Carla Jean Whitley on Her Best Books of 2024

My annual “Best Books of the Year” episode with Carla Jean Whitley is always such a highlight for me (and I know for all of you)! Below are her picks for 2024. Enjoy!   The Best Books She’s Read This Year: Nonfiction — Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts by Oliver Burkeman (also adding in Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals for good measure, as well) Heartbreak is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music by Rob Sheffield Memoirs — Just Like Glass: A Family Memoir by Amy Wight Chapman Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley Fiction — The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley Sandwich by Catherine Newman   The Best Books She’s Reread This Year: Looking for Alaska by John Green The Giver by Lois Lowry We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman Tom Lake by Ann Patchett The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl   The Books She Is Anticipating for 2025: Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays by Nicole Graev Lipson (coming March 4, 2025) The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff (coming April 22, 2025) The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd (coming March 18, 2025) The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue: A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street by Mike Tidwell (coming March 25, 2025) Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green (coming March 18, 2025) Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson (coming May 13, 2025)