Top 100 books of 2024

‘Women can be heroes, too.’ When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances ‘Frankie’ McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.

A girl and her mother have been on the run for 16 years, from police and the monster they left in their kitchen with a knife in his throat. There's only one person who can help make her dreams come true. That person is Lola and she carries all the answers. But to find Lola, the girl with no name must first do one of the hardest things we can ever do. She must look in the mirror.

Celebrating her 45th birthday at her local pub, podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Slowly Alix starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it Josie has inveigled her way into Alix's life – and into her home. Soon she begins to wonder who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?

Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home. What happened to Nina? Nobody knows.

Chicago. 1992. Jack Reacher, recently demoted from Major, is assigned as the Army's representative in a new case. As he races to identify a cold-blooded killer and uncover a secret that stretches back 23 years, he must navigate around his new partners. Will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way – or his way?

Retired from the Army's most prestigious special ops force, Travis Devine is now part of an elite undercover team in Homeland Security. But when he's brought in to investigate the murder of a young woman, he quickly learns that small towns can harbour big secrets, and not everyone wants to share them with outsiders. Not when there's a killer on the loose.

If you knew when you were going to die, what would you do differently? On a seemingly ordinary flight, something extraordinary happens. 'A lady', unremarkable until she isn't, predicts how and when many of the passengers are going to die. For some, death is far in the future; for others, it is very close.

Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants.

When Lily feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in her life suddenly seems almost too good to be true. As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas, her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.

Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy's life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. And when Hawke, a golden-eyed guard honour bound to ensure her Ascension, enters her life, destiny and duty become tangled with desire and need.