My #20BooksofSummer and #BigBookSummer 2024 Reading List

It’s summer reading challenge time! As has been the norm for the past few years, I’m signing up for the #20BooksofSummer and #BigBookSummer reading challenges.

My “to be read” list is below, along with my reason for wanting to read each book, but this is just for starters. I’ll be updating, changing, tweaking, adding, removing as the summer progresses.

Summer TBR List

1. ✓ Murder Road, Simone St. James. ★★★★★ Horror, mystery, thriller. New book by an author I love.
2. ✓ Murder at Crime Manor, Fergus Craig. Mystery, Humor. For a reading challenge (humor). Incidents Around the House, Josh Malerman. ★★★★ Horror. New book by an author I love.
3. ✓ Blood Orange, Harriet Tyce. ★★★★★ Thriller. For a reading challenge (author name starts with Harriet).
4. ✓ The Aunt Who Wouldn’t Die, Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay. ★★★ Magical realism. Random find and I liked the summary.
5. ✓ Tidal Creatures, Seanan McGuire. ★★★ (Big Book). Fantasy. New book by an author I love.
6. ✓ Bride, Ali Hazelwood. ★★★★★ (Big Book). Romance, Fantasy. New hyped (popular) book.
7. ✓ Desdemona and the Deep, C.S.E. Cooney. ★★★ Fantasy. Reading challenge (“D” in Title”)
8. ✓ She Who Knows, Nnedi Okorafor. ★★★★ Fantasy. New book by an author I love.
9. ✓ The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, P. Djeli Clark. ★★★★★ Fantasy. New book by an author I love.
10. ✓ Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Horror. Locus Award Horror 2024 Finalist. That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human, Kimberly Lemming. ★★★★ Paranormal Romance. For a reading challenge (Funny book).
11. ✓ Zero Days, Ruth Ware. ★★★★ Thriller. For a reading challenge (“Z” in Title”)
12. ✓ Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham #2), Benjamin Stevenson. ★★★★ Mystery. For a reading challenge (Key Word: Train).
13. ✓ The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw. ★★★ Horror, Fantasy. Locus Award Novella 2024 Finalist, Author I’ve read before.
14. ✓ Yellowface, R.F. Kuang. ★★★★★ Contemporary fiction. Because of the hype.
15. ✓ James, Percival Everett. ★★★★ Historical fiction. Because of the hype.
16. ✓ A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher. ★★★★★ Fairytale retelling. New book by an author I love.
17. ✓ The School for Good Mothers, Jessamine Chan. ★★★ Dystopian. Because of the hype.
18. Starling House, Alix E. Harrow. Horror. Locus Award Horror 2024 Finalist.
19. You Like It Darker, Stephen King (Big Book). Horror, short story collection. New book by an author I love.
20. The Lies of the Ajungo, Moses Ose Utomi. Fantasy. Locus Award Novella 2024 Finalist.
21. A Haunting on the Hill, Elizabeth Hand. Horror. Locus Award Horror 2024 Finalist and reading challenge (“H” in Title).
22. Black River Orchard, Chuck Wendig (Big Book}. Horror. Locus Award Horror 2024 Finalist.
23. The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohammed. Fantasy. New book by an author I’ve read before.
24. Horror Movie, Paul Tremblay. Horror. 15 Horror Novels to Look Out For in 2024 and Author I love and reading challenge (“H” in Title”)

The books I chose are a mix of novellas, regular length novels and a few big books, authors I’ve read books by before, and new to me authors. My reading tastes is for genres and this list reflects that, but I also wanted to read more horror in 2024, so I’m adding a lot of those. What types of books have you been feeling like reading lately?