28 Books Still on My Fall 2024 Reading List
What happened to the fall? Is this what a reading slump feels like? These are the questions I’m asking myself this weekend as I finish up this post about my lack of fall 2024 reading and prepare it to go live. Whew. It has been a wild month, y’all.
One of the really terrible things that I’m learning about myself is that when my anxiety level peaks past a certain point, I almost physically cannot read. It’s like my eyes and brain simply do not cooperate. I start the page taking in letters, words, sentences, but within a line or two, I realize I’m not reading anymore. My gaze is just sliding down the page like neglected ice cream down a cone in the summer heat we Northern-hemisphere-dwellers miss right now.
It’s only gotten that bad a few times, but every time it does, I panic. Do I give up my blog? Email publishers and authors and sob into their inboxes? (I do not do this, but the fact that I consider it also kind of scares me?)
I have found Zen Coaching to be a helpful practice during these times as it helps me reconnect to my body and approach accepting what’s happening right now and what I can do to support and acknowledge it.
Right now, it seems like the need I have is for slowing down, which means the list of books I want to read this fall but haven’t picked up yet is much longer than usual. I’m hoping that I will still get to several of these before the year ends, but I’m probably past the point of being able to read them all, sadly.
Anyway, here’s the list of books I still want to read this season. Let me know if you’ve read them or still have them on your fall 2024 reading list!
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Middle Grade Books Still on My Fall 2024 Reading List
Sylvia Doe and the 100-year Flood by Robert Beatty
What you need to know: A hurricane and a flood. Magical creatures. A girl with no knowledge of her history discovers an unexpected connection with a mysterious boy. Sounds incredible.
Published October 8, 2024 | My Review to Come
Keeper Chance and the Conundrum of Chaos by Alex Evanovich
What you need to know: This one looks like a good fit for fans of Percy Jackson (that’s me!) Something about the book summary reminds me of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog. I definitely need to make time for this one.
Published October 8, 2024 | My Review to Come
Freedom Fire: Black Girl Power: 15 Stories Celebrating Black Girlhood edited by Leah Johnson
What you need to know: Every time I see even just the cover of this book, I want to drop everything and read it. What a timely collection of stories. That title says it all.
Published November 12, 2024 | My Review to Come
Wingborn by Marjorie Liu and Grace Kum
What you need to know: I have been waiting for this one since the moment I finished Wingbearer, the first book in the series. I can’t wait to see where the adventure leads next.
Published October 1, 2024 | My Review to Come
House of Elephants (Witchlings #3) by Claribel Ortega
What you need to know: This is another series I can’t get enough of. Seven and Thorn face prejudice from their community and loads of new witchlings into the Spare coven. I know they’re smart enough to make it through, but I gotta read it anyway.
Published October 1, 2024 | My Review to Come
The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys
What you need to know: Ruta Sepetys is one of those authors that brings history beautifully (and tragically) to life. I love the historical moment this book centers on and the fact that it’s about a brother and sister duo.
Published October 8, 2024 | My Review to Come
Take It From the Top by Claire Swinarski
What you need to know: Since her debut, Claire Swinarski has been a must-read author for me. I love the sensitivity she brings to her stories and the exploration of complex relationships and emotions. This one alternates between two former best friends, relating the story of what happened between them.
Published November 19, 2024 | My Review to Come
My Vampire, Your Werewolf by Paul Turbin
What you need to know: This is outside the norm of a book I’d normally pick up, but I am really fascinated with the idea of this series. It reminds me a lot of conversations my nephews might have, and maybe that’s why it has been climbing my reading list.
Published September 3, 2024 | My Review to Come
Wishbone by Justine Pucella Winans
What you need to know: I still think about one of Winans’ other books on an almost weekly basis, so I cannot miss this one about the unexpected consequences of wishes.
Published September 17, 2024 | My Review to Come
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Young Adult Books Still on my Fall 2024 Reading List
Warrior of Legend (Heromaker #2) by Kendare Blake
What you need to know: I’ll be honest. I’m really on the fence about reading this book, but not because I don’t expect it to be great. I don’t know if I can handle it emotionally. Ha. The characters faced such huge odds in the first book, and I really invested in them, and I’m scared not all of them are going to make it through to the end, especially considering our main girl’s superpower is to aid heroes who will die. Oof.
