Duck Prints Press Rec List Contributors’ Favorite Reads of 2024

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As we approach the end of 2024, we wanted to take a moment and ask our usual crew of rec list contributors a simple, yet very difficult to answer, question: what was your one (1) favorite book of 2024? We didn’t require queerness for this list, and we didn’t dictate when books needed to have been published – we just wanted to know what people read that they loved! This is the resulting list.

• Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1) by Michael Crichton (Rascal Hartley’s favorite)
• Greywaren (Dreamer Trilogy, #3) by Maggie Stiefvater (Shea Sullivan’s favorite)
• The Imperial Uncle by Da Feng Gua Guo (Nina Waters’s favorite)
• These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1) by Bethany Jacobs (Rhosyn Goodfellow’s favorite)
• Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky (callmesalticidae’s favorite)
• Really Cute People by Markus Harwood-Jones (hullosweetpea’s favorite)
• The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan (polls’s favorite)
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Sanne’s favorite)
• The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (YF Ollwell’s favorite)
• Rosemary and Rue (October Daye, #1) by Seanan McGuire (Sebastian Marie’s favorite)
• Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1) by Tamsyn Muir (Zel Howland’s favorite)
• Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell (Alex’s favorite)
• Babel by R.F. Kuang (Nova Mason’s favorite)
• We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds (Shannon’s favorite)
• A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall (Linnea Peterson’s favorite)
• Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales (S. J. Ralston’s favorite)
• Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace (Shadaras’s favorite)
• Wolfsong (Green Creek, #1) by T.J. Klune (Tris Lawrence’s favorite)
• The Charioteer by Mary Renault (the favorite of an anonymous contributor)
• The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia by Neil Price (Dei Walker’s favorite)

What was YOUR one (1) favorite read of 2024?

Did you know? We keep a list of all the books we recommend on Goodreads, sorted into shelves reflecting different representation!

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