S3, Chapter 4: Our Superlatives of 2024

2024 is over which means it's time to present our bookish superlatives of the year.  Get ready for a fun discussion and a long list of books to either avoid or add to your TBR.

Julia's Books

• Hiddensee by Gregory Maguire
• My Rogue to Ruin by Erica Ridley
• The Scribe by Matthew Guinn
• Tinderbox by W.A. Simpson
• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
• The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
• The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
• Rifle Paper C0. (Jane Austen collection)
• Lit Joy (Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice)
• When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
• What the Rive Knows by Isabel Ibañez
• Where the Library Hides by Isabel Ibañez
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
• Strangers Assume My Girlfriend is My Nurse by Shane Burcaw
• Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon by James Lovegrove
• Midnight in Everwood by Maria Kuzniar
• The Christmas Tree Farm by Laurie Gilmore

Stephany's Books

• Go As A River by Shelley Read
• The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
• Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center
• The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Allison Goodman
• Jane Steele by Lindsay Faye
• The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
• Elevation by Stephen King
• Snowflakes and Secrets in the Scottish Highlands by Donna Ashcroft
• The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
• The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
• Mosquitoland by by David Arnold
• The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
• The Murmur of Bees by Sophia Segovia
• Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
• Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery (Virago)
• Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett 
• Cranford Collection Classics (Jane Eyre, Persuasion)
• The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by Robert Ingpen
• Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
• Myrtle Hardcastle mysteries by Elizabeth C. Bunce
• I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
• Born a Crime written and narrated by Trevor Noah
• Everyone on This Train is a Suspect by Brian Stevenson 
• Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
• The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
• Lost Man's Lane by Scott Carson
• Harry Potter series by J.K.Rowling, narrated by Stephen Fry
• Sherlock Holmes & the Three Winter Terrors by James Lovegrove

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