End of the Year TBR

It’s nearing the end of 2024 so I figured why not come up with some kind of plan for books to be read. What are your reading plans?

Literally Dead Book Club 📚

A monthly book club focused on thriller/mystery/suspense/horror hosted by BooksandLala and special guests! https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1065386-literally-dead-book-club

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This month we’re reading…

Title: An Academy For Liars
Author: Alexis Henderson
Publication Date: Sept 2024
Publisher: Ace
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Gothic, Mystery

“A young woman with a gift for persuasion, Lennon Carter, is invited to take an entrance exam for Drayton College, a school of magic hidden in a secret part of Savannah, where she learns how to master her strange power.”

Title: Gathering Moss
Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Publication Date: 2003
Publisher: Oregon State University Press
Genre: Nonfiction, Nature, Science

“In a series of linked personal essays, biologist Kimmerer (SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry) describes the lives of mosses and how they are intertwined with the lives of humans and other beings. She uses a conversational style with a minimum of technical jargon to introduce both scientists and the general reader to the miniature landscape of mosses.”

Title: Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
Author: Brian Switek
Publication Date: 2019
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Genre: Nonfiction, Science, History, Anthropology

“Presents a natural and cultural history of bone that explains how human skeletons evolved over 500 million years, what they do inside the body and how they record a person’s history.”

Title: The Women
Author: Kristin Hannah
Publication Date: February 2024
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Genre: Historical Fiction

“In 1965, nursing student Frankie McGrath, after hearing the words “Women can be heroes, too,” impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows her brother to Vietnam where she is overwhelmed by the destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.”

ARCs

ARCS are “Advance Reader Copies”. Here are the ones I’ll be reading in December:

Title: Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
Author: Clay McLeod Chapman
Publication Date: January 7, 2025
Publisher: Quirk Books
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

“When Noah Fairchild returns to his childhood home in Richmond to find his parents in a horrifying trance induced by far-right media, he and his young nephew Marcus must flee through a country overtaken by possessed, violent families tearing each other apart.”

Title: Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear (Wayward Children #10)
Author: Seanan McGuire
Publication Date: January 7, 2025
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy

“Nadya never considered herself less than whole, not until her adoptive parents fitted her with a prosthetic arm against her will, seeking to replace the one she’d been missing from birth. It was cumbersome; it was uncomfortable; it was wrong. It wasn’t her. Frustrated and unable to express why, Nadya began to wander, until the day she fell through a door into Belyrreka, the Land Beneath the Lake–and found herself in a world of water, filled with child-eating amphibians, majestic giant turtles, and impossible ships that sailed as happily beneath the surface as on top. In Belyyreka, she found herself understood for who she was: a Drowned Girl, who had made her way to her real home, accepted by the river and its people. But even in Belyyreka, there are dangers, and trials, and Nadya would soon find herself fighting to keep hold of everything she had come to treasure.”

Title: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Author: Grady Hendrix
Publication Date: January 14, 2025
Publisher: Berkley
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

“Four teenage girls trapped in a secretive maternity home for unwed mothers in 1970 St. Augustine, Florida, find an unexpected source of power through witchcraft.”

Title: The Favorites
Author: Layne Fargo
Publication Date: January 14, 2025
Publisher: Random House
Genre: New Adult, Women’s Fiction

“Kat and Heath go from childhood sweethearts to champion ice dancers, captivating the world with their scorching chemistry, rebellious style, and roller-coaster relationship. Until a shocking incident at the Olympic Games brings their partnership to a sudden end. As the ten-year anniversary of their final skate approaches, an unauthorized documentary reignites the public obsession with Shaw and Rocha, claiming to uncover the “real story” through interviews with their closest friends and fiercest rivals. Kat wants nothing to do with the documentary, but she can’t stand the thought of someone else defining her legacy. So, after a decade of silence, she’s telling her story: from the childhood tragedies that created her all-consuming bond with Heath to the clash of desires that tore them apart. Sensational rumors have haunted their every step for years, but the truth may be even more shocking than the headlines.”