The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Legends & Lattes

❤️ loved this book because...

A down to earth take on a Fantasy world

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Travis Baldree ,

Why should I read it?

28 authors picked Legends & Lattes as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

High fantasy, low stakes - with a double-shot of coffee.

After decades of adventuring, Viv the orc barbarian is finally hanging up her sword for good. Now she sets her sights on a new dream - for she plans to open the first coffee shop in the city of Thune. Even though no one there knows what coffee actually is.

If Viv wants to put the past behind her, she can't go it alone. And help might arrive from unexpected quarters. Yet old rivals and new stand in the way of success. And Thune's shady underbelly could make it all…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Shadow of the Gods

❤️ loved this book because...

Read the whole Bloodsworn Saga this year, great Nordic inspired fantasy and characters that you love and love to hate

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Story/Plot
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By John Gwynne ,

Why should I read it?

7 authors picked The Shadow of the Gods as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

'A masterfully crafted, brutally compelling Norse-inspired epic' Anthony Ryan

THE GREATEST SAGAS ARE WRITTEN IN BLOOD.

A century has passed since the gods fought and drove themselves to extinction. Now only their bones remain, promising great power to those brave enough to seek them out.

As whispers of war echo across the land of Vigrid, fate follows in the footsteps of three warriors: a huntress on a dangerous quest, a noblewoman pursuing battle fame, and a thrall seeking vengeance among the mercenaries known as the Bloodsworn.

All three will shape the fate of the world as it once more falls…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Oathbringer

❤️ loved this book because...

Started the Stormlight Archive this year, amazing book as I am working my way through Rhythm of War this keeps climbing and if I read through Winds of Truth I am sure this would top the list, but I am someone who does put value on end/break points so being in the middle of this makes it hard to have it over the other two.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Brandon Sanderson ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

The #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to Words of Radiance, from epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson at the top of his game.

In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.

Dalinar Kholin’s Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their…


Book cover of Legends & Lattes
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