2024 Master List

 

Well, somehow we've reached my ninth year of publishing this book blog! If that sounds like an improbably long time to you, it feels even more wild to me, since I persist in thinking of this blog as being my 'new' thing. However, it's also true that we've cycled back to another presidential election year, which was the entire impetus behind its creation in 2016 - a method of anxiety moderation. I can't say I actually know how much help or harm focusing on my reading list provided that year, or in 2020 for that matter, but I do know that I continue to value having a place to write about the things I read that's not part of a whole commerce system where my opinions on books will be added to a rating aggregate. I completely understand the value to authors (and potentially readers) of those ratings, but I like not having to consider those things when I give books fairly arbitrary grades.

Anyway, this is a list of books I currently own or have out from the library that I have never read before and that I want to attempt to read this year. It continues to be a pretty weird assortment of books I've owned for a decade plus, newish releases that I'm already behind on, and other titles I come across and decide need to be added to the pile, along with my book club books. As always, I would like to read all of them in 2024, but my secondary (and more realistic) goals are to read at least 52 books, and to start 2025 with a smaller list than I have right now. Of course, that would require me to not add new books to my reading pile, and we all know how well that's gone over the past 8 years. And the real goal is to read a bunch of books that I love and that I want to tell other people about. So here's hoping I can achieve that one if nothing else!

1. The Space Between Worlds
2. Winter's Orbit
3. The Unspoken Name
4. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
5. A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
6. Truthwitch
7. Eve of Darkness
8. The Vagina Bible
9. Redshirts
10. Tooth and Claw
11. The Scottish Boy
12. Spellbound
13. The Traitor Baru Cormorant
14. The Tiger's Daughter
15. Unravel the Dark
16. Harrow the Ninth
17. The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
18. The Office of Historical Corrections
19. Fellow Travelers
20. Empress of the East
21. New Spring
22. Autonomous
23. Witchmark
24. The Necessary Beggar
25. Mama's Boy
26. The National Team
27. The King's Man
28. The Emperor's Blades
29. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
30. A Darker Shade of Magic
31. The Black Company
32. Impossible Owls
33. Good and Mad
34. All the Birds in the Sky
35. A Shadow in Summer
36. The Quantum Thief
37. The City of Brass
38. Niccolo Rising
39. A Natural
40. The Power
41. Freed by Flame and Storm
42. Vinegar Girl
43. Hagseed
44. Red Sea Under Red Sky
45. The Priory of the Orange Tree
46. Gardens of the Moon
47. The Grace of Kings
48. The Infinite Noise
49. Sunshine
50. Just Like You
51. Empires of the Word
52. Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
53. The Blind Dragon
54. Health at Every Size 
55. Remix 
56. The Story of England
57. Gotham Writers' Workshop Writing Fiction
58. The Letters of Noel Coward
59. Demoting Vishnu 
60. Yes Please
61. Supergods
62. Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography 
63. Kushiel's Dart
64. Jane, Unlimited
65. Das Reboot
66. Invincible
67. The Song of Achilles
68. Down Girl
69. At Swim, Two Boys
70. Swordspoint
71. Three Parts Dead
72. Here, There be Dragons
73. "More"
74. The Warrior Heir
75. Funny Girl
76. I Capture the Castle
77. A Discovery of Witches
78. The Magicians
79. The Steerswoman's Road
80. The Moor's Last Sigh 
81. The Starless Sea
82. Trickster's Choice
83. The Ten Thousand Doors of January
84. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
85. The Hands of the Emperor
86. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
87. Cloud Atlas
88. All the Feels
89. My Body
90. From Football to Soccer
91. River-Horse
92. Mo Dao Zu Shi
93. All the Seas of the World
94. The Maid
95. Big Friendship
96. Why We Swim
97. Mike Nichols: A Life
98. Let Me Tell You What I Mean
99. Last Night of the Telegraph Club
100. The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry
101. A Desolation Called Peace
102. Middlegame
103. Hither, Page
104. Press Reset
105. A History of What Comes Next
106. Light From Uncommon Stars
107. The Alloy of Law
108. Stargazy Pie
109. Bee Sting Cake
110. Flying Solo
111. The Bullet that Missed
112. Babel
113. Spoiler Alert
114. Catered All the Way
115. Bring Me Home
116. The Christmas Veto
117. The Wager
118. White Cat, Black Dog
119. A Restless Truth
120. A Power Unbound
121. Murder on Mistletoe Lane
122. The Christmas Swap
123. The Christmas Murder Game
124. Hercule Poirot's Silent Night
125. It's a Fabulous Life
126. How to be Eaten
127. The Stolen Heir
128. Nimona
129. Bitter Medicine
130. Dark Rise
131. Dark Heir
132. The New Guy
133. Time to Shine
134. Flux
135. The Uninhabitable Earth
136. Ninth House
137. Hell Bent
138. The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
139. Say Nothing 
140. Empire of the Steppes
141. The Bell in the Fog
142. Killers of the Flower Moon
143. Witch King
144. Down the Nile
145. In a Holidaze
146. The Christmas Orphans Club
147. Better Than Before
148. Brideshead Revisited
149. The Duke Who Didn't
150. The Marquis Who Mustn't
151. The Blue, Beautiful World
152. We Could Be So Good
153. The Familiar
154. You Should Be So Lucky
155. Fire and Blood
156. The Mimicking of Known Successes
157. The Butcher of the Forest