Reading List 2024

Here's an archived copy of my reading list for this year. I'll be keeping up the new list here: http://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html

I would recommend the bolded titles with enthusiasm, and I enjoyed the italicized titles but probably wouldn't read them again.

 Read in 2024:

1. The Very Nice Box, by Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman

1.1.* The Devil in Silver, by Victor LaValle

2. A Good Neighborhood, by Therese Anne Fowler

3. Garment of Shadows, by Laurie R. King

3.1.* Life from Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness, by Sasha Martin

4. After Many Years, by L.M. Montgomery

5. Dreaming Spies, by Laurie R. King

6. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by J.D. Vance

7. After Many Days, by L.M. Montgomery

7.1.* Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy, edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll

8. A Lady for a Duke, by Alexis Hall

8.1.* The Tropic of Serpents, by Marie Brennan

9. Welcoming Strangers: Nonviolent Re-parenting of Children in Foster Care, by Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon and Andrew Fitz-Gibbon 

10. A Face in the Crowd / The Longest December, by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar

11. Mamo, by Sas Milledge

12. Weyward, by Emilia Hart

13. Out There Screaming, edited by Jordan Peele

13.2.* She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity, by Carl Zimmer

14. Hench, by Natalie Zina Walschots

15. The Murder of Mary Russell, by Laurie R. King

16. Go as a River, by Shelley Read

17. Island of the Mad, by Laurie R. King

18. Dancing Girls, by Margaret Atwood

19. The Tumbling Turner Sisters, by Juliette Fay

20. The Girls in the Garden, by Lisa Jewell

21. The Wishing Game, by Meg Shaffer

22. Magic Has No Borders, edited by Sona Charaipotra and Samira Ahmed

23. My Dark Vanessa, by Kate Elizabeth Russell

24. Chocolate Cake for Imaginary Lives, by Genevieve Jenner

25. Camp QUILTBAG, by Nicole Melleby and A.J. Sass

26. Step, by Deborah Ellis

27. The Wife App, by Carolyn Mackler

28. How Can I Help You, by Laura Sims

28.1.* The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, by Kim Michelle Richardson

29. Bookshops and Bonedust, by Travis Baldree

30. The Women Could Fly, by Megan Giddings

31. Holly, by Stephen King

32. Perfect Little World, by Kevin Wilson

32.1.* The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey

33. Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt

33.1.* Lives of Girls and Women, by Alice Munro

33.2.* Predators: Who They Are and How to Stop Them, by Gregory Cooper and Michael King

34. Mad Honey, by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan

[The Dark Half, by Stephen King]

34.3.* When the Angels Left the Old Country, by Sacha Lamb

35. The Heart Goes Last, by Margaret Atwood

[Desperation, by Stephen King]

36. The Reformatory, by Tananarive Due

37. The Summerhouse, by Jude Devereaux

37.1.* The Orphan Collector, by Ellen Marie Wiseman

37.2.* The Apple: Crimson Petal Stories, by Michel Faber

38.  After We Were Stolen, by Brooke Beyfuss

39. Cutting Lisa, by Percival Everett

39.1.* Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language, by Amanda Montell

40. Spells and Sensibility, by K.L. Noone and K.S. Murphy

41. Chaos and Conjurations, by K.L. Noone and K.S. Murphy

42. Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo

42.1.* Low-Demand Parenting: Dropping Demands, Restoring Calm, and Finding Connection with Your Uniquely Wired Child, by Amanda Diekman

43. You Like It Darker, by Stephen King

44. Ring Shout, by P. Djeli Clark

44.1.* The Mountain in the Sea, by Ray Nayler

44.2.* Cane River, by Lalita Tademy

44.3.* Delicious Foods, by James Hannaham

44.4.* Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward

45. Riviera Gold, by Laurie R. King

46. Set Me Free, by Ann Clare LeZotte

47. Blood Red, by Mercedes Lackey

48. Bloodchild and Other Stories, by Octavia Butler

49. Other Worlds Than These: Stories of Parallel Worlds, edited by John Joseph Adams

50. Castle Shade, by Laurie R. King

50.1.* The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, by Jonathan Haidt

51. Sail Me Away Home, by Ann Clare LeZotte

52. The Lantern's Dance, by Laurie R. King

53. An Unkindness of Ghosts, by Rivers Solomon

54. Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik 

55. Kiss, by Jacqueline Wilson

55.1.* Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me, by M.F.K. Fisher

56. Love Comes Softly, by Janette Oke

57. An Expat's Relocation Guide to Baja California Sur, by Manny Serrato

58. How to Stand up to a Dictator, by Maria Ressa

59. Dear Sweet Pea, by Julie Murphy

60. A Sorceress Comes to Call, by T. Kingfisher

61. Starter Villain, by John Scalzi

61.1.* Big Girl, by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

62. Eat Joy, edited by Natalie Eve Garrett and Meryl Rowin

63. Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch

64. Dava Shastri's Last Day, by Kirthana Ramisetti

65. A Deadly Education, by Naomi Novik

65.1.* Fourth Wing, by Rebecca Yarros