best books of 2024 📚

this is a hug in book form a cup of warm tea of a novel the perfect combination between soothing cozy on the one hand and introspective and philosophical on the other hand

these are essays on love in all aspects on our lives but Bell hooks very nicely goes into how we are currently all experiencing just a lack of love a lack of community a lack of communal love

bride is not necessarily a very good book it's just that I've noticed that I keep recommending it to people in my life I just want them to read it and give me their reaction it is the definition of fun romance

our next nominee is Emily Wild's Encyclopedia of fairies for being the only cozy fantasy book that I actually enjoyed

our first nomination is for the forest brims over which is literally about a woman that turns into a forest can't make it weirder than that oh she's put into an aquarium after that so it did get weird than that

lastly we nominate funny story for being a good romance and a good romance always takes my mind of things

I am here with one dark window and two twisted the crowns this is by far the most fun fantasy that I read all year and when I read this it had also been a while since I read a fantasy that just sucked me up like this

we have here perfume this is a slow building haunting story of a boy that is obsessed with scents and smells we follow his apprenticeship into becoming a perfume maker

we have powerless where I honestly don't even really remember a lot because I really hated that book but there's a girl and she doesn't have powers and then there's a boy who's like a military enforcer or something like that

I can always count on Mona aad for writing a super weird and confusing story that makes me think about the world I love that this story shows us how culty the beauty industry and anti-aging industry is by completely exaggerating it

our last nominee in the romancey category is six scorched roses about a scientist outcast girl and her age-old vampire that is the only one that accepts her for who she truly is

our first nominee is slaying the vampire conqueror which is a romance between a vampire and a blind fighting Priestess

our last nominee is the familiar for if you want to escape to the Spanish Golden Age Madrid but the Illusions are actual real magic

our first couple is Oak and ren from the prisoners Throne which is a pairing between a very feral monster girl and a princely boy with Hooves

the winner of the best non-fiction book that I read in 2024 is the right to sex by Amia sasan although it was hard to choose the winner is the right to sex because it was the one that taught me the most new knowledge

the starless C which is the perfect fever dream fantasy book with hidden doors and keys and magical rooms

the will of the many for if you want to escape into a world about the myth of meritocracy and where everything revolves around hierarchy wait that's just that's just our world there's magical ruins also

this is how you lose the time where the most romantic story that I may have ever come across this is about two enemy agents that fight each other through different timelines on different planets they're constantly chasing each other but also constantly just miss each other

I am here with one dark window and two twisted the crowns this is by far the most fun fantasy that I read all year and when I read this it had also been a while since I read a fantasy that just sucked me up like this

first we have word which is a very funny and clever introduction to Linguistics and gender differences

first I nominate weing Heights the blueprint for every angsty Gothic romance and full of beautiful strong emotions