How’s everyone doing? Does anyone know what day it is? Haha. This week between Christmas and New Year’s always feels so strange to me! It also seems like the slowest week ever.
Today I’m recapping my top 10 fiction books of 2024! I always find it harder to rate fiction books than non-fiction books. I think because for fiction books, it often has a target audience (and I find it easy to recommend to people in that audience), whereas with fiction, it can be so subjective! I also find myself forgetting a lot of the fiction books that I read. Some of the books on this list I could not tell you a single detail about…yikes!
This year I read 108 books, with 63 of those being fiction books. As I look back on the year, I once again would like to read more better books. I need to get better at DNFing books that aren’t working for me instead of pushing through. I also would like to read at least 6 of the Newberry Medal books in 2025, instead of the measly 3 I read this year.
Top Ten
Funny Story
Shark Heart
Jackpot Summer
The Summer of Songbirds
Here One Moment
Just for the Summer
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Lunar New Year Love Story
The Connelly’s of County Dawn
The Last Love Note
Other Books I’ve Read This Year
Banyan Moon
Amazing Grace Adams
Warrior Girl Unearthed
First Lie Wins
Twice in a Blue Moon
A Trick of the Light
The Beautiful Mystery
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Good Company
The Heiress
Fountains of Silence
The Covenant of Water
The Frozen River
Tom Lake
Expiration Dates
James
The Women
Colton Gentry’s Third Act
The Paradise Problem
The Marsh King’s Daughter
Yellowface
The Burnout
Darling Girls
The Summer We Started Over
The Rom-Commers
The Soulmate
That Summer
Swan Song
The Block Party
Water for Elephants
Well Met
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
Worst Case Scenario
The Rule Book
You Will Never Be Me
Other People’s Houses
I Have Some Questions for You
Sipsworth
The God of the Woods
All the Colors of the Dark
Happily Never After
No Two Persons
Husbands and Lovers
Love, Theoretically
Newberry Medal Books
Tales from Silver Lands
Holes
The Dark Frigate
Books I Read with the Kids
A Piglet Called Truffle/A Duckling Called Button
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
The War that Saved My Life
Ginger Pye
My Side of the Mountain
And that’s a wrap on my 2024 reading! You can check out Nonfiction Reads of 2024 here.
So, what about you? Did we read any of the same books? Did we love any of the same books? Or did you hate a book that I loved? I’d love to hear from you!
I see lots of my favorites in your favorite list too! I am starting to get pretty ruthless about DNF books since I always have such a huge pile waiting for me.