Your 2024 People's Choice results are in!
Overall Favorite
The Women is a historical epic that follows Frances "Frankie" McGrath, an army nurse during the Vietnam War, who witnesses the destruction of war and the trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.
Favorite 2024 Fiction
Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the sequel to the 2020 bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. Protagonist Arthur Parnassus joins ranks with the other inhabitants of Marsyas Island to save the magical children of the orphanage he runs.
Jackie is a fictional intimate portrait of Jackie Kennedy during her courtship and marriage to President John F. Kennedy.
The Life Impossible follows retired math teacher Grace Winters, who uncovers a strange story of her late friend's life after she inherits an old house in Ibiza.
The Black Bird Oracle is the next installment in the popular All Souls series, the last being 2018's Time's Convert. Oxford professor and witch Diana Bishop along with her vampire-geneticist husband Matthew, receive an alarming formal demand from the Congregation: they must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca.
The Husbands follows Lauren, who figures out her attic is creating an infinite supply of husbands for her to experience and encounters the question: if swapping lives is as easy as changing a light bulb, how do you know you've taken the right path? A exuberant reflection on how we navigate life, love, and choice.
Identity Unknown is this latest addition to the bestselling Patricia Cornwall series, Scarpetta is devastated to learn that her new body on the table is lifelong friend Sal Giordano. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal the dead's secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue to his bizarre and otherworldly murder.
Favorite 2024 Non-fiction
Medgar & Myrlie is an in-depth biography on the slain Civil Rights pioneer Medgar Evers and his widow Myrlie, who, with her extraordinary strength and resilience, carried on his legacy.
America First: Roosevelt Vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War dives deep into the debate over America's role in the lead up to World War II through two important figures at the time: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who advocated intervention, and his isolationist nemesis and aviator Charles Lindbergh.
The Bluestockings: a History of the First Women's Movement discusses the lives of a group of 18th-century women who came together to fight for women to be educated and have a public role in society.
Favorite 2024 Children's Fiction & Nonfiction
The Secret Language of Birds is about a 13-year-old girl named Nina who discovers two majestic whooping cranes building a nest near her summer camp. As an amateur bird-watcher, she knows these cranes haven't nested in Texas for over a hundred years, so how is it happening now? Joining a group of curious fellow campers, Nina sets off to find the answer to this rare bird mystery.
Favorite 2024 Movies
In Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Det. Lt. Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Det. Lt. Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) tries to clear their Captain's name when he is framed, only to end up on the run themselves.
Arthur the King is the inspiring story of an unbreakable bond between pro adventure racer Michael Light (Mark Wahlberg) and his street dog companion dubbed Arthur. As Light and his team are pushed to their limits of endurance, Arthur redefines what victory, loyalty, and what friendship truly means.
