The best books of 2024

This list is part of the best books of 2024.

Join 534 readers and share your 3 favorite reads of the year.

My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Faith, Hope and Carnage

Angie Clarke ❤️ loved this book because...

I related to this book on many levels and it gave me almost a companion whilst I was also grieving the loss of my son and the trauma of this.
The opportunity to explore another's journey through the grief process and whilst navigating this myself. The reality of fame and fortune does not give you anonymity to the up and downs of life. The internal conversations had by both writers and how their relationship developed on and off the page.
I read and listened to this book and it inspired me to recognise that whilst things don't pass they find a place in the new life that has been created.

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    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Thoughts
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

A BOOK OF THE YEAR, ROLLING STONE, NPR, PITCHFORK, THE TIMES (LONDON), TELEGRAPH

“An astoundingly intimate book-length conversation on art and grief spanning the duration of the pandemic years . . . As with Cave’s music, you might flinch, but you will feel alive.”
― Pitchfork

Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life.

Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity.

The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Angie Clarke ❤️ loved this book because...

I cant say I loved a book about people who are dishonest and killing others but it was written in a manner that allowed me to take part in the book without terrifying me. Whilst the reality that the story is true the book gave a different perspective and the workings of peoples dishonesty. I read and listened to this enjoyed both equally

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    🥇 Story/Plot 🥈 Writing
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    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

As featured on The Joe Rogan Experience
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A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders leads to shocking new conspiracy theories about the FBI's involvement in this fascinating re-evaluation of one of the most infamous cases in American history.

Twenty years ago, reporting for a routine magazine piece about the infamous Manson murders, journalist Tom O'Neill didn't expect to find anything new. But the discovery of horrifying new evidence kick-started an obsession and his life's work. What had he unearthed and what did it mean: why was there surveillance by intelligence agents? Why did the police make these particular…


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My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Who Moved My Cheese? An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

Angie Clarke ❤️ loved this book because...

I love this book it is a book I revisit at least twice a year. It is inspiring and forces me to reflect on my actions and what stops me from moving forward. It reminds me it's ok to make mistakes but the need to rectify them if it is in my power to do so. I listen ready and re read and I also give it to people alongside my own book.
I also like the idea of being a mouse and all I have to do is eat cheese!!!!

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

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Spencer Johnson,

Why should I read it?

8 authors picked Who Moved My Cheese? An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Who Moved My Cheese? is a simple parable that reveals profound truths. It is the amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them and make them happy. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life, for example a good job, a loving relationship, money or possessions, health or spiritual peace of mind. The maze is where you look for what you want, perhaps the organisation you work in, or the family or community you live in. The problem is that the cheese keeps moving.

In…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Sh*t Creek to Somewhere Else: The options to change even when all the odds are against you

By Angie Clarke,

Book cover of Sh*t Creek to Somewhere Else: The options to change even when all the odds are against you

What is my book about?

This gives an insight to a journey that whilst started with all the worse case scenarios can bring knowledge of a way forward. Abuse, addiction, suicide, family professional success all between the pages.