In 2024, I set myself a reading goal: Finish 100 books by the end of the year. The final count ended up being 76 books. Below are the original goals I set and the complete list of books I read.

The Guidelines:

• Finish 100 Books by 11:59 pm on December 31, 2024❌
• 52+ books from my overflowing TBR pile (Currently home to 68 books waiting to be read) ❌
• 12+ Book of the Month Editions (The only subscription box I will never cancel) ✅
• 5+ Nonfiction books or memoirs ✅
• Finish at least 3 series (I have 4 waiting on my TBR shelf, so this should be a piece of cake!)✅

Bonus Goals:

• I’m counting audiobooks toward my total, so setting a goal to listen to 10+ audiobooks (Thanks, Libby!)✅
• Buy fewer than 36 new books in 2024 (Re: That overflowing TBR and my wallet)❌
• Write and Publish 3 New Short Stories✅
• Log 260+ Writing Hours on my fiction projects (Long and Short)✅

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76 Books Read in 2024

1) 4:50 From Paddington

By Agatha Christie
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A Miss Marple Mystery, this book has all of the whodunit tropes we love from the Queen of Mystery that will have you guessing until the end.

2) This Is How You Lose the Time War

By Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
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Told in secret messages between two enemies, this sci-fi story is a mind-bending, time-bending compelling read that takes off from the very first page.

3) Tiny Beautiful Things

By Cheryl Strayed
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Sweet peas, are you looking for some advice? These advice letters and their answers are full of the most nagging questions of being human: How do we love? How do we handle grief? How do we try to be better? Get your mini does of therapy with each turn of the page.

4) Two Twisted Crowns

By Rachel Gillig
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The second book in the Shepard King Duology, (the sequel to One Dark Window), this novel picks up as the Nightmare leads the group on a quest to retrieve the Twin Alders, the final providence card needed to rid the kingdom of its magical mist and restore a balance to the throne, the spirit of the forest, and all those sickened by the magic around them, most of all Elspeth Spindle.

5) Yellowface

By R. F. Kuang
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After witnessing her former classmate’s death, June steals a manuscript and passes it off as her own, setting off a chain of events that leads the reader to examine plagiarism, cancel culture, toxic social media, racism, and discrimination.

6) Poems [for, about because] My Friends

By Hattie Hayes
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Written by my friend, the poet Hattie Hayes, this debut collection of poetry is poignant, cutting deep to the human feelings that remind us why we love who we love and how we love them.
The collection, published by Bullshit Lit, is sold out (Heck yeah, Hattie!)

7) The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

By Suzanne Collins
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes achieves the same sense of fear and control that the original triology does, with one noteable difference: We feel fear for the man we later root against. A prequel through the eyes of a villan humanizes the story, reminding us that we are never actually fighting “the big bad,” we are only fighting someone who has more power, often hurt by the system they survived.

8) At Bertram’s Hotel

By Agatha Christie
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No one pays attention to the aged-lady with her knitting, but rest assured she pays attention to them. Complete with robbery, a missing person, and a murder, this story allows Miss Marple to shine and the reader to keep guessing how it will all shake out in the end.

9) Weyward

By Emilia Hart
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The Weyward women have a gift, a connection with nature that sets them apart. Told through the eyes of three women: Altha in 1619, Violet in 1942, and Kate in 2019, this story takes the reader on a journey to discover not only the powers these women have but also how they use them to survive against the odds.
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10) Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

By T.S. Eliot
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This short collection of poems was published in 1939, and later illustrations were added by Edward Gordy in 1982. The poems are lighthearted and are all about the behaviors of cats in several English neighborhoods and villages, including all of your favorites that Andrew Lloyd Weber wrote about in the 1981 musical.

11) Assistant to the Villain

By Hannah Nicole Maehrer
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Evie is desperate to find a job to support her family, that’s how she ends up working as the assistant to The Villain, a handsome man of mysterious origins whose life mission it is to foil King Benedict’s plans. But when the Villain’s plans go awry, Evie must help him find the traitor amongst his many paperwork pushing interns, office professionals, magical creature trainer, healer, and more.

12) A Mirror Mended

By Alix E. Harrow
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The main character, who usually jumps from Sleeping Beauty tale to Briar Rose and back again, suddenly she finds herself summoned into the Snow White universe. With the Evil Queen by her side, she must figure out not only how to navigate the Snow-White-verse, but also how to reckon her own tale with what she comes to know.

13) The Mystery of the Blue Train

By Agatha Christie
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Agatha Christie’s “The Mystery of the Blue Train” finds us breaking a few of the rules that would come to define the Queen of Mystery’s tropes. There is only one murder to solve in this book: Ruth Kettering’s, a wealthy heiress caught between divorcing her husband and an affair with a potential con man. Poirot is on the case!

14) The Wishing Game

By Meg Shaffer
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When Jack Masterson announces a contest to win the only copy of the next Clock Island book, Lucy finds herself invited to compete. Among the challenges she faces are riddles, competitors, and a moody artist in residence. Will she win?
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15) First Lie Wins

By Ashley Elston
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Evie Porter is the smiling girlfriend dating the small town Golden boy. But Evie is not what she seems. She’s here on a job, but exactly what the elusive Mr. Smith is planning: That’s anyone’s guess.
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16) Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

By Agatha Christie
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Sometimes published under the title “The Boomerang Clue” this mystery begins when Bobby finds a man who has fallen off a cliff, and he witnesses the man’s last words, “Why didn’t they ask Evans?” Which begs the question, who is the man, who is Evans, and why was this man pushed over the cliff?

17) You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

By Akwaeke Emezi
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Feyi, a young artist who was widowed five years ago, dives back into the world of dating without strings, she finds herself being brought along to a tropical island. There she fights a connection with the one person she should not be falling for. All the while, Feyi is creating her art to work through her grief.

18) Lessons in Chemistry

By Bonnie Garmus
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Elizabeth Zott is a scientist. However, being a woman scientist in the 1950s and 1960s, well, that’s easier said than done. Despite the difficulties and tragedies, Elizabeth finds herself given the opportunity to bring chemistry into the light with a television show, Supper At Six. A poignant and inspiring novel, this book reminds us all what we are capable of, what it means to be a woman against the world, and what it means to build your own family.
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19) Carnegie’s Maid

By Marie Benedict
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Clara Kelly, an Irish immigrant lands in New York in 1863. Through a series of events, she finds herself working as Mrs. Carnegie’s lady’s maid in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Now she must learn how to not only follow the rules of her position of her new home, and her new country, she must also find a way to support her family stateside and back home in Ireland.

20) No One Can Know

By Kate Alice Marshall
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As teenagers, the 3 Palmer sisters found their parents murdered. Each one has secrets about what they saw and what they knew. Together, they came up with a story, and stuck to it for over a decade. Now, Emma must move back into their childhood home, reopening wounds and stirring up history. With each layer she uncovers, she gets a step closer to the truth of what really happened that night.
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21) Happiness is a Warm Puppy

By Charles M. Schulz
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This adorable book features your favorite Peanuts characters as they remind us all that sometimes happiness comes from the littlest things and the smallest happy moments.

22) The Dead Romantics

By Ashley Poston
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Florence Day is a romance ghostwriter who can see ghosts. She’s past deadline on her novel and her new (very handsome) editor, Ben, won’t give here another extension even though she can’t find a way to write a happy ending. Faced with the unexpected death of her father and the ghost of her editor, Florence must figure out how to find a way forward and help Ben move on to the afterlife.

23) Where the World Ends

By Geraldine McCaughrean
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Based on a true story, this YA fiction novel tells the tale of 8 boys stranded on a rock where they went on a yearly quest to gather and hunt birds. How will they survive 9 months on their own? Will they ever return to their island?
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24) A Murder is Announced

By Agatha Christie
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A classic case with a locked room and plenty of motives swirling amongst the party goers, it’s up to the local police to determine whodunnit, with a little help from Miss Jane Marple, of course. The pinnacle moment of this one may just be my favorite Miss Marple moment of them all!

25) The House in the Cerulean Sea

By TJ Klune
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Linus Baker lives very bland, beige life as a case worker for the Department In Charge Of Magical Youth, but suddenly he finds himself tasked with investigating a most unusual group of magical children. What will he find on the island? The short answer: so much more than magic.

26) How to End a Love Story

By Yulin Kuang
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Helen lost her younger sister in a tragic event. Now, years later, her YA novels are being turned into a TV series, and she’s in the writing room with Grant, the boy who was driving when her sister died. This novel is a romance through and through, leaving you wondering at every turn will they or won’t they, and if they will, how is that ever going to work?
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27) Murder in the Family

By Cara Hunter
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20 years ago, Luke Ryder was murdered. The case remains unsolved. Now filmmaker and stepson to Ryder, Guy Howard, is directing a true crime series revisiting the crime to try to find new information and solve the mystery of what happened that night. A perfect read for True Crime fans!

28) Musings: Poems and Tiny Tales

By Sydney M. Crago
Have you ever stared at a painting and wished it could talk to you? Have you ever wanted to give someone a tour of your brain? Have you ever watched the stars in the sky until you lost track of time? In her debut collection, the author welcomes you into her thoughts and life. Through these poems and short stories, she offers a chance to explore love, art, myth, and nature.
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29) Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers

By Gary Paulsen
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This biographical collection of vingnettes weaves together a look at sled dogs, particularly one team leader, Cookie. Paulsen sheds light on the reality of raising sled dogs, what it takes to train them, and the joy of companionship that is having a dog by your side.

30) Rock Paper Scissors

By Alice Feeney
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Told through rotating perspectives, this mystery unravels the ups and downs of marriage, the lies that the characters have told one another, and the truth that has been hidden from everyone, including you, Reader.
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31) Reputation

By Lex Croucher
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Georgiana meets a rich set of characters, and her plunge into debauchery and bad behavior take the entire group on a journey they didn’t see coming. But how long can the party go on? Will their reputations survivor their foolish choices? Either way, it will be a summer neither can forget.

32) The Gentleman’s Gambit

By Evie Dunmore
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Catriona, a suffragette with a love of linguistics and history meets Elias Khoury, a businessman trying to recover artifacts stolen from his homeland. At odds from their very first encounter on the banks of a Scottish loch, this duo is in for quite the adventure.
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33) Arch-Conspirator

By Veronica Roth
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In this retelling of Antigone, Roth sets the story in a future where reproduction and fertility are a major focus, though exactly why or how the society came to be this way, is unclear.

34) The Bone Code

By Kathy Reichs
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This book (and the series) follows Temperence Brennan, a forensic anthropologist who uses skeletal remains to figure out how a person died. The novel in particular ties together two cases, one of two people found in Canada and one where two people were found off the coast of the Carolinas. Now it’s Brennan’s turn to find out how this two cases with impossible similarities are linked, and more importantly, who these four victims are.

35) The Art Thief

By Michael Finley
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Stephane Breitwieser is an art thief, stealing a mind-boggling amount of work from European museums in broad daylight. But he doesn’t sell the works, he keeps them. This book explores the life, motivations, and fall out of Breitwieser’s spree of art heists.

36) Deja Dead

By Kathy Reichs
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In this first book of the series, we meet the series main character for the first time, Temperence Brenann, a forensic anthropologist working in Montreal, Quebec. When a series of cases seem all too similar to her, she poses the idea that there may be a serial killer on the loose. But is she right? Will the cops believe her? Will there be more victims?

37) The Unhoneymooners

By Christiana Lauren
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Olive and Ethan do not like each other. But Olive is willing to behave for the sake of her sister’s wedding. Then, it all goes wrong. When the entire wedding, save Olive and Ethan who did not eat the buffet, comes down with food poisoning, Olive and Ethan find themselves sharing a romantic honeymoon trip to Maui.

38) Such a Bad Influence

By Olivia Muenter
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Evie is an 18 year old influencer with millions of followers after rising to fame as a child and being raised in the eye of a family blog. Now, she’s gone missing after an unsettling livestream, and her older sister Hazel is determined to find her.

39) Stockholm: Snapshot Guide

By Rick Steves
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If you’ve never used a book/printed travel guide, you might think they are a relic of the past, but I promise you they come in handy! My personal favorites are always Rick Steves travel guides! They have a quick list of word/phrase translations, suggested itineraries, maps of walking tours, landmark information, and tons of restaurant and hotel reccommendations.

40) Quarter Life Poetry: Poems for the Young, Broke & Hangry

By Samantha Jayne
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This book is maybe more of a funny, coffee table book than a deep, introspective poetry collection, but there are still some pages that hit home. The collection offers a reflection on being a young, struggling college grad in the 2010s.

41) Death Du Jour

By Kathy Reichs
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Tempe Brennan is investigating a series of deaths that began with a tragic fire outside of Montreal, an entire family gone and a whole slew of mysteries left behind. The mystery only deepens when the connections to start to pop up in South Carolina, and then Texas, and then even closer to home: Tempe’s sister.

42) Volume 0: Issue 1

By Various Book of the Month Authors
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Volume 0 is a collection of short stories published by Book of the Month and includes 6 stories from Book of the Month authors. They range in page count and topic, but each one shows the strength of the writers, their ideas, and their storytelling abilities.

43) Home Body

By Rupi Kaur
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If you’ve ever stumbled across a poem from Milk and Honey that lingered with you, or have been searching for a collection of poetry that holds nothing back, Home Body may just be it.

