My 2024 Good Reads Challenge Is On! (UPDATED)

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BOOK QUOTE: “So many books, so little time.” — Frank Zappa

What’s up, beautiful people? Welcome or welcome back to the blog.  I hope you are doing well to begin this 2024 year, staying hydrated, caring for your body, and being gracious to yourselves.

It’s that time in January when folks are proclaiming there are Good Reads for 2024, and since I had a stellar year for books in 2023 (and I don’t want to be left out…peer pressure, LOL). So, I’ve been working on adding several books to my own 2024 Good Reads challenge, and thus far, I’m up to 42… and well, here it goes.

My Good Reads for 2024

Leslie F*cking Jones, Leslie Jones (READ)📖
What Moves the Dead, T, Kingfisher (READ)📖
The Kind Worth Killing, Peter Swanson (READ)📖
The Cousins, Karen M. McManus (READ )📖
Don’t Fear The Reaper (Book #2), Stephen Graham Jones (moved to 2025)
My Heart Is A Chainsaw (Book #1), Stephen Graham Jones (READ)📖
Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide, Rupert Holmes (READ) )📖

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The Wishing Game, Meg Shaffer (READ)📖
Holly, Stephen King (READING)
Mary: An Awakening of Terror, Nat Cassidy (READ)📖
When Darkness Loves Us, Elizabeth Engstrom (moved to 2025)
The Amulet, Michael McDowell (moved to 2025)
Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies, Hadley Freeman (moved to 2025)

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The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar, Robin R. Means Coleman PhD & Mark H. Harris (READ)📖
We Lie Here, Rachel Howzell Hall (READ)📖
The Body in the Library, Agatha Christie (moved to 2025)
The Vile Thing We Created, Robert P. Ottone (moved to 2025)
Kill The Boy Band, Goldy Moldavsky (READ)📖

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Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to ’80s Teen Movies, Kevin Smokler (moved to 2025)
The Mary Shelley Club, Goldy Moldavsky (moved to 2025)
Wasps in the Ice Cream, Tim McGregor (READ)📖
The Moving Finger, Agatha Christie (READ)📖
What Never Happened, Rachel Howzell Hall (moved to 2025)
How to Survive Your Murder, Danielle Valentine (moved to 2025)

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The Cursed Among Us, John Durgin (SCHEDULE FOR 2024)
A House With Good Bones, T. Kingfisher (moved to 2025)
The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes – No Regrets, Dawn French (moved to 2025)
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1), Rebecca Yarros (moved to 2025)
The September House, Carissa Orlando (READ)📖
Maggies Grave: A Horror Novel, David Sodergrin (moved to 2025)

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The Midnight Showing, Megan Shephard (moved to 2025)
Sign Here, Claudia Lux (moved to 2025)
AHH! That’s What I Call Horror: An Anthology of ’90s Horror, Chelsea Pumpkins
Middle of the Night, Riley Sager (READ)📖
The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty (moved to 2025)

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(adding the rest mid-year)

That post just didn’t happen, but I’m creating a “Bookish Tracker Companion” page so I can better keep up with my ARCs and Good Reads Challenge.

This list “literally” changed while I was creating this post because as I was adding the books, I went to Amazon to make sure the books were available, and some of my previous titles were so obscure (horror novels from the 80s) that they were priced over $100.  Where are we doing that? It won’t be me. I don’t need to read it that badly.  So, I made some adjustments, and between what I was gifted for Christmas and what I hauled for myself as a gift, Libby and Audible, I should have most of these titles covered.

Now you know I have to do a graphic… right?  So here’s a quick snapshot of the first 24 books. 

I know to some these lists are silly, but honestly, I’ll take silly over any day of Teams meetings and bullshit.  Books are an escape for me, and I can read whatever genre I like, when I like, with no judgment.  It’s the best activity to keep my brain busy.

Thanks so much for hanging with me today. I know you could be doing other things with your time, so I appreciate every one of you.  Don’t forget to subscribe and like, as it helps my site.  Many thanks. Peace

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