TOP 5 BOOKS OF 2024

In this video, I share with you my top five favourite books of 2024. These are the books that really defined my reading year and that have stuck with me the most. As 2024 comes to an end, I think it's important to reflect on the things that shaped the year, and for me, it was reading. I really hope to have a good reading year in 2025 iA, and I wish the same to all of you.

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Chapters:
(00:00) Intro
(00:47) Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed
(02:37) Azadi by Arundathi Roy
(04:54) Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
(08:26) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
(10:47) Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
(14:44) Outro

[heyimsasa]

missed seeing you around booktube! appreciate your lists as always!

[OliviasCatastrophe]

LOVE A thousand splendid suns. What an emotional and powerful read. Loved it so much. Been many years since I read it.

[cuppa.books.]

Nice to see you again - all the best for the New Year 💜

[mezzomint]

I also read Azadi this year and loved it! My favorite read of 2024 was Octavia Butler's Earthseed Series.

[jrthepinwitch]

Glad you're back, you had such awesome reads this year.

[RKStumblingbear]

Azadi really sounds interesting to me, so I've added that to my TBR. Especially because I greatly believe in the transformative power of fiction.

[brittabohlerthesecondshelf]

He is back! 😀I also loved Abulhawa's book! Have a wonderful 2025, reading-wise and otherwise.

[pagesandprose]

I was SO excited to see this video! You have the best recommendations. I've owned A Thousand Splendid Suns, but I'm still so emotionally devastated by The Kite Runner (which I read years ago), so I've been hesitant to read it... sounds like I need to make it a priority this year! ❤

[Onemorebookpodcast.]

I always appreciate your recommendations. One of my favorites this year was BLACK GIRL CALL HOME, a collection of beautiful poems by Jasmine Mans.

[eleanorball]

I will absolutely be picking up Azadi! Awesome recommendations.

[BookishAdventuresInWellbeing]

Oooh great top 5. I also loved a thousand splendid suns. I have your wish is my command on my wish list and have just ordered disorientation on your recommendation. Happy new year ♥️

[JulianWyllie]

Disorientation is on my long list. Gotta get to that one at some point.

[ellethinks]

I've added a few of these to my TBR. I've owned A Thousand Splendid Suns for years but have been dragging my feet on reading it because this will be my last Khaled Hosseini book and I don't want to be done with them! 😅

[moonyreadsbystarlight]

Those sounds great! I want to check a lot of these out, but I think you especially sold me on Disorientation. I had so many great books this year, but my favorites were This is What Lesbian Looks Like, which is an anthology from 1999 that I havent stopped thinking about and for fiction, Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White.

[ReadandFindOut]

Shubeik Lubeik and Against the Loveless World are on my favorites list from this year as well! My top read of 2024 though is How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair.

[erinh]

Azadi sounds super-interesting. Right now I'm reading Quarterlife by Devika Rege which is fiction but covers some of the same themes.

[starlitreader]

just finished arundhati roy’s fiction so i’ve been wondering where to start w her nonfic! my seditious heart is high on my tbr. husseini’s books have been the unfortunate victim of my “assigned reading at school so i feel like i wont enjoy them” mentality… which i so need to get over and just give it a go!!! rip

[zehrazaidi]

On Palestinian authors or themes, can I recommend The Book of Disappearance, Enter Ghost and The Arsonist City.

Thank you for the poster behind you - in solidarity with the women of Afghanistan and Iran - I have been working alot on Afghan women’s rights and supported the stop gender apartheid campaign for Iranians and Afghans. Your support means a lot