The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024…

Book cover of The Covenant of Water

Elizabeth Caulfield Felt I ❤️ loved this book because...

Everything was done well. The characters, the plot, the writing, the setting, the profoundness.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Abraham Verghese,

Why should I read it?

28 authors picked The Covenant of Water as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret

“One of the best books I’ve read in my entire life. It’s epic. It’s transportive . . . It was unputdownable!”—Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com

The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024…

Book cover of Uprooted

Elizabeth Caulfield Felt I ❤️ loved this book because...

I loved the bits of Polish I recognized in the story, from names to expressions.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Naomi Novik,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

A dark enchantment blights the land in the award-winning Uprooted - a enthralling fantasy inspired by fairy tales, by Naomi Novik, author of the Temeraire series.

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel
Winner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
Winner of the British Fantasy Society Award for Best Novel

Agnieszka loves her village, set deep in a peaceful valley. But the nearby enchanted forest casts a shadow over her home. Many have been lost to the Wood and none return unchanged. The villagers depend on an ageless wizard, the Dragon, to protect them from the forest's…


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My 3rd favorite read in 2024…

Book cover of Early Riser

Elizabeth Caulfield Felt I ❤️ loved this book because...

I laughed a lot reading this book. Jasper Fforde has a wonderful way of writing and his creativity is amazing.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Originality
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Jasper Fforde,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Fforde pours his brilliant imagination into every corner of this world' Daily Mail
'Fforde keeps the puns and neologisms coming thick and fast while exploring every facet of his novel's intriguing premise' Financial Times

Every Winter, the human population hibernates.

During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, and devoid of human activity.

Well, not quite.

Your name is Charlie Worthing and it's your first season with the Winter Consuls, the committed but mildly unhinged group of misfits who are responsible for ensuring the hibernatory safe passage of the…


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Wilde Wagers

By Elizabeth Caulfield Felt,

Book cover of Wilde Wagers

What is my book about?

Wagering is all the rage in late Victorian England. Oscar Wilde bets that actress Olivia Snow can fool some country bumpkins into believing she is Genevieve Lamb, the belle of the recent Season.

The weekend will prove a challenge for the old-fashioned actress and Genevieve’s handsome and old-fashioned brother, Philip because the manor is filled with crazy characters, as well as one murderous criminal. While Olivia pretends to be Genevieve, Genevieve wagers on her own performance–as Olivia Snow. She and Oscar Wilde go out, a decision that will have both wishing they’d stayed in and played cribbage.

These charades take unexpected turns in a wild weekend of kidnapping, cucumber sandwiches, bee stings, and love. This romance-mystery-comedy will keep you guessing–and craving teacake.