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

560 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary dark emotional sad medium-paced

288 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced

14 hours, 56 minutes first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction historical challenging emotional sad medium-paced

336 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective slow-paced

365 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

402 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction historical literary challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced

15 hours, 4 minutes first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance adventurous dark tense medium-paced

178 pages first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction comics challenging informative reflective medium-paced

352 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction gender informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

Soul Jar: Thirty-One Fantastical Tales by Disabled Authors

Annie Carl

361 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction fantasy science fiction short stories adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced