Goodreads Editors' Book Picks for 2024

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Wild and Distant Seas
Wild and Distant Seas 3.69 avg rating — 2,934 ratings
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Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World 3.75 avg rating — 1,932 ratings
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These Deadly Prophecies
These Deadly Prophecies 3.40 avg rating — 2,870 ratings
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You Will Never Be Me
You Will Never Be Me 3.63 avg rating — 10,086 ratings
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Martyr!
Martyr! 4.19 avg rating — 111,816 ratings
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Colored Television
Colored Television 3.55 avg rating — 20,899 ratings
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You Only Call When You're in Trouble
You Only Call When You're in Trouble 3.42 avg rating — 3,412 ratings
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I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom 3.97 avg rating — 11,253 ratings
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You Dreamed of Empires
You Dreamed of Empires 3.76 avg rating — 12,216 ratings
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This World Is Not Yours
This World Is Not Yours 3.19 avg rating — 921 ratings
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Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife
Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife 3.96 avg rating — 544 ratings
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Devils Kill Devils
Devils Kill Devils 3.12 avg rating — 1,343 ratings
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The Busy Body (Ghostwriter Mystery, #1)
The Busy Body (Ghostwriter Mystery, #1) 3.51 avg rating — 3,978 ratings
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Chinese Enough: Homestyle Recipes for Noodles, Dumplings, Stir-Fries, and More
Chinese Enough: Homestyle Recipes for Noodles, Dumplings, Stir-Fries, and More 4.01 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Twilight Territory
Twilight Territory 3.64 avg rating — 4,652 ratings
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The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story 3.78 avg rating — 18,294 ratings
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Come and Get It
Come and Get It 3.34 avg rating — 41,422 ratings
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The Most Famous Girl in the World
The Most Famous Girl in the World 3.24 avg rating — 3,644 ratings
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Mercury
Mercury 3.79 avg rating — 18,826 ratings
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The Repeat Room
The Repeat Room 3.10 avg rating — 1,386 ratings
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This Wretched Valley
This Wretched Valley 3.26 avg rating — 10,407 ratings
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We'll Prescribe You a Cat (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #1)
We'll Prescribe You a Cat (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 31,704 ratings
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Say You'll Be Mine
Say You'll Be Mine 3.78 avg rating — 11,716 ratings
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Tiny Threads
Tiny Threads 3.15 avg rating — 938 ratings
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Argylle
Argylle 3.27 avg rating — 13,984 ratings
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By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land 4.42 avg rating — 3,183 ratings
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A Fire So Wild
A Fire So Wild 3.46 avg rating — 1,760 ratings
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Where They Last Saw Her
Where They Last Saw Her 3.88 avg rating — 6,479 ratings
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In Ascension
In Ascension 3.75 avg rating — 13,363 ratings
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The Examiner
The Examiner 3.72 avg rating — 15,188 ratings
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Greta & Valdin
Greta & Valdin 3.92 avg rating — 25,833 ratings
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The Gods Below (The Hollow Covenant, #1)
The Gods Below (The Hollow Covenant, #1) 3.58 avg rating — 1,902 ratings
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Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop 3.92 avg rating — 69,058 ratings
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The Mesmerist
The Mesmerist 3.61 avg rating — 2,852 ratings
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Acts of Forgiveness
Acts of Forgiveness 3.71 avg rating — 1,674 ratings
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Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority
Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority 3.83 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Piglet
Piglet 3.40 avg rating — 38,372 ratings
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Ours
Ours 3.82 avg rating — 1,244 ratings
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Sex, Lies and Sensibility
Sex, Lies and Sensibility 3.62 avg rating — 3,406 ratings
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Fathomfolk (Drowned World, #1)
Fathomfolk (Drowned World, #1) 3.15 avg rating — 4,034 ratings
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The Blueprint
The Blueprint 3.82 avg rating — 2,054 ratings
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The Other Valley
The Other Valley 3.87 avg rating — 19,748 ratings
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The Split
The Split
by: Kit Frick
3.37 avg rating — 1,537 ratings
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Island Witch
Island Witch 3.61 avg rating — 1,509 ratings
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King Nyx
King Nyx 3.45 avg rating — 1,447 ratings
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Kindling
Kindling 3.74 avg rating — 963 ratings
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Glorious Exploits
Glorious Exploits 4.15 avg rating — 14,983 ratings
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Fruit of the Dead
Fruit of the Dead 3.49 avg rating — 5,010 ratings
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Victim
Victim 3.83 avg rating — 3,893 ratings
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You Get What You Pay For: Essays
You Get What You Pay For: Essays 4.15 avg rating — 568 ratings
