Best of 2024 Books features picks from panelists ranging from sci-fi epics to comforting YA romances to punk memoirs to thoughtful dissections of AI and politics.

The Baby-Sitters Club series of books, written by Ann M. Martin from the mid-1980s to 2000, were formative reading materials for an entire generation of young readers, both women AND men. We celebrate this sprawling franchise with one of our most endearing debates ever.

The panelists share their individual Top 3 books published in 2023, ranging from celebrity memoirs, to compelling fiction, to sci-fi shockers, to graphic-novel romances.

The podcast panelists share their individual picks for the Top 3 books published in 2022.