The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Let's Pretend This Will Work

Amy Impellizzeri ❤️ loved this book because...

This book was such an unexpected, original story about family and friendship and love.
It found me at a time I needed it!

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Originality
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Maddie Dawson,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Let's Pretend This Will Work as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The search for happiness turns a woman's life upside down in a warm, quirky, and bighearted novel about the joys and chaos of finding love by the bestselling author of Matchmaking for Beginners.

After too many dates, thirtysomething Mimi Perkins is still single, unmoored, and longing for love. So when Ren Yardley-a handsome, divorced fellow drama teacher and single father-falls in love with her and proposes, she's sure this is at last the good news her psychic predicted.

Soon after proposing, Ren receives the devastating news that his ex-wife has been in a debilitating car accident, prompting him to temporarily…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of LoveNotes! Real Stories. Real People. Real Love.

Amy Impellizzeri ❤️ loved this book because...

A thoughtful compilation of love stories and journal prompts and puzzles. This creation by Heather Christie was one of the highlights of my year!

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Outlook
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Heather Christie,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked LoveNotes! Real Stories. Real People. Real Love. as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The search is over. Discover America's best, true love stories and more in LoveNotes! Real Stories. Real People. Real Love. This anthology, inspired by the New York City off-Broadway storytelling show, is a one-of-a-kind storybook offering true tales of first love, last love, and all the messy love in between, plus thoughtful journal prompts, inspiring quotes, and fun puzzles. Fall head over heels with this healing, humorous, and hopeful little tome. Here's to spreading love-one story at a time!


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies

Amy Impellizzeri ❤️ loved this book because...

Better than meditation! This book took me on a journey this year. A heartfelt reminder to climb up the things you don’t think you can climb up!

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Tara Schuster,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Brutally honest, often hilarious, hard-won lessons in learning to love and care for yourself from a former vice president at Comedy Central who was called “ahead of her time” by Jordan Peele

“You’re going to want Tara Schuster to become your new best friend.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed

“Compelling, persuasive, and useful no matter where you are in your life.”—Chelsea Handler, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Life Will Be the Death of Me

By the time she was in her late twenties, Tara Schuster was a rising TV executive who had worked for…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Book cover of Lemongrass Hope

What is my book about?

TENTH ANNIVERSARY edition of LEMONGRASS HOPE with bonus material and a special excerpt of its companion novel, I KNOW HOW THIS ENDS.

Set in the past, and present, LEMONGRASS HOPE is a captivating and unpredictable love story, with a dose of magical realism and time travel, that fans of authors such as Audrey Niffenegger, Alice Hoffman, and Toni Morrison will appreciate and embrace. Like Liane Moriarty's The Husband's Secret this novel weaves together ordinary lives and events to tell an extraordinary tale of connection, loss, renewal, and of course, hope. As Kate Sutton's decade-long marriage to Rob erodes and unravels, Kate fears that the secrets she guards from the world, including Rob's emergency room proposal, and a whirlwind love affair from her past, have always doomed her fate. When she unwittingly receives a glimpse at what her life could have been like had she made different choices all those years ago, it is indeed all she could have ever wanted. A confirmation of her greatest hope, and her greatest fears.

Book cover of Let's Pretend This Will Work
Book cover of LoveNotes! Real Stories. Real People. Real Love.
Book cover of Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies

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