60 books this year:

Authors - 50 Women, 8 Men, 2 Non-Binary

55 fiction, 5 non-fiction

Years published ranging from 2011-2024, with one outlier of 1947

Top 5

• The Door of No Return, by Kwame Alexander

• Falling Back in Love with Being Human, by Kai Cheng Thom

• A House with Good Bones, by T. Kingfisher

• Ink Blood Sister Scribe, by Emma Törzs

• Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, by Jesse Sutanto

Loved it (highly recommend)

• The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder, by C.L. Miller

• The Book of Delights, by Ross Gay

• Even Though I Knew the End, by C.L. Polk

• Every Heart a Doorway, Down Among the Sticks & Bones, and Come Tumbling Down, by Seahan McGuire

• The Golden Spoon, by Jessa Maxwell

• How to Be Eaten, by Maria Adelmann

• Night Wherever We Go, by Tracey Rose Peyton

• The Parliament, by Aimee Pokwatka

• The Salt Grows Heavy, by Cassandra Khaw

• Scythe, Thunderhead, and The Toll, by Neal Shusterman

• Sweet Tooth, by Christine Green

• Then She Was Gone, by Lisa Jewell

• We Are Not Like Them, by Christine Pride & Jo Piazza

• When We Were Sisters, Fatimah Asghar

• Witch of Wild Things, by Raquel Vasquez Gililand

• A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, by T. Kingfisher

• Woodworm, by Layla Martínez

Liked it (enjoyed it and would recommend)

• Absolutely Truly, by Heather Vogel Frederick

• The Book of Losman, by K.E. Semmel

• Book of Night, by Holly Black

• The Butcher and the Wren, by Alaina Urquhart

• Cackle, by Rachel Harrison

• Gallant, by V.E. Schwab

• The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson, by Ellen Baker

• Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, by Gabrielle Zevin

• Real Americans, by Rachel Khong

• Rubbernecker, by Belinda Bauer

• The Second Life of Mirielle West, by Amanda Skenandore

• The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley, by Sean Lusk

• The Secret Book of Flora Lea, by Patti Henry

• Self-Portrait with Nothing, by AimeePokwatka

• Whereas, by Layli Long Soldier

• Wild Dreamers, by Margarita Engle

• You'd Look Better as a Ghost, by Joanna Wallace

It was fine (read it if the subject matter interests you)

• The Familiar, by Leigh Bardugo

• Fourteen Days, ed. Margaret Atwood & Douglas Preston

• None of This is True, by Lisa Jewell

• The Other Side of Disappearing, by Kate Clayborn

• Our Hideous Progeny, by C.E. McGill

• Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St. John Mandel

• The Seventh Bride, by T. Kingfisher

• Starling House, by Alix Harrow

• When Women Were Dragons, by Kelly Barnhill

• The Wood at Midwinter, by Susanna Clarke

Did not like it (do not recommend)

• Babel, by R.F. Kuang

• The Book of Goose, by Yiyun Li

• For the Wolf, by Hannah Whitten

• Rivers of London, by Ben Aaronovitch

• What the River Knows, by Isabel Ibanez

Re-reads

• The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank

• If We Were Villains, by M.L. Rio