“Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions” by Richard Erdoes.
  12. Mary Gorman-“Solito: A Memoir is a Memoir” by Javier Zamora.
  13. John Lehndorff-“Cocina Libre” by Julia Roncoroni.
  14. Chris Gallagher-“City of the Monkey God” by Douglas Preston.
  15. Joy Barrett-“Things You May Find Hidden in my Ear” by Mosab Abu Toha.
  16. Jack Dawson-“Poor Things” by Alasdair Gray.
  17. Steve Miller-“Colonel Chaubert” by Honore de Balzac.
  18. Michael-“Death is but a Dream” by Christopher Kerr.
  19. Ken-“I Never Thought of it that Way” by Monica Guzman.
  20. Evan-“Why Leaders Lie” by John Mearsheimer.
  21. Elena-“They Call You Back” by Tim Hernandez.
  22. Jim-“Pieces for the Left Hand” by Robert J. Lenon.
  23. Amy-“The Gray Wolf” by Louise Penny

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