The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Women

❤️ loved this book because...

It provided insight into an era that doesn’t get a lot of attention and what females had to deal with not so long ago.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Teach
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Kristin Hannah ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

The missing. The forgotten. The brave… The women.

From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes the story of a turbulent, transformative era in America: the 1960s. The Women is that rarest of novels—at once an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided by war and broken by politics, of a generation both fueled by dreams and lost on the battlefield.

“Women can be heroes, too.”

When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these unexpected…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of First Lie Wins

❤️ loved this book because...

The twists and turns in the plot and characters

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Story/Plot
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Ashley Elston ,

Why should I read it?

9 authors picked First Lie Wins as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK | INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“This fast-paced read has everything you could want in a thriller: secret identities, a mysterious boss and a cat & mouse game that kept me guessing the whole way through.”—Reese Witherspoon

“One of the best thrillers I’ve ever read... Amazing.”—Jesse Watters

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.

The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

❤️ loved this book because...

It was hilarious but with a great message behind it all

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Thoughts
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Kirsten Miller ,

Why should I read it?

6 authors picked Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

“Kirsten Miller has that rare ability to take a serious subject and make it very, very funny. I enjoyed this novel and you will too.”--James Patterson

The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking! Kirsten Miller, author of The Change, brings us a bracing, wildly entertaining satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything.

Beverly Underwood and her arch enemy, Lula Dean, live in the tiny town of Troy, Georgia, where they were born and raised. Now Beverly is on the…


Book cover of The Women
Book cover of First Lie Wins
Book cover of Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

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