tier ranking every book I read this year ✨🩷 2024 reading wrap up

a deal with the devil I also wasn't the biggest fan of I don't remember too much about the plot but I read the devil in the deep blue sea and I loved it and this one I remember being like M like not a favorite of mine in this series

Beverly Jenkins I so sorry but a chance at love was just fine this is another one for historical Helens where I gave it three stars and everyone else gave it five I thought there was too much Slice of Life was not the biggest fan

Academy of protectors I was looking for stuff like Tessa Hae and it was fine I expected more from it's why I choose Academy romance but it was fine

all too well it was I wasn't the biggest fan of this one small town romance

all the little raindrops I really enjoyed this was a solid romantic Thriller I would say not necessarily romantic suspense

all the missing pieces I loved this is going to go under level of love we're going to put it all the way up here my gosh so books romantic suspense true Prime podcast so good

Alpha's burden though was a rejected mates romance paranormal I really like this one really good

ashes a view by Katherine cows I think you're going to see all of hers in the highest category going to stick it there until I can stick it up here I love this one single dad Nanny her first one to come out this year so good

asking for trouble which is an all-time favorite love this series love this book and to go under love

be with me by Samantha Young I'm also going to put in it was fine this is another one of that series that it was just all right

Beating Heart was my favorite of the series so favorite of the series is going to go into love this one is the single dad one in the series which was so good

before we came this is hard because I loved the beginning but then it just like kind of petered out a little bit for me so we're going to put this in I really enjoyed it was like a solid

belladon I really enjoyed another one where is super Gothic I read it in the fall really loved it but didn't love it as much as everyone else

between Miss Chief and Magic I also really enjoy this very cozy safic romance super cute

Beyond the Highland Miss I'm also going to put in I really enjoyed it so many people hate this book but I had fun she time travels he's like a ladies man

Birthright also I really enjoyed this one this was one of the first nors we read this year and it had to do with some like archaeology even though that was not the prime topic of the book I was really disappointed I thought it'd have more to do with archeaology but still super solid

Bourbon and secrets which again another favorite so we're going to put this all the way up to the top

Bourbon and lies is going to go into love I loved this book so much and I love this series and I'm so excited to have discovered this author

bride favorite of mine we are going to put it there then we're going to put it all the way up here loved bride top of the year so good

the next two are going to be under love because they're both Catherine in this amazing series that I love so we have broken Harbor and then we have delicate Escape both small town romantic suspense so good

then I have burnout which was a really enjoyed it Motocross romance with a gymnast

business casual is a favorite of mine we are going to move this one all the way up to love this was so good so good obsessed with this series

buter in Blackbird I feel bad saying this but this one was just fine it was fine I did enjoy it but I had high expectations and I didn't love it as much as everybody else

can I tell you something was definitely a really fun audio book definitely recommend reading on audio Christmas romance really enjoyed

Carolina Moon my feelings changed after our live show but I'm putting it in it was fine it's another one where I didn't love the setting

the catch by Amy Leah I feel like just remembering it I'm going to put under it was fine I think I gave it four stars but like I'm like nothing about it really sticks out to me afterwards so it was fine

Chasing Fire I liked but I feel like I liked some of hers more so I'm putting this that it was fine I think I gave this like a four but like thinking about it's nothing like super exciting

check and mate is a favorite the last three all have to go at the top so the last three are all love

clay me forever I think I enjoyed this one by Al Jackson I can't remember between the second and third one in this series I just really enjoyed them so they're small town

close knit is an all-time favorite so good I'm a little biased cuz it's like knitting and socer two of my favorite things so we're putting this all the way up here

Collide is going to go under should have dnfed I did not dnf this one I didn't like it

Come the Morning by shann and Drake again like I feel like these historicals should be in I don't remember a single thing about them but this one I guess I gave 3.5 so I'm going to put in it was fine

craving chaos it was fine Mafia romance thought it would be better we're going to put it there

crown of midnight I loved have I continued this series no but I loved this one and now we are one book further in the series than I was last year

KY girl summer I loved it was definitely like one of my favorites of the year so good I love Daniel Allen so much so this one is going under love such a good romance

deal with the demon I really liked it's a y choose and the narrators were so good it's like a stacked narrator so it's a different one for each hero and the heroin so good so good

deception by mqu hers are always just a fun time I think I wanted more like Pirates and stuff in this but I liked it I really liked it

we have broken Harbor and then we have delicate Escape both small town romantic suspense so good

