Well friends, we are officially on the cusp of 2024! How did 2023 treat you? I have to say, this wasn’t my best year by far, but I’ve started building habits that I hope will make 2024 astronomically better. And one of those habits? Rediscovering my love of reading! If you’ve been a follower of this blog for a while, you’ll remember that I took a very impromptu sabbatical from posting, primarily because I spent months not finishing a single book. I finished one book in March and then didn’t finish another one until June. But I’ve built up my consistency again and am loving my reading life again. (But…PS…it’s also totally okay to be in a slump too. There’s no judgment here.)
The impending new year has me thinking about what my reading life will look like and so I’ve compiled a few guidelines that might direct me when I’m not sure what to pick up next. To be clear…this is NOT a TBR because I’ve never successfully completed a TBR in my life. But at least I’ll have a list to turn to when I’m not sure what to pick up next.
So, the areas where I want to focus are chunky books (books 500 pages or more), catching up on my e-ARCs from NetGalley and Edelweiss, nonfiction (especially nonfiction audiobooks), and getting through my backlog of books from various book subscriptions (the books I list below are just a fraction of the books I’ve collected from these subscriptions, but I need to start somewhere haha).
What books are you hoping to pick up this year? Share below!
Chunky Books for 2024
Contemporary
Outlander* by Diana Gabaldon
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
It by Stephen King
Wellness by Nathan Hill
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
The Magus by John Fowles
The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya
Classics
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevski
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Tess of the D’ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
E-ARCs
The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz (I received a free e-ARC from the NetGalley platform and the publisher in exchange for an honest review)
Such a Pretty Girl by T. Greenwood (I received a free e-ARC from the NetGalley platform and the publisher in exchange for an honest review)
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty (I received a free e-ARC from the NetGalley platform and the publisher in exchange for an honest review)
When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar (I received a free e-ARC from the NetGalley platform and the publisher in exchange for an honest review)
Lady Justice by Dahlia Lithwick (I received a free e-ARC from the Edelweiss platform and the publisher in exchange for an honest review)
Nonfiction
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Book Subscription Backlog
BOTM
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
Maame by Jessica George
The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
Call Number
Malawi's Sisters by Melanie S. Hatter
They Come in All Colors by Malcolm Hansen
Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan
QBB
Just By Looking At Him by Ryan O'Connell
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
God’s Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu
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What are your reading plans for 2024? Share below!
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