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2024's Popular Books for Adults!

We've rounded up some of the most well-loved non-fiction, graphic novel, and fiction books of 2024 for adults! From taking in the mystery of algorithms to learning about reproductive care in America, 2024 has given us a ton to explore!

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  • Restoration ecology is grounded in an idea that we must return the natural world to an untouched, pristine state, placing humans in a godlike role - a notion at odds with Indigenous histories of purposeful, reciprocal interaction with the…
    Book, 2024[Toronto, Ontario] : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2024.
  • Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lake-side hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the…
    Book, 2024New York : Berkley, [2024]
  • Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two is the eagerly awaited conclusion to one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of the past decade. Presented as the fictional graphic diary of…
    Graphic Novel, 2024Seattle, Washington : Fantagraphics Books, 2024.
  • Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell. But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running streaming series know just the thing to kick…
    Book, 2024New York : Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group, 2024.
  • Framed

    Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

    Grisham, John,
    A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there is very little room to prove doubt. Framed shares ten true stories of men who were innocent but found guilty and forced to…
    Book, 2024New York : Doubleday, [2024]
  • Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing…
    Book, 2024New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024.
  • Twelve years after a disastrous explosion, young Hailey is dropped off by her mum at a holiday camp in a dilapidated shopping mall. Alienated from the other kids, she connects with an eerie older teen named Jen... but soon dark horrors awaken, and…
    Graphic Novel, 2024Sherman Oaks, CA : Top Shelf Productions ; [2024]
  • Slow Productivity

    the Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

    Newport, Cal,
    The author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work offers a philosophy for pursuing meaningful accomplishment while avoiding overload. History's most creative and impactful philosophers, scientists, artists, and writers mastered the art of producing…
    Book, 2024[New York] : Portfolio/Penguin, [2024]
  • Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan:…
    Book, 2024New York : Forever, [2024]
  • Chaos reigns in Olympus as Zeus publicly declares Persephone a traitor and issues a warrant for her arrest. But Hades defies his brother's decree, sheltering Persephone in the Underworld, and as the pair spend more time together, they are able to…
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York : Del Rey, [2024]
  • Knife

    Meditations After An Attempted Murder

    Rushdie, Salman,
    From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring--and surviving--an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first…
    Book, 2024Toronto, Ontario : Alfred A. Knopf Canada [2024]
  • Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast--again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the…
    Book, 2024New York : Berkleyp, 2024.
  • Live, laugh, shed blood. It's Dexter meets Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy Town in this twisted debut graphic novel! Don't. Murder. The locals. This is small-town serial killer, upstanding citizen, and adorable brown bear Samantha Strong's cardinal…
    Graphic Novel, 2024Sherman Oaks, California : Random House, [2024]
  • Filterworld

    How Algorithms Flattened Culture

    Chayka, Kyle,
    From coffee shops to rental apartments to social media posts the world round, a sleek and deceptively simple aesthetic has come to predominate. It's in the neon signs and exposed brick of an Internet cafe in Nairobi or the skeletal, modern furniture…
    Book, 2024New York : Doubleday, 2024.
  • In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is…
    Book, 2024New York : Flatiron Books, [2024]
  • Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of five children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970s in a middle class suburb of Toronto. He loves watching Cher and Carol Burnett on TV, making clothes for his best friend’s Barbie dolls, and helping…
    Graphic Novel, 2024Toronto, Ontario : Random House Canada, 2024.
  • This American Ex-wife

    How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

    Lenz, Lyz,
    tudies show that nearly 70 percent of divorces are initiated by women-women who are tired, fed up, exhausted, and unhappy. We've all seen how the media portrays divorcées: sad, lonely, drowning their sorrows in a bottle of wine. Lyz Lenz is one such…
    Book, 2024New York : Crown, [2024]
  • Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter.…
    Book, 2024New York, New York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, [2024]
  • Val is ready to give up on love. It's led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and she's pretty sure she's cursed--no one in her family, for generations, has ever had any luck with love. But then a chance encounter with a pair of cute lion dancers…
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York : First Seconc, 2024.
  • Blood

    the Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

    Gunter, Jen,
    Most of us know about as much about how the uterus and ovaries function as we do about how the liver works. Add in societal shame around the menstrual cycle and it's not surprising that misinformation is widespread. But, as women's health advocate…
    Book, 2024Toronto, Ontario : Random House Canada, [2024]