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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.
I hope it goes well for you then 😊 and I honestly don’t get why they practically seem to be the same price as full length books. If it’s a collection of the stories I don’t mind but for one alone it’s a lot.
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 love the library, but yeah, the wait can be long! I hope you enjoy all of these when you finally get a chance to read them.
I really want to read some more of those Disney Twisted Tales.
Don’t they look good? 🙂
I haven’t heard of any of these books, but they look very interesting. I hope you enjoy them once you’re able to read them, Lydia! Happy Tuesday!
Thanks. 🙂
Great list of books, Lydia. Woe looks cute. Though I don’t read a lot of current events or political books, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground sounds fascinating. Hope you get to read these this year.
Thank you!
Woe looks like something I need immediately! No idea if the book lives up to its cover, but it looks adorable!
Agreed! 🙂
The evangelicals sounds quite good
I’ll try to remember to let you know what I think of it!
Very diverse list! I haven’t read any of these but I’ve heard amazing things about Nghi Vo before.
Thank you. 🙂 I’ve heard great things about that writer, too.
Hope you get to read these soon!
Thank you. 🙂
I haven’t read any of these but they look good. I hope you get a chance to read them.
Thanks! 🙂
“Who’s Afraid of Gender?” – Do you want us to name names?
My kitties say I need to read “Woe” 😂
Ha!
And your kitties are smart little creatures.
These are all new authors to me!
I hope you enjoy them when you get to them!
Thank you.
I don’t think I have heard of some of these, but I am definitely interested! I bet I would enjoy all of these. I did recently add The Afterlife of Mal Caldera to my TBR shelves so hope to get to that this year. My Side of the River particularly interests me, but so do many of the others you shared here. I hope you do get a chance to read all of these and enjoy them!
Thank you. Happy reading!
I’m a sucker for any cover with a cat on it so of course my eye caught on WOE: A Housecat’s Story of Despair. I will look that up. Thank goodness for libraries, right? I use the online lending all the time. Hope you get to these reads and enjoy them!
You’re welcome. Yes, libraries make life so much better.
I’ve just put in a request for Woe. I need to hear about a housecat’s despair, I think.
Hope you like it. 🙂
I plan on reading We Are All Ghosts in the Forest this year:-)
Woohoo! Cool.
Hopefully you can get to these soon and you will enjoy them!
Thank you. 🙂
Woe was excellent. I also want to try Escaping Mr. Rochester. I hope we’ll both enjoy it.
Glad to hear you liked that one. Fingers crossed about Escaping Mr. Rochester.
Based on the title, I kind of want to check out Escaping Mr. Rochester. Sounds like it will have a bit of a different take than the original. Hope you library comes through for you soon.
Thank you. Here’s hoping!
Sally’s Lament looks fun! I’ve only seen The Nightmare Before Christmas once, but I liked it a lot, so this twist sounds interesting. I hope you’ll be able to read all these books this year 🙂 Thanks for visiting my blog!
You’re welcome. Wasn’t The Nightmare Before Christmas good? It makes me happy to see universes expanded with new entries in them.
Quite a few of these have all the things I’m looking for in a cover! I hope you’ve get to read them in 2025.
Thank you. 🙂
The City in Glass is a pretty unique read! Not my favourite book by Nghi Vo but still enjoyable.
Glad to hear it!
I hope the library gets copies of all of these! Do you have any sharing among networks? In Massachusetts, we have the Commonwealth Catalog to borrow books that your own library network hasn’t purchased.
I added The City in Glass to my TBR. Thank you for visiting my blog!
Thank you. I don’t know if we have sharing or not. I’ll look into that!
This is a wonderful list! I had to add Ruin Their Crops on the Ground to my TBR, it sounds like some really interesting history that I know nothing about. Hopefully you love all of these, but I was especially glad to see The Black Hunger and The Last Hour Between Worlds on your list this week!
Yay, thank you, Leah. I hope you like that title.