The best books of 2024

This list is part of the best books of 2024.

Join 1,514 readers and share your 3 favorite reads of the year.

My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Gathering

Rosemary Mac Cabe ❤️ loved this book because...

This book was a bit like True Blood set in the context of True Detective, Fargo and Mare of Easttown – dark, noir, murder-mystery with vampires. I loved it so much.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Story/Plot 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By C. J. Tudor,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

THE BESTSELLING QUEEN OF HORROR TURNS HER HAND TO VAMPIRES . . .

WELCOME TO DEADHART. ALASKA. POPULATION 673. LIVING.
'Britain's female Stephen King' Daily Mail
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A boy is found with his throat ripped out,
the blood drained from his body. It's not the first
such killing, and the town knows who to blame:
the vampyr colony in the mountains.

But out-of-state detective Barbara Atkins think the evidence
doesn't stack up. People are lying.
And Deadhart has a history of dark secrets.

The snow keeps falling, but so do the victims.
Time is running out for Barbara.
Is she…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Demon Copperhead

Rosemary Mac Cabe ❤️ loved this book because...

A retelling of David Copperfield, this was such a well written book that really brought home so many social issues that plague American life right now, without beating you over the head with them.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Barbara Kingsolver,

Why should I read it?

83 authors picked Demon Copperhead as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Demon's story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking 'like a little blue prizefighter.' For the life ahead of him he would need all of that fighting spirit, along with buckets of charm, a quick wit, and some unexpected talents, legal and otherwise.

In the southern Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, poverty isn't an idea, it's as natural as the grass grows. For a generation growing up in this world, at the heart of the modern opioid crisis, addiction isn't an abstraction, it's neighbours, parents, and friends. 'Family' could mean love, or reluctant foster…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Bride

Rosemary Mac Cabe ❤️ loved this book because...

This was such a departure by Ali Hazelwood – from the STEM rom-coms we know and love her for – but an incredible book which somehow told the story of a world of vampires and werewolves in a way that was not even remotely unbelievable. Smart, funny, sexy.

  • Loved Most

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

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Ali Hazelwood,

Why should I read it?

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


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

This Is Not About You

By Rosemary Mac Cabe,

Book cover of This Is Not About You

What is my book about?

Rosemary Mac Cabe was always a serial monogamist – never happier than when she was in a relationship or, at the very least, on the way to being in one. But in her desperate search for ‘the one’ – from first love to first lust, through a series of disappointments and the searing sting of heartbreak – she learned that finding love might mean losing herself along the way.

This Is Not About You is a life story in a series of love stories. About Henry, with the big nose and the lovely mum, with whom sex was like having a verruca frozen off in the doctor’s surgery: ‘uncomfortable, but I had entered into this willingly’. About Dan, with the goatee. About Luke, who gave her a split condom. About Frank, who was married…

But mostly, it’s about Rosemary, figuring out just how much she was willing to sacrifice for her happy ending.

Book cover of The Gathering
Book cover of Demon Copperhead
Book cover of Bride

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