I read the devil in the deep blue sea and I loved it

don't want you like a best friend I had just fine it was all right I wanted a little bit more from it

down broken Lane was just fine I was trying out new romantic suspense authors I didn't love this one sadly it was okay

di Quincy the DU gets desperate I'm gonna put under I really enjoyed it I did really enjoy this one I remember some plot of like them being like in underground tunnels

the L Elemental by Tessa Hae I give this one four stars I really like this series it's actually a reread and I'm supposed to continue on

evil enemy by L Thorp I thought was going to be y choose but it wasn't but I did really enjoy it she is a character that like takes her life by storm and like doesn't let anybody put her down

a fall start I really love I love all of ELC Silver's book and the series is just so good I've gave every single one five star

find me by Ashley rosc is going to go in it was fine especially since I finished the series it's wit secc why choose

finding Haze I really enjoyed it I love this series so much they were all so good this year

Firefly flect is another romantic suspense that I really enjoyed so we're going to put this one under really enjoyed small town rantic suspense I love KK

for better a hearse which again I also really enjoyed this one I really do like Ava Hunter this one was a fun one

for Lucy oh my goodness talk about talk about so emotional this one is going to go in love second chance for a married couple who lost a child I listen to AUD book in one day I was so obsessed

so we have forbidden King I'm going to put at really enjoyed

Forever Wild I really enjoy this one it was really good so good

forever you're Rogue this was okay she was a single mom I think I gave it like three and a half stars but like when I think about it I'm like me it was all right

Forever The Highlands the last one in the series I really enjoy this one as well really solid from Samantha Young

fourth degree also really enjoyed coach athlet at a gym age Gap

Fox Glove I'm going to go with I really enjoyed it so we're going to move it up here I really like this series so it's not an all-time favorite but I do really like it

free me again is going to go under it was fine this whole series it was fine

Funny Story by Emily Henry is absolutely going in the top tier I love this one so much we're going to go up there so good

The Game Changer also I absolutely loved I feel like not a lot of people talk about this book maybe a lot of people didn't like it but we've got to go all the way up to absolutely loved oh so good hockey romance

god of Fury I loved so this one's going to go under love mm from Reena Kent so good listen to the audio amazing

catching feelings I really enjoyed by Marin Moore this is a baseball room though there's not a lot of baseball in her baseball romances it's just about a baseball player

happy place one of my absolute favorite books of the year we got to put it all the way up here love this book second chance so good

Harless Hunter loved this one fantasy romance witch hunter she's a witch he hates her but she's best friends with his brother so angsty so good

here we go again I loved this is a safic road trip romance hate to love so good so this one's going to go under the top tier

love High Noon was so good she's a hostage negotiator it was the latest Nora book that I read I'm obsessed

his forbidden Touch by Shelly ther I remember was a super fun time I really enjoy this but again this was one that not everybody loved but super action-packed for me super enjoyed it

hold I really enjoyed this is sci-fi but I expected it to be a different sci-fi so I was pleasantly surprised by that they're on like a prison

hold me until morning I really enjoyed this one so we're going to put this one under really enjoyed small town from Al Jackson

homebound which again I really enjoyed single dad hockey romance so good

house of flame and Shadow is going into love because I adore this series one of my favorite series of all time this book was so good I know some people didn't love it but I loved it

I reread House of sky and breath in preparation for the new book that came out in January I love this series it's my all-time favorite series so good

how toes say I do I really wanted to love this but I think it was a little too slow for me so that one's going in it was fine I think I gave it three and a half Stars it's mm

how to end a love story actually did dnf so we're going to put that all the way in should have dnfed I did not like this it wasn't n super romance heavy it was very install Lusty didn't love

the hunted air it was fine I wanted so much more from this one but sadly did not love it so we're going to go it was fine love the first one and then the second one just not so much

ice bound I also really enjoyed this one so we are going to put this up here

Identity I really enjoyed but by Nora Roberts this one has to do with a guy who basically ruins her life and murders her roommate and then comes after her so it's good

if he had been with me Goodreads only showed this cover for me I should have dnfed it I hated this I gave it one star not a fan not a fan

if it makes you happy which again I love this book so much I think it was a 4.5 I was being nitpicky and there was like just a little bit of a slow part to it but we're going to add to our next column of Love

if you give a billionaire a bride is a I think they like got married in Vegas really enjoyed this one

in a jam was just okay I feel really bad saying that but this one was just okay

inheritance is one of my favorite another Nora favorite of mine this year so we are going to put it under the very top one paranormal haunted house so good such a good Cliffhanger too

just for the summer by Abby Jimenez is absolutely a favorite so we are going to stick this one all the way up here so good but I feel like everyone loves this one

