Books I Loved Reading in 2024

An assortment of horror, fantasy, poetry, and graphic novels

I set a goal of reading 50 books this year — and I have finished reading 39 books at the time of writing this. I have four more books that I’ve started but haven’t finished (some I’ve been working on for a while) — including Blackouts by Justin Torres, Even Greater Mistakes: Stories by Charlie Jane Anders, Wandering Games by Melissa Kagen, and The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel.

I have either been extremely lucky or more selective in my reading this year (or both), because the vast majority of the books I read this year were excellent, making it rather difficult to put together a list of a manageable size. Anyway, here are some of the books I loved and recommend. Enjoy.

Fiction

In Linghun by Ai Jiang, there exists a haunted neighborhood — not a place to be feared or avoided, but a place the living desperately desire live in, because it grants them the chance to draw forth and reconnect with the ghosts of their lost loved ones. When Wenqi moves to this house with her parents, the appearance of her dead brother dredges up mixed feelings…