 Hello friends! How are we doing today? It's a very exciting video, one of my favourite videos to do every single year. And that is my 2024 TBR, the 24 books that I have to read in 2024. Are we ready? Because I'm not! I'm ready to cause absolute havoc! No, I love making these videos. This is my big year-long TBR of books that I really want to read before the year is over. And then at the end of the year we watch this back and we see how I did. Last year I think, correct me if I'm wrong, but I read 15 out of 23. So that was pretty good. I think that's like the best I've ever done. I was pretty proud of myself. I thought I'd like. So I'm hoping for some success with this list. To be honest, I look at this list and in my brain I go, there's no way I'm not reading most of those books. Like I am going to read most of those books. I'm absolutely going to read most of those books. You're saying I'm not going to read all those books? Yes I am. Yes I am. Delusion. Convince yourself. Just doesn't compute in my brain that I wouldn't read all these books. Like I think when I make the list, absolutely I'm reading all of those books. So we're going to get through the 24 books I have to read in 2024 and I just love this because it gets me excited for my reading in the coming year. I really, I love this video so much. Makes me very excited. But before we get into the video I just want to say a big thank you to Wild who I have partnered with for this video. So I've spoken to you guys a little bit about this already but this year's resolutions for me are all about making small changes. So I'm starting with some small sustainable swaps. Did you know that most people ditch their new resolutions by the 17th of January? Okay, like now. Most people give up around now. And so I'm trying to really take things slow and introduce new resolutions and new changes to my routine that are easy to keep up. 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So the first category that we have is 2024 releases. This is something I started last year in the year-long TBR because before that I'd always just pick books that were already on my TBR to show you. But I really think picking releases that are coming out this year was revolutionary for me last year because I read almost all of them because I am going to read a lot of 2024 releases this year so it makes sense to put the ones on the list I think I'm most likely to read because it will probably take up a big chunk of my reading right? So like I should put them on the list. This is a little sneak peek for my most anticipated releases of 2024 video which is coming out as my next video actually. If I can only pick seven, there's seven here. These are the seven I am most excited for and most likely to read. So shall we get into it? Number one is The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Catherine Arden. This is Catherine Arden's new release. I've been waiting for another adult released from her for so long. This is the author of the Bare the Nightingale series which is one of my favorite series ever to exist. And this is a war book which does make me nervous because I'm not a big war girly but I think it's to do with a brother and a sister. Oh god do I need to look up the synopsis for these? Be prepared. We didn't have time to be rehearsed. Make it work. Make it work. Fucking make it happen. So it's set during World War I and yeah it's about a sister and a brother. One isn't the sister's a nurse and she receives word of her brother's death but something doesn't make sense about that. And then we're following also Freddie, her brother, awakens after explosion to find himself trapped in an overturned pillbox with a wounded enemy soldier and they try to get out of it together. I don't know, listen. I don't need to know much about the plot. I need to know that it's Catherine brother fucking Arden baby. I read her middle grade series. She did a middle grade horror series in between the Bare Lightingale and this and I did enjoy it but I'm just I've been so ready for like a adult novel from her with her incredible writing. Oh my god she's like was one of the authors that was integral for me in getting back into reading that series was one of the first series I read when I was getting back into reading and so yeah I'm very excited for this release. I've been writing a long time for this one. Then we have got Mislaid in Parts Half Nine by Shona McGuire. This is the next In the Wayward Children series. Again I feel like this is a pretty safe bet. I'm caught up today on this series so it's a very easy one for me to just tick off and keep up to date with. I'm obsessed with the Wayward Children series and this one from my understanding is very much going to be a continuation of the most recent book that we had which was these titles lost in the moment and found where we met Antsy who goes to this kind of portal world that has doors to a lot of different worlds and really expanded kind of the magic system of the Wayward Children series and it kind of leaves on a bit of an open note and I really think we're going to learn more about Antsy and I think it's going to be a bit of a quest book for some of the other kids from L.O.S. School for Wayward Children in this one and I'm very excited. I think she was just genuinely excited about fucking everything. I just love the Wayward Children series. It does something special to me. It like, my heart. It does something to me. I love the Wayward Children series. I love Shona McGuire's writing. This is like a favorite series for