NoveList 2024 Reading Challenge - hosted by sarahm

April

Discover the joy of communal reading! Read to or in a group of two or more. 


NoveList Suggestions
You definitely don't have to stick to these options. NoveList encourages readers to choose any book they'd like for the prompts, these lists just give a starting point. 
  • Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces by Michael Chabon
  • Tomb Sweeping: Stories by Alexandra Chang
  • Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
  • The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas by Maria Garcia Esperon
  • The Privilege of the Happy Ending: Small/Medium/Large Stories by Kij Johnson
  • If It Bleeds by Stephen King
  • The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Daniel M. Lavery
  • The Hurting Kind: Poems by Ada Limon
  • White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link
  • The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monae
  • Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners by Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver
  • Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version by Philip Pullman
  • Night of the Living Rez: Stories by Morgan Talty
  • The People Who Report More Stress: Stories by Alejandro Varela
  • The Way Spring Arrives: A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation from a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary Creators, edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang
  • The Best Mystery Stories of the Year, edited by Amor Towles, series editor Otto Penzler
  • Marple: Twelve New Mysteries 
  • Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. with an introduction by Stephen Graham Jones
  • Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, edited by Jordan Peele
  • Soul Jar: Thirty-One Fantastical Tales by Disabled Authors, edited by Annie Carl
All books added

269 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction science informative lighthearted medium-paced

280 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

fiction mystery lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

448 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history nature science adventurous informative medium-paced

329 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

216 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction nature science travel adventurous informative slow-paced

368 pages first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction thriller dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

406 pages first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance young adult adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

343 pages first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

336 pages first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction cookbook

3 hours, 17 minutes first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction science fiction adventurous funny fast-paced