My 100 | TBR 2024

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Hi there! This is my TBR for 2024 and thestoryinside. I have sorted everything according to category/genre to make things easier for picking. Short stories and poetry and essay collections are marked with an asterisk, and movie and TV adaptations marked with an M. Books read will be crossed out. Happy picking! :D 

THRILLER
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (M)

HORROR
All's Well by Mona Awad 
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (M)
It by Stephen King (M)
The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (M)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 4/5

SCIENCE FICTION
1984 by George Orwell (M)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (M)
God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (M)
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (M)
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 3.5/5
Severance by Ling Ma 4/5

FANTASY
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 3/5

HISTORICAL FICTION
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (M)
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland

LGBT THEME
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker*

CONTEMPORARY
A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
L.A. Woman by Eve Babitz*
Sex and Rage by Eve Babitz
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (M)
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
Black Swans: Stories by Eve Babitz* 4.5/5
Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith* 3.5/5
Normal People by Sally Rooney 4/5
The English Understand Wool by Helen Dewitt* 3.5/5
Either/Or by Elif Batuman 4/5
The Idiot by Elif Batuman 4.5/5
Weather by Jenny Offill 3/5

CLASSICS
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster (M)
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (M)
Emma by Jane Austen (M)
I, Etcetera by Susan Sontag*
In the Cafe of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (M)
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (M)
Persuasion by Jane Austen (M)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (M)
Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen*
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick*
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector*
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton (M)
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Woman Destroyed by Simone De Beauvoir*
Washington Square by Henry James
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (M)
Speedboat by Renata Adler* 5/5
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 3.5/5


NON-FICTION
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag*
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay*
Changing my Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith*
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath*
The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
The Hurting Kind: Poems by Ada Limon*
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing*
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them by Elif Batuman
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 4/5
A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver* 3.5/5
Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon 4/5
Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn* 4/5
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner 3.5/5
Devotion by Patti Smith* 3/5
Dog Songs by Mary Oliver* 4/5
Felicity by Mary Oliver* 3.5/5
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion* 5/5
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty* 4.5/5
Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver* 3/5