“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”― William Styron

2024 Reading List for Chimera Readers

We post the books we will be reading in bulk order so those that do not read as fast as our core readers can join in with us when we discuss the book.

Asian Female Lead
01/03 – Six Crimson Cranes – Elizabeth Lim – 461 pages
01/10 – A Magic Steeped in Poison – Judy I Lin – 375 pages
01/17 – Iron Widow – Xiran Jay Zhao – 399 pages
01/24 – Wicked Fox by Kat Cho – 435 pages

As Seen on TV
01/31 – Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase – Jonathan Stroud – 401 pages
02/07 – Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse Book 1) – Charlaine Harris – 332 pages
02/21 – Ninth House – Leigh Bardugo – 476 pages

High Fantasy
03/06 – Rhapsody: Child of Blood (The Symphony of Ages) – Elizabeth Haydon – 678 Page
03/13 – Cradle of Sea and Soil (Islandborn Book 1) – Bernie Anés Paz – 535 pages
03/20 – Book of Night – Holly Black – 320 pages
03/27 – Gardens of the Moon: The Malazan Book of the Fallen – by Steven Erikson – 499 pages
04/10 – Black Leopard, Red Wolf – Marlon James – 637 pages

Children’s Tales
04/17 – The Marvellers – Dhonielle Clayton – 432 pages
04/24 – The Storm Runner – J. C. Cervantes – 388 pages
05/01 – So This is Love – Elizabeth Lim – 339 pages
05/08 – The Thief of Always – by Clive Barker – 228 pages
05/22 – The Book of Three (Chronicles of Pydain 1) – Lloyd Alexander – 207 pages

Set in 1970
06/05 – Jade City – Fonda Lee – 612 pages
06/12 – Of Blood and Honey (The Fey and the Fallen Book 1) – Stina Leicht – 314 pages
06/19 – The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper – 232 pages
06/26 – Nineteen Seventy: A New Orleans Witches Family Saga – Sarah M Cradit – 258 pages

Free Pick
07/10 – Assistant to the Villain –  Hannah Nicole Maehrer – 352
07/17 – Nightbooks – J.A. White – 309
07/24 – Escape Velocity – Victor Manibo – 369 pages
07/31 – The Ballad of Perilous Graves – Alex Jennings – 480
08/07 – The Ninth Rain – Jen Williams – 550 pages

Spy/Espionage
08/14 – A Spy In Time – Imraan Coovadia  – 239
08/21 – Bill, the Galactic Hero – Harry Harrison – 168
08/28 – Ninefox Gambit – Yoon Ha Lee -265
09/04 – The Book Eaters – Sunyi Dean – 296

Bookclub book from 2014
09/11 – The Book of Lost Things –  John Connolly – 352
09/18 – Intangible – C.A. Gray – 308
09/25 – The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson – 512
10/02 – Timebound by Rysa Walker

Dark Fantasy
10/09 – Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery – Brom – 312
10/16 – One Dark Window – Rachel Gillig – 419
10/23 – Two Twisted Crowns – Rachel Gillig – 481

10/30 – Blood Sugar – Michaela Haze 446

Hate Read/Comedy
11/6 – billionaire dragon boss shifter – Ariel Renner – 150 pages

11/13 – The Librarian of the Haunted Library by Brian Yansky – 224

11/20 – The Baron’s Ghost – by Kyro Dean 242

Guilty Pleasure

11/27 A wolf so grim and mangy – Caroline Noe, 276,
12/4 Breakup from Hell by – Ann Dávila Cardinal , 297
12/11 – Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel – Laurell K. Hamilton – 300
12/18 – Christmas Blind Date with a Book Exchange
12/25 – Merry Christmas!!

Next Themes
Hate Read/Comedy
Guilty Pleasure
Dark Fantasy