2024 Reading Challenge (October)

For 2024, I’m doing something different. Instead of telling you every story I’ve read each month, I will tell you my top three favorites. So! While I have read eight books for October, here are my Top 3 favorites.

In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes & Jeremy McCarter

I have been trying to get around to this book for the longest time. I have loved the musical and the movie musical and the emotional journey behind it all. Between you, me, and the four walls, I would be honored to work with Lin-Manuel Miranda on something. Anything, really. I would terrified about writing a musical, but I wouldn’t be opposed to writing a script together.

Tribal Justice: The Struggle for Black Rights on Native Land by Allison Herrera & Adreanna Rodriguez

True Crime has always been a guilty pleasure of mine. My purpose for reading is to understand how and why the legal system needs improvements. This goes double for people of color who always had to fight for their lives in a system that’s naturally against them.  As a bonus, I got to learn something extra about the Native American’s approach to law enforcement.

Technically Speaking by Michael Elliot

Romance is something of a hit-and-miss with me. I think because the tropes have been done to death. This one, on the other hand, takes the mistaken identity trope and flips it on its head in a very honest way. I love a love story that is told as a happy accident, rather than the driving force.  That’s a more realistic romance to me.