Always love to watch you when I see you come up to review or chat about upcoming books - you do such a good job - Have a very Merry Christmas - your tree is so festive behind you🧑🏻🎄📕🎈
My TBR is equally as large, there were so many books I wanted to read but failed to get round to. I’ve actually managed to fill each month of Ben’s challenge with books already on my shelf. Thank you for all the wonderful videos this year. Have a Happy Christmas🎄⭐️🎄
Hi Gretchen I have shopped my shelves for Bens prompts and I have all of them covered. Yay.you have some great books to look forward to. Merry Christmas 🎄
Glad you mentioned the Aspen Words Literary Prize. That long list does look really good. As does your stack of books. I don't have plans to read any of them, but there are a couple I at least want to pick up.
Clear and Fireexit are definitely both in my top 10 of 2024, I also really enjoyed The Night Alphabet 😊 I'm adding a few of these to my TBR (not too many, as its long like yours! I really want to re ad The Fertile Earth and Husbands. On my list are Hagstone, Birnam Wood among many others Thank you, I really enjoy your video's
Hey Gretchen! Thanks for the shout out about the Aspen Longlist challenge. You probably already noticed, but Fire Exit will satisfy Ben’s February prompt as well, so there ya go! I just joined his challenge on StoryGraph. With all of my other 2025 reading goals, I think some of my books will fit into those slots for sure and it will be fun. In regards to your 24 missed in 24, the books that I have read from your list that I will weigh in on for you getting to them, because they were really good: Clear, Covenant of Water Books that I also have physical copies of but did not get yet either that you have in your video: Praiseworthy Night Alphabet (which I also ordered from Blackstone’s 🫣) The Coast Road Books that I own and I missed in 2024 that aren’t in your video: There are Rivers in the Sky Whale Fall Catalina Gliff The Position of Spoons The Sequel Hard by a Great Forest The History of Sound The Watermark
Always love to watch you when I see you come up to review or chat about upcoming books - you do such a good job - Have a very Merry Christmas - your tree is so festive behind you🧑🏻🎄📕🎈
I loved loved this video! You’ve reminded me of SO many books I want to try including Praiseworthy! Yes! Happy Holidays, Gretchen.
My TBR is equally as large, there were so many books I wanted to read but failed to get round to. I’ve actually managed to fill each month of Ben’s challenge with books already on my shelf. Thank you for all the wonderful videos this year. Have a Happy Christmas🎄⭐️🎄
Love your tree!! Praiseworthy was a biiiiig one that I regret not reading in 2024! (Also, Ben Reads Good's 2025 challenge prompts are SO great!)
Hi Gretchen I have shopped my shelves for Bens prompts and I have all of them covered. Yay.you have some great books to look forward to. Merry Christmas 🎄
You have some great books to roll over into the next year. Praiseworthy and The Night Alphabet are ones that are high priority for me.
Glad you mentioned the Aspen Words Literary Prize. That long list does look really good. As does your stack of books. I don't have plans to read any of them, but there are a couple I at least want to pick up.
The Coast Road and Clear were two of my favorite books this year. I think you'll love them both!
My physical tbr is like 20 books away from haunting my dreams😂😂😂 So I feel you!
Great list! I also would put Coast Road in my list, along with (and here I blush) James by Everett!
Clear and Fireexit are definitely both in my top 10 of 2024, I also really enjoyed The Night Alphabet 😊 I'm adding a few of these to my TBR (not too many, as its long like yours! I really want to re ad The Fertile Earth and Husbands. On my list are Hagstone, Birnam Wood among many others Thank you, I really enjoy your video's
Such a great idea! I can’t wait to pick out my 24 books for 2025. Always love your videos! ✨
I'm also really looking forward to reading Someone Like Us after hearing about it from Barack Obama's top books of 2024 list!
Barack Obama named Someone Like Us in his top 10 list for 2024
Hey Gretchen! Thanks for the shout out about the Aspen Longlist challenge. You probably already noticed, but Fire Exit will satisfy Ben’s February prompt as well, so there ya go!
I just joined his challenge on StoryGraph. With all of my other 2025 reading goals, I think some of my books will fit into those slots for sure and it will be fun.
In regards to your 24 missed in 24, the books that I have read from your list that I will weigh in on for you getting to them, because they were really good: Clear, Covenant of Water
Books that I also have physical copies of but did not get yet either that you have in your video:
Praiseworthy
Night Alphabet (which I also ordered from Blackstone’s 🫣)
The Coast Road
Books that I own and I missed in 2024 that aren’t in your video:
There are Rivers in the Sky
Whale Fall
Catalina
Gliff
The Position of Spoons
The Sequel
Hard by a Great Forest
The History of Sound
The Watermark