Here are some of the books I read this year and loved:
Great list Roberta! I have Banyan Moon on my list and I really enjoyed Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow as well.
FYI I updated the title of your topic to encourage others to share books they enjoyed in 2024 
Thanks Nick! I haven’t totally gotten the hang of how and where to post.
Two stand outs were Strout’s Tell Me Everything and Erdrich’s The Mighty Red. These writers never miss for me.
The only one I’ve read on your list is Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, which I totally loved too. Frozen River is on my list.
My favorites of the year include:
The Curse of Pietro Houdini
The Bandit Queens
Exhibit
There Are Rivers in the Sky
Playground
Tell Me Everything
Our Evenings
The Mighty Red is another one on my TBR list.
Is this asking books we read in 2024 or books that were published in 2024? If it’s the latter, I just finished The Booklover’s Library and can’t recommend it enough! I also loved The Wedding People, and The Story Collector.
My favorite book I’ve read this year but was published earlier was The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post.
Hi Emily,
It can be any books you read this year regardless of when they were published!
God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer by Joseph Earl Thomas
Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder by Kerryne Mayne
Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
(I seem to like titles featuring fun personal names)
The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck (a particular favorite)
Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown
Outlandish by Nick Hunt
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
I adored There Are Rivers in the Sky!
I also loved The sound of a wild snail eating.
Below are my 2024 5 star reads
The will of the many by James Islington
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Family Family by Laurie Frankel
How to Read A Book by Monica Wood, (also loved one in a million boy by Monica Wood)
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
The Talk by Darrin Bell, a graphic memoir
The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob’s
Squeeze me by Carl Hiassen
No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister
I still need to read Frozen River.
Clytemnestra /Costanza Casati
The Frozen River/ Ariel Lawhon
Lion Women of Tehran/ Marian Kamali
All the Colors of the Dark/ Chris Whitaker
James/ Percival Everett
Some of the books I loved reading this year are:
Here are some of my 2024 fiction favorites:
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak (historical fiction)
Orbital by Samantha Harvey (literary fiction)
Babel by R F Kuang (fantasy)
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Armin (classic)
A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers (sci-fi / cozy sci-fi)
A Prayer for the Crown Sky by Becky Chambers (sci-fi / cozy sci-fi)
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux (historical fiction, Burma/Myanmar)
Eleanore of Avignon by Elizabeth deLozier (historical fiction, France)
When I’m Gone Look for Me in the East by Quan Barry (fiction, Mongolia)
What You Are Looking For Is In The Library by Michiko Aoyama (fiction, Japan)
Family, Family by Laurie Frankel (popular fiction)
I LOVED The Booklover’s Library!! ALL of her books are FABULOUS - check them out if you can.
Yes! Madeline Martin is one of my faves.
This list is 
. Adding to my TBR now.
Great list! Thanks for sharing.
I know it probably isn’t a prerequisite, but I’m thinking of reading/studying the Epic of Gilgamesh poem before reading Elif Shafak’s There are Rivers in the Sky. Great list, Kim! The only one I have read is The Curse of Pietro Houdini (which I enjoyed).