In this festive special, Kerry revisits the books she read in 2024, shares her To Be Read list for next year, and talks about her Yearly Themes.

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Yearly Themes — Cortex

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Logging Off Club by Adele Zeynep Walton

You Don't Need a Smartphone by August Lamm

The Tidal Year by Freya Bromley

Lost Cat by Mary Gaitskill

The Burnout by Sophie Kinsella

Open by Andre Agassi

This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes

Emily Henry books

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

The White Album by Joan Didion

Maggie Rogers' essay on Joan Didion

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

Piglet by Lottie Hazell

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Bunny by Mona Awad

Goodlord by Ella Frears

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

The Signalman by Charles Dickens

The Serpent and the Wings of Night

If Only by Vigdis Hjorth

A Year of Nothing by Emma Gannon