Staff Recommendations: Great Books You May Have Missed in 2024
Happy New Year! As we look to 2025, let’s cheers to the books we loved in 2024. Here are staff-recommended reads that were released last year, but you can check them out whenever!
Staff-Recommended 2024 Books You May Have Missed
Skandar and the Skeleton Curse by A.F. Steadman
This is the fourth installment in the Skandar series, and it’s my favorite one yet! These are middle grade action/fantasy books which I can only explain as being like Fourth Wing but about tweens! There is a magical island where unicorns live, but in this world, the unicorns are bloodthirsty monsters who can bond with their destined human riders.
– Danielle Heiert, adult/teen services programmer
Angel of Vengeance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
This is the 22nd book in the Pendergast series in which the protagonists time travel to confront a brilliant but evil ancestor of the Pendergast family. This is an exciting read with roller coaster action and also satisfying because several loose ends from the series are tied up.
– Beth Jacob, information services librarian
I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle
Cozy fantasy with dragons… need I say more? A reluctant dragon exterminator, a slightly-feral princess, and a himbo prince are thrown together on a quest where each hope to fulfill their own goals, but fate has something quite a bit different in mind for each of them. This book reads like a bedtime story for adults.
– Stephanie Daugherty, technical services specialist
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Atmospheric, twisty and absorbing, The God of the Woods plops the reader in a 1970s summer camp. Camper Barbara Van Laar’s disappearance sets this story in motion; and it isn’t the first time a Van Laar has vanished. Moore masterfully weaves through dual timelines in threading this mystery together.
– Mackenzie Manley, public relations coordinator
How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
It was a phenomenal, fun mystery that kept me guessing.
– Dakota Guilkey, information services assistant
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