The best books of 2024

This list is part of the best books of 2024.

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of How to Read a Book

Katherine Nichols ❤️ loved this book because...

The author created characters I would love to share a drink with. She blended their stories together in a magical manner. As a former English teacher, I especially loved the prison book club aspect and the power of love.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Monica Wood,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

"The perfect pick to really light a fire under my book club, and yours....A reminder that goodness, and books, can still win in this world." —New York Times Book Review

"A beautiful, big-hearted treasure of a novel." —Lily King

National Bestseller * From the award-winning author of The One-in-a-Million Boy comes a heartfelt, uplifting novel about a chance encounter at a bookstore, exploring redemption, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing power of sharing stories.

Our Reasons meet us in the morning and whisper to us at night. Mine is an innocent, unsuspecting, eternally sixty-one-year-old woman named Lorraine Daigle…

Violet Powell, a…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of All the Colors of the Dark

Katherine Nichols ❤️ loved this book because...

The author seamlessly blends a serial killer, a coming-of-age and a love story. This will make an incredible series.

  • Loved Most

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

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Chris Whitaker,

Why should I read it?

6 authors picked All the Colors of the Dark as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A missing persons mystery, a serial killer thriller, and an epic love story - with a unique twist on each...

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Late one summer, the town of Monta Clare is shattered by the abduction of local teenager Joseph 'Patch' Macauley. Nobody more so than Saint Brown, who is broken by her best friend's disappearance. Soon, she will eat, sleep, breathe, only to find him.

But when she it will break her heart.

Patch lies in a pitch-black room - all alone - for days or maybe weeks. Until he feels a hand in his. Her name…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Women

Katherine Nichols ❤️ loved this book because...

I enjoyed learning about what it was like for nurses during the Vietnam War and the difficulties they faced upon coming home.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Teach
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Kristin Hannah,

Why should I read it?

22 authors picked The Women as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The missing. The forgotten. The brave… The women.

From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes the story of a turbulent, transformative era in America: the 1960s. The Women is that rarest of novels—at once an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided by war and broken by politics, of a generation both fueled by dreams and lost on the battlefield.

“Women can be heroes, too.”

When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these unexpected…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

False Claims

By Katherine Nichols,

Book cover of False Claims

What is my book about?

The first book in the Lucy Howard Mystery series, False Claims introduces readers to a young woman for whom honesty is the best policy--until it isn't. In the middle of a career crisis, Lucy catches her fiancé in a compromising situation with one of his colleagues at the legal firm where he works. Still spinning from his betrayal, she learns that her favorite uncle, a cross-dressing narcoleptic, may have killed a man. As if that weren't frightening enough, she's thrown into the middle of a deadly organ-selling ring. Out of her depth as an insurance claims investigator, she receives help from a handsome Irish-Latino P.I. and a delightful elderly con woman.
Join Lucy on her journey to self-discovery while trying to stay alive.