madhatter22's 2024 Challenge

As always, I want to read more from my shelves this year instead of buying or borrowing, and to get to more of those books that have spent years on the TBR pile.

24 in '24 - Books I Didn't Read from Past Category Challenges
1. All Things Wise and Wonderful - James Herriot
2. The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy
3. Caramelo - Sandra Cisneros
4. Rethinking the Native Hawaiian Past - Kanalu G. Terry Young
5. The Group - Mary McCarthy
6. Cool Gray City of Love:49 Views of San Francisco - Gary Kamiya
7. Come Back to Sorrento - Dawn Powell
8. Life Among the Cannibals: The Life and Times of Marilyn Monroe 1962-2003 - David Marshall
9. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
10. College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens and Co-Eds, Then and Now - Lynn Peril
11. The Stories of English - David Crystal
12. The Complete Stories - Flannery O'Connor
13. The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England - Antonia Fraser
14. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
15. Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father - John Matteson
16.The Story of a New Name - Elena Ferrante
17. Adam Bede - George Eliot
18. The Country Girls - Edna O'Brien
19. Homer and Langley - E. L. Doctorow
20. Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius - Nick Hornby
21. A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
22. Chesapeake Requiem - A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island - Earl Swift
23. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
24. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

The Next Book in Every Series I've Started
1. Speaking from Among the Bones - #5 in Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce series
2. Dead Water - #5 in Ann Cleeves' Shetland series
3. Silent Voices - #4 in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series
4. The Story of a New Name - #2 of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels
5. Broken Harbor - #4 in Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series
6. The Magician King - #2 in Lev Grossman's Magicians trilogy DNF
7. The Running Grave - #7 in Robert Galbraith's Cormoran Strike series
8. Skin - #4 in Mo Hayder's Jack Caffrey series
9. All Things Wise and Wonderful - #3 in James Herriot's All Ceatures Great and Small series
10. The Sentence Is Death - #2 in Anthony Horowitz' Hawthorne & Horowitz series ROOT, 3/12
11. Don't Fear the Reaper - #2 in Stephen Graham Jones' Indian Lake Trilogy ROOT, 4/14
12 Before We Say Goodbye - #4 in Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold series borrowed, 3/26
13. Irene - #2 in Pierre LeMaitre's Verhoeven trilogy
14. The Assassin's Blade - prequel to Sarah Maas' Throne of Glass series
15. Mona of the Manor - Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series
16. Secondhand Souls - #2 of Christopher Moore's Grim Reaper books ROOT, 2/9
17. The Witch's Eye - #4 in Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Witch Saga
18. The Redeemer - #5 in Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole series
19. Glass Houses - #13 in Louise Penny's Armand Gamache series ROOT, 2/27
20. Long Island - #2 of Colm Toibin's Eilis Lacey books

I've Been Wanting to Read Something by ...
1. Flannery O'Connor - Everything That Rises Must Converge borrowed, 2/1
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I Want to Read Everything by ...
1. The Body: A Guide for Occupants - Bill Bryson ROOT, 3/6
2. A Carnival of Snackery - David Sedaris ROOT, 3/25
3. What About Men? - Caitlin Moran borrowed, 4/3

Never Lend Me Your Books (I've Had Some of These for Years)
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I Love Short Stories and Have an Entire Bookcase of Dusty Collections to Prove It
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I Really Am Interested in All These Books on Language I've Been Collecting for 30 Years
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Use It or Lose It: Unread Books That I Already Owned When I Joined LT in 2009
1. We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates ROOT, 2/7
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Impulses, Rereads & Shiny New Things That Don't Count Toward My Cat Goals
1. Eight Billion Genies - Charles Soule ROOT, (keeping), 1/9
2. Middlemarch - George Eliot ROOT, (reread, keeping), 1/18
3. Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders borrowed, 1/25
4. Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi ROOT, 2/15
5. Fates and Furies - Lauren Groff ROOT, 2/20
6. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma - Claire Dederer borrowed, 2/26
7. All Systems Red - Martha Wells borrowed, 4/19
8. Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin borrowed, reread, 4/22
9. More Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin new on audio, reread, 4/24
10. Further Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin new on audio, reread, 4/26
11. Babycakes - Armistead Maupin borrowed, reread, 5/3
12. Significant Others - Armistead Maupin borrowed, reread, 5/6
13. Sure of You - Armistead Maupin borrowed, reread, 5/8
14. Michael Tolliver Lives - Armistead Maupin borrowed, reread, 5/12
15. Mary Ann in Autumn - Armistead Maupin borrowed, reread, 5/
16. The Days of Anna Madrigal - Armistead Maupin borrowed, reread, 5/

3. Homegoing
4. Middlemarch
5. Eight Billion Genies (26 copies)
6. Everything That Rises Must Converge
8. What About Men?
10. Tales of the City (San Francisco)
12. George Saunders
15. A Carnival of Snackery
16. Don't Fear the Reaper (Indian Lake #2)
23. Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Love your categories! Good luck with your reading!

Good luck with your reading in 2024.

Enjoy your 2024 reading.

Lots of good series in that list! I've caught up with both Vera and Shetland so I really should start watching the TV series.

Fantastic categories, and I love your topper picture! It's wonderful!

And you are reading some great series - I am reading some of these as well and most others are on my WL, or the first book still unread on my shelf.
I am looking forward to following along here!

Good luck with your 2024 reading!