The best books of 2024

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Join 1,187 readers and share your 3 favorite reads of the year.

My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Where the Dead Brides Gather

Eugen Bacon ❤️ loved this book because...

Nuzo Onoh is the 'Queen of African Horror' and she manages to create a mesmeric story of unfamiliar haunting in unchartered worlds. There is a summoning of gods and priestesses, and the appearance of ghost brides. Where the Dead Brides Gather is a sinister and gripping read.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Nuzo Onoh,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Where the Dead Brides Gather as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A powerful Nigeria-set horror tale of possession, malevolent ghosts, family tensions, secrets and murder from the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement and 'Queen of African Horror'. For readers of Octavia Butler, Ben Okri and Koji Suzuki.


Bata, a young girl tormented by nightmares, wakes up one night to find herself standing sentinel before her cousin's door. Her cousin is to get married the next morning, but only if she can escape the murderous attack of a ghost-bride, who used to be engaged to her groom.


A supernatural possession helps Bata battle and vanquish the vengeful ghost…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Commercial Book

Eugen Bacon ❤️ loved this book because...

Commercial Book comprises 1,000-word stories, each based on the title of a song in the Resident's 1980 album, Commercial. Andrew Hook writes with a certain hooking dissonance in beautiful yet tragic slipstream tales that could sit well in the literary weird. There are outstanding stories of longing and mourning, betrayal and vengeance, irony and humour, and more.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Writing 🥈 Thoughts
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Andrew Hook,

Why should I read it?

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


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Sixth Sentinel

Eugen Bacon ❤️ loved this book because...

This graphic novel is an adaptation of the titular gothic horror by Poppy Z. Brite, also filmed as 'The Hunger' Dream Sentinel. A spectral, entrapping protagonist allures the reader into a ghost story that's as powerful as it is poignant.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Alessandro Manzetti, Stefano Fantelli, Stefano Cardoselli (illustrator)

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Sixth Sentinel as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Graphic novel based on the story The Sixth Sentinel by Poppy Z. Brite.Hard luck Rosalie Smith lives by herself in the French Quarter of New Orleans, and she is not alone. With her multicoloured hair and kohl-smudged eyes, she strips for men at night and sleeps all day, and has nobody to welcome her home except the ghost who shares her apartment. But her spectral friend has more to offer than shadow touches and secrets shared in ghostly whispers. While she tends her sorrow over a tragic love lost and drowns her heart in whiskey bottles, he offers her a…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

A Place Between Waking and Forgetting

By Eugen Bacon,

Book cover of A Place Between Waking and Forgetting

What is my book about?

A Place Between Waking and Forgetting is dark speculative fiction, an Afro-Irreal collection in which transformative stories of culture, diversity, climate change, unlimited futures, collisions of worlds, mythology, and more, inhabit. It cases black people stories in bold and evocative text, at times deeply flawed but potentially redeemable protagonists in rich hues of blackness and light. Something beautiful, something dark in lyrical language packed with affection, dread, anguish and hope.

Featuring the World Fantasy Award finalist story “The Devil Don’t Come With Horns”, this collection of short stories is the latest offering by a genre-bending, multi-award winner.

It arrives with a poetic introduction by award-winning writer and poet Linda D. Addison, the first African-American recipient of the world-renowned HWA Bram Stoker Award, and who has received five awards for her collections.

Book cover of Where the Dead Brides Gather
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Book cover of The Sixth Sentinel

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