Best Books of 2024 as Chosen by the Los Angeles Public Library Staff

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Book recommendations from your friendly neighborhood Library staff for 2024

With so many "year-end" and "best-of" book lists to choose from, the Los Angeles Public Library wanted to Spotify—er, simplify, and wrap up your year-end choices with some spot-on picks from our staff.

These lists have it all! From silly read-alouds for your littles to steamy romance for yourself. We've got em! Biographies and my-ographies, cookbooks and controversy, fun with fiction—magical talking horses, black boxes of doom, secret agents, serial killers, and succubi—these lists are lit![erature].

Book Recommendations From Your Friendly Neighborhood Library for 2024

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