44) Deadly Decisions

By Kathy Reichs
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Tempe is back in the third novel in this series. In this one, Brennan is pulled into the carnage of the biker disputes taking over Montreal in the late 90s. When a criminal informant directs her to the burial site of two gang members, a third (incomplete) set of bones is found, the bones of a teenage girl.

45) The God of the Woods

By Liz Moore
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Thirteen-year-old Barbara Van Laar vanishes from summer camp, the camp that her parents own, on the same property where her brother went missing 14 years earlier, never to be found.

Who’s to blame? Is it the camp counselors who snuck away from their cabin? The secret person Barbara’s been meeting at night? Her family? A guest of her parents? The camper? The camp admin? The escaped murderer on the loose?

46) Fatal Voyage

By Kathy Reichs
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The fourth in the series, this edition finds our main character, Tempe Brennan, called to the scene of a horrific plane crash in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. But when she finds remains that weren’t on the plane, her good name is called into question.

47) Grave Secrets

By Kathy Reichs
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Book 5 of the Tempe Brennan series follows our main character down to Guatemala. While working on a different project, Brennan is called in to consult on a case of four missing women. When a body is found in a septic tank, there are even more questions than answers.

48) The Midnight Feast

By Lucy Foley
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When a luxury resort opens on the English coast, the wealthy flock for opening weekend. It’s the heat of summer, and things are heating up. One guest is not who she says she is. The goddess-like owner has a history here, one she’d like to stay buried. The architect with a new name. The townspeople who wish the place would burn. The ones who need it to survive to make their living. Everyone has a stake.

49) Volume 0: Issue 2

By Various Book of the Month Authors
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I’m so glad Book of the Month brought back Volume 0! The second issue of this short story collection has 7 stories that each shine in different ways.

50) Volume 0: Issue 3

By Various Book of the Month Authors
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In Issue 3, “The Wish Bridge” was a stand out for me! The story builds an incredible world, tells the tale of love and commitment, and reminds us of the joy and the curse that it is to be human.

51) Someone Somewhere Maybe

By Sophie Diener
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There is somthing gorgeous about a collection of poem that feels like you are both watching the poet grow up and living the moments yourself.

52) Portrait of a Scotsman

By Evie Dunmore
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Hattie Greenfield, a budding artist and advocate for women’s sufferage finds herself flung together with her father’s business rival Mr. Blackstone. There’s no will they/won’t they here: Hattie leans in for a kiss, and her life goes sideways.

53) The Ex Hex

By Erin Sterling
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Vivienne Jones had her heartbroken by Rhys Penhallow, and finds herself playfully casting a curse on him. Problem is: the curse worked! Now, 9 years later, Rhys is back in town.

54) Hallowe’en Party

By Agatha Christie
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A classic from the later years of her writing career, Christie does it again with her style of closed door murders, red herrings, carefully laid hints, and the fear that 3 bodies will fall before the true killer is found.

55) Sleeping Murder

By Agatha Christie
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In “Sleeping Murder,” we are once again joined by Miss Jane Marple, resident arm chair detective and master of human nature in her last case. A young newlywed woman finds herself drawn to a house near the English seaside, but soon she discovers her childhood ties to the home and recovers a memory of a murder.

56) The Moving Finger

By Agatha Christie
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The Moving Finger centers around an injured pilot who, joined by his sister, decided to recuperate in a small English village where “nothing ever happens.” But soon after they arrive, a series of anonymous rude letters begin to arrive in mailboxes across the town and soon after, a local woman is found dead.

57) The Peril at End House

By Agatha Christie
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While on vacation, Poirot and his dear friend Hastings meet Nick, a young woman who owns End House, where she’s nearly died 3 times in the last few days. Eager to help the young women, the mustached detective takes the case! Who would water mademoiselle dead? Who stands to gain? Where has her will disappeared to? What secret is she hiding?

58) The Escape Room

By Megan Goldin
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When four colleagues, each with their own secrets, are forced into an elevator they think is a team bonding Escape Room adventure, they find our exactly who they’ve been dealing with and are forced to confront the paths they’ve taken to get and stay at the top of the food chain.

59) Cat Among the Pigeons

By Agatha Christie
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This is the tale of a bag of missing gems worth millions, a crafty hiding place, and a slew of no good fortune seekers all trying to get their hands on the jewels first!

60) The Starling House

By Alix E. Morrow
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Opal has always felt called to the Starling House, seeing it in her dreams, connecting it with haunting children’s book that its original resident created. Now, she’s employed in cleaning the house for the current guardian, Arthur Starling, as she attempts to make enough money to save her kid brother from their life of poverty and disappointment.

