The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of My Season of Scandal: The Palace of Rogues

Bronwyn Scott ❤️ loved this book because...

The story starts out enjoyable and simple, very straightforward, but then slowly builds towards deep personal revelations and I really felt like we were peeling back the layers of an onion.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Thoughts 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Julie Anne Long,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked My Season of Scandal as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

In USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long's latest installment in the Palace of Rogues series, a notorious rake meets his match in a lovely girl from the country, changing the course of both of their futures...

A London season is the chance of a lifetime for Catherine Keating. But the ton's glitter and decadence and casual cruelty threaten to crush her hopes of finding a husband before her season even begins...until she accidentally acquires one of the most scandalous men in England as a secret chaperone.

Famously fiery Lord Dominic Kirke can hold the House of Commons-and any woman…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

Bronwyn Scott ❤️ loved this book because...

This book was so insightful in the way that it looked at large numbers of ordinary women and how they lived in England for over 900 years; how they changed history and in turn how history changed them.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Thoughts 🥈 Teach
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Philippa Gregory,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES

'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES

'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATOR

FROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFE'S WORK

Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasant's Revolt was started and propelled by women, protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men but that they'd evolve to become ever more inferior?

These…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Beast Takes a Bride

Bronwyn Scott ❤️ loved this book because...

I liked how the characters have to invest in getting to know each other all over again and look past preconceived notions.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Story/Plot
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Julie Anne Long,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked The Beast Takes a Bride as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

In USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long's latest installment in the Palace of Rogues series, an estranged couple decide to fake their way through the London season to repair their good name... but neither are prepared for the genuine sparks that begin flying between them.

A blue-blooded beauty bartered to a Beast...

He would pay any price to possess her. But even though Alexandra Bellamy sacrifices herself to save her family's fortunes, a shocking betrayal sunders her marriage to a taciturn brute of a war hero, Colonel Magnus Brightwall, before it even begins. Five years of icy separation later,…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

How to Court a Rake

By Bronwyn Scott,

Book cover of How to Court a Rake

What is my book about?

A rake, a wallflower and a fake courtship! Delight in the spicy, high-stakes first installment of Bronwyn Scott’s new trilogy Wed Within a Year.

Sparks fly when the wallflower…

waltzes with the rake!

When the Crown awards spy Caine Parkhurst the title of marquess, it’s with the outrageous stipulation he marries within the year! Caine’s catapulted into London’s ballrooms in search of a bride, but the last thing the rakish bachelor is looking for is love…

Once a diamond, Lady Mary is now in danger of becoming a wallflower—or, worse, being married off to a man of her father’s choosing! To escape the relentless matchmaking, she agrees to a fake courtship with the new marquess. Yet his touch leaves her longing to court this rake…for real!
Available March 27, 2025