2024 Books I’m Excited About

The first half of 2024 is chocked full of AMAZING books I can’t wait to get my hands on, and a few I was able to get earlier from publishers. So you’ll see a lot of these reviews coming through in the next few months. Let me know if you’re excited for these releases too by following me on Instagram @kay_west_reads

January Book Releases 2024

• Most Ardently: A Pride and Prejudice Remix by

  Gabe Cole Novoa

  A heartwarming trans/queer retelling

Full review here

• Secret Sex Edited by Russel Smith
  A voyeurs wet dream of a book

Full review here

• Once Upon an Algorithm by Clara O’Connor
  Spicy STEM romance

• Heavy Crown (#6) by Sophie Lark

She was a temptation he couldn't resist…

• Voyage of the Damned by Frances White
  A murder on a twelve-day ship voyage, everyone is a suspect

• The House of Last Resort by

  Christopher Golden

High concept haunted house horror

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February Book Releases 2024

• Gogmagog by

Jeff Noon and Steve Beard

An epic journey through the sixty-mile long ghost of a dragon

• An Education in Malice by

S. T. Gibson

A dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insatiable hungers

• What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier #2) by T. Kingfisher

The follow-up to the bestselling gothic novella, What Moves the Dead

• The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers

A young woman descends into a seductive magical underworld of power-hungry scholars, fickle gods and monsters bent on revenge

• Sunbringer (Fallen Gods #2) by Hannah Kaner

Return to the world of Godkiller in this sequel

where Kissen and her companions must navigate lands of gods and demons

• The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert

A poison-pen love letter to semi-toxic best friendship, the occult power of childhood play and artistic creation

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March Book Releases 2024

• A Botanical Daughter by

  Noah Medlock

A botanical garden who embark on a Frankenstein-style experiment with unexpected consequences

• Diavola by

  Jennifer Thorne

A sharp twist on the classic haunted house story, exploring loneliness, belonging, and the seemingly inescapable bonds of family mythology

• Deep into the Amazon Jungle by

Fabien Cousteau and James O. Fraioli

Two young explorers journey with Fabien Cousteau into the depths of the Amazon Jungle to find a new species of piranha

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April Book Releases 2024

• This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances by

  Eric LaRocca

A collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales

• Ghost Station by

  S.A Barnes

We have aliens. We have a crew with secrets. We have an unknown planet with constant storms.

Full review here

• The Cemetery of Untold Stories by

  Julia Alvarez

A writer creates a literal graveyard for unpublished manuscripts. The characters defy their author: they talk back to her and talk to one another behind her back, rewriting and revising themselves.

• Calypso

  by Oliver K. Langmead

Rochelle wakes from cryostasis to take up her role as engineer on the colony ark, Calypso. But she finds the ship has transformed into a forest, populated by the original crew’s descendants, who revere her like a saint.

• Grey Dog by

  Elliott Gish

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delusions, wild beasts, and the uncontainable power of female rage

• Mal Goes to War by

  Edward Ashton

Mal is the sarcastic AI best friend you never knew you needed.

Full review here

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May Book Releases 2024

• Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

A dystopic eco-sci-fi thriller, but with stunning prose interludes that transcend genre convention

Full review here

• Escape Velocity by Victor Manibo

A twisty new near-future genre-bending thriller: Knives Out in space with a Parasite twist

• The Cemetery of Untold Stories by

Julia Alvarez

A writer creates a literal graveyard for unpublished manuscripts. The characters defy their author: they talk back to her and talk to one another behind her back, rewriting and revising themselves

• Spitting Gold

  by Carmella Lowkis

Sisters reunite for one last con as spirit mediums in Paris 1866. But when inexplicable horrors start to happen to them too, the duo question whether they really are at the mercy of a vengeful spirit

• Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by

  Rebecca Thorne

A cozy tale of mishaps, mysteries, and a murderous queen

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