The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Go as a River

Mindy Hardwick ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Shelley Read,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked Go as a River as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

I've come to understand how the exceptional lurks beneath the ordinary like the deep and mysterious world beneath the sea.

On a cool autumn morning, Torie Nash heads into her village pulling a rickety wagon filled with late-season peaches. As she nears an intersection, a mysterious drifter with grimy thumbs and smudged cheeks and eyes as dark as a raven's wing stops to ask her the way.

She could turn left or cross over. But she does not. 'Go as a river,' he whispers.

So begins a mezmerising story that unfolds over a tumultuous lifetime as Torie begins to absorb…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Women

Mindy Hardwick ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

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…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Take My Hand

Mindy Hardwick ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Story/Plot
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Dolen Perkins-Valdez,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked Take My Hand as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

AS SEEN ON BBC2 BETWEEN THE COVERS

Montgomery, Alabama. 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference in her community. She wants to help women make their own choices for their lives and bodies.

But when her first week on the job takes her down a dusty country road to a tumbledown cabin and into the heart of the Williams family, Civil learns there is more to her new role than she bargained for. Neither of the two young sisters has even kissed a boy, but they are poor and Black, and for…


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Sweetheart Santa

By Mindy Hardwick,

Book cover of Sweetheart Santa

What is my book about?

Will a second chance love find holiday magic?

Successful investor Greg wants to buy the crumbling Cranberry Bay marina and the last thing he expects to find is his college girlfriend, Sasha, running the town’s bakery and raising a ten-year-old son. Independent and headstrong, Sasha refuses to allow Greg to buy her love but when she reveals her long-held secret, will both find a second chance at love this Christmas?

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