Sunday, December 22, 2024

Favorite Reads 2024

 


I can't believe this year is almost over!  It did flash past, but now I'm enjoying remembering all the great books I found in 2024.  I am terrible at remembering what I read, and especially remembering writing down what I read, so this is just a "what books stick in my head right now as ones I enjoyed" list.  I'd love to hear some of yours!


The Tower by Flora Carr--probably my favorite read this year!  A slice of life with Mary Queen of Scots when she's imprisoned at Loch Leven, so descriptive and evocative, a deep character study.  Not your usual MQOS story!

Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan

All Our Yesterdays A Novel of Lady Macbeth by Joel Morris

The Wide, Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain Cook by Hampton Sides

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss




The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman (I adore this series, like so many others, but I felt like the last book was spinning its wheels a tad.  It came back roaring in this one.  Warning, get your tissues out!)

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett 




Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench (hilarious and engrossing!  I wish it had been 3 times as long)

Knife by Salman Rushdie

The Rarest Blue by Baruch Sterman

Finding Margaret Fuller by Allison Pataki





I didn't have as much time as I would like to read fiction for fun, but I did find some that were fun indeed!



Night Market Magic by Deb Marlowe


Don't Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R Alban

How the Wallflower Wins a Duke by Lucy Morris

The Plot Twist by Victoria Walters

The Scandalous Widow by Elizabeth Rolls





Here's hoping for great reads in 2025!  Love to you all, see you next year




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