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My 2024 Reading Log

Below please find a book cover gallery of all the books I read to completion in 2024.

My 2024 Reading Log Gallery

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My 2024 Reading Log

Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom

Date Started: 2024-01-08

Date Finished: 2024-01-13

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: Poetry, Essays, Prayers, Spirituality, Queer

I Love Information by Courtney Bush

Date Started: 2024-01-14

Date Finished: 2024-01-15

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: Poetry

Elf Dog and Owl Head by M.T. Anderson

Date Started: 2024-01-23

Date Finished: 2024-01-23

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: Contemporary Fantasy Middle Grade Fiction

Alebrijes by Donna Barba Higuera

Date Started: 2024-01-18

Date Finished: 2024-01-29

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: Postapocalyptic Middle Grade Fiction

Kin: Rooted in Hope by Carole Boston Weatherford, Jeffery Boston Weatherford

Date Started: 2024-02-17

Date Finished: 2024-02-18

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: family history American history African American history memoir poetry

Multiple Titles by [Multiple Authors and Illustrators]

Date Started: 2024-02-18

Date Finished: 2024-02-18

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: picture books and children's literature

Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín

Date Started: 2024-02-18

Date Finished: 2024-02-19

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: humorous family travel Mexican American middle grade graphic memoir

Ariel Crashes a Train by Olivia A. Cole

Date Started: 2024-02-13

Date Finished: 2024-03-20

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: psychological young adult novel in verse

I Love Information by Courtney Bush

Date Started: 2024-03-24

Date Finished: 2024-03-26

Times Read: 2

Genre / Strand: Poetry

A 2023 Favorite

Icarus by K. Ancrum

Date Started: 2024-03-27

Date Finished: 2024-03-28

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: young adult contemporary heist mystery romance queer fiction

My Words / What Color Is Night? / Nothing Ever Happens on a Gray Day / What Sound Is Morning? by Grant Snider

Date Started: 2024-03-29

Date Finished: 2024-03-29

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: picture books, comics, poetry

Poetry Comics by Grant Snider

Date Started: 2024-03-29

Date Finished: 2024-03-29

Times Read: 2

Genre / Strand: poetry comics

A 2024 Favorite

The Octopus Museum by Brenda Shaughnessy

Date Started: 2024-03-29

Date Finished: 2024-03-29

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: poetry science fiction post-apocalyptic

Tree. Table. Book. by Lois Lowry

Date Started: 2024-04-19

Date Finished: 2024-04-20

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: middle grade contemporary/historical fiction, memory, storytelling, friendship, holocaust

A 2024 Favorite

History Comics: The Stonewall Riots - Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights by Archie Bongiovanni, A. Andrews

Date Started: 2024-05-06

Date Finished: 2024-05-06

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: middle grade history comics

The Eyes & the Impossible by Dave Eggers

Date Started: 2024-05-15

Date Finished: 2024-05-19

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: middle grade animal adventure fiction

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

Date Started: 2024-01-01

Date Finished: 2024-05-21

Times Read: 4 or more

Genre / Strand: Fantasy

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Date Started: 2024-03-21

Date Finished: 2024-05-26

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: historical fiction, satire, magical realism/fantasy, metaliterature

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Date Started: 2024-05-27

Date Finished: 2024-06-01

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: modern masterpiece one of the best books I've ever read

A 1927 Favorite

Starfish by Lisa Fipps

Date Started: 2024-06-01

Date Finished: 2024-06-01

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: middle grade novel in verse, realistic, contemporary

Blackouts by Justin Torres

Date Started: 2024-06-07

Date Finished: 2024-06-09

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: experimental queer documentary fiction

And Then, BOOM! by Lisa Fipps

Date Started: 2024-06-09

Date Finished: 2024-06-11

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: middle grade novel in verse, realistic, contemporary

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On : Poems by Franny Choi

Date Started: 2024-05-10

Date Finished: 2024-06-16

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: Poetry, Dystopia, Apocalyptic, Post-apocalyptic, Family, Contemporary

Mid-Air by Alicia D. Williams

Date Started: 2024-06-13

Date Finished: 2024-06-22

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: middle grade contemporary novel in verse grief Detroit African Americans authenticity and masks being 14 is hard amazing illustrations and nice wordplay in the verse

Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi

Date Started: 2024-06-18

Date Finished: 2024-06-24

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: magical realism, metafiction, book within a book, a Prague novel

Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol

Date Started: 2024-06-25

Date Finished: 2024-06-26

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: middle grade graphic novel fantasy adventure fairy tale social cultural commentary

A 2024 Favorite

Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams by Shari Green

Date Started: 2024-06-28

Date Finished: 2024-06-30

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: historical fiction, East Germany, novel in verse, music, repression, peaceful protest

