Books of 2024
Here are the books I've read this year; favourites are bolded.
Rien Gray's work features prominently for good reason: their noir romantic suspense series and fantasy erotica were a revelation. I dipped into a fair bit of queer horror too. Next year, I'd like to explore more fantasy as I've drifted away from it in the last few years or so.
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January
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Cheryl Strayed (reread)
- Dancing on Eggshells: Kitchen, Ballroom, & The Messy Inbetween - John Whaite
- Maw - Jude Ellison S. Doyle
- The Easternmost Sky - Juliet Blaxland
- The Lives of Christopher Chant - Diana Wynne Jones (reread)
- Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Toto the Ninja Cat and the Legend of the Wildcat - Dermot O'Leary
- Untamed Shore - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
February
- Regeneration - Pat Barker (reread)
- Jojo: Finally Home - Johannes Radebe
- The Neighbors - Jude Doyle
- Chewing the Fat: Tasting Notes from a Greedy Life - Jay Rayner
- Spear - Nicola Griffith
March
- Brute (ed. Steve Berman)
- Love Kills Twice - Rien Gray
- The Salt Path - Raynor Winn
- The Eye in the Door - Pat Barker (reread)
- Love Bleeds Deep - Rien Gray
- Love Burns Bright - Rien Gray
- A Love So Dark - Rien Gray
- Valerin the Fair - Rien Gray
April
- The Wild Silence - Raynor Winn
- A Strip of Velvet - Rien Gray
- Martis the Brazen - Rien Gray
- Seure the Tempered - Rien Gray
May
- The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo
- Hild - Nicola Griffith
June
- Manhunt - Gretchen Felker-Martin
- Perfumes: the A-Z Guide - Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez
- A Guest in the House - Emily Carroll
July
- Saturnalia - Stephanie Feldman
- Nothing But Blackened Teeth - Cassandra Khaw
- Vivi Conway and the Haunted Quest - Lizzie Huxley-Jones
- Nevada - Imogen Binnie
- Gender Failure - Ivan E Coyote and Rae Spoon
- Boys Weekend - Mattie Lubchansky
- Small Beauty - jia qing wilson-yang
- Cuckoo - Gretchen Felker-Martin
- Darryl - Jackie Ess
August
- Henry Henry - Allen Bratton
- Landlines - Raynor Winn
October
- The Scales of Seduction - Rien Gray
November
- The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty - Charlene Elsby
- Murder Most Unladylike - Robin Stevens (reread)
December
- Arsenic for Tea - Robin Stevens (reread)
- From the Belly - Emmett Nahil
- Mouth to Mouth to Mouth - wilt