The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Still Life

Gayle Rosengren ❤️ loved this book because...

It left me feeling positive and hopeful about humanity.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Originality
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Sarah Winman,

Why should I read it?

9 authors picked Still Life as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick
 
A Veranda Magazine Book Club Pick

A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man.

Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and recall long-forgotten memories of her…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Lincoln Highway

Gayle Rosengren ❤️ loved this book because...

The plot and characters always had new twists and layers with the suspense building steadily from page one to the climax.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Originality
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Amor Towles,

Why should I read it?

13 authors picked The Lincoln Highway as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

More than ONE MILLION copies sold

A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick

A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year

“Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review
 
“A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club
 
“Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Firekeeper's Daughter

Gayle Rosengren ❤️ loved this book because...

I loved that it opened another culture to me in such a personal way.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Teach
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Angeline Boulley,

Why should I read it?

12 authors picked Firekeeper's Daughter as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 14, 15, 16, and 17.

What is this book about?

A PRINTZ MEDAL WINNER!
A MORRIS AWARD WINNER!
AN AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD YA HONOR BOOK!

A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK

An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller

Soon to be adapted at Netflix for TV with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground.

“One of this year's most buzzed about young adult novels.” ―Good Morning America

A TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All Time Selection
Amazon's Best YA Book of 2021 So Far (June 2021)
A 2021 Kids' Indie Next List Selection
An Entertainment Weekly Most Anticipated Books of…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

MacKenzie's Last Run

By Gayle Rosengren,

Book cover of MacKenzie's Last Run

What is my book about?

Thirteen-year-old MacKenzie (Mac) Lawrence secretly blames himself for his father's death in a mall shooting. In his grief and guilt he has pulled away from everyone, even his twin sister Tessa. When Mac runs away to break up Mom's relationship with a man named Simon, nothing goes as planned. He ends up injured, miles from home, unable to reach out for help, while clues he inadvertently left behind suggest he's been kidnapped--possibly by Mom's boyfriend--and set Tessa on a desperate search to find him. But she'd better hurry, because the clock is ticking and Mac is running out of time.