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A running ranking of the year's best books


The Wedding People
★★★★★ A woman travels to a luxury hotel with plans to kill herself but instead gets wrapped up in the wedding festivities happening on site.

Greg Barlin
Dec 20, 20244 min read


The Year of the Locust
★★★★★ Another great spy thriller from Hayes after 10 long years. Despite some questionable supernatural plot choices, it's still a winner.

Greg Barlin
Dec 19, 20244 min read


Pony Confidential
★★★★★ Part mystery, part odyssey, the story follows a sardonic pony as he seeks to reunite with his human, on trial for a 25-year-old murder

Greg Barlin
Dec 18, 20244 min read


Wordhunter
★☆☆☆☆ A forensic linguistics student begins helping police solve crimes, while engaging in the most unrealistic dialogue I read all year.

Greg Barlin
Dec 17, 20243 min read


The Boyfriend
★★★★☆ A quick bubblegum thriller from the queen of the twist which will keep you guessing even when you know the misdirection is coming.

Greg Barlin
Dec 17, 20242 min read


Revenge of the Tipping Point
★★★★☆ Gladwell revisits how social epidemics take off with a new set of stories to illustrate variations of concepts from The Tipping Point.

Greg Barlin
Dec 16, 20243 min read


The Small and the Mighty
★★★★☆ An entertaining look at a few lesser-known influential people throughout U.S. history, presented in a conversational and engaging way.

Greg Barlin
Dec 16, 20244 min read


All the Worst Humans
★★★★☆ A memoir that exposes the role of PR firms in our news cycle and the ways they manipulate information to support their wealthy clients

Greg Barlin
Dec 15, 20244 min read
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