The best books of 2024

This list is part of the best books of 2024.

Join 1,517 readers and share your 3 favorite reads of the year.

My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of One-Star Romance

Claire Handscombe ❤️ loved this book because...

It was an emotionally intelligent exploration of a changing friendship and the sometimes heartbreaking and desperate journey of being a writer

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Laura Hankin,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked One-Star Romance as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A struggling writer is forced to walk down the aisle at her best friend’s wedding with the man who gave her book a very public one-star rating in this fresh romantic comedy from Laura Hankin.

Natalie and Rob couldn’t have less in common. Nat’s a messy artist, and Rob’s a rigid academic. The only thing they share is their devotion to their respective best friends—who just got engaged. Still, unexpected chemistry has Natalie cautiously optimistic about being maid of honor to Rob’s best man.

Until, minutes before the ceremony, Nat learns that Rob wrote a one-star review of her new…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

Claire Handscombe ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Outlook
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Michiko Aoyama,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked What You Are Looking for Is in the Library as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

THE TWO-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING INTERNATIONAL NOVEL

The Top Ten Times bestseller
A Time Magazine Book of the Year
'An undeniable page-turner' New York Times

'I ADORED this uplifting, hopeful novel ' Daily Mail
'It made me laugh and cry and feel comforted' 5***** Reader review
'A tribute to the transformative power of books and libraries' Irish Times

An inspirational tale of the love, comfort and growth you can find in the pages of a good book.
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What are you looking for?

So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi.

But she is no ordinary librarian.

Sensing exactly what someone is…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Help Wanted

Claire Handscombe ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Originality
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Adelle Waldman,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked Help Wanted as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Every day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss, they empty the day's truck of merchandise, stock the shelves, and scatter before the store opens and customers arrive. Their lives follow a familiar if grueling routine, but their real problem is that Town Square doesn't schedule them for enough hours-most of them are barely getting by, even while working second or third jobs. When store manager Big Will announces he is leaving, the…


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Unscripted

By Claire Handscombe,

Book cover of Unscripted

What is my book about?

Nobody is a bigger fan of actor Thomas Cassidy than Libby. Nobody. That's why she's totally got a plan.

She’s going to write a novel, name the main character after Thom, and find a way to get it to him. Intrigued and flattered, he will read it, fall in love with her prose, and ask to turn it into a movie. She will pretend to think about it, then say, ‘Sure, but can I work on it with you?’ Their eyes will meet over the script… and fade to black.

But with four interwoven lives in play, can anything be that simple?

Thoughtful, quirky, and moving, Unscripted is a story of friendship and second chances, and asks the question: how far can you take your dream?

Book cover of One-Star Romance
Book cover of What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
Book cover of Help Wanted

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