Like most readers I know I have a TBR (To Be Read) list as long as my arm. Unfortunately like most readers I know I am all too often drawn from my carefully constructed list by the siren song of new releases and shiny covers. So many of the presumably excellent books that make it on to the TBR never transition to the coveted "read" list.
This lingering fate is most often dealt to those books that I add after seeing them on a SFF round up post on REACTOR or i09 but never find in a physical bookshop. I can easily walk into any bookstore in the world and pick up a copy of Fourth Wing (and yet haven't!) but tracking down a copy of Armed In Her Fashion by Kate Heartfield took years of questing. But the prize was well worth it and so in 2024 I am determined to get through at least two of the most recent TBR additions every month. Since I read about 50 books a year this gives me half of my reading time to the list and half to whatever else takes my magpie mind's fancy.
So what to add to the list? There's little rhyme or reason to it but I suspect many will require a bit of sleuthing to track down. That doesn't bother me, it's all part of the fun. Check in with my monthly reading round ups to see how I progress with these and all the other things I've been reading recently.
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett
The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez
Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea - Rita Chang-Eppig
City of Last Chances - Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Road to Roswell - Connie Willis
The Darkness Before Them - Matthew Ward
The Water Outlaws - SL Huang
Heavenly Tyrant - Xiran Jay Zhao
Daughter of Calamity - Rosalie M Lin
Sign Here - Claudia Lux
The Archive Undying - Emma Mieko Candon
A Season of Monstrous Conceptions - Lina Rather
The Familiar - Leigh Bardugo
The Hunger of the Gods - John Gwynne
Exadelic - Jon Evans
Liberty's Daughter - Naomi Kritzer
The Water Outlaws - SL Huang
Empire of the Damned - Jay Kristoff
Fiction
The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff
Y/N - Esther Yi
Tom Lake - Ann Patchett
Non Fiction
The Middle Kingdoms - Martyn Rady
A Paradise Built in Hell - Rebecca Solnit
The Eagle and the Lion - Adrian Goldsworthy
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