The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Karla's Choice

Dick Lochte ❤️ loved this book because...

The characters were created by the author's father, John le Carre. What I really liked was that Harkaway recreated them so successfully. Similarly, he was able to recreate the decades' old spy world.

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

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Nick Harkaway ,

Why should I read it?

4 authors picked Karla's Choice as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A gripping new novel set in the universe of John le Carre's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway

Set in the missing decade between two iconic instalments in the George Smiley saga, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Nick Harkaway's Karla's Choice is an extraordinary, thrilling return to the world of spy fiction's greatest writer, John le Carre.

It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West's spy war with the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Caretaker

Dick Lochte 👍 liked this book because...

  • Loved Most

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

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Ron Rash ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, The Caretaker by award-winning author Ron Rash ("One of the great American authors at work today" —The New York Times) is a breathtaking love story and a searing examination of the acts we seek to justify in the name of duty, family, honor, and love.

It’s 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Judgment Prey

Dick Lochte ❤️ loved this book because...

Sandford's earlier books were good solid crime novels, but the recent ones are all that and they're filled with genuinely funny hardboiled dialogue.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By John Sandford ,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked Judgment Prey as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers take on another challenging case in this thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Rockets' Red Glare

By William Webster, Dick Lochte ,

Book cover of Rockets' Red Glare

What is my book about?

After two wilderness guides are gunned down at a remote campsite in a nearby national forest, it's determined that the fatal shots came from Wyoming's Wind River Indian Reservation. Tribal Police Deputy Sage Mendiluze is called in to hike the rugged backcountry and investigate. Sussing out the sniper's perch, he and his Australian shepherd, Peak, just escape becoming two more casualties when an IED is tripped. The site tells Sage there are two perps. The explosion confirms they are devious and extremely dangerous.

Soon, more visitors to national parks across America have been murdered. After his display of stellar investigative and tracking skills, Sage--with Peak at his side--is recruited by Special Agent Maggie Comstock to join the task force tracking the perpetrators. Every level of government--even the president himself--insists this reign of terror must end by the Fourth of July, just days away.

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