{"id":813600,"date":"2024-12-21T21:12:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T03:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/21\/our-favorite-books-we-read-in-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-12-21T21:12:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T03:12:44","slug":"our-favorite-books-we-read-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/21\/our-favorite-books-we-read-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Our favorite books we read in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

We may be a bit technology-obsessed here, but the Engadget team does occasionally get around to low-tech activities, like reading. Well, some of us read on ereaders<\/a> or our smartphones, but you get the point \u2014 books are great, and we read some exceptional ones this year that each deserve a shoutout. These are some of the best books we read in 2024.<\/p>\n

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I did a lot<\/em> of reading in 2024, and was pretty lucky to have (mostly) enjoyed all the books and comics I picked up. That could have made it difficult to choose favorites when it came time to reflect on the year, but there was no question in my mind about which book I loved most, because one in particular fully knocked me on my ass, ripped my heart out, made me laugh, made me cry, etc., etc., etc.: Stephen Graham Jones\u2019 I Was A Teenage Slasher<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Now, I Was A Teenage Slasher<\/em> wouldn\u2019t seem like the kind story that\u2019d leave you weeping about love and the power of friendship if you\u2019re, you know, judging a book by its cover. The slasher genre isn\u2019t exactly known for emotional depth, so if you went into this thinking you were just in for a classic revenge-killing spree with some teenage antics mixed in, I wouldn\u2019t blame you. And you wouldn\u2019t be entirely wrong \u2014 this book indeed has those things. But the supernatural slasher element, while being a major part of the plot, feels secondary to the rollercoaster coming of age story that\u2019s really at its heart.<\/p>\n

Tolly Driver doesn\u2019t want to be a slasher, but he is. It\u2019s in his blood, thanks to a string of freak incidents that aligned in just the right way to seal his fate. Amber, his best friend and truly a ride-or-die, has lots of knowledge on the subject and essentially becomes his trip guide on this bewildering journey. I Was A Teenage Slasher<\/em> deals with a lot of difficult subjects, like the grief of losing a parent young, something I instantly related to, the pressure of trying to do right by the people you love, and the terrifying reality of growing up and growing into yourself. But it’s also very often funny, which helped offset all the gore and tragedy.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is the second year in a row a Stephen Graham Jones book has landed at the top of my list, which isn\u2019t surprising because I\u2019m a big fan, but I Was A Teenage Slasher<\/em> is really on another level. It isn\u2019t just one of my favorite books of the year, it\u2019s probably one of my favorite books ever. I wanted to start it over the second I finished reading it, but I couldn\u2019t because I was crying too hard. \u2014 Cheyenne MacDonald, Weekend Editor<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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We may be a bit technology-obsessed here, but the Engadget team does occasionally get around to low-tech activities, like reading. Well, some of us read on ereaders or our smartphones, but you get the point \u2014 books are great, and we read some exceptional ones this year that each deserve a shoutout. These are some<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":813601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[349,528,46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-813600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-favorite","9":"category-technology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}