The best books of 2024

This list is part of the best books of 2024.

Join 1,906 readers and share your 3 favorite reads of the year.

My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Before I Let Go

Kelly J. Baptist ❤️ loved this book because...

This book felt like my life! I felt the gamut of emotions right there with the main characters--anger, sorrow, jealousy, regret, revenge.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 Fast

By Kennedy Ryan,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked Before I Let Go as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

“Real, raw, magnificent—Before I Let Go is the beautiful angst I love to read.” —Colleen Hoover, #1 New York Times bestselling author

A Good Morning America Book Buzz Pick!
Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that love alone couldn’t solve or save everything.

It couldn’t save their marriage.

Yasmen wasn’t prepared for how her life fell apart, but she’s is finally starting to find joy again. She and Josiah have found a new rhythm, co-parenting their two kids and running a thriving business together. Yet like…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Cape

Kelly J. Baptist ❤️ loved this book because...

It's not often that I shed tears over a children's book, but this one had me crying in the bookstore! Just a beautiful look at grief and how it intersects with joy and hope.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Story/Plot
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Steady

By Kevin Johnson, Kitt Thomas (illustrator),

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked Cape as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 4, 5, 6, and 7.

What is this book about?

When a child loses the person in his life that he loves more than anything, he uses his cape as protection from his grief. On the day of the funeral, he uses it to block out the pictures and stories people share, refusing to acknowledge the memories that keep bubbling up. He won't think about them. He doesn't want to.

He avoids the memories, until he no longer can.

He remembers then. Their laugh, their smile, the moment they gave him the cape. The cape transforms, becoming a source of comfort and strength as the child navigates the sadness and…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Abuela, Don't Forget Me

Kelly J. Baptist ❤️ loved this book because...

This book is heartbreakingly beautiful and should invoke empathy in anyone who works with young people.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Steady

By Rex Ogle,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Abuela, Don't Forget Me as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 12, 13, 14, and 15.

What is this book about?

In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle's abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence of a woman he could always count on-to give him warm hugs and ear kisses, to teach him precious words in Spanish, to bring him to the library where he could take out as many books as he wanted and to offer safety when darkness closed in. Throughout a coming of age marked by violence and dysfunction, Abuela's red-brick house in Abilene, Texas, offered Rex the possibility of home and Abuela herself the…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

The Band in Our Basement

By Kelly J. Baptist, Jenin Mohammed (illustrator),

Book cover of The Band in Our Basement

What is my book about?

A pair of siblings who are supposed to be in bed discover a jazz band playing in their basement...how can they sleep? The only logical solution is to sneak downstairs and join the fun!

Book cover of Before I Let Go
Book cover of Cape
Book cover of Abuela, Don't Forget Me

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