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Challenge Tracker:


01 January: 16/28
02 February: 26/26
03 March: 11/13
04 April: 5/6
05 May: 2/3
06 June: 20/30
07 July: 7/12
08 August: 18/24
09 September: 5/6
10 October: 1/2
11 November: 0/0
12 December: 11/12

2024 Buddy Reads
*italics indicate IRL buddy read



Voice of War - Zack Argyle
The Blacktongue Thief - Christopher Buehlman
Of Blood and Fire - Ryan Cahill
Of Darkness and Light - Ryan Cahill
Of War and Ruin - Ryan Cahill
A Sorceress Comes to Call - T. Kingfisher
Empire of the Damned - Jay Kristoff
Jade War - Fonda Lee
Jade Legacy - Fonda Lee
A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
A Desolation Called Peace - Arkady Martine
Rise of the Ranger - Philip C. Quaintrell
The Sun and the Void - Gabriela Romero Lacruz
Empire in Black and Gold - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Letters from Father Christmas - J.R.R. Tolkien
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

January: New Releases 2023/2024


2023



Crucible of Chaos - Sebastien de Castell
Forge of the High Mage - Ian C. Esslemont
The Will of the Many - James Islington
Phantom Pain Wings - Kim Hyesoon
In the Lives of Puppets - T.J. Klune
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn - Mark Lawrence
Lost in the Moment and Found - Seanan McGuire
Heartstopper: Volume Five - Alice Oseman
He Who Drowned the World - Shelley Parker-Chan
Alchemy - S.J. Parris
Tom Lake - Ann Patchett
The Sun and the Void - Gabriela Romero-Lacruz
The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England - Brandon Sanderson
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter - Brandon Sanderson
The Sunlit Man - Brandon Sanderson
Starter Villain - John Scalzi
You Could Make This Place Beautiful - Maggie Smith
Surviving to Drive - Geunther Steiner
Lies We Sing to the Sea - Sarah Underwood
Blood Over Bright Haven - M.L. Wang

2024



Play of Shadows - Sebastien de Castell
The Fury of the Gods - John Gwynne
A Sorceress Comes to Call - T. Kingfisher
Somewhere Beyond the Sea - T.J. Klune
Empire of the Damned - Jay Kristoff
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known - Seanan McGuire
Drumindor - Michael J. Sullivan
Wind and Truth - Brandon Sanderson

February: Novellas and Short Stories


Anthologies and Collections



Your Utopia - Bora Chung
Antarctica - Claire Keegan
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories - Flannery O'Connor
Cursed - Marie O'Regan, Paul Kane

Short Stories and Novellas

*under 250 pages



Stories of Women in the Middle Ages - Maria Teresa Brolis
The Law - Jim Butcher
The Orange and Other Poems - Wendy Cope
This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Spear - Nicola Griffith
Greek Lessons - Han Kang
Foster - Claire Keegan
Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
So Late in the Day - Claire Keegan
Bryony and Roses - T. Kingfisher
What Moves the Dead - T. Kingfisher
What Feasts at Night - T. Kingfisher
Love is the Pain of Feverish Flowers - Cheonhak Kwon
The Four Profound Weaves - R.B. Lemberg
Elric of Melniboné - Michael Moorcock
The Lover - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower - Tamsyn Muir
Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters from Father Christmas - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Last Conversation - Paul Tremblay
All Systems Red - Martha Wells

March: Spring Clean Your Collection

*read physical TBR



I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki - Baek Sehee
Whale - Cheon Myeong-kwan
Sword in the Storm - David Gemmell
The God is Not Willing - Steven Erikson
Another Person - Kang Hwagil
The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune
Under the Whispering Door - T.J. Klune
DallerGut Dream Department Store - Lee Mi-ye
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - Jesse Q. Sutanto
The Dragonbone Chair - Tad Williams
A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

April: Award Winners

Aurealis Award

Sabriel - Garth Nix

David Gemmell Award

The Grim Company - Luke Scull

Hugo Award

A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge

RT Award

The Aeronaut's Windlass - Jim Butcher

Women's Prize for Fiction

Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

World Fantasy Award

Boy's Life - Robert McCammon

May: May the 4th be with You (SF Month)



