The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of I Cheerfully Refuse

Liz Kellebrew ❤️ loved this book because...

Like getting a strong, warm hug at the end of the world. This book is moving, compelling, and quietly defiant.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Story/Plot
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Leif Enger,

Why should I read it?

4 authors picked I Cheerfully Refuse as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Barnes & Noble's April Book Club Pick
An Amazon Top 10 Editors' Pick
A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 from Literary Hub

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved musician taking to Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved bookselling wife. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure and a lawless society. Amid the Gulliver-like challenges of life at sea, Rainy is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humour, generous strangers and…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Eleanore of Avignon

Liz Kellebrew ❤️ loved this book because...

Strong female lead, medieval time period, a slow burning romance and historical parallels to the societal issues we face today.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Elizabeth DeLozier,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

A Library Reads Pick! 

An Amazon Best Book of the Month!

An Aardvark Book Club Pick! 

Rich with unforgettable characters, gorgeously drawn, and full of captivating historical drama, Eleanore of Avignon is the story of a healer who risks her life, her freedom, and everything she holds dear to protect her beloved city from the encroaching Black Death

Provence, 1347. Eleanore (Elea) Blanchet is a young midwife and herbalist with remarkable skills. But as she learned the day her mother died, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is draw attention to herself. She attends patients in her home…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Last Animal

Liz Kellebrew 👍 liked this book because...

The women in this book dare greatly, do the unexpected, and come together for each other in an ending I did not see coming. Satisfying and highly original.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Ramona Ausubel,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

Named a Best Novel of the Year by Oprah Daily!

“Whip-smart and compulsively readable. . . both a wildly entertaining adventure story and a meditation on what it means to love your children—fiercely and imperfectly.”—Oprah Daily

“Springs alive to explore questions that stump scientists and families, problems of the head and the heart.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post

“A full-hearted portrait of sisterhood, family and the ways we process grief. Charming, wry, and original.” —People

A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in a wild scientific experiment and discover themselves in…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

The River People

By Liz Kellebrew,

Book cover of The River People

What is my book about?

he River People by Liz Kellebrew is a haunting and lyrical exploration of 19th-century westward expansion into the Pacific Northwest. Through the intertwined journeys of Marilla, John, and Walter-each navigating rivers that serve as both roads and unforgiving forces-the novel weaves together fiction, historical documents, memoir, and poetry. As these characters face hardships and triumphs, their choices and loves reverberate through generations. This book delves into the myths and realities of migration, revealing the harsh lessons the West has to offer. It's a powerful, evocative story of love, loss, and survival in a land where nature shows no mercy.

Book cover of I Cheerfully Refuse
Book cover of Eleanore of Avignon
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