The best books of 2024

This list is part of the best books of 2024.

Join 2,415 readers and share your 3 favorite reads of the year.

My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Kelly Cheek ❤️ loved this book because...

I've come to love Victoria Schwab's style. She creates characters that are far from perfect, who are very obviously flawed, and totally relatable. She also creates very realistic—despite being fantastical—worlds that are believable and engulf the reader.

  • Loved Most

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

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 Fast

By V. E. Schwab ,

Why should I read it?

25 authors picked The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

"For someone damned to be forgettable, Addie LaRue is a most delightfully unforgettable character, and her story is the most joyous evocation of unlikely immortality." -Neil Gaiman

A Sunday Times-bestselling, award-nominated genre-defying tour-de-force of Faustian bargains, for fans of The Time Traveler's Wife and Life After Life, and The Sudden Appearance of Hope.

When Addie La Rue makes a pact with the devil, she is convinced she's found a loophole-immortality in exchange for her soul. But the devil takes away her place in the world, cursing her to be forgotten by everyone.

Addie flees her tiny home town in 18th-Century…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of A Darker Shade of Magic

Kelly Cheek ❤️ loved this book because...

V.E. Schwab has become a favorite author of mine due to her minute attention to detail, in relation to her characters, her world-building and her story-telling.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 Fast

By V. E. Schwab ,

Why should I read it?

16 authors picked A Darker Shade of Magic as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A stunning collector's edition of the acclaimed novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab.

With an exclusive metallic ink cover, this edition will feature:

* End papers of London
* Fan art
* A glossary of Arnesian and Antari terms
* An interview between author and editor
* Original (never before seen!) tales from within the Shades of Magic world

Kell is one of the last Antari-magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons. There is Red London, where life and magic are revered, Grey London, without magic and ruled by mad King…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Vicious

Kelly Cheek ❤️ loved this book because...

If you're detecting a theme, it's because Victoria Schwab quickly became a favorite author as I read everything I could get my hands on that bore her name.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 Fast

By V. E. Schwab ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

Victor and Eli started out as college roommates-brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in one another. A shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death-experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong. They become EOs, ExtraOrdinaries, leaving a body in their wake and turning on each other.

Ten years later Victor has escaped from prison and is determined to get his revenge on the man who put him there, aided by…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

In Restless Dreams

By Kelly Cheek ,

Book cover of In Restless Dreams

What is my book about?

Still mourning the death of her husband and little girl, Suzy Quinn decides to take on a project in her dreary, abandoned carriage house. This project leads to a horrifying discovery and an unsettling new ability.

Making a psychic connection with Fiona, the ghost of an ancestor, Suzy experiences Fiona’s life in nineteenth-century Edinburgh, through romance and tragedy, and into the dark and dangerous underground vaults.

When she discovers secrets, lies and murder, will Suzy have the strength to face the inescapable conflict, a showdown between good and evil, past and present, right in her own backyard?

Book cover of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Book cover of A Darker Shade of Magic
Book cover of Vicious

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