Literary Kitten

My most anticipated reads for 2024 will include new releases, 2023 releases, and releases from any year in the past! Classics, modern classics, you name it. The whole point here is: I have a love for reading but I am so behind. I am a literary… kitten! There are so many books I have my eye on and up until the last couple years, I never had time or motivation to read. So for 2024… let’s talk about the reads I am most looking forward to, to help me evolve into a literary cat.

In 2023, I read around 55 books. In comparison to other avid readers, this number could be considered to be on the smaller side. But for me… this is a huge step in my reading journey. As someone who hadn’t read consistently for years, I can’t believe I read this number of books in 2023. This number gives me hope for 2024; I believe I can expand my reading goal annually.

So drum roll… the 2024 reading goal will be… 75 books! If I can do 55 in a year where my reading numbers per month were a bit spotty and inconsistent… I fully believe I can reach 75 this year, now that I’ve got a hold of my bearings. Keep in mind, I would maybe consider myself to be a “mood reader”. I struggle to read books for which I am not in the right headspace. Therefore, to give myself some wiggle room, I’m going to list 30 and leave the others up to spontaneity. Without further ado, here are the 30 books I am most excited to read in 2024.

1. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
2. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
3. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
4. Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
5. Emma by Jane Austen
6. Slewfoot by Brom
7. A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
8. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
9. Book Lovers by Emily Henry
10. Babel by R.F. Kuang
11. Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
12. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
13. Chlorine by Jade Song
14. A Good Girls Guide to Murder (series) by Holly Jackson
15. Maurice by E.M. Forster
16. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
17. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
18. Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid
19. If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
20. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
21. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
22. Rouge by Mona Awad
23. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
24. Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
25. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
26. Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
27. A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos
28. In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead
29. The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
30. Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

As of right now, these are the ones on the top of my brain. Let me know down below if you have read any of these books, whether you liked/disliked them, or if you plan on reading some of these during 2024, too!

originally posted on: January 8, 2024 (on previous site)