10 Beloved Authors We Lost in 2024

"Auster harnesses the inquiring spirit any reader brings to a mystery, redirecting it from the grubby search for a wrongdoer to the more rarified search for self." – The New York Times Book Review

"Despite the burnings and bans, O’Brien’s stories of Kate Brady and Baba Brennan as they leave their country convent school behind and take on Dublin—and with it, love, sex, marriage, and breakups—spurred a cultural revolution in Ireland." — Vanity Fair

"There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality, but only one masterpiece. That masterpiece is Thinking, Fast and Slow... This is one of the greatest and most engaging collections of insights into the human mind I have read." —The Financial Times

"Wise and mischievous, Giovanni is a must-read at every stage of her happily, still growing oeuvre." – Booklist

"This Hugo Award winner is a masterpiece of universe building: Vast, riveting, far-future saga...The overall concept astonishes; the aliens are developed with memorable skill and insight, the plot twists and turns with unputdownable tension." – Kirkus Reviews

"A wondrous novel about a period of African history few other writers have addressed... Much of the novel's radiance comes from the lush descriptions of a traditional life that is both exotic and violent." — The New York Times Book Review

"Here lies the key to Munro’s greatness – the way in which she polished the same apparently humdrum material to a luminous sheen. Her stories are small miracles of humane understanding." – The Guardian

"Who better to take on the loneliness epidemic than the legend who helped us talk about sex without blushing. As Dr. Ruth knows, our needs go well beyond the bedroom. This is urgent work. We're lucky to have her in the fight." — Dan Harris

"24 astute, consummately readable, and often droll essays on mostly literary topics... the author’s wit and insight make anything worth reading about... A top-notch collection full of information, elegance, and humor." — Kirkus Reviews

"Packed into this visual bible of larger-than-life style are bite-size bits of her philosophy, her history, her advice: the Book of Iris. She jumps so vividly to life that as you turn the last, pink-edged page, you almost expect a pop-up Iris to burst from the turquoise endpapers to share just one more aperçu." — Air Mail