The countdown to Christmas has started and we’re all starting to come up with present ideas for family and friends.
A good book is always a great gift, so we’re looking at the year’s most popular to give you a few ideas.
Instead of simple bestsellers, we’re looking at the novels that have proved most popular with members of the online book community of Goodreads.
When a Goodreads member has red a book they are invited to add it to their virtual ‘bookshelf’ and provide a rating and review for fellow bookworms.
So, here are the 10 books in 2024 that have been ’shelved’ the most - some over a million times.
9. Christina Lauren: The Paradise Problem
Christina Lauren's romance novel, 'The Paradise Problem' sneaks in at ninth position, with 505,000 shelvings. "Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam "West" Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she'd signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways. Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the heartless corporation his family built from the ground up. He is interested, however, in his one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance. There's just one catch. Due to an antiquated clause in his grandfather's will, Liam won't see a penny until he's been happily married for five years. Just when Liam thinks he's in the home stretch, pressure mounts from his family to see this mysterious spouse, and he has no choice but to turn to the one person he's afraid to introduce to his one-percenter parents--his unpolished, not-so-ex-wife. But in the presence of his family, Liam's fears quickly shift from whether the feisty, foul-mouthed, paint-splattered Anna can play the part to whether the toxic world of wealth will corrupt someone as pure of heart as his surprisingly grounded and loyal wife. Liam will have to ask himself if the price tag on his flimsy cover story is worth losing true love that sprouted from a lie." | Contributed
10. Sarah A. Parker: When the Moon Hatched
Completing the top 10 most popular books of 2024 is tyhe first in Sarah A. Parker'as new Moonfall series. The fantasy romance has been shelved 481,000 times. "He's fire and brimstone. I'm shattered ice … I'll gladly burn beneath him until the world comes crumbling down. As an assassin for the rebellion, Raeve’s job is to complete orders and never get caught. When a rival bounty hunter shatters her world, Raeve finds herself captured by the Guild of Nobles – a group of powerful fae. Crushed by the loss of his great love, dragon rider Kaan Vaegor took the head of a king and donned his melted crown. Now on a tireless quest to quell the never-ebbing ache in his chest, a clue lures him into the capital’s high-security prison where he stumbles upon the imprisoned Raeve. Together, they seek truths that threaten to unravel everything they knew about their world – and each other." | Contributed