The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Apples Never Fall

K. B. Thorne ❤️ loved this book because...

Just from the couple of books of hers that I've read so far, Moriarty has an amazing way of evoking emotion and fascination about her very real characters with all their virtues and flaws on display. She drops bits that seem like simple world-building but are relevant later in a way that looks effortless but grabs you when you put it together.

With Apples Never Fall in particular, the examination of one's life and choices through the lens of uncertainty, suspicion, and mystery was quite gripping and provoked some personally relevant emotions and life examination in the reader (me).

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Story/Plot 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Liane Moriarty,

Why should I read it?

8 authors picked Apples Never Fall as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

#1 New York Times Bestseller

From Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, comes Apples Never Fall, a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest.

The Delaney family love one another dearly―it’s just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . .

If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father?

This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings.

The Delaneys are fixtures in…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of If She Wakes

K. B. Thorne ❤️ loved this book because...

Kortya is an amazing author. I've read several of his things by now, and every time, he tells a really gripping story. The plots are captivating and fast-paced, and I like how he manages to write female characters that are tough and strong without trying to overcompensate on making them "feminine too." (As a female reader, it annoys me when authors do that.)

The examination of the "locked in" character via her efforts was also fascinatingly done, but also suspenseful because of what she was at the center of. I also even enjoy how he writes his bad guys!

  • Loved Most

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

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Michael Koryta,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked If She Wakes as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?


Two women fight for their lives against an enigmatic killer in this electrifying novel from a New York Times bestselling author and "master" of thriller writing (Stephen King).

Tara Beckley is a senior at idyllic Hammel College in Maine. As she drives to deliver a visiting professor to a conference, a horrific car accident kills the professor and leaves Tara in a vegetative state. At least, so her doctors think. In fact, she's a prisoner of locked-in syndrome: fully alert but unable to move a muscle. Trapped in her body, she learns that someone powerful wants her dead -- but…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Curtain

K. B. Thorne 👍 liked this book because...

Agatha Christie was a wonder as an author. Only the Bible and Shakespeare have been printed more than she has. Curtain was her last book with Hercule Poirot, and while you always knew what to expect overall on a Poirot story, I thought she did a wonderful job for an intriguing send off for the little Belgian detective. Bringing Hastings back was pleasantly nostalgic, and the "type" of murderer was equally fascinating. As was a bit of a callback to previous books in how she wrapped it up.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Agatha Christie,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place...

The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara , Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife, Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington.

So Hastings was shocked to learn from Hercule Poirot's declaration that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, the ageing detective was crippled with arthritis, but had his…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Bad Blood

By K.B. Thorne,

Book cover of Bad Blood

What is my book about?

VAMPIRES ARE PEOPLE TOO

I’m Sadie Stanton, and I don’t know why everyone makes such a big deal out of me. I’m just like everyone else—I’m trying to start a business, not spending much time on my social life, and dealing with an obnoxious roommate...

Oh, and being a vampire. There’s that. But it’s okay, because we’re all legal now.

But believe me, that doesn’t make life easy. In fact, it might be harder now than ever before, but I did it to myself… And now vampires are attacking people seemingly at random and not even trying to feed.

Everyone is looking to me to help sort out why, but that turns pretty easy into looking for someone to blame.

Fast.

I guess I’ll need to be faster.

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