The best books of 2024

This list is part of the best books of 2024.

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of All the Light We Cannot See

Bronwyn Davies ❤️ loved this book because...

This is the most beautifully written and moving book I have ever read. It is scrupulously researched. It doesn't shy away form the horror of war and what happens to humans when they turn into monsters. Some hold onto their humanity which is waht makes this book so very precious.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Anthony Doerr,

Why should I read it?

47 authors picked All the Light We Cannot See as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION

A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.'

For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. The microscopic…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish

Bronwyn Davies ❤️ loved this book because...

An island off Tasmania, a convict prison, a convict artist and writer--a fantastical dream which in the end is in ruins and the artist becomes a fish. Or, it is a story that opens another line into the grotesque inhumanity in the time of Australian colonisation. This is a true story. In the end we realise we don't know the truth, and at the same time know more about violence than we ever wanted to know.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Richard Flanagan,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Gould's Book of Fish as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Winner of the Commonwealth Prize

New York Times Book Review—Notable Fiction 2002

Entertainment Weekly—Best Fiction of 2002

Los Angeles Times Book Review—Best of the Best 2002

Washington Post Book World—Raves 2002

Chicago Tribune—Favorite Books of 2002

Christian Science Monitor—Best Books 2002

Publishers Weekly—Best Books of 2002

The Cleveland Plain Dealer—Year’s Best Books

Minneapolis Star Tribune—Standout Books of 2002

Once upon a time, when the earth was still young, before the fish in the sea and all the living things on land began to be destroyed, a man named William Buelow Gould was sentenced to life imprisonment at the most feared…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of About Grace

Bronwyn Davies ❤️ loved this book because...

Doerr is my favourite novelist at the moment. His writing is exceptional. He kept me on edge for almost the entire novel. It is unforgettable.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Anthony Doerr,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

The first novel by Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent times.

David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees things before they happen—a man carrying a hatbox will be hit by a bus; Winkler will fall in love with a woman in a supermarket. When David dreams that his infant daughter will drown…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Entanglement in the World's Becoming and the Doing of New Materialist Inquiry

By Bronwyn Davies,

Book cover of Entanglement in the World's Becoming and the Doing of New Materialist Inquiry

What is my book about?

This book explores new materialist concepts and the way in which they provide an opening up of thought about being human, and about being more-than-human. It explores how we affect each other and are affected in a human and more-than-human world. It works at the interface of living, and of writing-as-inquiry.