What I'm Reading in 2024
It's that time of year again! I have been soooooo bad at keeping this blog updated, but I promise it's for good reasons - so much new stuff is in the works, but I've had a few things come up that have caused a few delays. The relevancy of blogs in the midst of all the various social media platforms is a topic for another day, but suffice it to say that I have some great ideas in mind for this website (soon not just a blog!) that I think all of you will find super useful. Or at least most of you. But that's not what you're here for right now. You're here because it's time for me to share with you what I'll be reading next year and I'm so excited! As always, some of these were popular a few years ago, some aren't even published yet and some are absolutely classics. There's also a mix of genres, some children's books that I almost didn't include (more on that later), even a couple plays. So, let's get started!
January
Whisper Network by Chandler Baker
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (in progress, but hopefully I finish it in 2024...)
Anatomy of a Miracle by Jonathan Miles
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
February
The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda
A Burning: A Novel by Meghan Majumdar
A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
The Women by Kristin Hannah
My Side of the River by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
March
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
The Complete Novels of Dawn Powell
When the Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
That's So New York by Dan Saltzstein
Ellie Haycock is Totally Normal by Gretchen Schreiber
April
Conviction by Denise Mina
The Comeback by Ella Berman
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri
May
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Here for It by R. Eric Thomas
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Bucket List by Georgia Clark
Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell
June
The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Acts of Forgiveness by Maura Cheeks
July
The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard
August
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
White Ivy by Susie Yang
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
The Meanest Thing to Say, The Treasure Hunt, and the Best Way to Play - these children's books are all by Bill Cosby and I strongly considered leaving them off this list, but there are part of Oprah's Book Club and I would like to read them, so I chose to include them. Still not sure that was the right thing to do.
The Same Bright Stars by Ethan Joella - this is the book that I am the MOST excited for in 2024. If I'm able to get my hands on an ARC, it will be moving to an earlier month ASAP!
September
The Henna Artist by Aka Joshi
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Paradise by Toni Morrison
October
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
Cujo by Stephen King
And After the Fire by Lauren Better
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
November
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
December
Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat
Send for Me by Lauren Fox
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Don't You Cry by Mary Kubica
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
And there you have it! Are any of these on your 2024 TBR? If so, please let me know and we can read it together!