Hi, everyone!
This is booksbydorothea Best Books of 2024! Notice that it is BOOKS, plural not singular. There is more to come in the next few paragraphs about this.
There is a big change to booksbydorothea as Best Books of 2024 will no longer recognize only one book. Instead, seven books will be highlighted in the ebook and audiobook categories.
There will be one winner and six runners-up in each category to better showcase the fabulous books available. It will now be called the booksbydorothea Best Books of 2024.
Next year, I will include the best monthly audiobook and ebook (if available) in my monthly wrap-ups. Unfortunately, I didn’t do that for 2024.
Now for the exciting reveal of the Nominees (all books were 5-star reviews):
2nd ANNUAL booksbydorothea BEST BOOKS NOMINEES OF 2024:
All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore (January) (ebook) LINK
Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles (February) (ebook) LINK
The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer (March) (ebook) LINK
How To Read a Book by Monica Wood (April) (ebook) LINK
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarity (May) (ebook) LINK
The Friday Afternoon Club (June) (audiobook) LINK
The Bookstore Wedding by Alice Hoffman (July) (ebook) LINK
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn (August) (ebook) LINK
The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates (September) (audiobook) LINK
When We Flew Away by Alice Hoffman (October - TIE) (ebook) LINK
Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstine (October - TIE) (ebook) LINK
The Unexpected Diva by Tiffany L Warren (November – TIE) (ebook) LINK
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune (November – TIE) (audiobook) LINK
On Living by Kerry Egan (December) (audiobook) LINK
Additional audiobook nominees not included on the original nominee list:
Connie by Connie Chung (October) (audiobook) LINK
Be Ready When The Luck Happens (October) (audiobook) LINK
The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop (October) (audiobook) LINK
Sonny Boy by Al Pacino (October) (audiobook) LINKIt is now time for the FINALISTS:
2nd ANNUAL booksbydorothea BEST BOOKS OF 2024 FINALISTS:
EBOOKS
The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
When We Flew Away by Alice Hoffman
Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstine
The Unexpected Diva by Tiffany L. Warren
Be Ready When The Luck Happens by Ina Garten
The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop
Sonny Boy by Al Pacino
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
2024 BEST EBOOK:
All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore (ebook)
This will not be
another review of this beautiful, enlightening, intelligent book. However, this
book left me gobsmacked (a new British term for me) for a very long time. It
was emotional to discover what I thought happened after former enslaved people
crossed the Mason-Dixon line was wrong. It was whitewashed!
In Philadelphia, there were enslavers allowed with their enslaved people even though Pennsylvania was a “free state”. There were loopholes in the state law that permitted enslavers to travel to Philadelphia with specific enslaved people for up to six months. So it was just a game of switching enslaved people to the South before the six months were up to ensure that they had their “rotating" enslaved staff.
Overall, this historical novel is about free Black people, escaped enslaved people, and enslaved people trying to make a life in a city that was not welcoming to Blacks, period.
Read this book – I cannot recommend it more! It was one of my first reads of 2024 and I have thought about it ever since.
2024 BEST AUDIOBOOK:
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
Again, this will not be a rehashing of my first review. However, note that this book is a sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea. I read both books as audiobooks.
But this audiobook was something special and brilliant! The audiobook was narrated by Daniel Henning who is superb and brings life to each character and narrated the prequel. I recommend reading the prequel first before this book.
The incredible characters include children who are a gnome, a wyvern, a green blob, a werewolf-Pomeranian, a sprite, and a yeti! The adults are a phoenix, a sprite, and "some naughty and some nice" humans!
The biggest takeaway from this book is that everyone is important in their unique style and way – even magical creatures. I love that the story includes chosen families, LGBT+ and BIPOC characters, and that good triumphs over evil!
Listen to this book (and the prequel) – I cannot emphasize how good the story highlighted by the narration is! This book is pure joy!
FINAL NOTES
The original review for each nominee is the LINK next to the title and author under NOMINEES. Click on the specific book link to get to that book review!
Congratulations to the nominees, finalists, and winners!! These are all fantastic books that I highly recommend!!
My final booksbydorothea blog post will be the Annual Wrap-up for 2024 which will be posted shortly.
Thank you so much for joining me on this wonderful journey of reading and listening to great books in 2024! Please join me again in 2025!
Happy reading and Happy Holidays,
Dorothea 💜
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