You can never read enough, but if you're looking for meaningful books, here are my favorite reads of 2024. Great for you in 2025!

Gabrielle Zevin's novel, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, highlights the value of true friendship in creative partnerships.

Picoult's 2024 novel, By Any Other Name focuses on the contemporary issue of gender inequality, a powerful topic, to be sure.

By the end of the book, you trust no one and yet have an understanding of the influence the stock market wielded in the early 1900s.

All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker is a powerful story not limited to one genre. It's a mystery, love story, and crime thriller.

Jayne Anne Phillips' novel, Night Watch, takes the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for fiction...(Even though I was sure it would be North Woods!

Valerie Perrin's novel, Fresh Water for Flowers is a different kind of love story, a poignant look at grief, loss, and affairs of the heart.

Daniel Mason's North Woods is an inventive, mesmerizing, riveting romp through history and my pic to win the 2024 Pulitzer for fiction.

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Roseanna M. White's, The Jewel of Persia, is the Biblical story of Esther told through the viewpoint of Kasia, Esther's fictional friend.

Ariel's Lahon's historical fiction, The Frozen River, is a remarkable retelling of the story of Martha Ballard, a real-life American midwife

Classic works by well-known authors like Roald Dahl are being revised by publishers. But does changing the language alter our history?

Geraldine Brooks', MARCH, 2006 Pulitzer-Prize winner fiction-winner examines the impact of war on the father of the Little Women we know.

Kate Moore's nonfiction book, the Woman They Could Not Silence, tells the story of Elizabeth Packard, sent to a madhouse by her husband.

James McBride's The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, presents a mystery and a picture of a diverse community coming together to do good.

Geraldine Brooks' novel Horse should have been titled Racehorse because it delves into race relations as well as horse racing.

Martha Peterson's The Widow Spy is about the first single, female operative in Moscow during the Cold War and her work with a secret agent.

Mira Grant's Into the Drowning Deep is a compelling novel that illustrates the traits that make great science fiction.

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