The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
Empire of Silence - Christopher Ruocchio
Just One Damned Thing After Another - Jodi Taylor

June: Series Love

*make progress on series I've already started


The Bound and the Broken - Ryan Cahill
The Fall
Of Darkness and Light
The Exile
Of War and Ruin


The Warlord Chronicles - Bernard Cornwell
Enemy of God
Excalibur


Path to Ascendancy - Ian C. Esslemont
Forge of the High Mage


Manifest Delusions - Michael R. Fletcher
A War to End All


The Chasing Graves Trilogy - Ben Galley
Grim Solace
Breaking Chaos


Bloodsworn Saga - John Gwynne
The Hunger of the Gods


The Realm of the Elderings - Robin Hobb
Fool's Quest
Assassin's Fate


Empire of the Vampire - Jay Kristoff
Empire of the Damned


The Green Bone Saga - Fonda Lee
Jade War
Jade Legacy


Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine
A Desolation Called Peace


Wayward Children - Seanan McGuire
In an Absent Dream
Come Tumbling Down
Across the Green Grass Fields
Where the Drowned Girls Go
Lost in the Moment and Found
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known


The Radiant Emperor - Shelley Parker-Chan
He Who Drowned the World


The Muderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Artificial Condition
Rogue Protocol
Exit Strategy
Network Effect
Fugitive Telemetry
System Collapse

July: Ebook Extravaganza



Voice of War - Zach Argyle
Rise of Gods - Dyrk Ashton
Of Blood and Fire - Ryan Cahill
Smoke and Stone - Michael R. Fletcher
The Crimson Queen - Alec Hutson
Wolfsong - T.J. Klune
Dreams of the Dying - Nicolas Lietzau
Location, Location, Damnation - Nick Moseley
Token Black Girl - Danielle Prescod
Rise of the Ranger - Philip C. Quaintrell
Dragon Mage - M.L. Spencer
Blood of Heirs - Alicia Wanstall-Burke

August: Audiobook August



Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - Akala
The Ticket Collector from Belarus: An Extraordinary True Story of Britain's Only War Crimes Trial - Mike Anderson, Neil Hanson
When Women Were Dragons - Kelly Barnhill
Strong Female Character - Fern Brady
The Blacktongue Thief - Christopher Buehlman
Small Pleasures - Clare Chambers
Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
The Winter King - Bernard Cornwell
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
The Flaw in All Magic - Ben S. Dobson
The Forgetting Moon - Brian Lee Durfee
Chasing Graves - Ben Galley
The Familiars - Stacey Halls
Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior - Catherine Hanley, Matilda Blois
Paladin's Grace - T. Kingfisher
Swordheart - T. Kingfisher
Lancelot - Giles Kristian
Black Spark - Al K. Line
The Green Man's Heir - Juliet E. McKenna
Cleopatra and Frankenstein - Coco Mellors
How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals - Tom Mustill
The Poet - Louisa Reid
Empire in Black and Gold - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Threadneedle - Cari Thomas

September: Standalones



Song of the Beast - Carol Berg
Race the Sands - Sarah Beth Durst
Stone Blind - Natalie Haynes
The Chatelaine - Kate Heartfield
The Lore of Prometheus - Graham Austin-King
Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield

October: Spooktober



The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - H.P. Lovecraft

November: Cozy Reads

December: Sisterhood of the Traveling Books

*read books recommended by friends



Firekeeper's Daughter - Angeline Boulley (Aunt Amy)
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World - Steve Brusatte (Stacey)
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep - Joanna Cannon (Milwaukee)
The Mask of Mirrors - M.A. Carrick (Siobhan)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon (Emma)
A Death in Tokyo - Keigo Higashino (Betty)
The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino (Betty)
Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi (Lauren)
If Cats Disappeared from the World - Genki Kawamura (Stacey)
The Club - Ellery Lloyd (Nicole)
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier (Rachel)
The Housemaid - Frieda McFadden (Alicia)

Adding my BR schedule here to keep everything in one place. :)


09/23 Warrior Girl Unearthed

12/16 Wind and Truth