263: Lisa’s Mid-Year Reading Check-In 2024

This week Lisa shares her mid-year 2024 book recommendations and what she is looking forward to in the second half of the year. Shachi shares a mini review of Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny, written by Mark Cecil and narrated by Tanis Parenteau, Ari Fliakos, and JD Jackson.

Novels:

The Warm Hands of Ghosts [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Those Beyond the Wall [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 248]

The Stardust Grail [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 260]

Mirrored Heavens [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 262]

Service Model [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 257]

Someone You Can Build a Nest In [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]  / [Episode 253]

Kinning [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 246]

Rakesfall (Written by: Vajra Chandrasekera / Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio)

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins (Written by: P. Djeli Clark / Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman)

Loka (Written by: S.B. Divya)

Dead Girls Don’t Dream (Written by: Nino Cipri)

A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping (Written by: Sangu Mandana)

Blackheart Man (Written by: Nalo Hopkinson / Narrated by: Ron Butler)

The Book of Elsewhere (Written by: Keanu Reeves and China Mieville)

The Mercy of Gods (Written by: James S.A. Corey / Narrated by: Jefferson Mays)

Wind and Truth (Written by: Brandon Sanderson/ Narrated by: Kate Reading & Michael Kramer)

Novellas:

The Truth of the Aleke (Written by: Moses Ose Utomi)

Small Gods of Calamity (Written by: Sam Kyung Yoo)

The Butcher of the Forest (Written by: Premee Mohamed)

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (Written by: Malka Older / Narrated by: Lindsey Dorcus )

The Practice, the Horizon and the Chain (Written by: Sofia Samatar)

Lost Ark Dreaming [Audible] / [Episode 259]

The Brides of High Hill [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 256]

The Tusks of Extinction [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 243]

We Speak Through the Mountain (Written by: Premee Mohamed / Narrated by: Eva Tavares)

Navigational Entanglements (Written by: Alliette de Bodard)

Haunt Sweet Home (Written by: Sarah Pinsker)

She Who Knows (Written by: Nnedi Okorafor)

2024 SFF YA and Middle Grade:

Moonstorm [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Sheine Lende [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Daydreamer (Written by: Rob Cameron)

Heavenly Tyrant (Written by: Xiran Jay Zhao)

Amari and the Dispicable Wonders (Written by: B.B. Alston)

2024 Non-Fiction:

Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography (Written By: Jessica Max Stein)

Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power (Written & Narrated By: Devon Price)

Who’s Afraid of Gender (Written & Narrated By: Judith Butler)

Mini-Review:

Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]