Top of the Books - your Bookchart for 2024

[Perks Moderator, Know-it-all]

At the end of 2024, looking back, what were your Top 5 or Top 10 ... books of the Year? Care to Share?

[Samantha]

I only got through 23 books so far in 2024 as I only started reading again this year in the beginning of November. These books were actually very good though, even from this small a sample.

1. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
2. Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros
3. Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson
4. Wrong Place Wrong Time - Gillian Mc Allister
5. Hell Bent - Leigh Bardugo

[Melindam]

Thank you for sharing, Samantha!

It is a strong list! :))

[Ursula]

Project Hail Mary is one of my favorites too!

[Michael]

Had a pretty good reading year, here are some of my faves:

Meadowland, John Lewis-Stemple - a calm, meditative observation of the author’s meadow and it’s inhabitants over a year.

Neighborhood Watch, Sarah Reida, over-the-top mystery that follows in the footsteps of Desperate Housewives

Poor Deer Claire Oshetsky, emotionally tense novel about the long arm of grief with a charming (to me) main character

Victorian Psycho, not out until 2025, I was lucky to get an early look. Hilarious, vulgar and blood-soaked homage to gothic tropes and Easton-Ellis’ American Psycho

Death at the Sign of the Rook, Kate Atkinson. My first from this author and I’m the outlier that really loved it. Lots of heart, a twisty mystery and great character s.

[Nike]

Top ten for me this year are:

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Resin by Ane Riel
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga

[Sonja]

I know "Six of Crows" and "Crooked Kingdom" are my favourite books this year, but the rest of the list I don't think I can put them in an order of top 10 since they are all good in their own way.

[talia!]

some of my favourites have been:
(in no particular order)
- yumi and the nightmare painter by brandon sanderson
- private rites by julia armfield
- betty by tiffany mcdaniel
- emily wilde's encyclopaedia of faeries by heather fawcett
- station eleven by emily st. john mandel

[Savannah]

God of the Woods by Liz Moore was SO good. Also happy to have discovered Maggie O’Farrell this year- I hope she writes another book in 2025!

[Jess]

10) Before the Coffee Gets Cold
9) Chain-Gang All-Stars
8) Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent
7) The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
6) Gifts by Laura Barnett
5) 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster by Mirinae Lee
4) The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
3) Kala by Colin Walsh
2) My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
1) Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

[Rayne]

Top read for the year:

The Women by Kristin Hannah

Other 5 star reads:
Bride by Ali Hazelwood
The Lost Bride Trilogy by Nora Roberts
- The Inheritance
- The Mirror

[Celia]

My favorite reads of 2024 strongly tended toward fantasy (not surprising) and memoir/history (surprising!).

In no particular order:

[Jade]

In no particular order...

[Kayenne]

10 best books for me this year ...

Just for the Summer
Maybe in Another Life
Project Hail Mary
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store
Soleil d’orHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (MinaLima Edition)
Under the Whispering Door
The Silent Patient
Bright Young Women
Todos quieren a Daisy Jones
Spells for Forgetting

[Susan]

My top 5 reads of 2024...

Hum
The Women
The Perfect Marriage
The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Crying in H Mart

[Jen]

Perks Moderator wrote: "
I loved Project Hail Mary!!!




At the end of 2024, looking back, what were your Top 5 or Top 10 ... books of the Year? Care to Share?"

[Melindam]

My Top Books of 2024 in the order I read/listened to them:

1. by Donald L. Miller

2. by Connie Willis

3. by Jodi Kantor

4. by Robert Greenberg

5. by T. Kingfisher

6. Books 1 - 6 of the Niccolo Rising series by Dorothy Dunnett

7. by Roger Crowley

8. by Paul Newman

9. by John Mauceri

10. by Oliver Bullough

11. by Dan Jones

12. by Dan Jones

13. by Bettany Hughes

14. by P.G. Wodehouse