This year, I read a lot more books than I expected! The baby (now toddler!) now has opinions on what we listen to, so it can be difficult to actually listen to my audiobooks when she’s around. I managed, though, thanks to a new pair of earbuds and my very wonderful husband! Another surprise to me was how many science fiction books made it onto my top reads list this year. Usually I lean far more into fantasy books of all sorts, but this year had a lot of scifi that I loved! I read 102 books this year, 90 audiobooks, 2 physical books and 10 ebooks! My most read…
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Adult Fantasy Books by Trans Authors!
I’m specifically making this list for the Trans Rights Readathon, but these are all books I’ve loved so they’re great all year round! All of these books are by trans authors. They may or may not have trans main characters (most do), but we love to support real trans people! The Unbroken – C.L. Clark Bookshop || Amazon || Kobo CA American Hippo – Sarah Gailey Bookshop || Amazon || Kobo CA The Bruising of Qilwa – Naseem Jamnia Bookshop || Amazon || Kobo CA One Heart – Chace Verity Amazon || Kobo CA || itch.io || Direct Moth Pit – Amara Lynn Bookshop || Amazon || Kobo CA ||…
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Adult Science Fiction Books by Trans Authors!
I’m specifically making this list for the Trans Rights Readathon, but these are all books I’ve loved so they’re great all year round! All of these books are by trans authors. They may or may not have trans main characters (most do), but we love to support real trans people! Junk Mage – Elliot Cooper Amazon Exclusive Ninefox Gambit – Yoon Ha Lee Amazon || Kobo CA || Libro.FM An Unkindness of Ghosts – Rivers Solomon Bookshop || Amazon || Kobo CA || Libro.FM Chameleon Moon – RoAnna Sylver Bookshop || Amazon || Kobo CA || Libro.FM Light From Uncommon Stars – Ryka Aoki Bookshop || Amazon || Kobo CA…
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Contemporary Adult Books by Trans Authors!
I’m specifically making this list for the Trans Rights Readathon, but these are all books I’ve loved so they’re great all year round! All of these books are by trans authors. They may or may not have trans main characters (most do), but we love to support real trans people! Sugar & Spice – Eli Wray Barnes & Noble only Love & Other Disasters – Anita Kelly Bookshop || Amazon || Kobo CA || Visible Mending – M. Arbon Amazon Exclusive – Coming Wide Soon The Heartbreak Handshake – JR Hart Amazon Exclusive Sotto Voce – Suzanne Clay Amazon Exclusive For the Love of April French – Penny Aimes…
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Top Reads of 2024: Manners & Monsters by Tilly Wallace
I picked up Tilly Wallace’s books on a whim in 2024, hoping for something fun to read. I devoured everything she has published. Literally everything!!! Manners and Monsters was where I started and I highly, highly recommend reading these serieses. A lady never reveals the true extent of her decay… Hannah Miles lives a quiet existence helping her parents conduct research into a most terrible affliction—until a gruesome murder during her best friend’s engagement party pulls her from the shadows. With her specialist knowledge and demur disposition, Hannah is requested to aid the investigation. Except Hannah discovers her role is to apologise in the wake of the rude and disgraced man…
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Top Reads of 2024: Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi
Roshani Chokshi has been an autobuy author for me since I reviewed her very first book, The Star Touched Queen, in 2016. So when she made her adult debut, I knew I had to read it. Last Tale of the Flower Bride knocked my socks off in the best way. Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada. He was a scholar of myths. She was heiress to a fortune. They exchanged gifts and stories and believed they would live happily ever after—and in exchange for her love, Indigo extracted a promise: that her bridegroom would never pry into…
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Top Reads of 2024: Hers for the Weekend by Helena Greer
I don’t think it will surprise anyone to hear that Helena Greer’s latest book is on my favorites list, as it has been for the last few years. I am blessed to call Helena my friend and I desperately love this series. USA Today bestselling author Helena Greer presents a swoony, sexy romcom where a no-nonsense lawyer fakes a relationship with her barista to avoid going solo to her ex-girlfriend’s wedding. No-nonsense lawyer Tara Sloane Chadwick is perfectly fine with going to her ex’s wedding—the break-up was congenial, and Tara is nothing if not well-mannered. But after one too many reminders of her dismal dating track, Tara panics when asked if…
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Top Reads of 2024: A Sorceress Comes to Call – T. Kingfisher
T. Kingfisher is an author who always does interesting things in her books, and this retelling of The Goose Girl – one of my favorites! – is no different. I loved it from start to finish. Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors between rooms—there are no secrets in this house—and her mother doesn’t allow Cordelia to have a single friend. Unless you count Falada, her mother’s beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him. But more than simple eccentricity sets her mother apart. Other mothers don’t force their daughters to be silent…
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Top Reads of 2024: Letters to Half Moon Street by Sarah Wallace
This book was recommended to me by two of my author friends – Skye Kilaen and Felicia Davin. They did not steer me wrong, as usual! I must have been drunker than I realized because all I remember is how well he tied his cravat and how perfectly his coat fit him… London, 1815: where magic can be purchased at convenience, and the fashionable and wealthy descend for the start of the social Season. But 25-year-old Gavin Hartford finds the city intimidating when he arrives, alone, to his family’s townhouse. The only company he seeks is in his beloved books and weekly letters to his sister, Gerry. Then dashing man-about-town…
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Top Reads of 2024: Drop Dead by Lily Chu
I discovered Lily Chu a few years ago and I highly recommend all of her books in both ebook and audio. They all start out as Audible Originals, so exclusive to Audible for some period of time before being released in ebook and paperback and they are all excellent. It looks like she has a few books coming out that aren’t starting this way, but I still can’t wait to read them. One mysterious mansion. Two rival journalists. Three weeks to uncover the story—and love—of a lifetime. Don’t miss this unforgettable romantic comedy performed by Phillipa Soo and John Cho! Obituary writer Nadine Barbault doesn’t mind being called “Lady Death”.…
