January 8, 2025 | Our Favorite Books of 2024

For our first Staff Book Reviews post of 2025, we'll be looking back at our favorite reads of 2024! Any books that our staff have reviewed will include a link to the review post.

We always have so many favorites ever year, so as always, we'll have a list of honorable mentions at the end!

All books are available in print either from EPLD or through interlibrary loan, some can be checked out in large print, and many can be found as ebooks or audiobooks as well - just do a quick search in RSAcat!

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I Wonder

Holt, K.A.

2019, Random House

Fiction

Grades: Pre-K - 2; Lexile: AD470L

Availability

ILL: print

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Fourth Wing

Yarros, Rebecca

2023, Red Tower Books

Fiction

Availability

EPLD: print
ILL: large print, audiobook, & Playaway
eBook: Libby & Boundless
eAudiobook: Libby, Boundless, & Hoopla (Dramatized Adaptation, French, and Spanish editions also available)

Read our review!

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Never Lie

McFadden, Freida

2024, Poisoned Pen Press

Fiction

Availability

EPLD: print
ILL: large print
eAudiobook: Libby & Hoopla

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Artifice

​Cameron, Sharon

2023, Scholastic Press

Fiction

Grades: 7 - 9

Availability

EPLD: print
eBook:  Boundless
eAudiobook: Hoopla

Read our review!

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Death by Bubble Tea

Chow, Jennifer J.

2022, Berkley Prime Crime

Fiction

Availability

ILL: print & large print

Read our review!

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Drop Dead Sisters

Coombs, Amelia Diane

2024, Mindy's Book Studio

Fiction

Availability

EPLD: print

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If We Were Villains

Rio, M.L.

2017, Flatiron Books

Fiction

Availability

ILL: print & audiobook
eBook: Boundless
eAudiobook: Boundless & Hoopla

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Check & Mate

Hazelwood, Ali

2023, G.P. Putnam's Sons

Fiction

Grades: 9 - 12; Lexile: HL680L

Availability

EPLD: print
ILL: Playaway
eBook: Libby Boundless
eAudiobook: Libby Boundless

Read our review!

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The Nightingale

Hannah, Kristin

2015, St. Martin's Press

Fiction

Availability

EPLD: print & audiobook
ILL: large print, Playaway, & Spanish edition
eBook: Libby & Boundless
eAudiobook: Libby, Boundless, & Hoopla

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Circe

Miller, Madeline

2018, Little, Brown & Company

Fiction

Availability

EPLD: print
ILL: large print & audiobook
eBook: Libby & Boundless
eAudiobook: Boundless & Hoopla (Spanish edition)

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2024 Honorable Mentions:

Pride, Prejudice & Poison by Elizabeth Blake; Keep It Simple Y'all: Easy Dinners from Your Barefoot Neighbor by Matthew Bounds; Tickle Time! by Sandra Boynton; Assault and Pepper by Leslie Budewitz; The Girls with No Names by Serena Burdick; Hello Stranger by Katherine Center; The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center; Canary Girls by Jennifer Chiaverini; The General and Julia by Jon Clinch; Tell No One by Harlan Coben; Habits of the Household by Justin Whitmel Earley; Pastabilities: The Ultimate Step-By-Step Pasta Cookbook by Jeffrey Eisner; The Cinnamon Bun Bookstore by Laurie Gilmore; The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn by Shawn Harris; Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood; Human Acts by Han Kang; Idea Jar by Adam Lehrhaupt; The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis; The Shift: Surviving and Thriving After Moving from Conservative to Progressive Christianity by Colby Martin; Peekaboo Sun by Camilla Reid; The Shadow of War by Jeff Shaara; The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson; The Eras Tour Book by Taylor Swift; The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County by Claire Swinarski; Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson; Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros.

​We hope you are having a Happy New Year thus far in 2025! We will have two new book reviews up for you in a couple of weeks!