The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Daughter of the Forest

Lissa Sloan ❤️ loved this book because...

I was so drawn in by this book--it was incredibly cathartic and moving!

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    ❤️ Loved it
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    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Juliet Marillier ,

Why should I read it?

9 authors picked Daughter of the Forest as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Sorcha, the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum, faces the difficult task of having to save her family from its enemies, who have bewitched her father and six older brothers while forcing her to choose between the life she has always known and a special love.


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

Lissa Sloan ❤️ loved this book because...

I found Emily Wilde and her world simply delightful! The atmosphere (real and faerie) is gorgeous, and the characters wonderful, funny, and romantic. All in all it's a delightful escape!

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    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Character(s)
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    ❤️ Loved it
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    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Heather Fawcett ,

Why should I read it?

17 authors picked Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love in the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series.

“A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic.”—Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Hooked

Lissa Sloan ❤️ loved this book because...

I didn't think Wendy, Darling needed a sequel, but A.C. Wise's follow up novel is superb. I love the way Hooked digs deeply, painfully into addiction as a possible response to trauma. I found Hook and the consequences of his actions in this fantasy to be heartbreakingly real.

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    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Character(s)
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    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By A.C. Wise ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

A dark, gorgeous reimagining about what happened to Captain Hook after Neverland from the bestselling author of Wendy, Darling - filled with eerie suspense and heart-breaking anguish

Once invited, always welcome.
Once invited, never free.

Captain James Hook, the immortal pirate of Neverland, has died a thousand times. Drowned, stabbed by Peter Pan's sword, eaten by the beast swimming below the depths, yet James was resurrected every time by one boy's dark imagination. Until he found a door in the sky, an escape. And he took the chance no matter the cost.

Now in London twenty-two years later, Peter Pan's…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Glass and Feathers

By Lissa Sloan ,

Book cover of Glass and Feathers

What is my book about?

Wishes are dangerous.

They can bring you a night out, a gown, even a pair of slippers. Or something you never should have wished for in the first place.

After the royal wedding, the girl in the glass slippers has everything she ever wanted: an escape from a life of drudgery, an innate magical gift, and a devoted husband who looks at her like she is the only one in the room. But all wishes come with a price. To the people of the palace, she is an outsider, nothing more. Even her famous shoes cannot help her--the glass slippers no longer fit.

Glass and Feathers is a continuation of the traditional Cinderella tale. It transforms "Happy Ever After" and soars beyond it.

Book cover of Daughter of the Forest
Book cover of Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Book cover of Hooked

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