2024 Wrap! The Best Books of the Year

Classics:

1. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino

2. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

3. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

4. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

5. On the Beach by Nevil Shute

Romance:

1. King of Wrath by Ana Huang

2. Beach Read by Emily Henry

3. Woven By Gold by Elizabeth Helen

4. Skin of a Sinner by Avina St. Graves

5. King of Greed by Ana Huang

Non-Fiction:

1. Quiet by Susan Cain

2. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk

3. Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn

4. Feminists Don’t Wear Pink Curated by Scarlet Curtis

5. A Life On Our Planet by David Attenborough

Plays:

1. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

2. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

3. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

4. The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie

5. Oedipus by Sophocles

Overall Top 5

1. Best Play: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

2. Best Fiction: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

3. Best Romance: Woven by Gold by Elizabeth Helen

4. Best Non-Fiction: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk

5. My Favourite Book of the Year: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Notable mentions:

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

The Treasure of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan

Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn