The Best Books of 2024
My top 20ish books from 2024!
2024 in Review
All the 79 books I read this year!
December Reads 2024
Knocked off for more of my reading challenge and finished with a fun Christmas mystery! Happy New Year!
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
“A woman covered in blood who doesn’t remember how it got on her. And a man decapitated… by a piece of paper.”
Recursion
“What do you cling to, moment to moment, if memories can simply change? What, then, is real? And if the answer is nothing, where does that leave us?”
Crying in H Mart
“Within 5 years, I lost both my aunt and my mother to cancer. When I go to H Mart I’m searching for memories. I’m collecting the evidence that the Korean half of my identity didn’t die when they did.”
Tactics
“If we disqualify legitimate discussion, we compromise our ability to know the truth, and error can thrive without restraint.”
Thieves’ Gambit
“Know your exits, pick the best one. That was my thing, wasn’t it? Always knowing the best way out.”
Shelf Reflection’s Reading Challenge for Kids 2025
Inspired by my daughter, together we created a 2025 Reading Challenge for Kids! Check it out— lots of fun printables to help the kids track their progress.
November Reads 2024
I read a lot of thrillers this months!
The Anxious Generation
“It is very difficult to construct a meaningful life on one’s own, drifting through multiple disembodied networks.”
The Fury
7 friends on an isolated Greek island and one of them ends up dead! The narrator tells us this is a whydunit, not a whodunit…
Moonflower Murders
A classic whodunnit with the same book within a book style of Horowitz’s previous book, Magpie Murders.
Shelf Reflection’s 2025 Reading Challenge
This year we have a two part reading challenge. Part One is 20 normal prompts. Part Two is all about the number 25. Do a few or all, as long as you’re reading, it’ll be a good year!
When You Pray
“Prayer isn’t about saying what we think the Lord wants to hear from us. Prayer is an honest, intimate, and intentional reaching for the Lord in truth, in reality, in the actuality of our lives as they are.”
A Flicker in the Dark
“Monsters don’t hide in the woods; they aren’t shadows in the trees or invisible things lurking in darkened corners. No, the real monsters move in plain sight. They lived among us.”
The Overnight Guest
A suspenseful story set in rural Iowa in the middle of a blizzard.
October Reads 2024
5 of the 7 were 5 star reads!
The Mystery Guest
“It underscored just how hazardous a maid’s work can be. It’s not the backbreaking labor, the demanding guests, or the cleaning chemicals that present the greatest danger. It’s the assumption that maids are delinquents, murderers, and thieves: the maid is always to blame.”
Break Every Rule
“We can’t change the law, so we break it when the law stands in the way.”