The Stackies 2024 Finalists
The Stacks community has spoken, here are our finalists for The 2024 Stackies!
Over 100 ballots were submitted to nominate books for the 2024 Stackies. I tallied them up, and the top five vote-getters in each category are below as the finalists for the 2024 Stackies. Voting will open up on January 13th for all paid subscribers to Unstacked and run through January 17th. The winners of this year’s Stackies will be announced on Friday, January 24th.
I have to say I am obsessed with the list you all came up with. Y’all have range. Seriously. I’ve added a bunch I haven’t read (or heard of) to my TBR already. I love it here.
Without further ado, the nominees are…
The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: (But I’m Going to Anyway) by Chelsea Devantez
Oye by Melissa Mogollon
Piglet by Lottie Hazel
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans
Colored Television by Danzy Senna
Come & Get It by Kiley Reid
James by Percival Everett
Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Another Word for Love by Carvell Wallace
Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten
Coming Home by Brittney Griner
I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: (But I’m Going to Anyway) by Chelsea Devantez
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
The Ministry of Time by Kalaine Bradley
Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse
Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell
Funny Story by Emily Henry
Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Guide Me Home by Attica Locke
Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra
Convergence Problems by Wole Talabi
Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda
Neighbors by Diane Oliver
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
Table for Two by Amor Towles
How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom by Johanna Hedva
Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse" by Emily Raboteau
Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Thunder Song by Sasha Lapointe
Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan
Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell illustrated by Ashley MacKenzie
Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire by Paula Yoo
Twenty-four Seconds from Now… by Jason Reynolds
The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag
I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together by Maurice Vellekoop
Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang illustrated by Leuyen Pham
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States adapted by Paul Peart-Smith
Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love by Sarah Leavitt
[...] by Fady Joudah
Bluff by Danez Smith
Forest of Noise by Mosab Abu Toha
The Moon that Turns You Back by Hala Alyan
We Alive, Beloved by Frederick Joseph
Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder by Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
A Long Walk from Gaza by Asmaa Alatawna, translated by Michelle Hartman & Caline Nasrallah
Mina's Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen B. Snyder
A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez, translated Megan McDowell
Big Night: Dinners, Parties & Dinner Parties by Katherine Lewin
Big Vegan Flavor: Techniques and 150 Recipes to Master Vegan Cooking by Nisha Vora
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks Ghosts by Crystal Wilkinson
What Goes with What: 100 Recipes, 20 Charts, Endless Possibilities by Julia Turshen
What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking by Caroline Chambers
All Fours by Miranda July
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
James by Percival Everett
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson
Colored Television by Danzy Senna
Come & Get It by Kiley Reid
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Piglet by Lottie Hazel
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
All Fours by Miranda July
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
Colored Television by Danzy Senna
James by Percival Everett
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Colored Television by Danzy Senna
Come & Get It by Kiley Reid
Joyful Recollections of Trauma by Paul Scheer
Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
Oye by Melissa Mogollon
All Fours by Miranda July
All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
Melania by Melania Trump
The Women by Kristin Hannah
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle
James by Percival Everett
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Book & Bottle (St. Petersburg, FL)
Call & Response Books (Chicago, IL)
Lemuria Books (Jackson, MS)
Loyalty Bookstores (Washington, DC)
Reparations Club (Los Angeles, CA)
And those are your finalists for The Stackies! Read up and be sure to subscribe to Unstacked so you can vote starting January 13th.
I absolutely LOVE that there is a hate category 👏🗑️ The whole list is epic!
Lots of great nominees, but let’s be clear - if Challenger doesn’t win, I strike. Justice for Challenger!!!