Best Books of 2024 | Lauren and the Books

[@RunwrightReads]

I love that you stayed in on NYE and filmed in your PJs. It adds a cozy vibe to the video. I had a quiet celebration at home with the family too and read almost until midnight.

[@Kellyjmo]

The Raven’s Nest was my favourite. Also a big fan of memoirs of women in Nordic countries!

[@wooshell11]

I will miss the Sweet Roasting Tin recipes too in your Friday vlogs. Great list of faves. Love Storygraph. Happy New Year!

[@YourTrueShelf]

A fan of the pj's!! The only woman in Scandinavia book I can remember reading is my year of living danishly by Helen Russell which I enjoyed a few years back. I loved the house opposite. Want to read Pet, thanks for the reminder! The Daphne Du Maurier sounds brilliant, I love time travel. As you say, amazing she writes such different books! Happy New Year x

[@journalwithdolly]

Happy New Year!!! 🥰✨️ Thanks for a lovely year of videos, you are such a breath of fresh air. Where are your pyjamas from? They're awesome!! I read 26 books which is good for me being a teacher - I wish marking work counted towards my reading goal 😂xx

[@alexiarichardson651]

I read the first of the Cazalet Chronicles on your recommendation in 2024 and really enjoyed it! Will definitely be reading at least the second one in 2025.

[@hannaa7872]

Happy New Year! I love your videos and your book recommendations because they are so different. Can't wait to see what 2025 brings! ❤

[@elliethejellyfish4136]

You look so cosy and cute!! 😋 Thank you for another year of wonderful videos, you dont know how much they soothe my soul on the harder days ❤ All my love and warm wishes for this coming year! 🎉🎇✨

[@andreawolf8665]

Happy New Year! 🎉 Get better soon, David. Looking forward to another year of fantastic Patreon bookclub!

[@jillybeanh67]

Happy new year. Hope David is feeling better I read speak Okinawa on your recommendation (audio book also from library), loved it, so amazing. My favourite non-fiction of the year. So thanks for that. I also have pet and house on the strand waiting on my toppling tbr.

[@fozzymup268]

Happy New Year Lauren and David! Best Wishes for 2025 💕🎉

[@kathrynquinnstreeter4238]

Happy New Year Lauren 🎉🎉🎉 I will be putting these on my wishlist for sure.

[@beththebookworm]

Happy new year to you and David. A Thousand Feasts is my first book of 2025; I've been saving it.

[@thisissoosarah]

Happy New Year Lauren! 🎊 Love those pjs! Thanks for all the videos this year, especially love the Friday reading vlogs! I really got out of the groove in 2024 so didn’t read that much sadly, but my fave was the Hedgewitch series after your recommendation! Did the audiobooks and absolutely loved them, the perfect cosy read! 🥰

[@Glgj26]

Ooh loved this, and so excited to find out you're using Storygraph!

[@jojobinxy7542]

Happy new year! I love storygraph, hope you enjoy using it too 😊

[@freyabookishgamer]

Happy new year to you, David and Daphne 🎉 I hope David gets better soon, I could hear him coughing in the background, poor guy. I'm just getting over the flu so I feel him I just reserved the first two Heartstopper at my local library x

[@gailhewitt1467]

Happy New Year to you both and hope David feels better very soon. I need to buy Nigel Slater's book as his writing is like a huge hug. My top book was I Who Have Never Known Men. Thank you for all your content throughout 2024.

[@Emma_S76]

Happy New Year Lauren and David! I hope David is feeling better soon. My favourite books this year were Fairy Tale by Stephen King, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens and My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier. Wishing you a wonderful 2025!

[@christinacampbellbooks]

Immediately added Pet to my list of books to read. It sounds great. And unlike anything I've ever read before! Have a wonderful New Year! 🎉

[@ameliabarlowbooks]

lovely to see so much nonfiction on this list! happy new year to you both 💖💖💖

[@ulbaboomsbooks]

You might enjoy Sarah Moss' "Names For The Sea", where she moved to Iceland with her family. Thank you for your book recs and your energy in 2024. Happy New Year from Berlin x

[@bookishfairygodmother]

Happy new year! Ooooo I got Pet for Christmas and I’m so eager to read it!!

[@melanieandbookstacks]

🎉happy new year🎉

[@MeMyDogAndBooks]

happY new year lauren & david 🎉

[@charlottep3702]

Thanks for sharing your favourites. I'll definitely be adding The Raven's Nest to my TBR. Have you read Dalvi by Laura Galloway? It's about her experience living in the Norwegian Arctic.

[@karenmoore4430]

Hi Lauren, Happy New Year. I finished Pet this week and my hubby is reading it now. I love Catherine Chidgey. I have Remote Sympathy to read next by her. My favourite book has been There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak. A great, great book. Xx

[@lesleylickley2207]

Hi Lauren, you might enjoy The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell.

[@mariannapeios7892]

Happy new year to you and david

[@Jennikreads]

Have you read Life On Svalbard by Cecilia Blomdahl?

[@jacquelinemcmenamin8204]

Hope David feels better soon ❤

[@megangainsford]

Great video. My top 5 1.death comes to marlow-Robert Thorogood 2. Sufficiently advance magic Andrew Rowe 3. The couple at NO 9 claire douglas 4. Prisioner of Azkaban jk Rowling 5. Two can keep a secret Karen M mcmanus

[@amyjames1664]

Happy New Year to you both. Hope David feels better soon and you don't share it. Lot's of love 💖