Book*hug Wrapped 2024: Author’s Edition

To celebrate the end of the year, which delightfully coincides with the season of book-gifting, we asked some of our 2024 authors to recommend some titles that they’ve read recently and loved! We hope you enjoy their selections, and that some will end up on your reading lists for the holiday season.

Jacob Wren, author of Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim

• Cop City Swagger by Mercedes Eng
• American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cardenas
• Opacities by Sofia Samatar

Omar Mouallem, co-editor of Back Where I Came From: On Culture, Identity, and Home

• The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Ghosts of Crook County by Russell Cobb
• The Widow’s Guide to Dead Bastards by Jessica Waite

Taslim Jaffer, co-editor of Back Where I Came From: On Culture, Identity, and Home

• Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood by Adrienne Gruber
• I Don’t Do Disability, and Other Lies I’ve Told Myself by Adelle Purdham
• The Wedding by Gurjinder Basran

Susan Ouriou, translator of Sugaring Off by Fanny Britt

• The Future by Catherine Leroux
• The Taste of Hunder by Barbara Joan Scott
• Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis

Stephen Cain, author of Walking and Stealing

• The Loom by Andy Weaver
• Toxemia by Christine McNair
• Cop City Swagger by Mercedes Eng