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The must-read novels, ... to literary fiction, mysteries, memoirs, and everything in between, here are the best books of 2024: ... to a historical fantasy set in the Spanish Golden Age, and it's a ...
Now, Bardugo tackles another first: The Familiar, an adult historical fantasy set during the Spanish Golden Age, is the author’s first-ever standalone novel in any genre. $17.98 at amazon.com I ...
In August 2024, British singer Dua Lipa praised the novel, and it became one of her picks for her reading club Service95. She also expressed via a post in Instagram that she got "actual chills" when reading the opening scenes of the book. She defined the novel as a study on identity, love, and acceptance in post francoist Spain. [4]
The list also includes one book that won two categories: Romance queen Emily Henry's "Funny Story" was readers' pick for both "Best Romance" and "Best Audiobook," which was a newly introduced ...
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was The Women by Kristin Hannah with 10 weeks at the top of the list, followed by Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros with 6 weeks at the top of the list and It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover with 5 weeks at the top of the list.
The highest-ranked book on the list was the Elena Ferrante novel My Brilliant Friend published in 2012. Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author.
The novel had sold more than 300,000 copies in Spain by the time the sequel Maldita Roma was published in 2023. [2]Publishers Weekly called I Am Rome "an engrossing narrative" with "action, oratory, and spectacle galore", writing that its frequent disregard for historical accuracy makes it comparable to Christian Jacq's novels about Ramses II. [3]
THE LIST: Catch up on the year’s best new novels with Katie Rosseinsky and Jessie Thompson’s edit of 2024’s most memorable fiction