The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Hike

Kaye Dobbie ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Lucy Clarke ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

*The Sunday Times bestseller*

*DISCOVER YOUR NEXT ESCAPE WITH THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR*

'A tear-those-pages thriller' ABIGAIL DEAN
'Secrets galore' DAILY MAIL
'Atmospheric, haunting, and beautifully written' GILLIAN McALLISTER
'Queen of the destination thriller' CLAIRE DOUGLAS

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THE PERFECT DAY FOR A HIKE

Leaving behind their everyday lives, four friends hike out into the beautiful Norwegian wild - nothing between them and the mountain peak but forest, sea and sharp blue sky.

THE PERFECT PLACE TO DISAPPEAR

But there's a darker side to the wilderness. A woman went missing here one year ago, scarring the mountain with suspicion and unanswered…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Burnout

Kaye Dobbie ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Thoughts
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Sophie Kinsella ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

Sparks fly in this delightful novel about two burned out professionals who meet at a ramshackle resort on the British seaside—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher.

“I devoured The Burnout in one greedy gulp. It’s funny, sad, relatable, and brilliantly done. Sophie Kinsella is the queen of romantic comedy.”—Jojo Moyes

She can do anything . . . just not everything.

Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, “urgent” (but obviously not at all urgent) email or participate in the corporate employee joyfulness program. She hasn’t seen her friends…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Vanished Days

Kaye Dobbie ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Story/Plot
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Susanna Kearsley ,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked The Vanished Days as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

'Fascinating and immersive... I love a novel that deals with the many ways in which people keep their secrets' DIANA GABALDON
A sweeping love story set against the Jacobite revolution from much-loved, million copy bestselling author Susanna Kearsley

Autumn, 1707. Old enemies from the Highlands to the Borders are protesting the new Union with England. As the French prepare an invasion to bring the exiled Jacobite king back to Scotland to reclaim his throne, the streets of Edinburgh are filled with discontent. To calm the situation, Queen Anne's commissioners are settling the losses and wages owed to those Scots involved…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

The Keepers of the Lighthouse

By Kaye Dobbie ,

Book cover of The Keepers of the Lighthouse

What is my book about?

A lonely windswept lighthouse island in Bass Strait hides a dangerous secret hundreds of years in the making ... Secrets and sabotage keep readers guessing in the new novel from Australian author Kaye Dobbie.

1882

Laura Webster and her father are the stalwart keepers of Benevolence Island Lighthouse, a desolate place stranded in the turbulent Bass Strait. When a raging storm wrecks a schooner just offshore, the few survivors take shelter with the Websters, awaiting rescue from the mainland. But some of the passengers have secrets that lead to dreadful consequences, the ripples of which echo far into the future ...

2020

Nina and her team of volunteers arrive on Benevolence to work on repairs, with plans to open up the island to tourists. Also on the expedition, for reasons of his own, is Jude Rawlins, a man Nina once loved. A man who once destroyed her.

But the idyllic location soon turns into a nightmare as random acts of sabotage leave them with no communication to the mainland and the sense of someone on the island who shouldn't be there.

The fingers of those secrets from the passengers lost long ago are reaching into the present, and Nina will never be the same again ...

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Book cover of The Vanished Days

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