me so I'm very much anticipating the next one coming out. Then we've got one of my most anticipated releases of the year and it's The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton. I am so, guys, I don't think you can even begin to understand how excited I am. Oh my god. It's like, it's like a fire inside me. This is a metamistruer with such a fun speculative twist. Stuart Turton wrote The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle which I didn't love but he also wrote Devil in the Dark Water which I did love so it means Stuart, I know we can get on and this one was on this isolated island where I think there's like a hundred and something people living on it and they believe they are the last people alive in the world. There's this fog that's killed everyone else off and they are protected by some kind of sciency dome thing from the fog but one of the scientists on the island is murdered and that sets off a timer for that protection to end in like 24 hours or something unless they find out who committed the murder. Oh I'm so excited. It is perfect. Everything that we work for is right here, right in this moment. It is just amazing. It's reminding me a little bit of The Last by Hannah Jameson which was like a group of people. There's a nuclear war and they're holed up in this hotel and they believe they're one of the only people left alive. It's a bit similar to that but I think this could Stuart Turton, he always does something a little bit different. He pushes the boat out, he pushes the boundaries and he always does something a bit different and I just feel like this is going to be a major sleigh. This could be a five-star protection. This is like almost like oh that could be my favorite book of the year, Vibes. I'm just getting the vibes from it you know. Oh I'm so excited for this one. Then we have The Reappearance of Rachel Press by Holly Jackson. I'm going to try my best. These are my most excited books. I'm going to try my best to remember the synopsis without having to look them up. So my belief is this one. This girl went missing, Rachel Price, and a documentary is being made about it and she turns up again. She's like hey bitch. Surprise bitch. I bet you thought you'd seen The Last of Me. And I think it's like people trying to figure out if it's really her, what's going on, why she disappeared, what's the truth. Listen, me and Holly. Me and Holly, I'm a bit nervous for this one. I'm not going to lie to you because as many of you all know, the Good Girl's Guide to Murder series is one of my favorite mystery YA series. I will defend, defend, defend, defend, defend as good as dead to the death. I love that book. I think it's incredible. I think it's absolutely amazing and a lot of people don't love it. I think it's genius. I think it's pure genius. I loved The Last of Me in this series of a Good Girl's Guide to Murder. But then last year I read Five Survived by Holly Jackson and I thought it was hot trash. Sorry Holly. I'm so sorry. I can't lie. I hated it. I hated Five Survived. I could not believe the same woman wrote both of those. So you know, we've had mixed results. I'm a little bit nervous but I believe that something about this synopsis feels better to me. The fact that it's a documentary, maybe we'll have mixed media again. I feel like we're just coming back to what we know and that is the correct thing to do. So I'm excited but I'm nervous for this one but I'm gonna read it either way. Then we have The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley. I'm gonna have to look at the plot for this one. I can't remember it but it's Lucy fucking Foley. Again a lot of you know I'm a big defender of Lucy Foley. I love The Guest List. I love The Paris Apartment even though that's an unpopular opinion. I didn't love The Hunting Party but I read it right after I read The Guest List and it just like in my opinion The Guest List is just a better version of The The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley. But yeah The Midnight Feast is her release this year. We don't even have a cover yet. Oh yeah welcome to the opening weekend of The Manor, a luxury resort built on top of old secrets and an ancient wood. And then with all Lucy Foley books we kind of have these caricatures, these archetypal characters. We have the founder, the lover, the mystery guest, the kitchen help, the detective, all have an agenda, all have a past but not everyone will survive. I'm gonna cry. I'm gonna cry. Listen I feel very protective of Lucy Foley. Not a lot of you will probably know this but I went to a like a signing I guess? Like a like a Q&A and signing of The Guest List back when I lived in Leeds. This was right before the pandemic I believe. It was like the last bookish event I went to and I went to it and I met her and she was like one of the kindest people to ever exist and I remember on that night I think I hit 2000 subscribers and it was like a big moment. Lucy Foley and me were just cosmically tired She was lovely and I just think she's a genius. I just love what she does. I love her flavour of mystery so I'm very excited for the midnight. I keep calling the midnight guest midnight feast. Okay and then I've got actually two romances on the list. First is Bride by Ali Hazelwood. Oh I'm very excited and this is Ali Hazelwood's first paranormal romance and I just think Ali this is what you're born to do. This is why you're put on this earth. That's when I knew that I was born to be great. Just destined for greatness. If you guys don't know this about