Published October 29, 2024 | My Review to Come
Drown Me with Dreams by Gabi Burton
What you need to know: I enjoyed the first book in this series, but I’m super intrigued about where it looks like the story is headed next. I think I remember Carrick, the best friend/betrayer, and I really want to know what Saoirse discovers on her quest. I’m sure it’ll upend everything she thinks she knows.
Published August 20, 2024 | My Review to Come
Guava and Grudges by Alexis Castellanos
What you need to know: Rival bakeries! Is there anything I love more in an enemies to lovers rom com? This sounds a bit like Salt and Sugar by Rebecca Carvalho, which I liked.
Published September 3, 2024 | My Review to Come
The Whispering Night (The Luminaries #3) by Susan Dennard
What you need to know: I’ve devoured this series so far, and even followed some of the “Sooz Your Own Adventure” social media posts by the author, which were hilarious. The first and second books left me with so many questions about the town next to a forest that spawns monsters and the people responsible for keeping them from escaping. I have to know how it all concludes.
Published November 19, 2024 | My Review to Come
The Dagger and the Flame (City of Fantome) by Catherine Doyle
What you need to know: I became a fan of Catherine Doyle through her MG series, The Storm Keeper’s Island and stayed for the magical-twins-separated-at-birth trilogy she cowrote with Katherine Webber. Sign me up for this rival assassins/enemies to lovers novel stat!
Published October 1, 2024 | My Review to Come
The Glass Girl by Kathleen Glasgow
What you need to know: A novel about teen alcoholism by the author who nearly wrecked me with You’d Be Home Now. I cannot wait to read this.
Published October 1, 2024 | My Review to Come
Where the Library Hides by Isabel Ibañez
What you need to know: I loved the first book in the Secrets of the Nile series. I didn’t realize when I read it that it would become a series, so when I saw this continuation of Whit and Inez’s stories, I was thrilled.
Published November 5, 2024 | My Review to Come
Rani Choudhury Must Die by Adiba Jaigirdar
What you need to know: Adiba Jaigirdar’s contemporary romance novels have been a smash hit with me, so as soon as I saw this book announced, I put it on my reading list. Two girls played by the same boy team up to compete as partners in the European Young Scientist Exhibition. Love and smart girls? Yes, please!
Published November 12, 2024 | My Review to Come
Our Deadly Designs (This Dark Descent #2) by Kalyn Josephson
What you need to know: I love that this series is a duology because I truly don’t think I could wait another year to find out what happens to Reid, Mikira, Ari, and Damien. It looks like it’s going to be a wild ride.
Published November 12, 2024 | My Review to Come
This Dark Paradise by Erin Lukens
What you need to know: Described as “perfect for fans of Hotel Magnifique“– That’s me! A magical island with a hidden curse? A bisexual love triangle? Count me in.
Published October 1, 2024 | My Review to Come
In Want of a Suspect by Tirzah Price (Lizzy and Darcy #1)
What you need to know: Elisabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy return in a new murder mystery filled with Jane Austen’s beloved characters. A cozy mystery sounds like exactly what I need right now.
Published November 12, 2024 | My Review to Come
Heir by Sabaa Tahir
What you need to know: A new sweeping fantasy from the author of An Ember in the Ashes. Do we even need to know more?
Published October 1, 2024 | My Review to Come
Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas
What you need to know: A trio of semidioses (demigods) must take on the Obsidian gods and return the sun to the sky to save the world. I’ve loved the rich worldbuilding in Aiden Thomas’s books, so I’m super eager for more!
Published September 3, 2024 | My Review to Come
Do you still have books on your fall 2024 reading list?
There are too many good books coming out much too quickly for me to keep up. Are you like me? Are there still books that came out in the fall of 2024 on your reading list?
If you’ve read any of the books on my list, please let me know what you thought about them by leaving a comment.