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Those of you who have read my blog for a while might notice that I don’t post reviews for a lot of the books I put on my seasonal TBR posts, and part of that is due to how long it takes me to read them in some cases due to factors that are sometimes within and sometimes out of my control.
Since I rely on my local library for most of what I read, I can’t predict which books they will buy soon after the release date versus which ones might show up in the new book section a few months from now or maybe not at all.
If they happen to buy a specific title and i love it, I will almost certainly review it here! In the meantime, I wait patiently to see what shows up each week on the lists of new books and feel gratitude for all of the hard work librarians put into making sure we have lots of new titles to browse through.
Here are ten books published in 2024 that I have not actually read yet even though I was – and still am – excited for them. Maybe 2025 will be the year I read them?
1. Escaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinney
2. My Side of the River: A Memoir by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
3. Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
4. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church by Sarah McCammon
(My local library does have a few copies of this title now, though, so hopefully I’ll make it to the top of the waitlist soon!)
7. We Carry the Sea in Our Hands by Janie Kim
8. Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch by Andrea Freeman
9. Sally’s Lament (A Twisted Tale) by Mari Mancusi
10. The City in Glass by Nghi Vo
11. The Black Hunger by Nicholas Pullen
12. Masquerade by Mike Fu
13. We Are All Ghosts in the Forest by Lorraine Wilson
14. The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso
Yes, I know I went a little over the 10 book maximum today, but I couldn’t figure out which books to trim out. I want to read them all once I can.
Interesting list. I haven’t heard of any of the books or the authors. Must look for some of them. My Side of the River and We Carry the Sea in Our Hands sound good to me.
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All of these look great! I have Sally’s Lament on my Goodreads TBR for 2024 releases and forgot about it (lol), but I’m keen to check it out. I’ve also heard so many great things about = Caruso’s book and though it wasn’t on my radar in 2024, after the many wrap-up posts where it’s mentioned, I’ve added it to my TBR watchlist! I hope you enjoy these whenever you can get your hands on them 🙂 Happy reading!
Thank you very much. 🙂
I see the Twisted Tale books on Goodreads and other places quite a lot, but I’ve never read any of them. I think I did buy one once, but don’t remember which it was. 😉 Hope you enjoy all of these!! Thanks for visiting my list today.
You’re welcome. 🙂
I haven’t heard of any of the books on your list, but some of them look really interesting and I’ve added them to my TBR. I hope you enjoy them when you read them!
Thanks. Happy reading!
I know the feeling of waiting for library books! I’ve been on the hold list for a few of my most anticipated 2024 new releases since last fall. One finally came in, so I’m reading it now. I hope all of these turn up in your library this year, and you get a chance to read them! Escaping Mr. Rochester was on my radar, but somehow it missed making it onto my TRB list. I need to remedy that.
Yay! That’s awesome. Happy reading, and thanks for your good thoughts.
We Are All Ghosts in the Forest and The Last Hour Between Worlds are books I could have added to this week’s TTT, too. I’m hoping to read them this year, but we’ll see! Oh, and Who’s Afraid of Gender has been on my TBR list too, but I didn’t realize it was a 2024 release.
And I’ve also found several more from your list that are new-to-me but now I really want to read! The Afterlife of Mal Caldera and Woe: A Housecat’s Story of Despair are definitely making it onto my TBR list now. 😉
Excellent! Hope you like them. 🙂
I hope your library gets some more of these in stock soon and that they end up being worth the wait. I was curious about Escaping Mr Rochester too but somehow forgot all about it. I also really want to try something by Nghi Vo sometime but I don’t think my library stocks any of her works. I’m particularly intrigued by her Singing Hills books and hoping they’ll go on offer sometime as I don’t really want to pay RRP for novellas 🙈
Have you read any of the Twisted Tales books before or are you just interested in that particular one? I was curious as Elizabeth Lim has written a few and I’ve loved her other books but never been sure how I’d get on with that particular series.
I hope you enjoy all of these whenever they become avaliable for you
Thank you. Fingers crossed!
I have not read any of the other Twisted Tales books yet. This would be my first.
And, yeah, I totally understand not wanting to pay RRP for a novella.
Woe: A Housecat’s Story of Despair looks fun! Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
Thanks. 🙂
These all look good. I need to use the library more. I used to go every other week when my oldest son was born, now it’s more like once every 3 weeks.
Fingers crossed these come in and you get to read them soon!
Have a great week!
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Sally’s Lament is one that I just got in December! I still need to read it though. haha. I hope you get to some of these!!
Fingers crossed. Hope you like Sally’s Lament.
I really want to read some more of those Disney Twisted Tales.
Don’t they look good? 🙂