Best Books of 2024 || My Favourite Reads of the Year [CC]

[@MaryAmongStories]

this list looks amazing! and aaaah A Tale of Two Cities. I loved that book so much when I read it years ago! omg Dorian Gray made it 🥹 I love how passionate you are about your favourites ❤️

[@dimilolaluz]

What a great list of diverse reads, thanks so much for sharing❤

[@novellenovels]

You read so many great books. Do need to finally get to wolfsong. Under the whispering door Is in my favourites 😊

[@ChattieTheMadChatter]

Oh and how can i gorget how excited i was to see Mr Loverman appear on your favourites list 😍💜📚 I really need to watch the tv adaption

[@Catsandcamera]

I love that you loved a book so much you read it that many times!!!!

[@ChanelChapters]

Sounds like you’ve found a few poetry collections that really hit. Fab finds

[@ChattieTheMadChatter]

33:18 - if it was not "her works" i would have qurstioned everuthing i know about you 😂 Love that this was the year of great poetry for you. You have convinced me to pick up Clare North and Emma Dabiri's books 💜📚

[@TheBookSanctum]

I just knew Seirra Simone was going to be on the list 😂 Harry August sounds really interesting - I'll be keeping an eye out for it for sure!

[@YourTrueShelf]

I added sing if you can't dance to my wishlist 😊 sounds like you've read some extremely powerful poetry last year. What white people can do next made it to my books of the year list in 2022/23. I thought it was an incredible book and Emma Dabiri wrote so powerfully, fearlessly and with such honesty and originality. I really couldn't praise it highly enough either - due a re-read!

[@dbsguidetothegalaxy602]

I need to get to Model Home! Every Time you talk about it I want to read it more ❤. Wolfsong gave me all the feels 😭😭

[@spreadbookjoy]

I’ve wanted to read A Tale of Two Cities for some time and must get to it this year. Me, My Dad… is such a wonderful book. The Picture of Dorian Grey was about so much more than I thought it would be and I agree so beautifully written. Model Home sounds great! What White People Can Do Next is going on my wish list. So are Sing if You Can’t Dance, Wolfsong and Harry August (live time travel) - they all sound wonderful. Love that you found a favourite author - I’m not really a fan of steamy romance but your enthusiasm for those books is joyful to watch! 😂

[@CaughtBetweenPages]

“the year of poetry” as though you’re not THE poetry reader/reviewer every year♥️ Just hearing you talk about Forest of Noise put a lump in my throat, and I’m glad that Antrobus, though super accessible for poetry beginners, still made your top books of the year list. As a forever Dorian Gray fan who got eye-rolled at when I talked to anyone who’d listen about it in high school, your eloquent appreciation of the thematic resonances in the story was so affirming and satisfying 😂 I just got myself a copy of Model Home to read with my partner and we’re both champing at the bit to get to it! Rivers Solomon can’t miss, I think. I think a lot of folks don’t understand that being abled is a temporary state of being, and that becoming disabled can happen to anyone. Hopefully Sing if You Can’t Dance will work to help folks with that barrier to empathy recognize that. Ok that ending twist? That makes so much sense. Because I was getting more and more suspicious the longer Sierra Simone didn’t feature in the rest of the video 😂 your excitement when you talk about her is my favorite thing and I’m so glad Simone has continued to make you so happy!! Hope 2025 brings even more fantastic books for you, Olivia!!

[@rasaslase]

I read The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August few years ago and also really liked it.

[@CharlieBrookReads]

Can’t wait to read Model Home!! The number one spot is THE MOST OLIVIA thing EVER 😂🥰🥰🥰❤️ One of the Best things I read in 2024 was Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 😊❤

[@WhatVictoriaRead]

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[@shaynemonroeauthor]

I really want to read Fire Rush. I tried the audiobook last year but found it hard to concentrate on it. I think I’m going to have to do the immersive thing where I listen to it and read it at the same time. I did that with a couple books last year and it was amazing.

[@SH-is9xl]

My TBR list is now significantly longer! I love your videos and watching your reading journey over the year as I also embark upon my own! The only comment I would have is that TJ Klune is also the author of the series which supports the taking away of Indigenous children by white families which happened (and is still happening) in countries like Canada and Australia. The series you loved sounds up my alley but I don’t really feel comfortable supporting the author because of that!

[@LeanneRose]

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