My Top 10 Favorite Books of 2024
I can’t believe the year is over! This year has been one of the best years of reading for me, and I have read some of my new all time favorite books in 2024. Out of the 28 books I’ve read this year, it was so so hard to pick just my favorite top 10, but I think this is as close as it can get to accurate of my favorite books of 2024; starting with number 10!
10. A Wrinkle In Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
“It was a dark and stormy night…”
A Wrinkle In Time is a story showing the battle between light and darkness, good and evil, as L’engle’s characters mature on their space traveling journey, with questions of spirituality and purpose, and the conflicts of love, friendship, and family.
This book is a mix of fantasy, spiritual, and dystopian genre. I really love dystopian books, and this one was a great on to add to my collection of favorites, but it also wasn’t only dystopian, which was very interesting! I read most of this book in one afternoon, because it was just enjoyable. I would rate it an 7 out of 10!
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9. Legend, by Marie Lu
Legend is a very interesting, dystopian romance. The plot twist is very unexpected, and the storyline was very intriguing. I made quite a few guesses as to how I thought this book would end, and I was quite surprised. Everything ties together in the end. This book was so surprising. Sometimes in a good way, but sometimes in just a confusing way, which is why it’s not higher on my list. Some of the scenes I had to reread to make sure that my first impression wasn’t wrong. Like the romantic scenes for instance, or the characters themselves. There was also quite a few holes in this book, and the author also started this book when she was fourteen years old, so I could see her younger writing style show a bit.
This book is a good starting book for anyone wanting to get more into the dystopian genre, and it to me was like a milder, not as good Hunger Games. I wish I could have rated this book higher on this list, but I really couldn’t based off of the other different flaws I speak on in my full review. I’d rate this book a 7 out of 10!
8. The Giver Quartet, by Lois Lowry
“Go. This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love.”
The Giver Quartet is the second work I had read of Lois Lowry, and there were my favorite books at one point. They show how valuable our life we have is and how valuable love is. In these books, they are pretty much showing what our world could have been like or could be like if we don't remember that we have to have love and share the truth. Just think about a world without all those things and then you'll realize how important they are. I would rate this series a 8 out of 10!
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7. A Night Divided, by Jennifer A. Nielsen
“Courage isnt knowing you can do something; its only being willing to try…”
This book was quite the page turner! Jennifer Nielsen really makes historical fiction come out it a way thats not distant, so in the past, and like another school book, but makes it relatable and interesting. Her characters are very relatable in their thinking and emotions too. Obviously not necessarily in the main plot (like escaping an imprisoned country), but in what they are experiencing. She makes a lot of life circumstances come out in her stories. I really enjoy of suspenseful this book was, and how it really made you care about the characters. The main thing I think I enjoyed in this book was in fact the plot. Even though i think it would have been a more interesting book if there was some more depth to it, the main plot so interesting and I couldn’t stop reading it. As I’ve said, Jennifer Nielsen’s style of writing reminders me of Suzanne Collins, but I do think the only reason why I like Suzanne Collins’ writing better would be that she has mastered the depth of a storyline. I really enjoy books that have multiple things going on. I found that Jennifer Nielsens writing, as well as being very good for the different reasons I said before, was also just so much focused on the main plot that you didn’t really know about the side things. That’s the really the only reason it wasn’t higher on my list. I’d rate this book a 8 out of 10!
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6. Anne’s House Of Dreams, by L. M. Montgomery
“Our library isnt very extensive, but every book in it is a friend.”
This book was beautifully written by L. M. Montgomery. Reading it was like watching the characters come to life and making new friends. This is a book I will always remember with wonderful romance and happy moments. As well as sadness and heartache. This book is really a friend, just like Anne says. It was short and sweet, and I’d rate it an 8 out of 10!
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5. Words On Fire, by Jennifer A. Nielsen
“For who are we all, if not the product of who we love, what we know, and every wonderful word that we have read?”
I didn’t know much about what book smugglers—and smugglers in general—had to go through to simple make deliveries, cross borders, and hid the things they were smuggling, until I read this wonderful book. The way Jennifer Nielsen was able to make that into an intriguing, heartwarming, suspenseful book was really beautiful. It might be very surprising I say this because of the completely different genres, but her writing was very similar in my opinion to Suzanne Collins, and yes, there’s not a lot to do with the actually stories being similar, but their writing styles are so so similar, including the characters and their development, which I really love. I’d rate it a 8 out of 10!
I’d definitely recommend you read my full review!
4. The Visitation, by Frank Peretti
“I like winning, it just takes longer.”
This book is so crazy! It’s not what you’d expect at all. It’s very good and very well written. Frank Peretti is a very well known author, and I can see why. His writing style has so much depth and character development. The way he is able to write into the past and back in such an understandable way was very impressive. The emotions he was able to display in his characters to me as the reader was very much appreciated. The main thing I liked in this book was the display of healing in a human’s heart when they trust God. It was so powerful and beautifully displayed. There was also so many other wonderful and powerful things in the amazing book!
I’d rate with book an 8 out of 10!
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3. Resistance, by Jennifer A. Nielsen
‘“What good is faith if you're dead?"
"What good is life without faith? We'll all die one day–no one escapes that fate. Our only decision is how we live before that day comes.”’
"What good is life without faith? We'll all die one day–no one escapes that fate. Our only decision is how we live before that day comes.”’
I read it fairly quick and was enveloped. I’ve read quite a few stories about World War Two, of the power and cruelty of Hitler and the Nazis, that were so impactful and heart wrenching, but this one is an amazing one to add to my collection of favorites. As I said with her other books, Nielsen’s writing style was surprisingly very alike Suzanne Collins’ writing, only a completely different genre!
I especially liked the character development in this book, because there is so much! The friendship between the two main characters was so strong and beautiful.
I find it hard to read books where my personal favorite characters die in it, but honestly, that’s why we love the character. Humility and self sacrifice is exactly what we try and replicate in Jesus, and in other real people and even fictional characters in books. I honestly think the best books are the ones that make you cry. I’d rate this book an easy 9 out of 10!
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2. Rilla Of Ingleside, by L. M. Montgomery
“There was something in her movements that made you think that she never walked but always danced.”
It’s hard to even explain how much I loved this book. I actually laughed and cried while reading this book, which is hard for an author to do, but Montgomery did it here! There was the perfect amount of all the different elements in a book. The characters were so good. Rilla is definitely one of my heroes, and I know I will re-read this book over and over.
I would rate it a 9 out of 10, and really only to keep 10 more elusive, otherwise it might have been one. I can’t recommend this book enough!
I recommend you read my full review HERE!
1. The Hunger Games Series, by Suzanne Collins
It was very hard to pick, but I think The Hunger Games Series was my favorite book of 2024! It was definitely the most memorable of the year. It’s a dystopian romance, which is my personal favorite genre. All the books in the series were thrilling, interesting, character building, and very well written. I read each of these book right after another, and wasn't able to stop. Suzanne Collins write in such a way that makes you feel like you are in Panem. The friendship and relationship involved in all of her characters is just so good. I’d rate this book an easy 9 out of 10, or maybe a 10 out of 10! #TeamPeeta
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Well, that’s a wrap! What a great year. I’ve read some of my all time new favorite books this year, and I hope next year will only bring even better ones!
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