You mean 2024... Myrina Holmes by Anna Triss (a trilogy) ❤️‍🔥

Toss up between Hello Beautiful and Prophet Song

Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk or The Believer: a year in the fly fishing life by David Coggins!

A Disappearance in Fiji, by Nilima Rao

For 2024: close call between Cleopatra and Frankstein and The Four Winds

Since I'm still reading it and it will definitely last me till the next year, I'd say "The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture" by Susan Stewart.

For pleasure: Talonsister by Jen Williams... But also Piranesi by Susana Clarke, Sunbringer by Hannah Kaner For work : What Happened to you by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Parry