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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension 4.29 avg rating — 11,387 ratings
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Memory Piece
Memory Piece
by: Lisa Ko
3.20 avg rating — 4,405 ratings
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Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.26 avg rating — 3,042 ratings
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A Great Country
A Great Country 3.89 avg rating — 7,884 ratings
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Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny
Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny 3.88 avg rating — 418 ratings
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Worry
Worry 3.29 avg rating — 10,317 ratings
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Parasol Against the Axe
Parasol Against the Axe 3.06 avg rating — 1,269 ratings
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In a Not So Perfect World
In a Not So Perfect World 3.59 avg rating — 3,607 ratings
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The Invisible Hotel
The Invisible Hotel 3.32 avg rating — 554 ratings
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Fervor
Fervor 3.62 avg rating — 1,067 ratings
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Dominoes
Dominoes 3.70 avg rating — 892 ratings
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The Extinction of Irena Rey
The Extinction of Irena Rey 3.19 avg rating — 4,466 ratings
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Say Hello to My Little Friend
Say Hello to My Little Friend 3.71 avg rating — 890 ratings
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888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers
888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers 3.31 avg rating — 1,420 ratings
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The Twilight Garden
The Twilight Garden 3.79 avg rating — 6,776 ratings
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Missing White Woman
Missing White Woman 3.51 avg rating — 8,170 ratings
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You Know What You Did
You Know What You Did 3.36 avg rating — 3,915 ratings
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Your Presence Is Mandatory
Your Presence Is Mandatory 3.73 avg rating — 1,209 ratings
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Dayspring
Dayspring 4.09 avg rating — 1,214 ratings
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One Last Word
One Last Word 3.22 avg rating — 1,770 ratings
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When I Think of You
When I Think of You 3.87 avg rating — 5,347 ratings
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I Cheerfully Refuse
I Cheerfully Refuse really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20,227 ratings
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Clear
Clear 3.88 avg rating — 18,274 ratings
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Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Someone You Can Build a Nest In 3.93 avg rating — 13,900 ratings
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Women! In! Peril!
Women! In! Peril! 3.58 avg rating — 884 ratings
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All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess 3.55 avg rating — 1,128 ratings
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I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art
I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art 4.10 avg rating — 431 ratings
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Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees 3.98 avg rating — 2,376 ratings
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The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands
The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands 3.62 avg rating — 8,980 ratings
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God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer
God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer 3.64 avg rating — 665 ratings
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Honey
Honey 3.44 avg rating — 13,966 ratings
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The Sons of El Rey
The Sons of El Rey 3.88 avg rating — 1,353 ratings
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Anna Bright Is Hiding Something
Anna Bright Is Hiding Something 3.50 avg rating — 1,061 ratings
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One-Star Romance
One-Star Romance 3.66 avg rating — 20,928 ratings
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The Stardust Grail
The Stardust Grail 3.66 avg rating — 7,734 ratings
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Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil 3.39 avg rating — 2,981 ratings
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What You Leave Behind
What You Leave Behind 3.84 avg rating — 5,363 ratings
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Death in the Air
Death in the Air 3.73 avg rating — 4,085 ratings
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The Sisters K
The Sisters K 3.48 avg rating — 134 ratings
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A Love Like the Sun
A Love Like the Sun 3.85 avg rating — 5,385 ratings
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Middletide
Middletide 3.51 avg rating — 16,303 ratings
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This Great Hemisphere
This Great Hemisphere 3.55 avg rating — 765 ratings
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Catalina
Catalina 3.58 avg rating — 6,942 ratings
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The Coin
The Coin 3.47 avg rating — 7,314 ratings
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State of Paradise
State of Paradise 3.40 avg rating — 2,880 ratings
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The Heart in Winter
The Heart in Winter 3.83 avg rating — 8,367 ratings
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The Melancholy of Untold History
The Melancholy of Untold History 3.65 avg rating — 786 ratings
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The Bang-Bang Sisters
The Bang-Bang Sisters 3.72 avg rating — 814 ratings
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The History of Sound
The History of Sound 4.33 avg rating — 4,530 ratings
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We Carry the Sea in Our Hands
We Carry the Sea in Our Hands
by: Janie Kim
3.63 avg rating — 421 ratings
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