These are not books that were necessarily published in 2024 but books that I have read over the last year. This was a very difficult list to put together as I had a great year of reading and exploring different genres.
Historical Fiction
The Book Lover's Library by Madeline Martin
- Brief Summary: A heartwarming story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of the books that bring them together.
- First published September 3, 2024
- 432 pages
Thriller
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
- Brief Summary: Lucy is found covered in her best friend's blood with no recollection of what happened, after many years she returns to her hometown and the scene of the crime to uncover what she can't remember through the help of a true crime podcaster.
- First published March 5, 2024
- 336 pages
Psychological Thriller
Every Last Secret by A. R. Torre
- Brief Summary: New neighbors move in next door and the wives begin to battle for the queen bee of the neighborhood. What is uncovered will truly shock you as to what lengths a woman will go to in order to protect her marriage.
- First published December 1, 2020
- 293 pages
Mystery
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
- Brief Summary: A wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.
- First published May 10, 2022
- 372 pages
Horror
Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine
- Brief Summary: The Push meets The Silent Patient in a gripping thriller that follows a woman convinced a sinister figure is going to great lengths to make sure her pregnancy never happens—while the men in her life refuse to believe a word she says.
- First published August 1, 2023
- 432 pages
Romance
Reckless (#4 in Chestnut Springs Series) by Elsie Silver
- Brief Summary: A grumpy sunshine western romance where he melts her icy heart and helps her become the woman and mother she could only ever dream of being.
- First published June 9, 2023
- 466 pages
Dark Romance
Lights Out (#1 in Into Darkness Series) by Navessa Allen
- Brief Summary: A kinky dark romance where masks bring two people together into a meaningful relationship. Unfortunately, an accidental murder causes their relationship to take a turn.
- First published February 14, 2024
- 454 pages
Runner Up: The Ritual by Shantel Tessier
Feminine Rage
The Mindf*ck Series by S. T. Abby
- Brief Summary: This series is five novellas smooshed together where one woman is determined to get her revenge against her small town that tortured her and her family. She becomes the ultimate revenge serial killer and falls in love with the FBI agent that is actively hunting her.
- First published December 10, 2016
- 638 pages
Disability Awareness
Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent
- Brief Summary: Sally is 'strange' and unfortunately her father's passing causes a stir when she simply listened to her father when he told her to just throw him away when he dies. This is a heartwarming thriller that I could not put down.
- First published July 18, 2023
- 384 pages
Runner Up: The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
Coming-Of-Age
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
- Brief Summary: The main character, Luke, is outstandingly relatable while managing to be wildly annoying and angsty. He finds himself in another land where we follow him through his high school years and the new creatures he befriends.
- First published August 15, 2017
- 441 pages
Runner Up: They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera
Fantasy
A Fig For All The Devils by C.S. Fritz
- Brief Summary: An abused, grief-stricken, and impoverished Sonny has all but given up on life. That is, until he meets death, by way of the Grim Reaper. The Reaper, a junk food loving, poetry reading, cigarette-addicted entity, has no time to waste as he searches for a suitable successor who would become "Death" for the next millennium.
- First published October 31, 2021
- 260 pages
Memoir
Too Pretty To Be Good by Lindsay Byron
- Brief Summary: Journey across sweat-soaked stages dotted with wadded dollars and the dreams of a thousand women, to the hallowed halls of the ivory tower where florescent lights and tenured dinosaurs reign, to find out how one woman straddling worlds learns to love herself, despite all odds
- Published January 11, 2021
- 211 pages