me, well I've expected that a bit before but basically it's like a young adult when I was 12, 13. I just read Paranormal Romance. That was all I read. I loved Twilight. I was a Twilight girlie but that meant I read all the ripoffs of Twilight and all the offshoots of Twilight. Evermore series, anyone remember? That kind of slayed. So I was a big, big, big, big paranormal romance girlie. I know that's difficult to believe now but I was obsessed. It was all I read and so the fact that Ali Hazelwood is coming out with this, I just think her writing style, I feel like she's born to do it. Do I know the plot of this not really? Is there a werewolf and a vampire? I'm not sure. I don't need to know. I don't need to know. I don't need to know. I just know Ali this is what you're put on this earth to do and I'm very excited. And then the final 2024 release that I decided to put on this list was Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez because Abby Jimenez has quickly become a new favorite romance author for me. I have read Part of Your World and Yours Treaty by Abby Jimenez. I really, really enjoyed them both. So she's just like a new romance or girlie for me. Listen, I have a very small group as we know. We have Ali, we have Talia Hibbert, we have Abby Jimenez. Is that it? Are they my girlies? And maybe Crystal Madonado. That's kind of the romance girlies that I trust and love, you know? But what is this one about? Because I can't remember. Oh yeah! It's a dude who has a curse and every woman he dates will go on to find their soulmate the second they break up. And then the girlie is like, I have the same problem. Let's date each other and maybe it'll cancel each other out. Oh my god, Abby Jimenez, your mind. So it's a little bit speculative as well with this curse. Oh, I am so excited. I love Abby Jimenez's writing. So excited for that one. Okay, then we have 2023 releases as the next category. So 2023 releases I did not get around to last year. I mean, there's a lot of 2023 releases I didn't get around to last year that I want to read. There's so many books, not enough time is essentially the problem. So first we have got Shark Heart by Emily Hebeck. This is one I hadn't heard a ton about, but when I was looking through, I did a live show where I was looking through the Goodreads Choice Awards nominees with my patron. And I saw the plot of this and I was just instantly obsessed. So we've got this couple who have just been married for a few weeks and the guy receives a rare diagnosis. He will retain most of his consciousness, memories and intellect. His physical body will gradually turn into a great white shark. Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. I am so excited to read this. Also, this is a lot of really short chapters. Like we just have like a paragraph on a page in some cases. And so I'm really looking forward to the pacing of this. I think it's going to be emotional. I'm really excited. This is my kind of weird where it's like, I think this is also could be an entry level from what I've had. It's like not too weird. It's just a little bit weird. You know what I mean? Oh, I'm so excited for this one. This is this is like a five star prediction. I think I'm going to love this one. Then we have Just Another Missing Person by Julian McAllister. I loved Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Julian McAllister. I thought it was incredible. I haven't heard as good things about this one, but I think I'm still really going to enjoy it. So we have Olivia who's 22, no history of running away. Last scene on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley and not coming back out again. Missing for one day and counting. I'm just going to read you out the synopsis because I think it's such a good synopsis. Julia is the detective heading up the case. She knows what to expect, a desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her daughter. But Julia has no idea how close to home it's going to get because her family's safety depends on one thing. Julia must not find out what happened to Olivia. The drama, the drama. I like drama. Drama drives me at times because I think without drama what's the fun in life? So I don't know if she knows that she can't find out what happened to her if she doesn't know. I'm not really sure. The synopsis doesn't give too much away, but I really enjoyed the writing in Wrong Place Wrong Time. I thought it was such a fresh, imaginative take on like a murder mystery. I'm so excited to read this one. Julia McAllister could become an autobi-favourite mystery thriller author for me. I know she also has like quite a lot of backlists. Like Wrong Place Wrong Time wasn't her debut, it was kind of her breakout. So she has got a lot of backlists I could dive into if I start really enjoying her books. But for now I'm just picking up her latest releases. I just think this is going to be twisty-turny. A lot of fun. Then you guys know I had to put bookshops and bone dust by Travis Bowdry on here. I loved Legend of Lattes last year. It was my second favourite book of the year. And this is the prequel. I'm a little bit nervous. I'm feeling nervous. I'm feeling nervous. Everyone, I'm feeling nervous because I'm scared I'm not like, what if I don't love it as much as Legend of Lattes? Like that's a real possibility and it really terrifies me. It really, it's very scary. It's very scary. But yeah, this one is when Viv I think is still kind of like soldering, you know, and she spent her hours at a struggling bookshop in the company of