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S3, Chapter 4: Our Superlatives of 2024

• Stephany Yoder and Julia Dagen • Season 3 • Episode 4

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2024 is over which means it's time to present our bookish superlatives of the year.  Get ready for a fun discussion and a long list of books to either avoid or add to your TBR.

Julia's Books

  • Hiddensee by Gregory Maguire
  • My Rogue to Ruin by Erica Ridley
  • The Scribe by Matthew Guinn
  • Tinderbox by W.A. Simpson
  • The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
  • The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
  • The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
  • The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
  • Rifle Paper C0. (Jane Austen collection)
  • Lit Joy (Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice)
  • When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
  • What the Rive Knows by Isabel Ibañez
  • Where the Library Hides by Isabel Ibañez
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
  • The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
  • Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
  • Strangers Assume My Girlfriend is My Nurse by Shane Burcaw
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon by James Lovegrove
  • Midnight in Everwood by Maria Kuzniar
  • The Christmas Tree Farm by Laurie Gilmore

Stephany's Books

  • Go As A River by Shelley Read
  • The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
  • Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center
  • The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Allison Goodman
  • Jane Steele by Lindsay Faye
  • The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
  • Elevation by Stephen King
  • Snowflakes and Secrets in the Scottish Highlands by Donna Ashcroft
  • The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
  • The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
  • Mosquitoland by by David Arnold
  • The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
  • The Murmur of Bees by Sophia Segovia
  • Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
  • Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery (Virago)
  • Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett 
  • Cranford Collection Classics (Jane Eyre, Persuasion)
  • The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by Robert Ingpen
  • Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
  • Myrtle Hardcastle mysteries by Elizabeth C. Bunce
  • I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
  • Born a Crime written and narrated by Trevor Noah
  • Everyone on This Train is a Suspect by Brian Stevenson 
  • Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
  • The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
  • Lost Man's Lane by Scott Carson
  • Harry Potter series by J.K.Rowling, narrated by Stephen Fry
  • Sherlock Holmes & the Three Winter Terrors by James Lovegrove

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