A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger

Date Started: 2024-05-23

Date Finished: 2024-07-05

Times Read: 2

Genre / Strand: Contemporary Middle Grade/Young Adult Lipan Apache Fantasy

A 2021 Favorite

You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by various authors ; edited by Ada Limón

Date Started: 2024-07-05

Date Finished: 2024-07-06

Times Read: 2

Genre / Strand: poetry anthology, nature writing

Louder Than Hunger by John Schu

Date Started: 2024-07-06

Date Finished: 2024-07-06

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: ya novel in verse 1990s historical

A 2024 Favorite

Meet Me in the Fourth Dimension by Rita Feinstein

Date Started: 2024-07-20

Date Finished: 2024-07-23

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: ya novel in verse contemporary witchy sci-fi but not what you might expect from that description

Ultraviolet by Aida Salazar

Date Started: 2024-07-26

Date Finished: 2024-07-27

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: ya novel in verse realistic contemporary 8th grade puberty

The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

Date Started: 2024-07-10

Date Finished: 2024-08-01

Times Read: 3

Genre / Strand: science fiction nature animals survival philosophy adventure robots

A 2016 Favorite

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

Date Started: 2024-08-01

Date Finished: 2024-08-03

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: science fiction comedy romance historical fiction spy thriller

Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger

Date Started: 2024-07-08

Date Finished: 2024-08-17

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: ya contemporary-ish (well, 50 years ago) Lipan Apache fantasy mystery paranormal suspense - actually kind of scary

Death's Country by R. M. Romero

Date Started: 2024-08-24

Date Finished: 2024-08-25

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: ya novel in verse, fantasy, magic, Miami, death, underwoirld, Orpheus retelling, polyamory

Context: on the lookout for unusual novels in verse this year

The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown

Date Started: 2024-08-03

Date Finished: 2024-08-26

Times Read: 2

Genre / Strand: children's middle grade science fiction adventure fiction

Context: repeat readaloud with my son at bedtimes some nights

A 2018 Favorite

All Fours by Miranda July

Date Started: 2024-08-28

Date Finished: 2024-08-30

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: bonkers midlife crisis fiction, perimenopause 'On the Road' (or maybe 'Off the Road'?)

Context:

Moonbound by Robin Sloan

Date Started: 2024-08-10

Date Finished: 2024-09-15

Times Read: 0

Genre / Strand: science fiction adventure metafiction

Context:

A 2024 Favorite

The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown

Date Started: 2024-08-29

Date Finished: 2024-09-23

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: science fiction, animal adventure fiction, survival fiction

Context: reading with my son

A 2023 Favorite

Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos

Date Started: 2024-11-06

Date Finished: 2024-11-16

Times Read: 1.5

Genre / Strand: essays memoir writing craft psychology spirituality feminism political sex love art

Context: read over several evenings, then went back through and took a bunch of notes today

A 2022 Favorite

Moonbound by Robin Sloan

Date Started: 2024-09-25

Date Finished: 2024-11-25

Times Read: 2

Genre / Strand: science fiction adventure metafiction

Context:

A 2024 Favorite

Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte

Date Started: 2024-12-01

Date Finished: 2024-12-03

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: humor, metafiction, short stories, pervert literary fiction

Context: at home, in the car in the rec center parking lot while my daughter was at volleyball practice, etc.

A 2024 Favorite

Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss

Date Started: 2024-12-09

Date Finished: 2024-12-09

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: postmodern poetry

Context:

Telephone of the Tree by Alison McGhee

Date Started: 2024-12-25

Date Finished: 2024-12-25

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: middle grade realistic fiction

Context: bored on Christmas and decided this was next to read

Nature's Best Hope (Young Readers' Edition): How You Can Save the World in Your Own Yard (Young Readers' Edition) by Douglas W. Tallamy, Adapted by Sarah L. Thompson

Date Started: 2024-12-28

Date Finished: 2024-12-30

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: nonfiction, nature, gardening, conservation, young reader adaptations

Context:

Poetry Prompts: All sorts of ways to start a poem from Joseph Coelho by Joseph Coelho

Date Started: 2024-12-30

Date Finished: 2024-12-30

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: picture books, poetry, writing, language arts

Context:

Ten-Word Tiny Tales: To Inspire and Unsettle by Joseph Coelho

Date Started: 2024-12-30

Date Finished: 2024-12-30

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: picture books, poetry, short stories, metafiction

Context:

Mojave Ghost: A Poem Novel by Forrest Gander

Date Started: 2024-12-30

Date Finished: 2024-12-30

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: poetry, novel in verse

Context: at home the day it was due back at the library

The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

Date Started: 2024-12-02

Date Finished: 2024-12-30

Times Read: 4?

Genre / Strand: children's middle grade fantasy Christian fiction

Context: reading aloud with my son at bedtime some nights