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. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
2. The Bullet that Missed
3. Catered All the Way
4. Bring Me Home
5. The Christmas Veto
6. White Cat, Black Dog
7. Murder on Mistletoe Lane
8. The Christmas Murder Game
9. Hercule Poirot's Silent Night
10. How to be Eaten
11. Nimona
12. Dark Rise
13. The New Guy
14. Time to Shine
15. Flux
16. The Uninhabitable Earth
17. In a Holidaze
18. The Christmas Orphans Club
19. The Blue, Beautiful World
20. We Could Be So Good
21. The Familiar
22. You Should Be So Lucky
23. Fire and Blood
24. The Mimicking of Known Successes
25. The Butcher of the Forest
26. The Maid
27. The Mistletoe Mystery