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Books I've Read: Q1 2024

A very not-attractive photo of me in the nearby park in the first part of this year, reading away. Lausanne, Switzerland. March 21, 2024.

Somehow, we’ve wrapped the first quarter of 2024? Which means I’ve compiled and tidied up my reading list for the beginning of the year, too.

Here’s the list of books I read in Q1 2024 (with my stand-out wow reads in bold, as always):

  1. Fever House, by Keith Rosson

  2. Whalefall, by Daniel Kraus

  3. Hestia Strikes a Match, by Christine Grillo

  4. Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle

  5. Shark Heart: A Love Story, by Emily Habeck

  6. Nestlings, by Nat Cassidy

  7. Red Rabbit, by Alex Grecian

  8. The Last Language, by Jennifer duBois

  9. The Future, by Naomi Alderman

  10. Vintage Contemporaries, by Dan Kois

  11. The Ghost Sequences, by A. C. Wise

  12. Night’s Edge, by Liz Kerin

  13. Le Mage du Kremlin, by Giuliano da Empoli (French language edition)

  14. Found in a Bookshop, by Stephanie Butland

  15. The Great Reclamation, by Rachel Heng

  16. The Book of Accidents, by Chuck Wendig

  17. Your Shadow Half Remains, by Sunny Moraine

  18. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, by Isabel Waidner

  19. Get Signed, by Lucinda Halpern

  20. Last Acts, by Alexander Sammartino

  21. The Invisible, by Seb Doubinsky

  22. Beautyland, by Marie-Helene Bertino

  23. Smoke Kings, by Kahmal Mayfield

  24. Martyr!, by Kaveh Akbar

  25. Where You Stand, by Abbott Kahler

  26. My Friends, by Hisham Matar

  27. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

  28. Most Delicious Poison, by Noah Whiteman

  29. The Parliament, by Aimee Pokwatka

  30. The Butcher of the Forest, by Premee Mohamed

  31. The Warm Hands of Ghosts, by Katherine Arden

  32. Big Time, by Ben H. Winters

  33. Piglet, by Lottie Hazell

  34. Titanium Noir, by Nick Harkaway

  35. Come Together, by Emily Nagoski, PhD

  36. On Writing and Failure, by Stephen Marche

  37. Moon of the Turning Leaves, by Waubgeshig Rice

  38. Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy, by Robert H. Frank

And since this post went live, I’ve put out my list of books read in Q2 2024!

To check out my quarterly reading lists from last year, click over to check out my favorites from my 2023 reading period, which includes links to the lists for each quarter.