Best Literary Fiction of 2024 (New & Anticipated)
2024 is shaping up to be a solid year for literary fiction releases. I had the pleasure of reading James recently, which is probably the biggest literary fiction release so far this year and it’s a book I whole-heartedly recommend. This list of the best New and Anticipated 2024 Literary Fiction Books is based on …
James
James is Percival Everett’s retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told from the perspective of Jim, the runaway slave that travels with Huck down the Mississippi in the novel. Released last month (March 19) to resoundingly positive reviews, Everett’s newest offering re-centers the novel on Jim’s experience. In doing so, it highlights …
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
In The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, McBride tells a compassionate and humorous story about community and its people. The book was selected as one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2023, it’s been popular among various book clubs and the reviews have been fantastic. I also previously read Deacon King Kong, also by James …