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2024 book challenge

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Last updated: 05/09/2024

book challenge

these are my rules for myself.

  • read > 40 books by the end of the year
  • no length requirement
  • graphic novels do not count
  • must make a post about them (starting apr 01)

upcoming books (in no particular order)

  • The Secret History, Donna Tartt
  • Fourth Wing (#1 The Empyrean), Rebecca Yarros
  • A Little Luck, Claudia Piñeiro
  • My Last Innocent Year, Daisy Alpert Florin
  • All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
  • Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, Nam Joo Cho
  • Dawn (#1 Xenogenesis), _Octavia E. Butler
  • The Way of Kings (#1 The Stormlight Archive), Brandon Sanderson

books i’ve read so far in 2024

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  1. Iron Gold (#4 Red Rising Saga), Pierce Brown
  2. Dark Age (#5 Red Rising Saga), Pierce Brown
  3. Lightbringer (#6 Red Rising Saga), Pierce Brown
  4. This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
  5. Going Postal (#33 Discworld, #1 Moist Von Lipwig), Terry Pratchett
  6. Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
  7. The Rage of Dragons (#1 The Burning), Evan Winter
  8. The Fires of Vengeance (#2 The Burning), Evan Winter
  9. Alone With You in the Ether, Olivie Blake
  10. Beloved, Toni Morrison
  11. Foster, Claire Keegan
  12. The Atlas Six, Olivie Blake

faves from 2023

  1. The Three-Body Problem (Rememberance of Earth’s Past Trilogy), Cixin Liu
  2. The Broken Earth Trilogy, N.K. Jemisin
  3. Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
  4. Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
  5. Red Rising (First Trilogy), Pierce Brown Bonus