Welp. I've already failed my To-Be-Read list of 2024 and it's only January 1.
Let me explain.
Every year I try to read a certain number of books and every year I fail. Of course, that meant that when I went to make my TBR list for 2024, I just added more books. I think I have the most books, I've ever had. 76. Although, to be honest, this is my over-optimistic goal. In truth, I will be pleased if I read 20 books in 2024.
I was so excited for January to begin and I could started on my list. I was going to read all these books, many I haven't read before, and I couldn't wait.
But then I got some news. I have to have two surgeries this month, and one of them is eye surgery. So I wouldn't be able to start in January. I was disappointed (albeit thankful that I'll feel better after the surgeries are healed). However, I can start my TBR list in February and just finish in January in 2025 instead. So it's not how I imagined, but still pretty good. I'm able to read through my list.
If you would like to read the list, I've put it at the bottom of this post as it's pretty long or you can click here.
If you're curious how I organized my list, the first 52 books are my weekly reads. I plan to read one a week. Then I have two sets of monthly of reads. The first is non-fiction books I want to get through, while the second is classics. Some eagle-eyed readers might notice there are some classics in my weekly list as well as non-fiction. Those are books that I still wanted to read but didn't have space for in my monthly reads. So, I put those in my weekly reads as I figured I could finish that particular book in a week. Most of these books I chose myself, but nine of the classics are from an Excellence in Literature book, British Literature, by Janice Campbell. (I'll let you figure out which nine they are 😉).
I chose these books for a myriad of reasons. Some of them are books that I read in childhood and want to read again. Others are books that I've been wanting to read for awhile, but never got around to it. Some are books that I found out about as I was making my list. Many of these new-found books came from Sonlight, a homeschool curriculum that has really good literature as part of their program. One thing in common with all these books, however, is that I want to read them; they are or sound interesting. And I can't wait to start.
Have any of you read any of these books? I'd love to hear if you especially recommend any of them or if you found any of them downright awful.
Warmly,
Hildeburh
Book List 2024
Weekly Reads
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
All Sails Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Perry
Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery
Anne of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery
Rainbow Valley by L.M. Montgomery
Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery
Artifice by Sharon Cameron
Betsy and the Emperor by Staton Robin
Black Gold by Marguerite Henry
Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin
Brighty of Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry
Crazy Lady! by Jane Leslie Conly
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Escape Across the Wide Sea by Katherine Kirkpatrick
First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung
God Spoke Tibetan by Allan Maberly
Kildee House by Rutherford G. Montgomery
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'Brien
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
No-No Boy by John Okada
Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang
Refugee by Alan Gratz
Sounder by William H. Armstrong
The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
The Good Master by Kate Seredy
The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
The Master Puppeteer by Katherine Paterson
The Road from Home by David Kherdian
The Sherwood Ring by Marie Elizabeth Pope
The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
The Wave by Todd Strasser
The Wheel on the School the Meindert DeJong
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
They Loved to Laugh by Kathryn Worth
Time Well Spent: A Practical Guide to Daily Devotions by Colin Webster
Turn Homeward, Hannalee by Patricia Beatty
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
White Stallion of Lipizza by Marguerite Henry
Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi
NonFiction
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
A Patriot's History of the United States by Larry Schweikart & Michael Allen
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
Confessions by Augustine
Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith
Endgame: Bobby Fisher's Remarkable Rise and Fall by Frank Brady
Hiroshima by John Hersey
In Defense of Sanity by G.K. Chesterton
John Adams by David McCullough
The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia by Tim Tzouliadis
The Primal Prescription by Doug McGuff
Classics
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
Beowulf by Unknown
Canterbury Tales by Geoffry Chaucer
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; The Faerie Queene Bk 1 by Gawain Poet; Edmund Spenser
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
The Brother's Karmazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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