Plus, our favorite reads of the year
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John,
We don’t know about you, but we think now is a damn good time to hunker down with the comforts of a good book. And if you’re anything like us, you’re also planning to give books to your loved ones this holiday season. Below are the titles that left the biggest impact on our staff in 2024.
You can find those titles and more at Bookshop.org ([link removed]) , where Breach is an affiliate. Bookshop is fantastic because it allows you to buy books and support independent bookstores and organizations doing meaningful work. As an affiliate, Breach Collective receives 10% of sales made via our organization’s link ([link removed]) . So, when you shop on the site (with the Breach logo in the upper left) you're supporting our work and independent bookstores across the country. It's a win-win!
Wishing you a bookish holiday season,
The Breach Team
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STAFF PICKS
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Aya’s Pick
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century ([link removed]) by Kim Fu
This series of short horror/sci-fi stories grapples with human nature and fictionalizes dystopian aspects of modern society. Each Twilight Zone-esque vignette has its distinctive feel and theme, leaving enough ambiguity and open-endedness to be deeply thought-provoking. Simultaneously relatable and bizarre, these stories invite us to sit with the uncomfortable.
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Caitlin’s Pick
Orbital ([link removed]) by Samantha Harvey
Orbital invites you to travel to the international space station through the perspective of six astronauts, and offers a tantalizing and existential illustration of what it is like to be in space. Beautiful writing, with one particularly visceral scene that made my stomach drop as though I were actually the one floating above Earth, tethered to a space craft.
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Danny’s Pick
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine ([link removed]) by Rashid Khalid
I was going to choose The Bee Sting by Paul Murray, which had both a gripping narrative and, for me, served as an exploration of the calamities that are produced by alienation and atomization. But then I recently finished Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, which offers an extremely accessible history of the conflict in Palestine, and both widened and depended my understanding of the roots of the current catastrophe. I cannot recommend it enough.
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Meg’s Pick
Intermezzo ([link removed]) by Sally Rooney
I found Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo to be her most compelling and complex novel yet. The way the rhythm of grief flowed through her characters and her sincere portrayal of their painful yearnings for connection made for a viscerally stinging reading experience. And nobody writes dialogue like Rooney. Pick this one up if you’re in the mood to embrace messy, tender humanness.
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Nick’s Pick
The Exhausted of the Earth ([link removed]) by Ajay Singh Chaudhary
The Exhausted of the Earth is an essential commentary about our current political moment, the false solutions that permeate our discourse, and a path forward for uniting social movements and organized labor to protect against the worst impacts of climate catastrophes to come.
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Sherri’s Pick
Always Coming Home ([link removed]) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Imaginative, thought-provoking, complex, and weird. I loved being immersed in the rich and deeply textured world that Le Guin created and feeling like a participant rather than an observer. This book invites reflection on community and connection to the land in an unexpected and masterful way.
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