its foul mouth proprietor. Oh I'm so excited. Oh it's set in a bookshop with this little mouse, this little dog out. What? I'm very excited. I just had to temper my expectations but I'm obviously gonna read this this year. If I haven't read this one by the end of the year we've got problems. Another obvious choice is Heartstopper Volume 5 by Alice Oseman. I could read this the second right but I'm saving it to read it with you. And I haven't got a video coming up in like the next month that this really goes in but I love the Heartstopper graphic novel series. I feel like it used to be my thing and now it's everyone's thing and I'm a little bit like clear off, you know what I mean? Get out of here. I love Nick and Charlie so much and this is our penultimate one. There's only gonna be one more after this and it makes me upset that I think Alice Oseman, oh these books feel so real. They feel so real to remember what it's like to be in love and to that young love and that excitement and that nervousness and I just think it's so wholesome and beautiful and I just I just love it. Then we have Monstrillo which you guys, if you've watched my most recent video where I picked my first book of the year based on the first chapter, this was one of the options. It didn't end up winning but I am very intrigued by it. We're following a woman whose son has passed away and she takes a piece of his lung when he dies, she like curls him open and like cuts off a bit of his lung and then the lung grows into like this little creature I think that they call Monstrillo. A little bit weird, just getting a little bit weird in here. Is there anyone concerned? I'm a little bit concerned but I thought the writing at the start of this, it dove straight into it in that first chapter and the writing was something very different and very special so this is definitely one I'm gonna get around to this year. I'm gonna get around to this year. This this list, impenetrable, absolutely I'm gonna read all these. What are you kidding me? I'm absolutely gonna read all these books. I just think she's very delusional and maybe possibly insane. And then the last on the 2023 releases list. I think there might be some books in the next category that technically could go in this list but like they're a different category anyway. The last is A Thorn Hedge by Teaking Fishers. Lovely short novella. I mean listen I want to protest getting to my novellas. So in this one we meet Toadling on the day of her birth. She was stolen from her family by fairies. She grew up safe and loved. The fate asked a favor of Toadling. Returned to the human world and offered a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple right? But there's a knight who's like stopping Toadling from doing anything. Listen Teaking Fisher is becoming an order by author for me. Again I have read three Teaking Fishers now and really really enjoyed them all. I think her writing is something special, something unique and so I love a bit of like dark fantasy fairy tale kind of book. I'm very very excited for this one. Next category is nonfiction. If you watched my reading girls video you'll know that a big goal of mine this year is to read more non-fiction specifically 12. Not taking into account memoirs or debacle which a few of these are memoirs so whoo! No! It was a mistake! But yeah I want to read 12 non-fiction which should be doable right? This should be doable. It should totally be doable. Let's see how we do. So the first I'm paying on this list I know I'm going to be reading this month so it's a little bit cheating but like it's not cheating. If I know I'm going to be reading it I should be allowed to put it on the list. And that is The Woman in Me by Britney Spears. Yeah I love you Britney. I have heard nothing but great things about this. I know it's like partially ghost written right or like entirely. How much did Britney have to do with this? But I think it's still you know this woman's been through a lot and I am team Britney forever and always um death to all of them. How dare you Mr Spears you had me fooled and you too Mrs Spears death to all of them. I'm really excited to read this and learn more about her life because I don't know a ton of it. I was very young when Britney was in like her heyday like her most iconic era. Obviously I was born 2000 and I feel like that's when she started really coming up with like early 2000s but I loved her music as a kid. I probably just wasn't super aware of a lot of the stuff that was going on in her life but I loved her music. I used to listen to her greatest hits album in the car of my grandparents all the time so yeah I'm very very very excited to get to this. I will probably get the audiobook as well I know it's not narrated by her but I have heard really good things about the audio and I'm just so team Britney that it's crazy you know. Then another memoir that we have is in the dream house by karma maru machado. I read what is it called her body and other parties right? I read last year and I really really enjoyed it and I think this is more popular than that even. This one is more of a memoir of I think an abusive relationship she was in with another woman told through lots of weird lenses right. It's told through different lenses. There's like dream houses world building. Dream houses heat death of the universe. Dream houses ambition. Like I don't know it's told through these lots of these short vignettes that have like a weird lens through them. I've heard nothing but good things about this. I think karma