You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

I'm author and book to power, Mallory O'Mara.

And I'm Brea Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader.

This episode, it's our biggest, bestest, brightest of the year.

The top books we've read in 2024. The top books

published and we read in 2024. The biggest, most exciting. Brea, we train all year for this.

It's finally time. Yeah. But first, what are you reading? Well, I started on that backlist,

maybe, because I don't, I got, as I was telling you before we started, I got really tired of reading 2024 books and I said,

you know what? I started a good one. Pretty good 24 book. And I said, no, no, I have too many

already for my list. I'm going to go into the back list. It's like when a hot guy flirts with you

when you're married. You're like, no, I'm all good. I'm good. I'm all full girl in red by Christina Henry, which is a retelling of a little red riding hood.

She has an Allison Wonderland one, too.

She does.

She has a few retellings.

This one's set in a post-apocalyptic, disease-filled, ravished landscape.

And it is about a girl.

Sounds like a Briabook.

Trying to make her way to her grandmother's house and she wears a red coat and she

carries around the law. She still has to make her way to, she told her grandma she was going

to make it and so she's going to make it. That's so sweet. And she starts across the apocalyptic

wasteland with her brother. And yeah, so it's a retelling. It's very apocalyptic. It's a real woman on a journey. What are you reading?

I was just saying the book that I'm halfway through right now maybe was going to be on this list.

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