61) Heartless Hunter

By Kristen Ciccarelli
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In an effort to protect her identity from the witch hunters and gain insider knowledge, Rune finds herself entangled with Gideon, a guardsman with a particular interest in ridding the world of witches.

62) We Solve Murders

By Richard Osman
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Something is afoot! Amy Wheeler works as a private security officer, tending to international clients around the globe. While on assignment keeping famous author, Rosie D’Antonio safe, things go sideways, very very quickly.

63) The Sittaford Mystery

By Agatha Christie
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It’s the dead of winter. Snow is piling up outside the homes of those residing in the village. Inside, a group of acquaintances has gathered for a bit of fun. When they find themselves in a table-turning seance, a spine-chilling message is delivered: Captain Trevelyan…dead…murdered.

64) How to Solve Your Own Murder

By Kristen Perrin
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What if you were told you would be murdered? When a teenage Frances Adams is told her fortune, she learns that someday she will be murdered. Now, over 50 years later, it’s happened, and it’s up to Annie Adams, Frances’ great niece and an aspiring novelist, to untangle the web of the past and present that surrounds the quaint English village of Castle Knoll.

65) Funny Story

By Emily Henry
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Daphne and Miles are roommates, not because they want to be, but because Daphne’s fiancé left her for Petra, Miles’ ex-girlfriend. Now, Daphne is counting the days until she can get out of this lakeside Michigan town and go anywhere else. What is she waiting for? The read-a-thon she’s spent all year organizing as the children’s librarian.

Under the Mistletoe Collection

Books 66-70

This entire collection of short stories/novellas were fun, festive reads that were full of romance and heart. It was also a great chance for me to try out a few romance authors’ styles to know exactly who I want to add to my 2025 TBR lists!

66. Cruel Winter

By Ali Hazelwood
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When two childhood friends get snowed in over the holidays, it’s time to clear the air on where they stand and what they really mean to each other. This one is cute and has just the right amount of build to the big reveal.

67. Merry Ever After

By Tessa Bailey
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A single mother and a strapping farmer find themselves pining for each other in the days leading up to Christmas. This one tells the story from both perspectives and dives head first into the spicy side of things. 🌶️

68. All By My Elf

By Olivia Dade
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Ever felt like a third wheel? This one was fun and heartfelt as a trio of colleagues take a seasonal job together. Romance is brewing in the mincemobile, but who will end up together in the end?

69. Merriment and Mayhem

By Alexandria Bellefleur
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When disaster strikes Everleigh not once, not twice, but three times, it’s Griffin, the local firefighter, who find himself as her rescuer. Let’s say her kitchen isn’t the only thing that goes up in flames.

70. Only Santas in the Building

By Alexis Daria
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Evie is not feeling especially merry this Christmas, but that may be about to change. Theo, her handsome upstairs neighbor, and Evie are at their building’s Santa-themed holiday party and things are about to get interesting.

71) The Deal of a Lifetime

By Fredrik Backman
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Would you make a deal with death to save a life? What if death looked like a grandmother in a hand-knitted sweater? What if it meant not that you would just die, but that it would be like you never lived?

72) The Christmas Guest

By Peter Swanson
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An American student studying in England is invited to her acquaintence’s family Christmas at a large country home, but something is amiss. Who is keeping secrets? Who is safe and who is hiding their villainous ways? Who will survive until Christmas Day?

73) The Answer is No

By Fredrik Backman
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This short novella (short story?) tells the tale of Lucas, a loner by choice who prefers life to be simple, uncomplicated, and happy. But when a frying pan is left out on the sidewalk of his apartment building, life becomes complicated very quickly. 

74) Small Things Like These

By Claire Keegan
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This short novel sets quite a mood: it’s 1985 in a small town in Ireland in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Bill Furlong owns a business providing coal and wood to the town, keeping them warm and his income stable, better off even than many in the town. But Bill is a kind man, dedicated to helping others and raising his family of five girls with his wife by his side. 

75) The Christmas Appeal

By Janice Hallet
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A play goes wrong. When a local acting group opts to do Jack and the Beanstalk for their Christmas pantomime production, disaster is quick to follow, in the form of a dead body dressed as Santa. The questions: Who is it? How did he die? Who knew he was there?

76) A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

By Holly Jackson
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As for “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder,” this book was well-written and well-narrated! I did have to renew my audiobook from Libby once because I got busy with the holidays and let it expire, but I needed to know how it ended. The clues are clever and believable while the motivations of Phipps and the rest of the crew are clear and continue to evolve so that I was never bored.