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I regret to inform you that the below list of the most read books on Goodreads this week is identical to last week’s, but I’ve added some of the most read books from different countries to shake things up a bit. We recently also made note of the The Most Popular New Books on Goodreads in 2024 (So Far), and if you’ve been keeping up with this feature, you’ll definitely notice some familiar names. The Housemaid Is Watching by Freida McFadden only came out in June, but it’s already in the top ten of the most popular books on Goodreads of the year so far!

The Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week

In Just Some Stupid Love Story, Molly and Seth were best friends-turned lovers until Molly ghosted Seth on the eve of their high school graduation. Now, they reunite again at their high school reunion 15 years later and make a bet: whoever can predict the fate of five couples before the next reunion must declare that the other is right about true love. The catch? The fifth couple is them.

The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists

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Please note: If you buy through the links in this article, we may earn a small share of the profits. Don’t look now, but summer is upon us. So too is summer reading — and whether your preferred method of that is on a beach chair somewhere or solidly surrounded by air conditioning, we have you covered with some recommendations for books out this June. They cover a lot of ground, from a career-spanning collection from a beloved sportswriter to a new edition of a cult novel about boxing. Read on for our suggestions.

The 11 Books You Should Be Reading This June

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Catherine Newman's novel Sandwich centers on a woman vacationing with her young adult children and her elderly parents. Julie Satow’s When Women Ran Fifth Avenue profiles three NYC department stores.

2 books offer just the right summer mix of humor and nostalgia

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From Rainbow Rowell to Tiger Woods (and dragons!), we’ve got them all.

The 22 Best New Book Releases This Month: July 2024

It might still only be June, so not technically half-way through the year, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t ready to see roundups of some of the best books of 2024 so far. Barnes & Noble released a slate of picks earning the honor so far in 2024.

Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of the Year (So Far)

Joe Woodland sat on a beach in Florida more than 70 years ago and ran his fingers through the sand. The lines reminded him of the dots and dashes used for Morse code, and he soon discovered that inspiration and insight don’t always come in a laboratory. Woodland’s doodles...

Six Must-Read Books for Your Summer Reading List

Goodreads keeps track of a lot of stats you may not have stumbled across if you don’t go looking for them. For example, you can check out the most read books on Goodreads every week (or month or year), and you can filter by country. You can find out the most popular books on Goodreads in 2024 (so far). Not every reader uses Goodreads, of course, but it’s the most popular reading tracker, so these stats give a good overview of the buzziest books of the moment.

The Most Popular Book Club Books of June, According to Goodreads

This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. This summer, all I am in the mood for is engaging storylines and buzzy titles from authors I know and love. Ugly dogs. Husband hustles. Librarians. GUP-isms. If you are looking for something to read – full of romance, suspense, and humor – these are my favorite summer books of 2024 (published in 2024!) so far.

5 New Books Perfect For Summer This 2024

Here’s your weekend round-up of the most-read stories from Today in Books, with my commentary. Grab your coffee and catch up!. The Thriller Writer Outselling James Patterson & John Grisham. You’re expecting this to be a story about the latest TikTok romantasy hit, aren’t you? The clock app may...

The Most Popular Bookish News of the Week

There’s no shortage of amazing romance books that have been released in 2024 so far, but if you’re looking for the best romance novels of 2024 that every romance reader must read, then this is the list for you. These are the romance books that are without a...

10 Best Romance Novels of 2024 (So Far)

Since we’re halfway through the year it’s a great time to look back on what I’ve read so far and share my favorites!. 2024 is off to an incredible start with 85 total books read and plenty of five-star reviews!. Although I read primarily romance (80% of...

Best Books I Read In 2024 (So Far)

In case you haven’t noticed, it’s midyear check-in time, and in all corners of the bookish internet, we’re taking a look back at the first half of 2024 in new releases. The “Best Books of the Year So Far” lists are piling up — in fact, they started about a month before the halfway point of the year. This is a great way to get an overview of the very buzziest titles, but that only scratches the surface of the incredible books in a wide range of formats and genres that have come out this year. That’s why it can be more useful to seek out round up lists of the genres, formats, and topics you’re most interested in as a reader, like the best queer books of the year so far.

The Best Historical Fiction of 2024 So Far, According to Goodreads

The cover of Julie Myerson’s newest release seems to luxuriate in its contradictions. The title Nonfiction, rendered in a jumbo font, dominates the top margin while the only slightly smaller A Novel anchors the bottom. The book, first published in the UK in 2022 and released to American audiences in January of this year by Tin House, is shelved with fiction as per the publisher’s Library of Congress Cataloging data, and indeed the front matter includes a short statement that attests to the work’s fictionality. And yet that title demands speculation—as does the way the novel’s circumstances so closely mimic territory Myerson covered in her 2009 memoir The Lost Child. That book documented the author’s experience parenting her son as he suffered from drug addiction; this one follows a fictional mother as she parents an addict daughter. Writers like Jo Ann Beard, Amy Hempel, and Sheila Heti have long challenged the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction with their work. It is, after all, a brave new nonbinary world, and narrative has as much to gain from spectrums as the rest of us. It’s also fair to say that there’s nothing more tantalizing to readers than a whiff of truth.

A Review of Julie Myerson’s Nonfiction: A Novel

Between school commitments, family commitments, and afterschool activities, finding time to read a book can be hard for most teens. Some may struggle to find time to read books for class, let alone read recreationally. Audiobooks can be the solution. By building out their young adult audiobook collections, libraries can...

Transforming Teen Reading with Audiobooks

Road to Ruin , Hana Lee (Saga 978-1-66803-561-0, $18.99, 368pp, tp.) May 2024. For a debut novel, Hana Lee’s Road to Ruin is a tour de force. Inventive and entertaining, it kept me on the edge of my seat the whole way through. Jin-Lu makes her living crossing the...

Liz Bourke Reviews Road to Ruin by Hana Lee

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Brimming with adventure, romance and magic, Outlander fans will love these book recommendations!

If You Love Outlander, You Will Love These 12 Steamy, Spellbinding Books

With apologies to Disney fans, you won’t find Pocahontas on this list of the best movies based on true stories. Not because it’s animated, or because of the story’s distance from reality (her actual name wasn’t even Pocahontas!), but because there are simply much better movies based on real events: just see A League of Their Own, The Big Short, or Marie Antoinette.

The Best Movies Based On True Stories

Do you secretly feel like a hidden genius? Your first name might hold the answer, according to a study by EduBirdie. Researchers reviewed 900 first names of Mensa members, a global organization of high IQ individuals. They identified the most frequently appearing names to compile a list of the “smartest” people.

Smart Names? Apparently Intelligent People Have These Names

With about half of the year in the rear-view mirror, it’s time we did some reflection. And Goodreads, with its millions of members, is always a great place to get a pulse check on what’s popular among the people. The most popular books of the year so far...

The Most Popular Books of the Year (So Far), According to Goodreads

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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Rachel Cusk’s Parade, Francine Prose’s 1974, and Andrew O’Hagan’s Caledonian Road all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book...

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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