maru machado's writing in the last book I read was just absolutely incredible so I'm very excited to get to this one. And then we have three more traditional non-fiction. First is the radium girls which I think is wrapped up. I couldn't find it I'm pretty sure it's wrapped up and this one is about the radium girls who I think were working in some kind of factory and like they had to paint with radium and they like licked it and shit and then they all came very ill because you shouldn't be licking radium you know. I've heard wonderful things about this non-fiction. I love I love I love any kind of non-fiction that is about history of women. I love reading about women. I love reading about women throughout history and I just feel like this is a very important non-fiction that I've heard a lot of really good things about. So very excited to get to that one. Then we have got bad gays a homosexual history. I am very excited for this one. I have had mixed things. I've had mixed things. A few people I know I've been reading it and haven't loved it but I'm very excited. It's basically about bad gays like gay icons but who are maybe a little bit evil throughout history. Listen I love reading about the women I will also read about the gays throughout history. You're so creative where do you get your inspiration? God in the gaze. Non-fiction can languish on this TBR as we know for quite some time so I'm painting on this list and hopefully that means I will get around to it. And then the last non-fiction list is one I'm a little bit nervous for because I'm nervous about how many spoilers this will have but I really want to read Murder Isn't Easy the Forensics of Agatha Christie by Carla Valentine. This is basically about how Agatha Christie had like cutting-edge knowledge when it came to poisons, when it came to fingerprint analysis. She was really like at the forefront of a lot of like crime scene investigation. I think she came up with the term the scene of the crime. I think Agatha Christie came up with that and she was also very revolutionary in terms of her knowledge of poison. She if you don't know worked as a nurse. I think World War I right yeah in World War I she worked as a nurse at her local hospital was housing a lot of injured soldiers and there she learned a lot about poison. That's how she had such good knowledge of it. So I really want to read this. I am just nervous about how much it's gonna spoil. I don't want spoilers. I don't want spoilers. I'm reading every Agatha Christie book on this earth in my lifetime. I mean it's gonna take me like 60 years but I'm gonna read them all and I'm just I'm nervous about if anyone's read this let me know how many spoilers there are in it. You know like how in depth does it go into like this is what happened in this book. Do you know what I mean? Like I'm fine with telling me how a murder was done. I just don't know I don't know who did it you know. So I'm a little bit nervous about that but this has been on my tbf a little while now and I always look at it and I really want to read it. It's just that spoiler element that's holding me back but maybe I can read some reviews and find out because I think this is such a fascinating topic and I love I love reading nonfiction about authors I love right. I love reading nonfiction about Agatha Christie. I love reading nonfiction there's like Lucy Worsley's got a book about Jane Austen I really want to read like I love learning about my favorite galleys you know. So and then our final category is just other books. It's not really a simple categorization to these so um firstly we have got everyone in my family has killed someone by Benjamin Stevenson. Oh I think I'm gonna love this. This was another one that was in my tri-chapter first video the year. Didn't make it but I still was super interested in it. This is very meta. There's a prologue where you are told everyone in my family has killed someone you're gonna find out how and on these pages murders are gonna occur and I'm gonna stick to the conventions of murder mystery writings. It's gonna be a fair play murder mystery. It's so meta I love it. I love anything that takes the genre and twists it and like plays with it. Oh I'm so excited this is the five star prediction. I think I'm gonna love it. I partly think I should have picked it for that first book of the year but like you know you never know. I'm just oh please don't make me think too hard about it because I don't know what I'm expecting and I just want it to be great. This one makes me very very excited. It makes me very very excited. It's exactly what I want in a murder mystery and what I keep saying a book needs to do to get a five star from me now. So another murder mystery that I really want to get to is The Village of Eight Grows by Shashi Okamizo. So Shashi Okamizo is basically the Agatha Christie of Japan. He's written so many murder mysteries through a particular detective like Agatha Christie has Poirot and this is the next in the series. They're slowly being translated into English. I have read the first two and then I own this one and another one and I think maybe the fifth one has come out in terms of what's been translated into English and I just love these. Firstly someone who loves murder mysteries it's fascinating to read murder mysteries from different cultures and see what conventions remain and which ones have been you know added and this one we're in this small hamlet of Eight Graves. It takes its name from a century's old massacre. Ever since that bloody day people say