killer of mine I love killer of mine it is a y chos serial killer FBI agents so good bring it all the way up there

was the knife Before Christmas I'm giving it was really good I really enjoyed it this is a another cozy mystery that I read that I really enjoyed and it's Christmas time

last call at the local wasn't bad but I honestly knew I wasn't liking it from the beginning so I should have dnfed this one I didn't love it was just it was okay

same with Late Bloomer by Maisy edings I really enjoyed the saffic romance it was super cute on a flower farm

law of Love which was fine it was fine I enjoyed it when I read it but like looking back it was fine

lights out is going to be a love this was a recent read so good so good

Lord of Scoundrels again is one that I just really liked it's another like staple old school historical romance it was pretty good

beond the Stars I really enjoyed this is a Sci-Fi romance from Jennifer Chipman so good hate to love on a spaceship

it's love redesign not love Unwritten but I really enjoyed it

loving Romeo I loved so we're going to put this one under love in that series I think I'll put two of them in the series cuz the whole series came out this year three of them were really good but two of them loved

mad love I really liked it was secret love that I was like okay again with these series names it was good it was a good football romance

Mafia madman I also enjoyed this one was a I think he captured her right and it was like on his yacht and it was good I really liked it

Magnolia Parks I don't remember what I rated this one I think I think I said I really enjoyed it I don't know if this was a festar read for me I love this series but I feel like there were some something that bothered me

make the season bright again was fun

me your Baker I loved I thought this was so cozy it's the first book in the series I'm so excited to read more she works at a bakery the suspense was really good

we have midnight of Ashes which I really loved my gosh we are running out of room here midnight of ashes and Donna Flames were both so good so we're going to move this one do love that whole series so good so good

Montana Sky it was fine I don't love the like Farm setting small town for Nora's books like in romances I like it but like in hers I was like this is kind of boring

or than friends is a rowing romance in college that I really enjoyed from Lulu Mo really good

a murder of the movies which again was just fine these are like three and a half Star reads kind of wanted more

murder of the pumpkin pageant I'm going to go it was fine it was like a your average cozy mystery not a favorite of mine not a new favorite

My December darling I loved this one so this one's going to go love I can put it all the way up there

Nero again it was okay there was like a blood scene that I was like did this just happen it was all right not the biggest fan

Northern Lights was actually a dnf this is the only Nora book that I like really did not like this year it was a horrible audio book

northern Twilight I really liked we're going to put that up here Samantha Young so good

The notorious Lord nightly loved this it is a I'm going to have to come back up here it is a second chance historical romance still vividly remember it the twist so good love lorine Heath

once upon a broken heart I'm going to put in it was fine I didn't love this didn't hate it so I continued on I should not have continued the series I don't think that Stephanie garber's writing is for me

Once Upon a Christmas tree is also really good for a Christmas romance I had fun it was a Nolla but so good

one dark window I feel I could go between it was fine and really enjoyed it I'll put it and I really enjoyed it cuz I did really enjoy it and I'm going to continue on in the series but I didn't love it like everybody else

other conspiracies I listen to this audio I really liked it really liked it

painted scars I really liked I would love to read more Mafia in 2025 this was my first book of the Year this year of 2024 and I really liked it

fantasma though favorite of the year so good so good

a photo finish another Series where I'm like which one was which I remember the books I just don't remember which one was which title so I gave them I just could put them both in the five star and love because I did love both of them but this one this one was a reread

pirate girls I'm going to give with I really enjoyed it I love everything that Penelope Douglas writes and this one was fun it was so fun to be back in the fallway series World

Playbook I love that's going to be in the love category this one is a fake dating with a football player and the way they meet is hilarious I love this one so much

powerful by Lauren Roberts I really enjoyed this one so we're going to go this one I'm going to try to go oh we're at another row here it's the noela for the powerful series powerless powerful it was good

powerless is an absolute favorite of the year we're going to put it there and then scroll up to go to love this book I know a lot of people don't but I love powerless

problem with players I was a little disappointed in this one this is going to go under it was fine I wanted a lot more from it

time psycho Fay this one was fine I liked it enough to continue on but there were some things that bothered me that like just continued to bother me a book too so it was it was all right

psycho shifters oh wait oh so I had psycho Fay so that was book two psycho shifters is the same they're fine they're just fine they are a little unhinged why I choose romances they're fine

Quicksilver which is I don't know do I love Quicksilver I did I really liked it was a little slow but I really liked it so we're going to put this one oh boy got to make room for this really good

Reckless another controversial opinion but I'm going to put it under really enjoyed I did not love it as much as powerless but it was still a solid book that I really enjoyed

