Hello Beautiful People! It’s been quite the year and I am excited to share some of my favourite reads from this year!
Openly, not every book on this list has a review on the site yet. In the summer I accepted a new job and while I needed the change, and this job has been great in a lot of ways, it’s been extremely draining. I love working on this site but I have to be real with myself when it comes to what I can spend my energy on. My job provides me with a secure future, one that this site doesn’t even come close to providing, so I have to put energy into my job first. Which sucks, to be honest! I wish I could spend all day every day on this site because it taps into a love of mine that I don’t get many opportunities to share. I hope that reviews for all of these books will come eventually, and I do get some time off with my job soon so there will be time to get back to this a little bit more in the future.
I am so thankful for all the support this year and I can’t wait to see what books 2025 brings!
Keep in mind that I am just ranking all of the books I have read this year, none of the ones at the bottom are bad books at all, but just holding them up to others I’ve read they maybe just weren’t as much of a favourite. I recommend checking out all the books on this list!
- Tender is the Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica
- Never Whistle at Night : An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology – Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
- Saving Noah – Lucinda Berry
- No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy
- Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
- One by One – Freida McFadden
- The Only One Left – Riley Sager
- The Burning (Kate Burkholder #16) – Linda Castillo
- The Troop – Nick Cutter
- Killers of the Flower Moon – David Grann
- Want to Know a Secret? – Freida McFadden
- The Third to Die (Quinn and Costa #1) – Allison Brennan
- The Dead Zone – Stephen King
- The Family Upstairs (#1) – Lisa Jewell
- Local Woman Missing – Mary Kubica
- Bright Young Women – Jessica Knoll
- Hidden Pictures – Jason Rekulak
- The Family Experiment – John Marrs
- This is Why We Lied (Will Trent 12) – Karin Slaughter
- House Rules – Jodi Picoult
- Never Lie – Freida McFadden
- If You Tell – Gregg Olsen
- Night Sins ( Deer Lake #1) – Tami Hoag
- The Wife Upstairs – Freida McFadden
- Tell no Lies (Quinn & Costa 2) – Allison Brennan
- The Night Shift – Alex Finlay
- Ward D – Freida McFadden
- Listen for the Lie – Amy Tintera
- Kill for Me, Kill for You – Steve Cavanagh
- The Push – Ashley Audrain
- The Drowning Woman – Robyn Harding
- Tell No One – Harlan Coben
- Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
- A Fever in the Heartland: Timothy Egan
- The Pale – Faced Lie – David Crow
- When a Killer Calls (Mindhunter #2) – John Douglas
- College Girl, Missing – Shawn Cohen
- A House in the Sky – Amanda Lindhout
- Abandoned Prayers – Gregg Olsen
- Keep It in the Family – John Marrs
- The Inmate – Freida McFadden
- No Exit – Taylor Adams
- The Nowhere Child – Christian White
- The Teacher – Freida McFadden
- What Lies in the Woods – Kate Alice Marshall
- The Perfect Marriage (Perfect #1) – Jeneva Rose
- The Woman in Me – Britney Spears
- The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millenium 2) – Steig Larsson
- Thinner – Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
- The Ex – Freida McFadden
- The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle #2) – Rene Denfeld
- The Memory Keepers daughter – Kim Edwards
- The Killer Across the Table – John Douglas
- The Stranger Beside Me – Ann Rule
- The God of the Woods – Liz Moore
- The Girl with All the Gifts (#1) – M.R. Carey
- The Family Remains (The Family Upstairs #2) – Lisa Jewell
- The Coworker – Freida McFadden
- The Ghosts That Haunt Me – Steve Ryan
- Daughter of Mine – Megan Miranda
- What Have You Done? – Shari Lapena
- Do Not Disturb – Freida McFadden
- Under the Banner of Heaven – Jon Krakauer
- Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery – Brom
- Everyone Here is Lying – Shari Lapena
- The House Across the Lake – Riley Sager
- Summer of ’69 – Elin Hilderbrand
- These Silent Woods – Kimi Cunningham Grant
- Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West – Cormac McCarthy
- Verity – Colleen Hoover
- Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan 6) – Kathy Reichs
- Run Away – Harlan Coben
- The Sundown Motel – Simone St. James
- Down the Darkest Road (Oak Knoll #3) – Tami Hoag
- The Nature of Disappearing – Kimi Cunningham Grant
- One Perfect Couple – Ruth Ware
- Home is Where the Bodies Are – Jeneva Rose
- A Killing in Amish Country – Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris
- I Was a Teenage Slasher – Stephen Graham Jones
- The Cabin at the End of the World – Paul Tremblay
- Hot Blooded ( New Orleans #1) – Lisa Jackson
- The Face of Deception (Eve Duncan #1) – Iris Johansen
- The Collective – Alison Gaylin
- The Wife Between Us – Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
- Local Gone Missing – Fiona Barton
- Mercy – Jodi Picoult
- Bag of Bones – Stephen King
- Don’t Let Her Stay – Nicola Sanders
- Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan #4) – Kathy Reichs
- The Right Kind of Fool – Sara Loudin Thomas
- Lock Every Door – Riley Sager
- True Blue – David Baladacci
- Murder Road – Simone St. James
- The Whisper Man – Alex North
- The Black Box (Harry Bosch #16) – Michael Connelly
- Our Little Secret – Lisa Jackson
- The Soulmate – Sally Hepworth
- Deadly Decisions (Temperance Brennan #3) – Kathy Reichs
- End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy #3) – Stephen King
- Grave Secrets (Temperance Brennan #5) – Kathy Reichs
- The Fourth Monkey (4MK Thriller #1) – J.D. Baker
- The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
- Zero Days – Ruth Ware
- Hostage – Claire Mackintosh
- The Girl in the Basement – Eoin Dempsey
- Horror Movie – Paul Tremblay
- The Frozen dead (Commandant Martin Servaz #1) – Bernard Minier
- The Ship – Antonia Honeywell
- The Escape Room – Megan Goldin
- The Liars Daughter – Megan Cooley Peterson
- The Prisoner – B.A. Paris
