Books I Read in 2024

And -

Ta DA!!!

 Here's my annual "Books I Read This Year" post.

They are all books I enjoyed, and enjoy recommending.

I'm not one to continue reading a book if it's not appealing to me. 

I have, however, highlighted in red the books that were, to me, especially memorable.

Some of these are Advance Reading Copies I was lucky enough to receive, so may not be available just yet - but worth the wait!  


Mixed in with the books is some "book art" I like. Some I've used in previous posts, some are new to me. I enjoy finding new (to me) artists as much as I enjoy finding new authors and poets.

Enjoy! I hope you find some new books and authors to add to your own list.

If you're an author and find your name on this list - Thank You!!!

Those we Thought we Knew by David Joy (re-read)

The Women by Kristin Hannah (re-read)

• Inheritance by Nora Roberts (re-read)

• Nightwork by Nora Roberts
• Ship Watch by Jonathan Scott Barrett
• The Paris Widow by Kimberly Belle
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• The Bookstore at River's Edge by Phillipa Nefri Clark
• No Place Like Home by Barbara O'Neal
• The Phoenix Ballroom by Ruth Hogan
• Summers at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews
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• The Swans of Harlem by Karen Valby
• Long After We Are Gone by Terah Shelton Harris
• Mind Games by Nora Roberts
• The Summer We Started Over by Nancy Thayer
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• Random in Death by J. D. Robb
• A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci
• Sara Starting Over by Dee Ernst
• Till Death Do Us Part by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
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• Bookstories by Sarah Tollok
• The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
• Man in the Water by David Housewright
• Agony Hill by Sarah Stewart Taylor
• Last House by Jessica Shattuck
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• The Secrets of the Little Greek Taverna by Erin Palmisano
• How the Light Gets In by Joyce Maynard
• Murder at the Paris Fashion House by Nancy Warren
• Finding Hope in Starshine Cove by Debbie Johnson
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• The Moonflowers by Abigail Rose-Marie
• A Very Bad Thing by J. T. Ellison
• The Paris Cooking School by Sophie Beaumont
• The Townsend Family Recipe for Disaster by Shauna Robinson
• Memories of the Lost by Barbara O'Neal
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• The Essential Elizabeth Stone by Jennifer Banash
• Love at First Book by Jenn McKinlay
• The Paris Gown by Christine Wells
• The Marriage Sabbatical by Lian Dolan
• All They Need to Know by Eileen Goudge
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• The Fabled Earth by Kimberly Brock
• A Great Marriage by Frances Mayes
• A Will and A Way by Nora Roberts
• In Wilderness by Diane Thomas
• The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
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• Return to Wyldcliffe Heights by Carol Goodman
• Funny Story by Emily Henry
• Ferris by Kate DiCamillo
• Sandwich by Catherine Newman
• Escape to the Country Kitchen by Hannah Langdon
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• Pippi's Inn for Wandering Spirits by Erin Ritch
• The Summer Club by Hannah McKinnon
• Table for Two by Amor Towles
• The Secret War of Julia Child by Diana R. Chambers
• A Summer House on Arran by Ellie Henderson
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• Spirit Crossing by William Kent Krueger
• Bring Me Sunshine by Alex Brown
• The Riviera House Swap by Gillian Harvey
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• The Note by Alafair Burke
• Blind to Midnight by Reed Farrel Coleman
• Water, Water by Billy Collins
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• A Novel Summer by Jamie Brenner
• When the Only Light is the Moon by Rita Wilson
• Seven Summer Weekends by Jane L. Rosen
• The Mirror: The Lost Bride Trilogy, Book 2 by Nora Roberts
• Echo by Tracy Clark
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  That Summer by Jennifer Weiner
• The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier
• A Happier Life by Kristy Woodson Harvey
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• Passions in Death by J. D. Robb
• Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
• Magic Enuff by Tara Sringfellow
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• The Little Lost Library by Ellery Adams
• The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan
• Angel of Vengeance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
• The Vanishing of Josephine Reynolds by Jennifer Moorman
• The Colony Club by Shelley Noble
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• The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
• The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis
• Perfect Storm by Paige Shelton
• Mademoiselle Eiffel by Aimie K. Runyan
• Let Us March On by Shara Moon.
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• Saltwater by Katy Hays
• Christmas at the Little Paris Hotel by Rebecca Raisin
• The House at Watch Hill by Karen Marie Moning
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• The Thirteenth Husband by Greer Macallister
• The Woodsmoke Women's Book of Spells by Rachel Greenlaw
• Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson
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• One Midnight With You by Shari Low
• The Christmas Inn by Pamela Kelley
• Southern by Design by Grace Helena Walz
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• The Murders in Great Diddling by Katarina Bivald
• The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams by Karen Hawkins
• The Little Provence Book Shop by Gillian Harvey
• Last Twilight in Paris by Pam Jenoff
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• In the Midnight Rain by Barbara O'Neal
• The Witches of Santo Stefano by Wendy Webb
• The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
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• The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand
• The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny
• Christmas with the Knights by Hannah Langdon
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• Tis The Season For Secrets by Kate Callaghan
• The Story She Left Behind by Patti Callahan Henry
• The Booklover's Library by Madeline Martin
• The House that Florence Left by Chris Penhall
• The Summer That Shaped Us by Lori Wilde
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• The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club by Martha Hall Kelley
• The Paris Inheritance by Natalie Meg Evans
• Holiday Hideaway A Short Story by Mary Kay Andrews
• Fates & Furies by Lauren Groff
• Night and Day by John Connolly
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• Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
• Bonded in Death by J. D. Robb
• Kate & Frida by Kim Fay
• A Fashionably French Murder by Colleen Cambridge
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• The Many Mothers of Ivy Puddingstone by Randy Susan Meyers
• The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick
• The Library of Lost Dollhouses by Elise Hooper
• Where the Rivers Merge by Mary Alice Monroe
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• A Slant of Light by Kathryn Lasky
• Robins in my Kitchen by Bryony Hill
• Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones
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• A Very Irish Christmas by Debbie Johnson
• A Home for the Holidays by Taylor Hahn
• Christmas at a Highland Castle by Rachel Barnett
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• 'Tis the Damn Season by Fiona Gibson
• Christmas with the Queen by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb
• Highlands Christmas - Wishes Come True by Amy Quick Parrish
• Christmas Cancellation by Evie James
• The Wedding People by Alison Espach
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• The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
• The Other Side of Now by Paige Harbison
• The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau by Kristin Harmel
• Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman
• The Paris Chapter by Victoria Walters
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• Starting Over in Starshine Cove by Debbie Johnson
• The Dark Library by Mary Anna Evans
• This Must be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell
• The New Couple in 5B by Lisa Unger
• One Day and Forever by Shari Low
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Did you notice the one book highlighted in purple?

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• Where the Rivers Merge by Mary Alice Monroe
• This book will be published in May.
• Go ahead - right now! - pre-order it.
• More about it here
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Happy New Year

and

Happy Reading!