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In this episode, our stack of books is tied together with the common theme of being our Faves of 2024. And we're not going to lie...it was hard to choose soooo...we also have a list of our Runners Up below! Plus, we'll share a Book in Hand. Now, it's time to get started on our list for 2025!

Featured Books:

• The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhorn (LP)
• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (LP)
• The Lost Queen Series by Signe Pike (LP and LH)
• The Same Bright Stars by Ethan Joella (LP and LH)
• How to Read a Book by Monica Wood (LP)
• We Begin At the End/All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (LP)
• The Night in Question by Susan Fletcher (LP)
• Eddie Winston is Looking For Love by Marianne Cronin (LP)
• Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford (LP)
• Olive Kitteridge/Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout (LP)
• Good Night Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea (LP)
• Maybe Next Time by Cesca Major (LH)
• Horses of Fire and Daughters of Bronze by A.D. Rhine (LH and LP))
• Wool by Hugh Howey (LH)
• The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins (LH)
• The Bear and the Nightingale, The Girl in the Tower and Winter Witch by Katherine Arden (LH)
• Gone Wolf by Amber McBride (LH)
• Things Don’t Break On Their Own by Sarah Easter Collins (LH)
• An Elderly Woman is Up to No Good and An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helene Turston (LH)
• The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See (LH)
• Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley (LH)
• You Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne (LH)

Our Runners Up Faves

• Search by Michelle Huneven (LP)
• The Turtle House by Amanda Churchill (LP)
• After Annie by Anna Quindlen (LP)
• Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles (LP)
• Count the Ways/How the Light Gets In by Joyce Maynard (LP)
• The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali (LP)
• The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston (LP)
• The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman (LP)
• The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable (LP)
• Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy (LP)
• Trash Lands by Alison Stine (LP)
• Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll (LP)
• The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher (LP)
• The Last Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop (LP)
• Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten (LP)
• Same As It Ever Was by Claire Lombardo (LP and LH)
• Celine by Peter Heller (LH)
• Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder by Kerryn Mayne (LH)
• Why Not Me? By Mindy Kaling (LH)
• The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan (LH)
• Starring Adele Astaire by Eliza Knight (LH)
• The Queen’s Fortune by Allison Pataki (LH)
• Where Coyotes Howl by Sandra Dallas (LH)

Book In Hand

• Christmas With the Queen by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb (LP)

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

• Meet Me in Monaco by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb
• Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb
• Me Moth by Amber McBride

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