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23 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2024

 With new wonders from Rachel Cusk, Percival Everett, Tommy Orange, and more.
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Sarah J. Maas Is the Mortal Queen of Faerie Smut

 Her massively popular series, including “A Court of Thorns and Roses,” mix fantasy lore with soft-core romance — and a whole lot of trauma. By Kathryn VanArendonk
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The Best Comedy Books of 2023

 From memoirs by beloved performers to exhaustive looks at towering comic phenomena. By Brian Boone
  1. meta-text
    Do I Really Need to Op-Ed to Sell Books?Writing essays to help promote your work is a growing expectation that merits more scrutiny.
    By Tajja Isen
  2. book review
    In Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange Writes a New Secret HistoryThe author’s second novel, after the dazzling There There, follows family members who are inheriting more than they know.
    By Emma Alpern
  3. weep beneath my wings
    Which Part of Beaches Makes the Author of Beaches Cry Hardest?“I’m a sob sister.”
    By Rebecca Alter
  4. bad day for books
    The Hugo Awards Scandal Is a MessLeaked emails show an orchestrated effort to deem nominees “ineligible” over their political leanings.
    By Zoe Guy
  5. vulture lists
    12 Books to Read If You Can’t Move On From Night CountryThese icy, lonesome tales will scratch the same frostbitten itch as True Detective’s fourth season.
    By Neil McRobert
  7. still coming soon
    Hulu Isn’t Giving Up on A Court of Thorns and Roses AdaptationIt was just a maassive miscommunication.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  8. books
    Lucy Sante: Here She Comes NowThe author of ‘Low Life’ and ‘Kill All Your Darlings’ tried to keep a safe distance from herself — and her own desires. Until, at 66, she broke free.
    By Carl Swanson
  9. rip
    Cecilia Gentili, Multi-Hyphenate Revolutionary, Dead at 52She starred as Miss Orlando on Pose and premiered her own one-woman show, Red Ink, last year.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  10. mystery solved
    Will the Real Elly Conway Please Stand Up?The mysterious author has been uncovered and it’s not Taylor Swift or JK Rowling.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  11. scene report
    Midnight MaasInside the after-hours release party where otters, Swifties, and recovering Bookstagrammers celebrated Sarah J. Maas’s House of Flame and Shadow.
    By Emma Alpern
  12. vulture guides
    12 Romantasy Authors to KnowHere are some of the most popular creators of sexy fantasy worlds.
    By Julie Kosin and Kathryn VanArendonk
  13. elly conway
    Taylor Swift Did Not Write the Argylle Book, So Why Do Swifties Think She Did?Some of the evidence is actually compelling.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  14. encounter
    Venita Blackburn’s First Novel Runs on DenialWith her book Dead in Long Beach, California, she takes on the kind of grief that can lead to deception.
    By Mariella Rudi
  15. you should be writing
    How to Write a Book Right NowJami Attenberg and the mysterious case of the 1000 words.
    By Choire Sicha
  16. vulture lists
    2024 Book-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your Reading ListNew Marvel, new Walking Dead, and a little film called Dune Part 2.
    By Emily Maskell
  17. party report
    Good Omens’ Neil Gaiman Knows How Much You Ship Aziraphale and CrowleyHe reacts to their rankings on the Archive of Our Own fan-fiction website.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  18. barry recommends
    Barack Obama Is Putting on His Critic’s Hat AgainRita Wilson made it on his 2023 Wrapped.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  19. sigh
    Jessica Chastain Isn’t Going to Play Evelyn HugoPlease don’t chip your tooth kissing the screen.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  20. yaoi
    Hear Me Out: Is Saltburn Actually Twilight Fanfiction?College AU, CW: main-character death.
    By Bethy Squires
  21. coming soon
    Your New Favorite Nicole Kidman TV Drama Is on Its WayLulu Wang’s Expats hits Prime Video on January 26.
    By Justin Curto
  22. best of 2023
    The Year in CultureThe best shows, movies, albums, books, and more, as chosen by our critics.
    By Vulture Editors
  23. books
    Laila El-Haddad on How Gaza Is Losing Its Food CultureHer book, The Gaza Kitchen, is a work of “ghost archaeology” — an effort to document the cuisine when Palestinians had more control over their land.
    By E. Alex Jung
  24. presents!
    Books Worth Gifting in 2023 (That Aren’t Celebrity Memoirs)Everyone’s already read The Woman in Me.
