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books (reads) of the year!
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items Do you have a new years resolution to read more books, or are you just an avid reader and want to see if you missed one of the best books of the year! Here is a list made just for you!
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Best books of the year!
fiction (2024)
mystery and thriller (2024)
Romance(2024)
Best science fiction and fantasy (2024)
Best books for kids and teens (2024)
Best books of the year!
here is a list of the A+ books from the book of the year, gift book of the year, and children's book of the year!
BOOK OF THE YEAR: When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has f...
James (2024 B&N Book of the Year) (National Book Award Winner)|Hardcover
GIFT BOOK OF THE YEAR: Tracking the natural beauty that surrounds us, The Backyard Bird Chronicles maps the passage of time through daily entries, thoughtful questions, and beautiful original sketches. Author Amy Tan charts her foray into birding and...
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (2024 B&N Gift Book of the Year)|Hardcover
CHILDRENS BOOK OF THE YEAR: Impossible Creatures brings all your favorite mythical creatures into one deeply moving portal fantasy. It's an unparalleled adventure through a magical world where even a couple of kids can save the world and all those th...
Impossible Creatures (B&N Exclusive Edition) (2024 B&N Children's Book of the Year)|Hardcover
fiction (2024)
from love stories to mystery, here is a list of the best fiction books of 2024. Read one of these novels to escape reality and relax.
Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chicken...
Martyr!: A Novel|Paperback
Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the regio...
The God of the Woods: A Novel|Hardcover
Pushed and pulled between her parents and her children, a woman faces her past and her future, in a story about the ins and outs and joy of life.
Sandwich: A Novel|eBook
Rom-com built around the struggle of making friends as an adult and the familial relationships that shape who we are.
Funny Story|Hardcover
All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while exc...
All Fours|Hardcover
Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.
The Life Impossible|BN Exclusive
mystery and thriller (2024)
if you're a crime junkie, these books will have you scared….. in a good way! get excited about these thrillers!
A missing person mystery, a serial killer thriller, a love story, a unique twist on each, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession and the blinding light of hope.
All the Colors of the Dark (Read with Jenna Pick)|Hardcover
One toxic family. Eight suspicious guests. Everyone is guilty. But who is a killer?
This Is Why We Lied (Will Trent Thriller #12)|Hardcover
Frank Szatowski is shocked when his daughter, Maggie, calls him for the first time in three years. He was convinced that their estrangement would become permanent. He’s even more surprised when she invites him to her upcoming wedding in New Hampshire...
The Last One at the Wedding: A Novel|BN Exclusive
My all time favorite author! TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm—except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can’t get hired anywhere ex...
The Truth about the Devlins|BN Exclusive
How to catch a killer: put off early retirement. A cat-and-mouse race against time.
We Solve Murders: A Novel|BN Exclusive
It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West’s spy war against the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only for a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a r...
Karla's Choice: A John le Carré Novel|Hardcover
In a job this unforgiving, friendship can't last. These secret agents have survived the unspeakable together, and now their next targets are each other.
The Seventh Floor: A Novel|Hardcover
Romance(2024)
Fall head over heels for the best romance books of 2024 including feel good rom-coms, opposites-attract love stories and to-die-for romatasies.
When a secret message turns up hidden in a book in the Cinnamon Bun Bookstore, Hazel can't understand it. As more secret codes appear between the pages, she decides to follow the trail of clues… she just needs someone to help her out.
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store (Dream Harbor, Book 2)
The bridge is out. The phones are down. And the most famous mystery writer in the world just disappeared out of a locked room two days before Christmas.
The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year: A Novel|Hardcover
Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam “West” Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she’d signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways. Three years later...
The Paradise Problem|eBook
Best science fiction and fantasy (2024)
Get swept away by magical storytelling, epic world building, sizzling romance and creatures with this list of the best science fiction and fantasy books of the year.
A slow-burn romance and dragons aplenty — start a brand-new series and get lost in this enchanting world of magic and political intrigue.
When the Moon Hatched: A Novel|Hardcover
When Ophelia’s sister disappears, there is only one way to save her. Ophelia must enter Phantasma, a deadly contest inside a haunted mansion, and claim its prize—a single wish.
Phantasma|Paperback
Battles won and lost, alliances gained and broken. Everything has come down to this — with only ten days to prepare.
Wind and Truth (Stormlight Archive Series #5)|Hardcover
A story of light vs. dark, wrong vs. right. Mische's choice should be simple, but nothing is as it seems in a world of vengeful gods, love and treachery.
The Songbird and the Heart of Stone|Hardcover
Emily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore who just wrote the world’s first comprehensive encyclopaedia of faeries. She’s learned many of the secrets of the Hidden Ones on her adventures...and also from her fellow scholar and former rival Wen...
Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands (B&N Exclusive Edition)|BN Exclusive
Can you overcome death defying odds at the hands of a Greek god? Steamy and action-packed, this epic fantasy is perfect for fans of Fourth Wing
The Games Gods Play|Hardcover
It's no surprise that the Prince of Gluttony can't temper his indulgences — until it comes to resisting the person he should hate the most...
Throne of Secrets (B&N Exclusive Edition)|BN Exclusive
After a lifetime of war, Alaric and Talasyn were thrust into an alliance between their homelands that was supposed to end the fighting; however, being married to their sworn foe feels far from peaceful. Now Talasyn must play the part of Alaric’s will...
A Monsoon Rising (B&N Exclusive Edition) (The Hurricane Wars, Book 2)|BN Exclusive
When her whole life collapsed, Rae still had books. Dying, she seizes a second chance at living: a magical bargain that lets her enter the world of her favorite fantasy series.
Long Live Evil|Paperback
Arthur Parnassus lives a good life, built on the ashes of a bad one. He’s the headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six magical and so-called dangerous children who live...
Somewhere Beyond the Sea|Hardcover
In a mortal world colonized by the gods and ruled over by their cruel, magical offspring called the Descended, Diem Bellator yearns to escape her poor village.
Spark of the Everflame: A Novel|Hardcover
Astraea is a prisoner of her own mind, the past sliding from her grasp like water. But she knows she must escape the tyrannical king who holds her captive and find her clouded memories once again.
The Stars Are Dying (Special Edition)|Special
Best books for kids and teens (2024)
start them young and watch them learn and grown while expanding their imaginations!
Best for teens and young adults, about the love that both breaks and heals us.
If Only I Had Told Her (B&N Exclusive Edition)|BN Exclusive
FOR YOUNG READERS, Take a walk into the past with Dog Man in book 13 of the globetrotting series, and learn what made Big Jim so Big and so Jim.
Big Jim Begins (B&N Exclusive Edition) (Dog Man Series #13)|BN Exclusive
Best picture book for littles! Using educational techniques from her beloved YouTube channel and threading them into an interactive story, Ms. Rachel shows kids and parents alike fun ways to engage and play!
Ms. Rachel and the Special Surprise: Encouraging Speech and Learning Through Play and Music|Hardcover