The best books of 2024

This list is part of the best books of 2024.

Join 1,080 readers and share your 3 favorite reads of the year.

My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of We're So Famous

Sung J. Woo ❤️ loved this book because...

How is it possible that a happy ending could also be a sad ending? But there it is.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Jaime Clarke,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked We're So Famous as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Daisy, Paque and Stella want to be famous. Inspired by their idols, Bananarama, they form a pop group of their own. But Stella heads to LA to become an actress and lusting after bad-boy rocker Bryan Metro. Paque and Daisy, without Stella, are just about ready to call it quits when two friends are mysteriously murdered. They, the last people to see the victims alive, become the prime suspects and cashing in on this sudden notoriety, record their first hit. And the adventure is only just beginning.

We're So Famous, Jaime Clarke's debut novel, was first published in 2001.


When you buy books, we may earn a commission that helps keep the lights on. Or join the rebellion as a member.

My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Tenth Muse

Sung J. Woo ❤️ loved this book because...

Somehow, she made mathematics romantic.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Catherine Chung,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

'A young woman's battle for acceptance in a male-dominated world; her misadventures in love; and her torturous journey to track down her real parents in Germany' Mail on Sunday Best New Fiction

'What had seemed to be a Hidden Figures-style female-genius-in-a-male-world narrative turns into a thrilling back-to-my-roots mystery' Daily Telegraph

From childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem to be. But as she grows up and becomes a mathematician, she faces the most human of problems - who is she? What is the cost of love, and what is the cost of…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Nuclear War: A Scenario

Sung J. Woo ❤️ loved this book because...

Probably a good idea to have a competent person holding the nuclear football.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Teach
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Annie Jacobsen,

Why should I read it?

5 authors picked Nuclear War as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Lines

By Sung J. Woo,

Book cover of Lines

What is my book about?

On a foggy morning in New York City, a man and a woman run into each other, literally. The man, a writer, invites the woman, an artist, for coffee. They married just two months later. And four years later, their marriage is crumbling. On a foggy morning in New York City, the same man and woman pass through the fog, oblivious of each other’s existence. Five years later, the writer finds a painted locket no bigger than his thumbnail.

My book is about possibilities, about our choices. It’s a love story and a tragedy. It’s about Josh and Abby and their intertwined lives, together and apart, through births, deaths, and the beautiful mess in between.