Best Books of the Year (SO FAR!) 2024 | Lauren and the Books
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I'm back, and ready to talk about the best books I have read so far in 2024, all eight of them.
Books mentioned:
Brotherless Night
The Golden Mole
Nightbloom
A Slice of Fried Gold
Heartstopper Volume 4
The House on the Strand
Pet
Reach for the Stars
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What an amazing list of books Lauren!
So glad to see you back. Enjoyable video. Best wishes, Emma
You probably are already aware but there is a Spotify playlist for your best book of the year so far 😊 5 star reads for me this year have been beartown, all the light we cannot see and clear by carys Davies. I'm also going to add pet to my tbr after your recommendation!
Love these lists. Nightbloom and Brotherless Night will also make my list. I really want to read Pet, as I loved remote sympathy.
Ahhh I share those memories of pop music and that time! I was 13-23 then 😊
So glad you’re back👏👏👏👍😄
So lovely to see you back Lauren! My subscription feed has felt lost without you!
Thank you so much, it feels lovely to be back!
Other than some fabulous re-reads I haven't had more than a few five stars reads this year and most of those are poetry collections. My favourite new to me book this year has been My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier.
I’ve been rereading some bangers too, I too loved My Cousin Rachel, but it was a reread for me!
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So glad you are back after your break. I’ve had a really mixed year with my reading . I finished Slum boy by Juano Diaz and Poor by Katriona O’Sullivan last month which were 5 stars and I can’t recommend them enough. I seem to be having better luck with 5 star non fiction books at the moment. 💛
I am so glad you loved The Golden Mole! I had a feeling you would 😊
It’s so cute! 🥰
She’s back!!!
And it feels NICE!
I have had Pet on my pile for ages. I think I will take it to Portugal with me in September. Thanks Laurenxx
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! 😊
Really like the sound of the time travel book and teachers pet !! The invisible life of addie larue cant recommend enough and fairytale by Stephen king are my tops up to know x
The House on the Strand is amazing, isn't it? I agree, there are some fantastic du Maurier books and some not so .... I highly recommend The Loving Spirit if you haven't already read it 🙂
My favourite book of the year so far is Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake - it's such a different kind of fantasy series where this huge castle is the main star of the novel 🏰
I have The Loving Spirit! I must get to it. 😊
My top 5 so far:
1) Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet
2) Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo
3) Space: The Human Story by Tim Peake
4) You are Here - David Nicholls
5) The Things we do to our friends by Heather Darwent
So happy to see a Kiwi author doing so well! I think you will love Catherine Chidgey’s latest, The Axeman’s Carnival. Different again, she is so clever! (She is also a translator and translated my favourite book for babies, Tickle My Ears 🤯)
Oh wow! I didn’t know she had another out, I’ll be sure to keep my eye out for it! 😊
I’ve also had a bit of a rubbish reading this year so far. Women’s Prize was not for me this year which was sad although I did like Brotherless Night and was glad it won for the same reason as you. I honestly haven’t read any five stars this year and have found myself just picking up crime/thrillers at the moment!
lol I love how you talk to Daphne! So funny!!
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4, five star reads for me so far in 24,
Pet is one of them
Prima Facie, brilliantly narrated by Jodie Comer.
The list of suspicious things Jennie Godfrey
An my absolute favourite
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
I think I will listen to Prima Facie once I’ve done the new Juno Dawson 😊
The Golden Mole is read by Lenny Henry on audiobook so could be worth checking out for your audio re-read!
Lenny Henry is my favourite audiobook reader so this is wonderful news and I will definitely be revisiting it next year via audio, thanks for the tip!
Ooh House on the Strand sounds great!! Will need to pick it up 😄 On the note of time travel books have you read 11/22/63 by Stephen King?! Time travel but isn’t horror or supernatural like his other stuff but just a brilliant book about people and love and an adventure, his characters are just so great, excellent audiobook too ❤
Not yet! But sounds like I need to get to it ☺️
Ooooo if you want another cousin book read The Witch Elm by Tana French! It’s a liiiiiittle messed up because it’s a mystery thriller but one of my favourites!!
Oooh lovely! Thanks for the recommendation April 😊
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My best books so far are all concentrated in January to April. May and June have been a disaster. Little reading and terrible weather.
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
Brotherless Night
Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly
Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Haworth ☘️
Service by Sarah Gilmartin ☘️
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Fayne by AnnMarie MacDonald
North Woods by Daniel Mason
How To Build A Boat by Elaine Feeney ☘️
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan ☘️
Solider Sailor by Claire Kilroy ☘️
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
The Caretaker by Ron Rash
Stone Yard Devotional by Charolette Wood
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Lots of great Irish authors there! 😊
Not had many 5* reads... Mainly because I can't find anything different! Awful lot of books at the moment seem to be a version of something I have already read. Possibly need to explore indie publishers more!
One Christmas wish by Katherine Rundell is THE MOST BEAUTIFUL Christmas book
I hadn’t even made the link that was the same person, that’s one of my favourite Christmas books and the illustrations 😍😍😍
@@LaurenAndTheBooks I hadn't either!!!