The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Same As It Ever Was

❤️ loved this book because...

I love a messy family drama, especially one that also makes me laugh. This had spot-on observations about being a mother.

  • Loved Most

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

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Claire Lombardo ,

Why should I read it?

8 authors picked Same As It Ever Was as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK BY PEOPLE AND PARADE • The New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had (“wonderfully immersive…deliciously absorbing”—NPR) returns with another brilliantly observed family drama in which the enduring, hard-won affection of a long marriage faces imminent derailment from events both past and present.

“Infidelity, dysfunction, secrets – this family novel delivers."—The New York Times • "Lombardo has such a fine eye for the weft and warp of a family’s fabric." —The Washington Post • “Witty and insightful...a powerful exploration of marriage, motherhood, and self.”–Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of City in Ruins

❤️ loved this book because...

I would read Don Winslow's grocery lists. His stories are so absorbing, so immersive, that just a couple of pages in and I am hooked. This was the final book in this trilogy and in his writing career which is too much for me to bear.

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

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Don Winslow ,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked City in Ruins as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Following City on Fire and City of Dreams, City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow's epic, genre-defining crime trilogy and the final book of Winslow's extraordinary career.

'A gangland trilogy to equal THE GODFATHER. If you like SCARFACE and GOODFELLAS, this is where it's at.' STEPHEN KING

Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love.

Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich.

The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman - a…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Circe

❤️ loved this book because...

This book took me by surprise - I didn't expect to like it as much as I did, nor did I expect to be immediately interested. I still can't stop thinking about Circe, her decisions, and the consequences of them.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Writing 🥈 Thoughts
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Madeline Miller ,

Why should I read it?

54 authors picked Circe as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The international Number One bestseller from the author of The Song of Achilles, shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction

Woman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor. CIRCE.

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is a strange child - not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. Scorned and rejected, Circe grows up in the shadows, at home in neither the world of gods or mortals. But Circe has a dark power of her own: witchcraft. When her gift threatens…


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