Posted by Becky on Sunday, Dec 1, 2024
The Best of the Best for 2024 is coming soon! ICPL staff nominated nearly 150 titles released this year as their favorite reads of 2024. Follow us daily on social media as we recommend titles, share lists of great reads and announce the winning title for the year!
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Timeline
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What to Look For
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Description
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December 1-21
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Honorable Mention Titles
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We will highlight one title each day as an honorable mention. Honorable mentions will have earned multiple nominations by ICPL staff, but didn’t quite rise to the highest ranking for their genre (check out the upcoming Staff Genre Lists for those staff favorites!).
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December 22-30
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Staff Genre Lists
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One list will be shared each day, containing all nominated titles from one of the following categories: Children’s, Young Adult, Graphic Novels, Mystery, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Romance, Nonfiction, Biography/Memoir, and Fiction. Browse these lists to see recommended titles and to satiate your curiosity on which title received the greatest number of votes for that genre.
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December 31
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Best of the Best Announcement
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Find out the title of the book that was nominated more frequently than any other, our Best of the Best for 2024.
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Interested in browsing past lists? Take a look at these staff favorites from 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Enjoy discovering your next great read!
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Neil Gaiman is one of my favorite authors of ALL time. He is descriptive and funny, and has a talent to cleverly weave fantastical elements into a realistic setting. Neverwhere was the first book of his that I listened to in audio form. The added bonus of the audio book is that it is read by Neil Gaiman! His voice and pacing make this great book even better. Neverwhere is a tale that follows Richard Mayhew, an ordinary man who once helped a girl he had found bleeding on the sidewalk. That one kind act lands him in Neverwhere, a place that exists in the cracks and shadows of London. -Becky