For the past two years, I've published a post called 'Big Books I Want to Read' and although I did the odd little check-ins I never did a proper update on last year's list nor did I do very well with it haha. Today I'll give a summary of how 2024's BIG books went as well as a bit of a refresh on the idea for the following year.
10 BIG Books I Want to Read in 2023
8 BIG Books I Want to Read in 2024
Starting off with the books I wanted to get to last year...
2024 List
The Book of Dust Vol.2 by Philip Pullman (from last year's list) - 720 pages UNREADThe Ill-Made Mute by Cecilia Dart-Thornton (from last year's list) - 586 pages UNREAD
Dracul by Dacre Stoker & J.D. Barker (from last year's list) - 563 pages READ
Murtagh by Christopher Paolini - 665 pages READ
Reynard the Fox by Anne Louise Avery - 424 pages UNREAD
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke - 675 pages READ
Mossflower by Brian Jacques - 427 pages UNREAD
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow Book by Natasha Pulley - 482 pages UNREAD
You'll see that although I did tick off 3 books (2 of which admittedly were audiobooks), over 60% went unread yet again! This system obviously isn't working and so I'm switching it up a little for this year. Rather than having a list of BIG scary books that I keep avoiding, I'm going to have a list of 8 books, of any size, that I'm looking forward to and want to make time for in 2025. I have so many books on my TBR bookcase that I'm excited to get to but there are so many books, and so little time! This way I hope that most months I can look at this list and try to fit one into my monthly reads.
2025 List
The Book of Dust Vol.2 by Philip Pullman
The Legend of Podkin One-Ear by Kieran Larwood
The Legend of Podkin One-Ear by Kieran Larwood
The Explorer by Katherine Rundell
Dreamstalkers: The Night Train by Sarah Driver
The Lion Above the Door by Onjali Q. Raúf
While the Storm Rages by Phil Earle
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Forget Me Not by Sophie Pavelle
Forget Me Not by Sophie Pavelle
Unintentionally, it still works out that many of these are on the longer side but let's not think about that! This is the first time I've also included some Non-Fiction picks. I have found such a love of non-fiction in the past couple of years, especially nature and wildlife-related books and I always want to read more.
I'm feeling optimistic and hope that I can make a huge dent in this stack throughout this year. If I read what I read last year (80 books) then this is really only 10% of that...easy! ....?
I'm feeling optimistic and hope that I can make a huge dent in this stack throughout this year. If I read what I read last year (80 books) then this is really only 10% of that...easy! ....?
