2024 Reads Ranking

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!

1. Tender is the Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica
2. Never Whistle at Night : An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology – Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
3. Saving Noah – Lucinda Berry
4. No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy
5. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
6. One by One – Freida McFadden
7. The Only One Left – Riley Sager
8. The Burning (Kate Burkholder #16) – Linda Castillo
9. The Troop – Nick Cutter
10. Killers of the Flower Moon – David Grann
11. Want to Know a Secret? – Freida McFadden
12. The Third to Die (Quinn and Costa #1) – Allison Brennan
13. The Dead Zone – Stephen King
14. The Family Upstairs (#1) – Lisa Jewell
15. Local Woman Missing – Mary Kubica
16. Bright Young Women – Jessica Knoll
17. Hidden Pictures – Jason Rekulak
18. The Family Experiment – John Marrs
19. This is Why We Lied (Will Trent 12) – Karin Slaughter
20. House Rules – Jodi Picoult
21. Never Lie – Freida McFadden
22. If You Tell – Gregg Olsen
23. Night Sins ( Deer Lake #1) – Tami Hoag
24. The Wife Upstairs – Freida McFadden
25. Tell no Lies (Quinn & Costa 2) – Allison Brennan  
26. The Night Shift – Alex Finlay
27. Ward D – Freida McFadden
28. Listen for the Lie – Amy Tintera
29. Kill for Me, Kill for You – Steve Cavanagh
30. The Push – Ashley Audrain  
31. The Drowning Woman – Robyn Harding
32. Tell No One – Harlan Coben
33. Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
34. A Fever in the Heartland: Timothy Egan
35. The Pale – Faced Lie – David Crow
36. When a Killer Calls (Mindhunter #2) – John Douglas
37. College Girl, Missing – Shawn Cohen
38. A House in the Sky – Amanda Lindhout
39. Abandoned Prayers – Gregg Olsen
40. Keep It in the Family – John Marrs
41. The Inmate – Freida McFadden
42. No Exit – Taylor Adams
43. The Nowhere Child – Christian White
44. The Teacher – Freida McFadden
45. What Lies in the Woods – Kate Alice Marshall
46. The Perfect Marriage (Perfect #1) – Jeneva Rose
47. The Woman in Me – Britney Spears
48. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millenium 2) – Steig Larsson
49. Thinner – Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
50. The Ex – Freida McFadden
51. The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle #2) – Rene Denfeld
52. The Memory Keepers daughter – Kim Edwards
53. The Killer Across the Table – John Douglas
54. The Stranger Beside Me – Ann Rule
55. The God of the Woods – Liz Moore  
56. The Girl with All the Gifts (#1) – M.R. Carey
57. The Family Remains (The Family Upstairs #2) – Lisa Jewell
58. The Coworker – Freida McFadden
59. The Ghosts That Haunt Me – Steve Ryan
60. Daughter of Mine – Megan Miranda
61. What Have You Done? – Shari Lapena  
62. Do Not Disturb – Freida McFadden
63. Under the Banner of Heaven – Jon Krakauer
64. Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery – Brom
65. Everyone Here is Lying – Shari Lapena
66. The House Across the Lake – Riley Sager
67. Summer of ’69 – Elin Hilderbrand   
68. These Silent Woods – Kimi Cunningham Grant
69. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West – Cormac McCarthy
70. Verity – Colleen Hoover
71. Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan 6) – Kathy Reichs
72. Run Away – Harlan Coben
73. The Sundown Motel – Simone St. James
74. Down the Darkest Road (Oak Knoll #3) – Tami Hoag
75. The Nature of Disappearing – Kimi Cunningham Grant
76. One Perfect Couple – Ruth Ware
77. Home is Where the Bodies Are – Jeneva Rose
78. A Killing in Amish Country – Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris
79. I Was a Teenage Slasher – Stephen Graham Jones
80. The Cabin at the End of the World – Paul Tremblay  
81. Hot Blooded ( New Orleans #1) – Lisa Jackson
82. The Face of Deception (Eve Duncan #1) – Iris Johansen
83. The Collective  – Alison Gaylin
84. The Wife Between Us – Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
85. Local Gone Missing – Fiona Barton
86. Mercy – Jodi Picoult
87. Bag of Bones – Stephen King
88. Don’t Let Her Stay – Nicola Sanders
89. Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan #4) – Kathy Reichs
90. The Right Kind of Fool – Sara Loudin Thomas
91. Lock Every Door – Riley Sager
92. True Blue – David Baladacci
93. Murder Road – Simone St. James
94. The Whisper Man – Alex North
95. The Black Box (Harry Bosch #16) – Michael Connelly
96. Our Little Secret – Lisa Jackson
97. The Soulmate – Sally Hepworth
98. Deadly Decisions (Temperance Brennan #3) – Kathy Reichs
99. End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy #3) – Stephen King
100. Grave Secrets (Temperance Brennan #5) – Kathy Reichs
101. The Fourth Monkey (4MK Thriller #1) – J.D. Baker
102. The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
103. Zero Days – Ruth Ware
104. Hostage – Claire Mackintosh
105. The Girl in the Basement – Eoin Dempsey
106. Horror Movie – Paul Tremblay
107. The Frozen dead (Commandant Martin Servaz #1) – Bernard Minier
108. The Ship – Antonia Honeywell
109. The Escape Room – Megan Goldin
110. The Liars Daughter – Megan Cooley Peterson
111. The Prisoner – B.A. Paris