The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Hidden Pictures

❤️ loved this book because...

The drawings of the murder we’re actually featured in the book

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Thoughts 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Jason Rekulak ,

Why should I read it?

6 authors picked Hidden Pictures as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER · OPTIONED FOR NETFLIX BY A PRODUCER OF THE BATMAN

“I loved it." —Stephen King

From Edgar Award-finalist Jason Rekulak comes a wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, for fans of Stranger Things and Riley Sager, about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.

Mallory Quinn is fresh out of rehab when she takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy.

Mallory immediately loves it. She has her own living space, goes out for nightly runs, and…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Little Wife Lies

❤️ loved this book because...

Funny, shocking

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Story/Plot 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Katherine Cobb ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Little Wife Lies as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

He's a Texan with a temper. She's as sweet as sin. When sparks start to fly, have they lit a deadly fuse?

Washington DC. Hank McCallister's slow drawl hides fast fists. Staying busy in his spare time by breaking up bar fights in the nation's capital, the happy-go-lucky twenty-four-year-old delights in rescuing damsels in distress. And when the charming hothead lays eyes on a petite sex bomb in trouble, he's thrilled to lay out her boyfriend...and sign on as her latest squeeze.

Caught off-guard when his gorgeous new girlfriend announces she's pregnant, Hank loyally steps up and proposes marriage. But…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Trivia Night

👍 liked this book because...

Couple swapping drama

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Story/Plot 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Ali Lowe ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Trivia Night as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

'Unputdownable . . . spookily familiar, funny, and darkly captivating. I loved it'
Sally Hepworth

Question: How long does it take to tear someone's life apart?
Answer: Sometimes just one night.

From the outside the parents of the kindergarten class at Darley Heights primary school seem to have it all. Living in the wealthy Sydney suburbs, it's a community where everyone knows each other - and secrets don't stay secret for long.

The big date in the calendar is the school's annual fundraising trivia night, but when the evening gets raucously out of hand, talk turns to partner-swapping. Initially scandalised,…


Book cover of Hidden Pictures
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