I try to get this list down to a ‘Top 10″. Occasionally I succeed, at least sorta/kinda, as I did last year. This year I didn’t even get close, because, as sometimes happens in the weekly Stacking the Shelves post, when all the covers are pretty but they’re not all pretty in the same way, all of the books in this year’s BEST list are all excellent, but they aren’t all excellent of the same type or genre, and they’re not all excellent in the same way.
Two books, however, stood out above the rest. I started an A++ rating category a couple of years ago because there are always one or two – or in a truly excellent year, three or four – books that stand head and shoulders above the rest. This year, there were two A++ rated books, Court of Wanderers by Rin Chupeco and The Daughters’ War by Christopher Buehlman.
(For the full and complete list of all the A++ reads, EVER so far, just click HERE.)
So, there are TWENTY books in this year’s Best Books list, which includes the A+ rated books of this year that were also published this year, plus, OF COURSE, the two A++ rated books above. Those two may be the crème de la crème of this year’s reads – at least for this reader – but I promise there is plenty of crème in the whole list!
Without further ado, as 2024 winds to a close, I present to you Reading Reality’s Best Books of 2024!
Blood Jade by Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle
Court of Wanderers by Rin Chupeco (A++)
The Crescent Moon Tearoom by Stacy Sivinski
The Daughters’ War by Christopher Buehlman (A++)
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djeli Clark
Echo by Tracy Clark
Ghostdrift by Suzanne Palmer
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older
Mal Goes to War by Edward Ashton
Murder at the White Palace by Allison Montclair
A Murder Most French by Colleen Cambridge
The Price of Redemption by Shawn Carpenter
Rough Pages by Lev AC Rosen (audio)
Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong
What Cannot Be Said by C.S. Harris
When Among Crows by Veronica Roth
Awesome list, The Tainted Cup and Teller of Small Fortunes will be on my list next week. I have a terrible time cutting my list down so I separate my books by genre but do an overall top five. Mine is going to be over 20 books😬
Tammy @ Books, Bones & Buffy recently posted..2024 End of the Year Freak Out Book Tag
Wow. Very nice list. I ended up adding The Crescent Moon Tearoom by Stacy Sivinski to my TBR. That sounds fun. Thanks for sharing your Best Books of 2024.
Angela (Angel’s Book Nook) recently posted..Top 10 Books I Meant to Read This 2024 Year
A great list, thanks for sharing