Below are lists of staff favorites across various media for 2024 – books, music, video games, board games, TV, movies, podcasts and more. Feel free to share some of your favorites on our social media pages – Facebook and Instagram.
Our staff has created lists in the Library Catalog for the items on the below lists available through the county-wide collection:
Northland’s Best of 2024 BOOKS
Northland’s Best of 2024 AUDIOVISUAL
Kati
2024 Favorite Mystery Reads
- We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
- The Christmas Jigsaw Murder by Alexandria Benedict
- Everyone on this Train is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
- The Restaurant of Lost Recipes by Hisashi Kashiwai
- Guilt and Ginataan by Mia P. Manansala
2024 Favorite Video Games
- The Legend of Zelda and the Echoes of Wisdom
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth- Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- The Casting of Frank Stone
- Metaphor: ReFantazio
Honorable Mention: Alan Wake 2 DLCs Night Springs & The Lake House
2024 Favorite Board Games
- Horrified: World of Monsters
- Rebel Princess
- Harvest
- Wyrmspan
- Happy Home
Honorable Mention: Cafe Baras
2024 Favorite Horror Novels
- I’ll Be Waiting by Kelley Armstrong
- I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
- Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
- Lucy Undying by Kiersten White
- Bad Dreams in the Night by Adam Ellis
Kelley
TV
Bad Monkey (Apple TV)
Favorite Song
“Die with a Smile” – Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga
Rebecca
Top 4 of 2024
Book
The Spellshop by Beth Durst
Podcast
Mr. Ballen’s Medical Mysteries
Video Game
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
TV Show
Evil (Paramount+, last season)
Ellen 
Top Movies of the Year
- Am I OK?
- Argylle
- Babes
- Exhuma
- The Fall Guy
- Inside Out 2
- Lisa Frankenstein
- Longlegs
- My Old Ass
- Office Black Belt
- A Quiet Place: Day One
- Thelma
- Twisters
- Which Brings Me to You
Top Books of the Year
- Funny Story by Emily Henry
- Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell
- We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
- Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While also in an Actual Cult) by Bethany Joy Lenz
- Rebel Rising by Rebel Wilson
- Coming Home by Brittney Griner
- Fangirl, Vol. 4: The Manga by Rainbow Rowell
Tom
Best Albums of 2024
- Kacey Musgraves – “Deeper Well”
- Pale Waves – “Smitten
- Girl in Red – “I’m Doing it Again Baby”
- Mannequin Pussy – “I Got Heaven”
- Towa Bird – “American Hero”
- Middle Kids – “Faith Crisis Pt. 1”
- Lake Street Dive – “Good Together”
- Modern English – “1234”
Best Songs of 2024
- Lucius – “Old Tape”
- Tiny Habits – “People Always Change”
- Valley – “When You Love Somebody”
- Adrianne Lenker – “Sadness as a Gift”
- Waxahatchee ft. MJ Lenderman – “Right Back to It”
- Billie Eilish – “Birds of a Feather”
- Suki Waterhouse – “Supersad”
- Chappell Roan – “Good Luck Babe!”
- Guster – “Keep Going”
- Grace Cummings – “On and On”
Nicholas
Top 10ish Songs
- Beabadoobee – “Take A Bite”
- The Cure – “Alone”
- Sam Fender – “People Watching”
- flipturn – “Rodeo Clown”
- Hippo Campus – “Paranoid”
- MJ Lenderman – “She’s Leaving You”
- Maggie Rogers – “The Kill”
- Middle Kids – “Your Side, Forever”
- Karen O and Danger Mouse – “Super Breath”
- Joe P – “Violet”
- Rainbow Kitten Surprise – “Superstar”
- Welshly Arms – “Perfectly Criminal”
Top Albums
- The Cure – “Songs of a Lost World”
- Hippo Campus – “Flood”
- Maggie Rogers – “Don’t Forget Me”
- Matt Maeson – “That’s My Cue: A Solo Experience” (live)
- Middle Kids – “Faith Crisis, Pt. 1”
Alexis G
Books
A Magical Girl Retires – novella by Park Seolyeon
When Among Crows – novella by Veronica Roth
Movie
Challengers – movie by Luca Guadagnino
Lisa Frankenstein – movie by Zelda Williams
Videogame
Dragon Age: The Veilguard – videogame by BioWare
Music
Crazy – album by Le Sserafim
Kristy
Books
The Wedding People by Alison Espach
The Finders Keepers Library by Annie Rains
Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun
Audiobooks
The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir by Kelly Bishop
Be Ready When The Luck Happens by Ina Garten
There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
Albums
Bright Eyes – “Five Dice, All Threes”
Alkaline Trio – “Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs”
Taylor Swift – “The Tortured Poets Department – The Anthology”
Green Day – “Saviors”
Andrea
Best Horror Books
- The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones
- Model Home by Rivers Solomon
- House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias
- Lucy Undying by Kiersten White
- The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
Best Graphic Novels
- In Utero by Chris Gooch
- My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book 2 by Emil Ferris
- Trick Pony by Greg Lockard
- The Deviant Vol 1. by James Tynion IV
- Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath
