The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Scapegoat

Paul Indigo ❤️ loved this book because...

An enchanting psychological thriller about a man who unwittingly swaps lives with a wealthy doppelganger. Set in provincial France in the 1950s, this picturesque tale is full of charm and mystery yet at its heart, is about familial and romantic love. It was made into a film in 1959 with Alec Guinness and remade in 2012. One of du Maurier's more warming reads!

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    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Daphne du Maurier,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

"Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, 'Je vous demande pardon,' and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. I was looking at myself." Two men-one English, the other French-meet by chance in a provincial railway station and are astounded that they are so much alike that they could easily pass for each other. Over the course of a long evening, they…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Deliverance

Paul Indigo ❤️ loved this book because...

This was made into the 1970s film with Burt Reynolds and John Voight but my goodness, the writing! So poetic. I knew there was something special about his writing when I first started to read and when I checked up on him, discovered he was also a poet. Believe me - his evocative passages shines through, something you can't really appreciate in the film. Supberb!!

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    🥇 Writing 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By James Dickey,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

“You're hooked, you feel every cut, grope up every cliff, swallow water with every spill of the canoe, sweat with every draw of the bowstring. Wholly absorbing [and] dramatic.”—Harper's Magazine

The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.

Praise for…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Twopence to Cross the Mersey

Paul Indigo ❤️ loved this book because...

A warm, nostalgic hug of an autobiography that transports you back to the slums of 1930s Liverpool and the fall from financial grace of a family struggling during these hard times. It's told from the viewpoint of a then ten year old Helen, beautifully yet simply written. I adored it.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Helen Forrester,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Twopence to Cross the Mersey as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A vivid and moving play adaptation of Forrester's four-part novel based on her life in Liverpool.

Playscript - the book contains a playscript focusing on issues that are of interest in schools.

Accompanying resources contain activities for drama (including role-play), reading, writing, and speaking and listening. These are accompanied by extension material, including extracts from modern and pre-20th-century works for comparison, and documentary material. The resources are organized under the following headings:
* Staging the play
* Work on and around the script
* Bakcground to the play
* Themes and issues in the play.


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Love Deleted

By Paul Indigo,

Book cover of Love Deleted

What is my book about?

"In my top 3 books to read ever!" Reader

ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO ERASE YOUR LOVE?

This is an impossible love story…

Cooper came home unexpectedly early that day. The day her world collapsed. The day she heard things she shouldn’t have. Saw things she shouldn’t have.

Now Cooper is running away. Driving recklessly. Blindly. A broken heart spiralling out of control after returning home to an earth-shattering scene. Then Cooper discovers the website. Speaks to the doctors. Can they help her? Can they can give her the treatment she desperately wants? Yes they can. They can do something mind-blowing.

They can surgically erase her love for her husband Jethro.

Only what appears to be the perfect solution sets off a devastating chain of events not only for Jethro and herself. But one also involving their teenage son Daniel in ways she can’t imagine.

A life-shattering moment. A rash decision. An easy solution. This isn’t just a love story. Not when a heart isn’t just broken, it is irreversibly silenced...

...This is an impossible love story.