a terrible curse is hung over the village and I think there's poisonings that start happening. I've really enjoyed all of the books I've read from Shashi Okamizo so far so I really want to get to another one this year. Then we have I mentioned Jane Austen. We've got Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I'm definitely going to be reading this this year. Absolutely absolutely. If you don't know Emma I read last year and it was in my top 10 books of the year. I absolutely loved Emma by Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice is really what I have a history with. I read this when I was younger. I watched the Colin Firth BBC adaptation every time I was ill with my mum when I was off school. Mr Das? Listen I was a weird kid. I also love watching like the history channel when I was off school. Like learning about Tudors. I loved Tudors and Victorians. I loved that kind of history when I was a kid. So Pride and Prejudice is my bitch you know what I mean? Like this is my home girl like we go back we go way back and so I'm gonna read it again this year. Probably within the first few months of the year if I'm honest with you and I'm very excited to see how what I know in my brain of the story matches up to what goes on in the book. But Jane Austen, oh she's doing it for me at the moment. Emma was such a good book. I thought it was incredible. So excited to get to this one. Then one I really really want to get to is Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb. I have only read the first Robin Hobb book. What was it? Royal... Royal... Assassin's Apprentice. Apologies. And Royal Assassin's the second one. I have watched so many people who have read like the entirety of Robin Hobb's this whole world right and I'm at the beginning but I would love to make some progress in it this year and read Royal Assassin. And the first one we are following Fitz who is a royal bastard and he is trained to be with the animals and the dogs. I can't remember what's a spoiler what's not and he can kind of like speak to them and we're following Fitz right and this whole series I think we're following Fitz. Maybe with a few breakaways into other circumstances but this first trilogy definitely is all Fitz and he's a little bit older he's growing up and I haven't read a lot of like court fantasy lately and I used to read a lot of that. I used to read a lot of court based fantasy and I really do enjoy it like historical you know Kings and Queens fantasy. I really do enjoy it and I think Robin Hobb is a great great author so I'm very excited to make some progress in this series. Then we have got the Floating Admiral by the Detection Clubs. If you don't know the Detection Club was a group of mystery authors during the golden age of crime. Agatha Christie was one they were at the top Dorothy Elsayers is another really well-known one. I'm trying to think of as any other names you'll recognise. GK Chesterson maybe some of you all know Anthony Berkeley he wrote The Winch and Her Mystery which I've read. They were this group of mystery writers and this is one of their books they published together and I think they each write a chapter. So I don't know like if they just got the chapter the previous chapters and like I'm going to take it here or if they kind of work together on it. I don't know I think it's such an interesting concept like this novel with a with a through line with like a plot like it's one novel it's not short stories but they each wrote a chapter. So yeah I definitely should be reading this this year because I was supposed to read it last year and didn't. And then the final book on this list is Fire Keeper's Daughter by Angeline Beaulieu. This is one of those books that I have owned for quite some time now. I bought this in Leeds. I mean I've owned it for over two years. Oh don't look at me. Okay, drop. Girl you have done it again. Constant lowering the bar for us all. And I just want to read it. I've heard such good things about all of Angeline Beaulieu's stuff. Is it Warrior Girl on Earth? Her new book that came out last year I heard great things about. So I just really I really want to get around to this. I think we're following a girl who is half indigenous and so she feels like an outsider within the indigenous community and then a murder happens and she reluctantly agrees to be part of a covert FBI operation into a series of drug related deaths. I have heard wonderful things about this. Again I think it's quite long which has been putting me off. Well it's it's about 500 pages. It's almost 500 pages. Listen Courtney Summers is blurbing on the back. Courtney Summers is blurbing on the back who I trust completely and I've just heard so many good things about this. So it's time it's time that I finally read it. Okay per my calculations that should be 24 bucks. If it's not mind your business that should be 24 bucks. But I really want to get to in 2024. I believe I'm gonna read all these. There's a few the non-fictions could trip me up. Some of those last books like Plain Bad Heroines. I could see myself putting off for another year. Not to any fault of the book just because it's length right. But I do really want to get around to these. So let me know how many of these do you think I'm gonna get to in the next year. Let me know. Let me know your thoughts. Let me know how you think I'm gonna do. But yeah I'm really excited to read all these. So let me know your thoughts any of them. Let me know how you think I'm gonna do and I'll see you guys soon in another video. Bye!