2024 Releases I Was Excited to Read but Still Haven’t Gotten To

 

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

2024 Releases I Was Excited to Read but Still Haven’t Gotten To 

It has been a long time since I have done a Top Ten Tuesday and I’m looking forward to getting back into them this year. Here are 10 books which released last year that I want to prioritize in 2025. 

1. Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood 

- I got this book for Christmas and have yet to get to it but I will be reading it in February. Love me a cozy fantasy book with witches. 

2. Odyssey by Stephen Fry

- This is the last book in Stephen Fry’s series about Greek Mythology, focused on Odysseus’s journey home from Troy. I love this series and have been looking forward to this book ever since I read Troy. The only reason I have yet to get to Odyssey is because the audiobook has not come out in the USA and I love listening to Stephen’s narration. I’m really looking forward to it coming out later this year. 

3. My Salty Mary by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

- I love the Janies books and have yet to pick this one up. It is described as a cross between a pirate story and “The Little Mermaid” which sounds perfect to me. I will be picking this up soon. 

4. The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

- Books about books are always favorites to me. This was another book I got for Christmas that I am highly looking forward to reading soon. 

5. North is the Night by Emily Rath

- This came out at the end of last year and I have wanted to read it ever since I first heard about it. Folklore and mythology are two of my favorite things. I especially love when a book deals with a folklore or mythology which I don’t really know much about. I cannot wait to pick this up. 

6. Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis

- I was recommended this book last year because of my love for T. Kingfisher’s writing, so it definitely went on my TBR list of 2024 releases. It looks absolutely hilarious. 

7. Shoestring Theory by Mariana Costa

- Time travel, cat familiars, and a friends-to-lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers queer romance… Sounds great to me. 

8. Bloom by N.R. Walker

- The fact that this book has been out for almost a year and I have yet to read it upsets me. N. R. Walker is one of my favorite romance writers and I love Floriography (The Language of Flowers). This is literally my perfect book and I will be reading it this month. 

9. The Little Shop of Grand Curiosities by Iris Lake

- This has been comped with Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, which is my favorite book of all-time. The description of this book makes me think of The Vermillion Emporium by Jamie Paxton and I love that book. So I have to pick this up. 

10. The Thirteenth Child by Erin A. Craig

- A book about the goddaughter of Death which just sounds so interesting and is a retelling of a fairytale I enjoy quite a bit. I love dark twisted retellings of fairytales, so this is right up my alley.