All year long, BookBrowse Book Club members meet in our online forum to discuss the latest featured titles. In 2024, we’ve hosted stimulating discussions of 19 books, a couple of which are still in progress and all of which are available for you to browse in full. Below, we glance back over some of our most popular selections. We hope you enjoy perusing them and find them a useful resource (and inspiration!) for your own book club discussions.

We look forward to the coming year and the future of our new forum, where members can not only join in on our planned discussions but have all kinds of conversations on book-related subjects. The forum is open to everyone to read and follow along, so please visit. If you’re excited about any upcoming discussions, we recommend signing up for a one-time notification to be alerted when they begin. We hope to see you there!

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Each year, BookBrowse subscribers vote on the books that will make up the annual Top 20. Our 2024 list features an eclectic mix of writing and genres, covering books we’ve included in our twice-monthly e-zine as well as write-in nominations. Now, we're excited to bring you the awards for the highest-rated titles across four categories: Top Fiction, Top Nonfiction, Top Debut, and Top Young Adult.

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Reading books is a fulfilling, engaging pastime. Reading what other people have to say about books is just plain fun, and an enticing way to find your latest great read. BookBrowse's First Impressions program brings honest, informative reader reviews to discerning book lovers. By only accepting reviews from members, who receive books months ahead of publication, we ensure that the ratings and opinions given are free from outside influence and reflect the personal perspectives of readers.

In 2024, our First Impressions readers reviewed more than 30 books. From those, we’ve chosen the most well reviewed selections to feature below. We hope you enjoy exploring these titles, plus the hundreds in our archives, and we look forward to bringing you more reader-reviewed books in 2025!

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As we review new titles at BookBrowse throughout the year, we also strive to bring you intriguing interviews with our featured authors. Author interviews can provide glimpses of the visions behind books we love, make us excited about reading books, and serve as enjoyable reading experiences in themselves, especially when they unfold as in-depth conversations between interviewers and writers. Below, we highlight just a few of our favorite Q&As with authors whose books we covered in 2024. 

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Every year, we announce our annual Top 20 books, chosen by participating BookBrowse subscribers. But which are the cream of the crop, the favorites among favorites? From this year's list, we bring you the Award Winners for Top Fiction, Top Nonfiction, Top Debut and Top Young Adult, determined by the highest rated books in each category.

The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese

Hardcover May 2023. 736 pages
Published by Grove Press

Verghese sustains the massive story in The Covenant of Water with numerous enigmatic and vividly drawn characters like Big Ammachi, Digby, a Swedish physician named Rune who runs a colony for lepers, Philipose and his love Elsie, who is born to be an artist of staggering genius if only the world will let her. However, running like a riptide beneath the waters of the Malabar Coast, the Condition strikes the family in new, unbidden and heartbreaking ways. It will reach a crescendo with Mariamma, Big Ammachi's granddaughter, who becomes a neurosurgeon to unlock the secrets of this affliction, only to face the secrets "that can bind them together or bring them to their knees when revealed." (Peggy Kurkowski)

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What better way to kick off the holiday season than by announcing our subscribers' best-loved books of 2023? The BookBrowse Top 20 are determined by a significant number of votes — maxing out at over 9,000 in recent years — and have become a treasured tradition through which we celebrate some of the most memorable books of one year before moving into the next. Scroll down to explore the finalists below.

We compile the Top 20 with the intention of reflecting authentic reader opinion, opening votes only to members and subscribers of our free newsletters to prevent vote-stuffing and promote balance between books with different degrees of marketing influence (see more). This gives us a true picture of the titles voters were most excited about. Thank you to everyone who participated this year!

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