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I read so many books in 2024—more than I have in years and more than I have chronicled on my online reading trackers. 👀 Of all the titles I picked up this year, here are the ones that have stuck with me the hardest. 📚🖤✨

Have you read any of these books? What would you recommend based on my picks? What were your favorite reads of the year? Tell me in the comments!

(Authors and artists who aren’t tagged: Apparently you can only add 20 tags to a post but I hope y’all see this! Thank you for creating such great books!)

#ReadIn2024 #2024InReview 

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Favorite Books of 2024

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Samantha Puc (she/they) is a fat, disabled, lesbian writer and editor whose work focuses primarily on LGBTQ+ and fat representation in pop culture. Their writing has been featured on Polygon, Refinery29, Bitch Media, them., and elsewhere. Samantha is the Community Voices Blog Editor at NAAFA, the co-creator of Fatventure Mag, and a contributor to the award-winning Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives. They graduated in May 2025 with a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative nonfiction from The New School. When Samantha is not working or writing, she loves spending time with her cats, reading, and perfecting her grilled cheese recipe.

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