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My Most Anticipated Books of 2024

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Everywhere you look, there’s a list of most anticipated books, including at Book Riot. I myself have contributed a few picks to episodes of All the Books and the Book Riot podcast (episode coming soon) as well as our big, beautiful Most Anticipated Books of 2024 list going up on January 10th. Trying to narrow down my selections felt impossible at the time, so much so that I picked different titles for each show and post to spread the love.

And sweet baby cheeses, my list keeps growing. There are so many exciting books publishing in 2024! So today I’m unleashing not so much my full list as the biggest one I can give you without breaking this newsletter. It’s very genre and very escapist because… look around, and I clearly need to go looking for more nonfiction. In any case, I am clearly, as the youth would say, delulu about how many books I will actually read next year, and that’s okay.

cover of Divine Might by Natalie Haynes

Divine Might by Natalie Haynes (January) 

If it’s got mythology, I’m probably gonna read it. If it’s Natalie Haynes on mythology, I’m gonna read it, gift it, and spew facts from it at parties. Haynes applies her trademark feminist lens to the stories of goddesses like Athene, Hera, and Aphrodite, women whose “prowess, passions, jealousies, and desires rival those of their male kin.” If I could inject this into my eyeballs to read it faster, I would. 

Everyone On this Train is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson (January) 

This sequel to Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone is a locked-room murder mystery set aboard a famous train between Darwin and Adelaide full of mystery writers, agents, editors, and fans on their way to an Australian crime writer’s festival. Our main character is there looking for inspiration, not more dead bodies, but we don’t always get what we want.

Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories edited by Sandra Proudman (February)

I am a pile of muppet arms over this collection of classic stories given a sci-fi and fantasy remix in the hands of authors like David Bowles, Zoraida Córdova, Anna Meriano, and Eric Smith. We’re getting new takes on Jane Austen, shape-shifters saving kids from brujas, a mermaid story featuring La Ciguapa… I want it now.

Book cover of The Briar Book of the Dead

The Briar Book of the Dead by A.G. Slatter (February)

This book has all my favorite keywords: Gothic, fairy tale, ghosts, witches, secrets. I love when authors write books just for me! It’s set in the same universe as All the Murmuring Bones and The Path of Thorns and everyone I know who’s read this already is raving about it. 

Neferura by Malayna Evans (February)

Me and Egyptology go back (way back, back into time) and I love when authors choose lesser known figures for their historical fiction. Enter this book about the daughter of Hatshepsut and Thutmose II. High stakes, betrayal, rumors, poison, backstabbing, power grabs… ya know, just another day in the 18th Dynasty. 

Sun of Blood and Ruin by Mariely Lares (February)

How do you make a reimagining of Zorro even better? You throw in a warrior sorceress and weave in some Mesoamerican mythology and Mexican history to interrogate the tyranny of Spanish rule. If you like your fantasy with some swashbucklin’, a lil romance, and maybe a reckoning, write this one down.

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