Books I've Read: Q2 2024
A peaceful moment of tea and reading in my living room. Lausanne, Switzerland. March 18, 2024.
Ordered chronologically by when I finished them, below I’ve enumerated the books I read in the second quarter of 2024:
Ways and Means, by Daniel Lefferts
You Know Her, by Meagan Jennett
Ash Dark as Night, by Gary Phillips
Ordinary Bear, C. B. Bernard
Headshot, by Rita Bullwinkel
Story, by Robert McKee
Kill for Me, Kill for You, by Steve Cavanagh
The Story Grid, by Shawn Coyne
Writing the Breakout Novel, by Donald Maass
The Emotional Craft of Fiction, by Donald Maass
Lost Man’s Lane, by Scott Carson
The Understory, by Saneh Sangsuk
Dark Ride, by Lou Berney
Character, by Robert McKee
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen, edited by Ellen Datlow
Writing 21st Century Fiction, by Donald Maass
A Practical Handbook for the Actor, by Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previto, Scott Zigler
Roxy and Coco, by Therese Svoboda
Safe and Sound, by Laura McHugh
A Great Country, by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
The Hot Spot, by Charles Williams
The Sky Was Ours, by Joe Fassler
How to Write Funny, edited by John Kachuba
Wanderers, by Chuck Wendig
Generation Loss, by Elizabeth Hand
California Bear, by Duane Swierczynski
Dialogue, by Robert McKee
Maeve Fly, by C. J. Leede
Extinction, by Douglas Preston
The Fire in Fiction, by Donald Maass
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying, by Django Wexler
Find Him, by Jake Hinkson
Humor 101, by Mitch Earleywine
Prom Mom, by Laura Lippman
Someone You Can Build a Nest In, by John Wiswell
Under the Storm, by Christoffer Carlsson
Margo’s Got Money Troubles, by Rufi Thorpe
Obsolète, by Sophie Loubière (French language edition)
Assassins Anonymous, by Rob Hart
How Fiction Works, by James Wood
One of Our Kind, by Nicola Yoon
My Sister, the Serial Killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Master Key, by Masako Togawa
Such a Bad Influence, by Olivia Muenter
The Verifiers, by Jane Pek
Available Dark, by Elizabeth Hand
If the book really blew me away, I bolded it. I enjoyed many, many more of the books I listed than the ones I’ve bolded, though, so don’t discount one that interests you based on my not having it bolded. (And if you want my thoughts on any of these titles, send me a message.)
I’ve already posted my reading list from Q1 2024 and you can check out the books I particularly loved from 2023 as well. (And from my 2023 best-of-the-best list, you’ll find links through to my reading lists for that full year and even before!)
Happy reading, one and all!