Our favorite BOOKS from 2024

Each year, Theater in Asylum releases a list of plays, books, movies, and more that delighted us, challenged us, and changed us. Below is our first list, a crowd-sourced list of MEDIUM our community loved in 2024.


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Fiction

• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
  
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Michael Katz
  
• The Fraud by Zadie Smith
  
• The Guest by Emma Cline
  
• A History of Burning by Janika Oza
  
• Holy Rosenbergs by Ryan Craig
  
• James by Percival Everett
  
• The Light Pirate by Lilly Brooks-Dalton
  
• North Woods by Daniel Mason
  
• Orbittal by Samantha Harvey
  
• The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
  
• A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
  
• Women Talking by Miriam Toews
  
• Yellowface by R.F. Kuang 
  
• Between Earth and Sky Trilogy by Rebecca Roanhorse
  

Non-fiction

• The Devil’s Contract: The History of The Faustian Bargain by Ed Simon
  
• Die Hot with A Vengeance: Essays on Vanity by Sable Yong
  
• Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein: orbital by Samantha Harvey
  
• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Janet Mills & Don Miguel Ruiz
  
• God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O'Gieblyn
  
• Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
  
• The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
  
• Knife by Salman Rushdie
  
• The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlanger
  
• The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  
• Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Micheal Schulman
  
• Performance, Medicine, and the Human by Alex Mermikides
  
• Queen Victoria Goes to the Theatre by George Rowell
  
• Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society by Tony Kushner
  
• Safe in a Midwife's Hands: Birthing Traditions from Africa to the American South by Linda Janet Holmes
  
• Takeover, Hitler's Final Rise to Power by Timothy Ryback
  
• Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin by Jonathan A. Allan
  
• Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
  

Poetry

• The Illiad by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
  
• Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Walter Arndt
  
• You can be the Last Leaf, selected poems by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat