This issue celebrates the best of Booklist 2024, but for all the stars we bestowed and all the titles we selected for Bookist Editors’ Choice and the pinnacle, Top of the List, Booklist staff have their own personal favorite books, TV series, and podcast. We share those here as a closing toast to this year and a welcome to the next with high hopes and gratitude for your readership.
Ablaze! The Mysterious Fires of Spontaneous Human Combustion. By Larry E. Arnold.
Growing up in the ’70s, I was convinced that the