All the Books I Read in 2024

My entire reading recap for my fellow book lovers (with ratings!)

If you didn’t know already, you’ll definitely know by the end of this post… I am an avid reader and can’t go more than a few days without a book in my hand—or more than likely, on my Kindle. I’m always getting asked about what I’m reading on Instagram, so I put together my comprehensive recap of every single book I read (93 total!) in 2024. There were SO many I enjoyed over the past year. Tell me allll your thoughts if you’ve read and loved any of these, too! And if you want to keep up with my reading in real time, you can find my Goodreads here. Also keep in mind, I got really lazy with some of my ratings. I just really started giving 5s if I liked it. And no rating doesn’t mean it’s bad!

January

• Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld (4 stars)

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (5 stars)

• Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano (4 stars)

• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (5 stars)

• American Dirt by Jeanie Cummins (5 stars)

• The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston (5 stars)

February

• Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (4 stars) *DRD Book Club

• Magnolia Parks by Jessa Hastings (5 stars)

• Daisy Haites (Magnolia Parks Universe #2) by Jessa Hastings (5 stars)

• Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home (Magnolia Parks Universe #3) by Jessa Hastings (5 stars)

March

• Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing (Magnolia Parks Universe #4) by Jessa Hastings (5 stars)

• Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark (Magnolia Parks Universe #5) by Jessa Hastings (5 stars)

• Women Are the Fiercest Creatures by Andrea Dunlop (4 stars) *DRD Book Club

• The Guncle by Steven Rowley (5 stars)

• Metropolis by B.A. Shapiro (5 stars)

April

• Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride & Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld (4 stars)

• The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (5 stars)

• Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman (5 stars)

• Hopeless by Colleen Hoover (5 stars)

• Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult (no rating)

• Book Lovers by Emily Henry (5 stars)

May

• I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell (no rating)

• Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal (3 stars)

• The Push by Ashley Audrain (5 stars)

• Beach Read by Emily Henry (no rating)

• Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand (no rating)

• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (no rating)

• The Founder's Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by Chris Zook & James Allen (5 stars)

• The Boys' Club by Erica Katz (no rating)

• Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (no rating)

• The Little Liar by Mitch Albom (5 stars)

• The Lies That Bind by Emily Giffin (no rating)

June

• Solito by Javier Zamora (5 stars)

• Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez (5 stars)

• The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Shumer (2 stars)

• Calypso by David Sedaris (no rating)

• The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom (5 stars)

• The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne (5 stars)

• Verity by Colleen Hoover (5 stars)

• One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle (3 stars)

• Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll (4 stars) *DRD Book Club

• The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin (5 stars)

• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (5 stars)

July

• Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood (no rating)

• The Women by Kristin Hannah (5 stars)

• Mrs. Nash's Ashes by Sarah Adler (4 stars)

• The Paris Daughter by Kristin Harmel (5 stars)

• One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid (4 stars)

• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (4 stars)

• The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune (5 stars)

• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (5 stars)

• The Bird Hotel by Joyce Maynard (5 stars)

• Look Closer by David Ellis (5 stars)

August

• Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez (no rating)

• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (4 stars)

• The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine (4 stars)

• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (4 stars)

• This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune (4 stars)

• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate (5 stars)

• The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer (5 stars)

• The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki (5 stars)

September

• Kill for Me, Kill for You by Steven Cavanagh (4 stars)

• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (5 stars)

• Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez (no rating)

• Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth (4 stars)

• The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (4 stars)

• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (5 stars)

• Beartown by Fredrik Backman (no rating)

October

• The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth (no rating)

• Every Summer After by Carly Fortune (no rating)

• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (no rating)

• A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (5 stars)

• Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (no rating)

November

• Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller (5 stars)

• Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl by Renée Rosen (no rating)

• Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash (5 stars)

• First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston (5 stars)

• The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza (no rating)

• Real Americans by Rachel Khong (5 stars)

• The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren (no rating)

• Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (no rating)

• One Day in December by Josie Silver (no rating) *DRD Book Club

December

• We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker (5 stars)

• The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs (no rating)

• Big Swiss by Jen Beagin (no rating)

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (no rating)

• The Housemaid by Freida McFadden (no rating)

• The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden (no rating)

• Big Fan by Alexandra Romanoff (no rating)

• The Only One Left by Riley Sager (no rating)

• Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan (no rating)

• Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors (no rating)

• The Housemaid Is Watching by Freida McFadden (no rating)

What are some of your favorite 5-star reads? So far, I’ve read 16 books in 2025—tell me what others I should add to my list!

xx Dana