2024 Anticipated Reads (So Far)

Hey all, Sam here.

Hello everyone…can I just say that 2024 is already looking like an incredible reading year? I’m very excited about it. Not only are there a lot of exciting upcoming releases, but I also still have this awesome backlog of books to work my way through as well.

Okay, so basically I went through all the upcoming releases in my favorite categories on NetGalley…although now that I’m typing this I realize that I did not look at manga/comics/graphic novels. Oh well, this list is long enough already–56 books! I’ll do a separate post with those soon. Anyway, I went through my favorite categories and noted down books that I’m excited for. They’re pretty much all fantasy, but there are a couple that are general YA or veer slightly into sub-genres I don’t read typically (like there’s a couple that have horror/thriller vibes to them).

For a good number of the books on this list, I actually have been approved for digital ARCs through NetGalley, and those titles will be in bolded text. If all goes well with my reading, then I will have reviews for those before/around the publication date. I hope. I’d love to make some real progress on my NetGalley review percentage. Most years I’m lucky to gain one or two percent.

And because this list is pretty long, all I’m giving you is the title, the author, and the release date as listed on NetGalley. I think I might try to do a month by month NetGalley Reads post as a pseudo-TBR in 2024, and I can talk a little more about the books in those posts.

So I guess I shouldn’t spend any more time making this post even longer. Let’s get started.

January

A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft (Jan 2), Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White by Amelie Wen Zhao (Jan 2), Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire (Jan 9), Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce (Jan 9)

Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett (Jan 16), Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa (Jan 16), The Parliament by Aimee Pokwatka (Jan 16), Pillar of Ash by H.M. Long (Jan 16)

A Drop of Venom by Sajni Patel (Jan 16), Escaping Mr Rochester by L.L. McKinney (Jan 16), Gothikana by RuNyx (Jan 23)

February

The Absinthe Underground by Jamie Pacton (Feb 6), The Cursed Rose by Leslie Vedder (Feb 6), Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart by GennaRose Nethercott (Feb 6), Who We Are in Real Life by Victoria Koops (Feb 6)

Clarion Call by Cayla Fay (Feb 6), The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden (Feb 13), A Flame in the North by Lilith Saintcrow (Feb 13), An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson (Feb 13)

The Eternal Ones by Namina Forna (Feb 13), To Cage a God by Elizabeth May (Feb 20), A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal (Feb 20), Disciples of Chaos by M.K. Lobb (Feb 20)

The Book of Ile-Rien by Martha Wells (Feb 27), A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L Jensen (Feb 27), Daughter of the Bone Forest by Jasmine Skye (Feb 27)

March

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human by Kimberly Lemming (March 5), What Monstrous Gods by Rosamund Hodge (March 5), The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste (March 5)

Sunbringer by Hannah Kaner (March 12), The Hedgewitch of Foxhall by Anna Bright (March 12), The Last Bloodcarver by Vanessa Le (March 19)

April

Court of Wanderers by Rin Chupeco (April 2), Darker by Four by June CL Tan (April 2), A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke (April 9), The Smoke That Thunders by Erhu Kome (April 9)

The Book That Broke the World by Mark Lawrence (April 9)—there is no cover for this yet, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X Chang (April 16), Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger and illustrated by Rovina Cai (April 16), Calling of Light by Lori M. Lee (April 16)

Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao (April 16), Song of the Six Realms by Judy I. Lin (April 23), Sound the Gong by Joan He (April 30)

May

Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne (May 7), The Honey Witch by Sydney J Shields (May 14), It Waits in the Forest by Sarah Dass (May 14)

When Among Crows by Veronica Roth (May 14), Queen of None by Natania Barron (May 21), Attached at the Hip by Christine Riccio (May 21)

June/July/August

In the Hour of Crows by Dana Elmendorf (June 4), Twelfth Knight by Alexene Farol Follmuth (June 18), First Test: The Graphic Novel by Tamora Pierce (July 2), The Gilded Crown by Marianne Gordon (July 2)

The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman (July 16), The Haunting of Hecate Cavendish by Paula Brackston (July 23), Castle of the Cursed by Romina Garber (July 30), The Girl With No Reflection by Keshe Chow (Aug 6)

Is this a complete list? Why, no, of course not. I’m sure I’ll be adding even more to this list as I hear about more books or read about more books or as more books get announced. Obviously I’m excited about SO MANY books already, and I already know that it is probably more than I’ll actually end up reading for the year.

All right, that is all from me for today. Tell me what books you’re excited about in 2024…because I just might need to add them to my list.

Thanks for stopping by and I’ll be back soon with more geeky content.