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Barnes & Noble’s Guide of the 12 months is….
James is Barnes & Noble’s Guide of the 12 months. I had a bit of enjoyable with this announcement on Instagram, however that is the best choice. I’ll cannibalize what I wrote about James for Guide Riot’s forthcoming Greatest Books of the 12 months put up:
“James was my most anticipated book of 2024 from the moment I heard that it was coming. A Huck Finn reimagining from the literary Morpheus that is Percival Everett was reason enough to be excited, but add to that the heat around him from American Fiction and his move to Doubleday, and this thing was set up to be major. And it is a modern masterpiece. By turns hilarious, beguiling, provocative, and terrifying, James is virtuosic. It is a miracle of page-turning readerly entertainment paired with god-tier literary experimentation and thematic depth. We don’t get ones like this very often, so when we do it is cause for celebration.”