Auraist's best-written books of 2024

As chosen by our contributors and the best literary Substackers

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IN TODAY’S ISSUE

—The best-written literary fiction, speculative fiction, and nonfiction of 2024, as featured on Auraist, and as chosen by many of our favourite Substackers. (A few of these were released last year - our post on the best-written books of 2023 is here).

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