2024 in Books

Written By Craig Schwarze

I read many books in 2024, primarily short sci-fi/fantasy novels and novellas. I was looking to fill in the gaps in my reading with some genre classics, but I also read a few newer books. Here's the list:

  • The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney.

  • The House on the Borderlands by William Hope Hodgson

  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

  • The Roaring Trumpet by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt

  • Lost Horizon by James Hamilton

  • Grendel by John Gardner

  • Out of the Dead City by Samuel R. Delany

  • The Phoenix and the Mirror by Avram Davidson

  • A Spindle Splintered by Alix Harrow

  • Elidor by Alan Garner

  • The Mathematics of Magic by L. Sprague de Camp

  • Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler

  • Penrics Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold

  • Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky

  • The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

  • The Queen of the High Fields by Rhiannon A Grist

  • Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny

  • Sign of the Labrys by Margaret St. Clair

  • Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy

  • Kothar: Barbarian Swordsmen by Gardner F. Fox

  • The Castle of Dark by Tanith Lee

  • The Land of Somewhere Safe by Hal Duncan

  • Green Phoenix by Thomas Burnett Swann

  • Who's Afraid of Beowulf by Tom Holt

  • Jirel of Joiry by C.L. Moore

  • The Hedge Knight by George R.R. Martin

  • Dwellers in the Mirage by A. Merritt

  • The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson

  • Kings Blood Four by Sherri S. Tepper

  • The Picture of Dorian Grey

  • Eyes of the Overworld by Jack Vance

  • The Face in the Frost by John Bellairs

  • Seven Days in New Crete by Robert Graves

  • The High Crusade by Poul Anderson

  • Red Shift by Alan Garner

  • Nine Starships Waiting by Roger Zelazny

  • The High Kings by Joy Chant

  • The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

  • Time and Time Again by Jack Wilkins

  • Burn, Witch, Burn by Abraham Merritt

  • The Exploits of Engelbrecht by Maurice Richardson

  • Hacksilver by Elizabeth Bear

  • WarriorBorn by Jim Butcher

  • The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories by Lord Dunsany

  • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

  • Smith of Wootton Major by J. R. R. Tolkien

The standout books were:

  • The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle

  • The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney

  • The Phoenix and the Mirror by Avram Davidson

  • Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky

  • The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson

  • Eyes of the Overworld by Jack Vance

  • The Face in the Frost by John Bellairs

  • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

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