I read 75 books in 2024. Some were good, some were bad, but a select few were amazing. Below is a list of the best books I read in 2024. Romance, Science fiction, Fantasy, and other categories are all included. Feel free to comment with your favorite books of 2024. These are all obviously five-star reads for me.
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Goodreads Rating: 4.66
Number of Pages: 1007
Book One of the Stormlight Archive begins an incredible saga of epic proportions. By now, if you’re on TikTok, you’ve heard the first line of this book remixed to music and lip-synced to death. This book contains fantastic world-building, character growth, and political intrigue. I can’t wait to read the rest of the series.
The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter
Goodreads Rating: 3.99
Number of Pages: 304
Two murder mystery authors are summoned to the estate of one of the best mystery authors of a generation. Only to have her go missing from a locked room.
I loved everything about this book. The mystery kept me guessing, while the growing longing and tension between the two main characters made me practically swoon.
Bull Moon Rising by Ruby Dixon
Goodreads Rating: 4.01
Number of Pages: 432
A woman must marry her half-bull professor to enter an elite academy for magic hunters.
This was a perfect mix of smut and world-building. The characters were likable, and the plot was perfect.
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Goodreads Rating: 4.53
Number of Pages: 446
The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy meets The Hunger Games in this post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama. When aliens overtake and destroy the world, the survivors must compete in a video game-type contest to continue surviving. Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Doughnut, have to figure out the game quickly.
Note* The audiobook narrator makes Carl and Doughnut sound like Kronk and Yzma from The Emperors New Groove and it is priceless.
Love and Other Conspiracies by Mallory Marlowe
Goodreads Rating: 3.96
Number of Pages: 368
A TV show producer needs a show. She finds one hosted by a dreamy guy with great looks and personality. The catch? It’s a conspiracy theory show specializing in aliens and bigfoot. Shenanigans and single-bed tropes abound in this adorable rom-com.
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
Goodreads Rating: 3.75
Number of Pages: 312
I like my horror strange. The weirder, the better. Eve and her partner flip houses. One snowy night, a family shows up on their doorstep, the father claiming he had lived there years before. What was supposed to be a fifteen-minute look around becomes a longer and longer event. While they look stranger and stranger, things begin happening in the house. Is it Eve who’s imagining things, or is the family doing something to the house?
Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher
Goodreads Rating: 4.12
Number of Pages: 243
This is not a fairytale for the faint of heart. This princess isn’t trying to marry the prince. She’s trying to kill him. And with a ragtag group of misfits, she might succeed.
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor
Goodreads Rating: 4.28
Number of Pages: 383
Bob isn’t dead…sort of. He was frozen after an accident in Vegas and then reanimated within a computer system in a far-flung future where religions have replaced governments, and an apocalypse seems imminent. This is a chronicle of his adventures.
Bride by Ali Hazelwood
Goodreads Rating: 4.01
Number of Pages: 410
The plot setting trope for this supernatural romance is a political marriage of convenience. A vampire and a Werewolf leader must marry to stave off war between their two people.
Voyage of the Damned by Frances White
Goodreads Rating: 3.92
Number of Pages: 464
Agatha Christie, on a magical ship, with magical passengers. This fantasy murder mystery will keep you guessing until the end.
The Fold by Peter Clines
Goodreads Rating: 3.88
Number of Pages: 384
Mike wants to live a normal life despite being far from normal. He possesses a level of intelligence that would put Sheldon Cooper to shame. But when his friend, who works for the government, comes to him with a mystery, he’s too curious to pass it up.
A secret program has been working on teleportation, but something has gone awry, and the project’s employees aren’t forthcoming on the issue or even the science behind how the system is supposed to work. This book is full of Lovecraftian mystery.
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