    By Vulture Staff
  25. best of 2023
    The Best Memoirs of 2023These 10 books explore what it means to be a person.
    By Arianna Rebolini
  26. books
    Every Celebrity’s a Writer NowA guide to 2023’s overflowing library of celebrity memoirs (and memoirishes).
    By Fran Hoepfner
  27. best of 2023
    The Best Books of 2023Ten authors whose original ideas challenged our preconceived notions of the world.
    By Maris Kreizman
  28. you didn’t hear it from me
    Hot Goss: DeuxMoi Is Becoming a TV ShowDiablo Cody and Ryan O’Connell are writing this. A likely place for them to be.
    By Bethy Squires
  29. books
    Paul Lynch Wins Booker Prize for Prophet SongHis novel “captures the social and political anxieties of our current moment.”
    By Zoe Guy
  30. vulture lists
    5 Great Audiobooks to Listen to This MonthBarbra Streisand remembers everything in her new memoir, while Megan Fox shares her poetry.
    By Marshall Heyman
  31. buffering
    Four Books About TV and Movies to Read Right NowAn oral history of The O.C., the inside story of Marvel, and more.
    By Josef Adalian
  32. rip
    A.S. Byatt, Scholar and Possession Novelist, Dead at 87“Antonia’s books are the most wonderful jewel-boxes of stories and ideas,” her publisher stated.
    By Jason P. Frank
  33. scene report
    What’s So Controversial About the National Book Awards?Despite sponsor backlash over nominees’ plan to call for a cease-fire, the evening showed that literature is inextricable from the cause of humanity.
    By Julie Kosin
  34. coming soon
    The Percy Jackson and the Olympians Trailer Is Here, Thank GodsGet ready access your inner middle-schooler.
    By Bethy Squires
  35. awards
    Justin Torres Wins National Book Award for FictionWith Ned Blackhawk honored for nonfiction.
    By Zoe Guy
  36. encounter
    In Lexi Freiman’s Books, It’s So Easy to Be WrongHer novel The Book of Ayn is about a newly canceled person in a toxic relationship with her ego.
    By Emma Alpern
  37. vulture festival 2023
    R.O. Kwon’s Parents Shouldn’t Read Her Sexy Next Novel“Trust me,” she told them at this year’s Vulture Fest.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  38. trailer mix
    Are Game of Thrones Creators Beheading Another Main Character?In Netflix’s 3 Body Problem, out March 21.
    By Zoe Guy
  39. adaptations
    All the Changes We Can See in All the Light We Cannot See’s Onscreen EndingIn its onscreen dénouement, Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer-winning novel undergoes significant changes.
    By Maggie Fremont
  40. chapters
    Truth Is What a Comedian Makes of ItComics have long strived for some version of authenticity. But what that looks like — and how genuine it is — continues to evolve.
    By Jesse David Fox
  41. tbr
    All the Books With 2023 Screen Adaptations to Add to Your Reading ListIncluding the Hunger Games prequel and a new season of Slow Horses.
    By Emily Maskell
  42. you wanna piece of me?
    Britney Spears Sold 1.1 Million Copies of Her Memoir in One WeekYou betta buy, bitch.
    By Jason P. Frank
  43. book review
    In Alex Pheby’s Novel Malarkoi, God Is Dead and Objects Are AliveThe second book in Alex Pheby’s trilogy Cities of the Weft spins fantasy tropes in strange and visceral new dimensions.
    By Emma Alpern
  44. celebrity memoirs
    John Stamos Won’t Have Mercy on His MemoirHe comes full circle on the whole Tony Danza drama.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  45. the woman in me
    Justin Timberlake Can Cry Us a RiverFrom a “six or seven girl” rebound to an AAVE moment with Ginuwine, here’s what Britney has to say about her terrible ex.
    By Zoe Guy
  46. in her words
    Ghost ChildIn The Woman in Me, Britney Spears asserts the very fact of her existence.
    By Christine Smallwood
  47. roll clip!
    Britney Spears Could Have Had Ryan Gosling Forever, EverydayHer now-leaked audition for The Notebook “blew” the casting director away.
    By Justin Curto
  48. gimme gim-memoir
    Justin Timberlake “Thought Maybe Music Would Help” Britney Spears’s Abortion“… So he got his guitar and he lay there with me, strumming it.”
    By Zoe Guy
  49. the woman in me
    Britney Spears Says Music ‘Is Not My Focus at the Moment’Instead, she’s trying “to get my spiritual life in order,” she writes in her new memoir.
    By Justin Curto
  50. moving on
    Britney Spears Has ‘Moved On’ From the PastShe feels like she’s gotten “closure” after writing her upcoming memoir.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  51. close reads
    Britney Spears Owns Her ‘Past, Present and Future’The biggest revelations from her memoir so far.
    By Zoe Guy
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