My Tentative 2024 TBR
As someone with an ever growing TBR, I wanted to narrow things down and make some short term goals for the new year. Here are some of the books I hope to read in 2024!
Hello and Happy New Year! To kick off this brand new year, I thought I would give you a peak into my tentative reading goals for the year! I say “tentative” because I am a mood reader who is terrible at sticking to a schedule or following rules - even if I am the one making the rules. This list may take me all year (or multiple years) to complete or I may breeze through it in the first 2 weeks of February. I am a moving target!
This list is made up of books I’ve been meaning to read or had recommended to me that I just haven’t gotten around to yet, books that I have read but it’s been a while so I want to read them again, classics I feel like I ~need~ to read and some upcoming 2024 releases that I can’t wait to get my hands on! I reserve the right to add, subtract or skip over anything else in this list :P
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
It feels like this book has been calling to me from my shelf for years now. I am showing my age here, but does anyone else remember the MTV modern and musical film adaptation of this book with Erika Christensen? Well, I do and I LOVED it. Sadly, I only saw it once but it has haunted me ever since. I want to read this and then watch the movie again (if I can find it anywhere.)
✅ My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Hannah recommended this to me years ago but I haven’t ever felt like I could handle it. However, if I wait to read this until I am emotionally stable, I will die having never read it and that just won’t do. Several people praise this book for it’s the way it is written with such empathy and care and I want to feel pain. This is the year.
We Spread by Iain Reid
Speaking of pain… I heard someone talking about this on their end of the year wrap up and they said it was thrilling, anxiety inducing and set in a nursing home following a woman with encroaching dementia. I think this will ruin me but sometimes, it is nice to feel something.
👀 Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
This is another book that has been recommended to me over and over and it just keeps getting bumped down the list by other things that come up. Mood reader with attention issues? Present 🙋🏻♀️ I have it on my Kindle and ready to go though, fingers crossed for me!
✅ Funny Story by Emily Henry
This book comes out on April 23, 2024 and I am excited to have another Emily Henry book to (hopefully) love. My favorite of hers is Book Lovers, then I read Happy Place and didn’t love it the way I wanted to so I am holding on to hope for this one.
✅ The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
I’m told this is a hauntingly beautiful historical fiction novel and it will publish February 13, 2024. I am a sucker with any book with “ghost” in the title or on the cover anyway, but this genuinely sounds great! I requested the arc but we shall see.
✅ Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
I actually have a few Harrison books on my TBR and I’ve been meaning to give her a shot for a while now, so I had to pick one for 2024. I originally had another book of hers on here instead but after holding the beautiful, pink domestic horror with religious undertones in my hand, I knew Black Sheep was the one. You can’t go wrong with religious undertones and a pink cover.
✅ The Very Secret Society for Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
Cozy, witchy, found family, warm wholesome goodness? I so badly want to fall in love with this the way a lot of my friends have so pray for me. I have such high hopes for this one.
The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison
This has been on my radar and TBR for years! It is available on KU so there is nothing stopping me from picking this up and finally reading it. Will 2024 be the year? God I hope so.
👀 Normal People by Sally Rooney
I don’t think I’m going to like this, full disclosure. I feel like Sally Rooney’s books are for the girls who get it and sadly, I am the girl who doesn’t. I read Beautiful World, Where Are You? and was bored the entire time but I am hopeful for this one. I want so badly to get it!
HONORABLE MENTIONS
(mainly bc I forgot about them until after I’d already made the graphic)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
This is one of Hannah’s favorite books - if not her favorite book - and since I refuse to meet her where she’s at with fantasy, reading this is the least I could do for our friendship. Especially since in our previous book club, it was selected as a monthly read and I *still* didn’t read it. I’m the worst.
Spark of the Everflame by Penn Cole
This is a title that has been screamed at me for the last month, maybe longer, by my friend Kit and even though it’s fantasy… in the spirit of trying to be a better friend… I’m going to give it a shot.