What To Read In 2024, According To Booksellers At Nantucket Bookworms

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.

Patch got in touch with the booksellers at Nantucket Book Partners, who represent Nantucket's two independent bookstores in Nantucket Bookworms and Mitchell's Book Corner.

Here’s what the Bookworms folks had to say:

What was your favorite book of 2023?

Suzanne: Favorite book of 2023 is "The Fraud" by Zadie Smith.

Katie: Favorite book of 2023 is "Victory City" by Salman Rushdie.

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

Suzanne: I love historical fiction and this novel was based on a true story and it was filled with interesting characters who stood for what they believed in.

Katie: It's a book of big ideas made easy to swallow with humor, its fable-like narrative and collection of distinguishable character types feel unique to this particular book.

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

Suzanne: I'm looking forward to Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange and Until August by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Katie: For 2024, excited for "The Familiar" by Leigh Bardugo, "Caledonian Road" by Andrew O'Hagan, "How To Live Free in a Dangerous World" by Shayla Lawson and "Who's Afraid of Gender" by Judith Butler.