My 2024 Books

 

 

I love looking back on my year of books.  I always name 5 favorites and then my top read of course.  I now designate which books are for Book Club too.

 

If you read this post HERE you can see my books from the last several years

 

My goal in the last few years is two books per month.  I have decided to lower that number to one book/month given that we are starting the college planning process for Diana and I am trying to hold down two jobs.  I am doing what is best for me.  

 

So here is what my year in reading looked like first...

 

 

Books Read in 2024

 

 

 

January         The Husbands- Chandler Baker

                      The Senator’s Wife- Liv Constantine

 

February        Happy Place- Emily Henry (Book                              Club)

                      The Teacher- Freida McFadden

 

March             We Were Liars- E. Lockhart

                       The Coworker- Freida McFadden

 

April               Do Not Disturb- Freida McFadden

                       First Lie Wins- Ashley Elst

 

May                Family Of Liars- E. Lockhart

                      Hypnotized By Love- Sariah Wilson

 

June               Never Lie- Freida McFadden

                      The Block Party- Jamie Day                                 (Book Club)

 

July                The Housemaid Is Watching- Freida                          McFadden

                      Swan Song- Elin Hilderbrand

 

August           What I Should’ve Said- Max Monroe                          (Book Club)

                       What Have You Done- Shari                                     Lapena

 

September     The Graham Effect- Elle Kennedy

                      Natural Selection (Short Story)- Elin                          Hilderbrand

 

October         The Secret Life Of An Uncool Mom-                              Serena Terry

                      Here One Moment- Liane Moriarty                              (Book Club)

 

November      Nantucket Summer House- Pamela                        Kelley

                       The Christmas Inn- Pamela Kelley

 

December        The Housemaid’s Wedding 

                        (Short Story)- Freida McFadden

                        The Boyfriend- Frieda McFadden

 

                                                           

 Top Picks!

#5

Nantucket Summer House by Pamela Kelley

Lauren is up for the opportunity of a life-time, to be the lead producer for a new reality show set in Nantucket. Nantucket Influence will follow a group of young influencers as they spend the summer at a gorgeous waterfront home. It is a concept that Lauren has worked on successfully before and the job is hers—as long as she doesn’t mind that one of the influencers is Billy—the ex that she caught cheating on her. Does she really want to spend the summer working with him every day? This is her first chance to run a show, though, and she can’t pass it up.

Hudson, runs a Nantucket based production company, with famous actress and new Nantucket resident, Cami Carmichael. Hudson is good friends with Billy, but Lauren finds herself drawn to him. But she knows they shouldn't be more than friends since they are working together—and since Lauren will be heading back to LA when filming ends.

Meanwhile Angela is thrilled to see her college friend Lauren and has some exciting news to share. And Lisa discovers that her nemesis, Violet, who runs a competing inn is ready to declare herself as the top lobster quiche maker on the island. But not if Lisa has anything to say about it—she signs up for the local food festival as well and will let the people decide who makes the best quiche.

#4

The Block Party by Jamie Day

 

 This summer, meet your neighbors.

The residents of the exclusive cul-de-sac on Alton Road are entangled in a web of

secrets and scandal utterly unknown to the outside world, and even to each other.

On the night of the annual Summer block party, there has been a murder.

But, who did it and why takes readers back one year earlier, as rivalries and betrayals unfolding 

 

discovering that the real danger lies within their own block and nothing—and no one—is ever as it

#3

What Have You Done By Shari Lapena

Nothing ever happens in sleepy little Fairhill, Vermont. But this morning that will

change. And one innocent question could be deadly. What have you done?
 

The teenagers get their kicks telling ghost stories in the old graveyard. The

parents trust their kids will arrive home safe from school. Everyone knows

everyone. Curtains rarely twitch. Front doors are left unlocked.

But Diana Brewer isn’t lying safely in her bed where she belongs. Instead she lies

in a hayfield, circled by vultures, discovered by a local farmer.  

How quickly a girl becomes a ghost. How quickly a town of friendly, familiar faces

becomes a town of suspects, a place of fear and paranoia.

Someone in Fairhill did this. Everyone wants answers.

#2 

The Co Worker by Frieda McFadden

Two women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can't be taken

back. 

Dawn Schiff is strange.

At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where

Dawn works as an accountant. She never says the right thing. She has no friends.

And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m.

So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie

Farrell―beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running―is surprised. Then she

receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything... 

It turns out Dawn wasn't just an awkward outsider―she was being targeted by

someone close. And now Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds herself

caught in a twisted game of cat and mouse that leaves her wondering: who's the

real victim?

But one thing is incredibly clear: somebody hated Dawn Schiff.
 

Enough to kill.

#1

The Teacher by Frieda McFadden

Lesson #1: Trust no one.
 

Eve has a good life. She wakes up each day, kisses her husband Nate, and heads

off to teach math at the

local high school. All is as it should be. Except…

Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher

affair, with one student,

Addie, at its center. But Eve knows there is far more to these ugly rumors than

meets the eye.

Addie can’t be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys lives. At least,

that’s what everyone says. 

But nobody knows the real Addie. Nobody knows the secrets that could destroy

her. And Addie will do anything to keep it quiet…

Frieda McFadden really came through for me this

year...just love suspenseful stories and she always

keep me on my toes!