The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Last Letter from Your Lover

Rita Lee Chapman ❤️ loved this book because...

A wonderful, heartbreaking romance set in days when divorce would ruin a woman, men ruled the home and lovers wrote each other letters. An amazing story, beautifully crafted.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Jojo Moyes,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Last Letter from Your Lover as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Spanning forty years, two women's stories of love, loss and betrayal are intertwined in this award-winning novel by Jojo Moyes, internationally bestselling author of Me Before You, After You and the new bestseller Still Me.

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'Beautifully written . . . an exquisite tale of love lost, love found and the power of letter writing.' - Sunday Express

When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story, she doesn't think she'll find anything of interest. Instead she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband - and Ellie is caught…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Estella

Rita Lee Chapman ❤️ loved this book because...

This was a brilliant idea, beautifully written. The author has written about the imagined life of Estella, the adopted daughter of Miss Haversham of Charles Dicken's fame and the story will enchant and delight.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Kathy George,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

'A haunting and darkly beautiful retelling of Dickens's Great Expectations.' Karen Brooks, author. The icily enigmatic anti-hero of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations tells her own story ... and changes the ending in this beguiling feminist take on a classic for readers of Pip Williams and Karen Brooks.


At just three years of age, Estella is taken from her mother, adopted by the wealthy but eccentric Miss Havisham and taught how to break men's hearts. Satis House is dark and oppressive and life with the vengeful Miss Havisham a confusion of contradictory lessons, but the kindness of the household cook and…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Take Your Breath Away

Rita Lee Chapman ❤️ loved this book because...

Plenty of action, fast-paced and an intriguing storyline.

  • Loved Most

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

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Linwood Barclay,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked Take Your Breath Away as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A missing woman. A husband suspected.
The truth will ... Take Your Breath Away Linwood Barclay is...

'A suspense master' Stephen King
'In a class of his own' T.M. Logan
'One of the finest thriller writers in the world' Mark Billingham

It's always the husband, isn't it?

When his wife Brie vanishes from their home one night, never to be seen again, people assume Andy got away with murder. The police can't build a case against him, but still his friends and neighbours abandon him.

Six years later, Andy's life is back on track, and he's settled with a new…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Murder at the Tennis Club

By Rita Lee Chapman,

Book cover of Murder at the Tennis Club

What is my book about?

DI Mark Williamson and his wife, Christine, move from Sydney to the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia for a quieter lifestyle. Serious crime is low and Mark finds time to join the local Tennis Club, but peace in this idyllic area is shattered when a woman is found murdered in her own home. Can Mark find Faye Abbott’s killer and is her death linked to the murders which occur shortly afterwards at the Tennis Club?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DBGC8L4L

My book recommendation list

Book cover of The Last Letter from Your Lover
Book cover of Estella
Book cover of Take Your Breath Away

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