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

386 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction horror short stories dark mysterious tense medium-paced

400 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction horror mystery short stories thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

Miss Marple Short Story Collections

Agatha Christie

364 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction crime mystery short stories adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

500 pages missing pub info (editions)

fiction

The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories

Regina Kanyu Wang, Yu Chen

385 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy science fiction short stories adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced

237 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ literary short stories challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

285 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary short stories dark emotional sad medium-paced

405 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction fantasy short stories adventurous dark fast-paced

480 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction nature poetry emotional informative reflective slow-paced

208 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction poetry young adult emotional reflective slow-paced