I'm going to put this in I really enjoyed it I do really love Nora Roberts and this one was the one where her parents were like Hollywood golden couple

Road of Bones I also really enjoyed it's more like kind of Viking is vigilante like Robin hood-esque

this time around I should have dnfed it this was a reread for the show this is my least favorite book in the series and I hated it even more the second time around

rope the Moon is one of my favorites of the year we're going to put this all the way up at the top I think this was in my honorable mentions on my Instagram post and on my YouTube video so good second chance

rushing in I don't think I actually really liked so I think I gave it was fine not much more to report it was fine

salt kiss was fine this kills me to put it here I would have loved a little more but it was all right

save me I don't know what order these all go in which one is which because they all have the similar titles but this is still the wit sex so it's just going to go and it was fine

Savory I it was fine I wanted to love this more but this one was not a favorite

say you swear I should have dnfed I did listen to this all on a road trip and I should not have done it with this book I didn't like this one people love it I was very annoyed with the hero

scoring the player I also really enjoyed from Rebecca Jens Shack this is part of the Wallflower series it's really good

secret love is the one that I did not love as much it was just okay a little too insta love for me

sertin Valentine is a favorite of the year so we're going to go all the way up same with the next two to put this under love safic dark Academia so good

that sick love should have dnfed I did not like this it was it was just okay and I knew I wasn't going to love it I should have dnfed it but I read it for a book club

Skies over calonia is absolutely a favorite of mine so we are putting this up into love

so real is going to go under I really enjoyed it this is part of that y Series so we're going to stick it under where'd it go there it is really enjoyed

so wrong is going to be I really liked it this one was really good why choose so good

spookly yours I really enjoyed I thought this was super cute super atmospheric perfect for fall time she's a demon love

the spy and I think also I would put under it was fine again I think I gave this four stars but like thinking back on it I'm like it was fine like it was a fine read

stranger session was just an unhinged Nolla I don't I read it for a book club not something I would normally read

the summer something this is the last one that I read the summer I first saw you age Gap really good forbidden romance grumpy hero I really like that one

Summer Romance I don't know it's between it was fine and I really enjoyed it because this one it was fine like I don't know if I'd like necessarily go out of my way to recommend it to people but it was fine I liked it

the summer I summer you found me I don't remember these titles either but I think all of them were really enjoyed I actually really enjoy this one

Sunday morning is going to go under really enjoyed I did really enjoy this one okay Sunday morning really enjoyed by julieanne

sweet spot I really enjoyed this golf Romance by Rebecca Jens Shack this one is going to go under I really enjoyed it

toring the player I really enjoyed as well this one's in the Wallflower series I like all of them and they're they're super cute college sports romances typically Sports

Temptation Trails I really enjoyed oh gosh we're going to have to go all the way up here now for these really enjoyed romantic suspense

the affair by Giana darling I also really enjoyed this was a reread because I'm trying to continue the series have I continued the series no but this was a reread that I really enjoyed

this is going to be controversial but I'm also going to be putting this one and should have dnfed the ballot of Never After I just didn't like this series and I should have not continued on the series

same with the baller by Lulu Moore another one of her baseball romances is going to be under I really liked it really good

book of azrial I think I gave this four and a half but it's going to go in love I Lov this fantasy romance and that Cliffhanger is crazy cannot wait to continue

freedom mcfat and the boyfriend I did not like I should have DN up this one yeah no we did a whole podcast episode on it was all right

the Christmas rebound should have dnfed I did not like this I did not like this there was no plot to it so we're putting that in should have dnfed

the Christmas list we are going to put this one under I really enjoyed this one it was good it was cute it was single dad Second Chance Christmas

the cinnamon bun bookstore I am going to be putting under love I loved this one so much I know not a lot of people love it but it was a five star read for me

the Dixon rule was in my top of the year I don't remember who was in my top 10 or my audal mentions but I really loved this book as well the series is just so good so far so Dixon rule for sure

second Duke's of charm I do remember really enjoying so I'm going I think I gave this one four stars so I'm going to put in I really enjoyed it

the fake me I really enjoyed it's almost a love but I really enjoyed this one it was really good

the fiction between us it was fine she works at like this amusement park I guess and like hates the guy but then they have to act like they're like together as characters at the amusement park it was all right

the front runner by Elsie silver this whole series is going to go love because I loved every book in it

The gift I really enjoyed it I actually don't think that this is a favorite of Julie garwood's that I've read but it's Pirates so really liked it

the gram effect is going in love I loved the Graham effect I love this whole series actually so we're going to put this one all the way up to love because I listen to the Audi book

the grum Saved Christmas it was really good it was a grumpy Sunshine small town Christmas romance it was good

ick factor I really enjoyed it is a fake dating boss employee romance so good everything Katherine KS is going to go into love I'm obsessed with her books are so good

The Kiss countdown it was fine I was definitely disappointed in this one I don't think I should have dnfed it but it sounded a lot cooler than it was

the kite by NR Walker I did enjoy this but I don't say I think I would say I would like really enjoy this is where I want six tiers instead of just five it was it was fine

the most wonderful Crime Of The Year again I listen on audio really enjoyed that one

Pumpkin Spice Cafe is going under really enjoyed I liked it I feel like people are a little harsh on it but I liked it

the rule book I feel like this is another one where I gave it four stars and I did like it but like thinking back on it I'm like it was fine

Nora the search love absolute favorite of mine dogs training serial killer on the loose so good

the shake off by Lulu Moore was really solid so I'm going to put this under really enjoyed baseball romance

summer I destroyed you I think I also really enjoyed I really enjoyed this whole series none of them were love but I think I like the first one the best

the vampire knitting club I wish I loved more but it was fine it was just fine there's vampires who knit in her the basement of her Grandma's store

the veiled Kingdom I really enjoyed I think the ending was what really sold me on it and then book two was pretty disappointing not going to lie but okay

they're going to go there with you's going to go five star love I really like this book

I reread Throne of Glass but I'm going to put it in I really enjoyed it I still gave it four stars it's just like the start of a series

through the Glenn was my other favorite of the series so that's going to go under love as well such a good series she's a writer in this one and he is a screenwriter

till Dawn tames the night okay I had to go back and look at our historical Helens like Instagram cuz Christy posts like our ratings can't remember this book cuz I read it in February but this one I gave two stars so I'm assuming I should have dnfed it

to have to hold is one that I honestly almost dnfed but then because I stuck through I really enjoyed it's such a complex look at what drives a character to do something

Twilight of Embers I loved I love this series so much so we are actually going to be putting this one all the way up here in love

under currents which I loved this is another new favorite Nora book of mine it heavily deals with abuse but it was so good and the suspense is great I was hooked from the beginning

unfurl was just okay it's like a sex club she's learning things it was all right

unspoken promises is going to go under I really enjoyed it another good really romantic suspense

unsteady is the last one which unsteady actually made my top 10 books so unsteady is going to go all the way up there unsteady is just so emotional she's a figure skater he's a hockey player so good

walk-off wedding I also really enjoy this is a marriage of convenience romance that we're putting and really enjoyed again baseball romance but not a lot of baseball

when she unravels I tried Gabrielle Sans for the first time Mafia romance really enjoyed it I'm excited to continue on in this series

when the moon hatched I am going to put and I really enjoyed I don't know if I would say it's a new all-time favorite fantasy but I did really enjoy this one

it was where we ended is the one that I didn't didn't love so where we promise is going to be I really enjoyed it this was the end to the series and I just wanted a little bit more from it

where we promise okay so where we promise I did really enjoy in this series

where you belong is I think book two in this series or three I don't remember how long the series is this is not the last one I believe so I think I really enjoyed this one from what I remember

where there's a will I just read this is my last read of 2025 it is a super emotional mm romance and I really enjoyed it I did really like that one

whiskey Beach was pretty good he was a accused of murdering his wife when he proves he wasn't there but like who K killed his wife we don't know he's living on this island trying to write a book so it was good it was really good

wickedly yours I'm going to put in it was fine I gave this like three and a half stars and the more I think about it I just like spookly yours better it was good it was like solid fine it was fine

wild eyes is an absolute favorite of mine we're going to put this all the way up in love if we can make it up there love Elsie so many of her books are up there love

Wild Love is absolutely a favorite of the year I liked wild eyes two wild eyes was on my top of the year but this one so good as well so good love Elsie

Wild River I'm going to go with really enjoyed this wasn't a favorite of mine in the series but it was really good so we're going to put that one there

Wich is guide to fake dating a demon I think I gave this four stars but like looking back it was just fine was cute they're fake dating her mom puts pressure on her being a witch it was all right

the women is going to go into the highest category the women was like mind-blowing life changing so good so sad I cried my eyes out reading this it's not even funny

worth any price I really liked hold on it's going to drop it there I really enjoyed it can I tell you what it's about I would have to look up the summary to remember but I remember really liking this because I love Lisa clus and this was really good

The writing Retreat is one of the only suspens is I read like actual true like Thrillers and it was fine I thought it was going to be a lot cooler than it was the twist wasn't that exciting so it was fine