We come together to tell you about what we each thought were the five best books we read in 2024. We’ve included a special section for Jenn Lyon’s The Sky on Fire, which was on everyone’s list. This year, we’re not just limiting it to books published in 2024. Plus, a few books we’re anticipating …

Relics of Ruin by Erin M. Evans, the second book in Books of the Usurper series does what every second book in a series should do: expands the world, digs deeper into the characters, introduces new information, and builds on what was set up in the first book while raising the stakes with new conflicts.