What To Read In 2024, According To Mathew Tombers Of Edgartown Books

Massachusetts has a plethora of terrific bookstores, including those that are locally owned.

At those stores are booksellers with expansion knowledge of the industry: what’s coming out this year, what the books to read from the recent past are and other aspects of the industry us casual readers wouldn’t think of.

With that in mind, Patch reached out to bookstores around the community to check in and see what some of their booksellers, owners and other fixtures at the store would recommend for your reading throughout 2024.

At Edgartown Books, Mathew Tombers is looking forward to the latest work from Alvaro Enrique.

Here’s what else Tombers recommends:

What was your favorite book of 2023?

"Thursday Murder Club"

What was special about this work that put it at the top of your list?

I was on vacation; I needed a book that was interesting though not demanding. It is, I think, destined to be a classic in a long line of British mystery classics.

Is there a book you’re looking forward to that is set to be published in 2024?

Just came out: "You Dreamed of Empires" by Alvaro Enrique, a telling of the meeting of Cortes and Montezuma. I have taken it with me on vacation.

Other books you’re excited to read this year?

"The Women" by Kristin Hannah, a look at someone coming of age during the Vietnam War. "Wandering Stars" by Tommy Orange, how something over a century ago reverberates today.