The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Women

❤️ loved this book because...

This is a story that I knew nothing about so I found it informative yet emotionally engaging. I loved the main character and the visual of all that she had gone through. It's a part of history that we just are not taught. I appreciate the Kristin and Hannah told the story of so many untold and unseen nurses of the Vietnam war.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Teach 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Kristin Hannah ,

Why should I read it?

62 authors picked The Women as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The missing. The forgotten. The brave… The women.

From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes the story of a turbulent, transformative era in America: the 1960s. The Women is that rarest of novels—at once an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided by war and broken by politics, of a generation both fueled by dreams and lost on the battlefield.

“Women can be heroes, too.”

When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these unexpected…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Goddess of Warsaw

❤️ loved this book because...

I've read a ton about World War II but this is the first one I had read about the ghetto living. I loved seeing the character in the future and in the past and all the twist and turns the plot took.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Lisa Barr ,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked The Goddess of Warsaw as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

USA TODAY BESTSELLER

“Utterly gripping. . . a transformative and immersive story so powerful and captivating that I could not put it down. . . . Truly one of the best books I’ve read.”—Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish

“Lisa Barr's new historical fiction, The Goddess of Warsaw, gifts the reader with jaw-dropping moments worthy of a Tarantino film, a story that could not be more timely, and a heroine whose ferocity and valor knows no bounds.”—Natalie Jenner, author of the instant international bestseller The Jane Austen Society

The Goddess of Warsaw is an enthralling tale of…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Frozen River

❤️ loved this book because...

I loved the heroine in this book and her day-to-day stories. I had no idea the lives of midwives in that time, although I could've guessed the mistreatment of the women. The characters were really well developed, and I couldn't put it down.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Teach 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Ariel Lawhon ,

Why should I read it?

43 authors picked The Frozen River as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • GMA BOOK CLUB PICK • AN NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history.

"Fans of Outlander’s Claire Fraser will enjoy Lawhon’s Martha, who is brave and outspoken when it comes to protecting the innocent. . . impressive."—The Washington Post

"Once again, Lawhon works storytelling magic with a real-life heroine." —People Magazine

Maine, 1789: When…


Book cover of The Women
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