Read With Me - 2024
Welcome to my 2024 booklist, where you'll find a little bit of everything—from page-turning novels and thought-provoking non-fiction to manga that’ll keep you up all night and cook books you’ll want to devour cover to cover. Whether you’re looking to learn something new, escape into another world, or just find your next favorite read, this list has got you covered.
And hey, I’d love to hear from you! Drop me a message on IG @Element_of_Ah with your favorite books, manga, or magazines—I’m always on the lookout for new recommendations. Let’s keep the bookish love going in 2024!
Before you rush off to add more books to your cart (and trust me, I get the urge), let me share a little secret: you don’t need to spend a dime to dive into an amazing reading adventure. I didn’t go out and buy a bunch of new books—though, let’s be honest, that’s always tempting. Instead, I've been hitting my local library hard and exploring my bookshelf, rediscovering some hidden gems I’d meant to read for ages.
Some of these books seriously blew me away. Look for the starred items—they’re the ones that really left an impact. Ready to get inspired?
Career/Finance:
Grow Your Handmade Business - Kari Chapin
⭐ The Witch's Way to Wealth - Jessie DaSilva
Creative Project Management - Michael Dobson
⭐ The Laws of Human Nature, Mastery, The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
Novel & Short Story Writer's Market - Amy Jones
The Wall Street Guide to Building Your Career - Jennifer Merritt
Tell the Bosses We're Coming - Shaun Richman
Rich AF - Vivian Tu
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Selling Your Crafts on Etsy - Marcia Layton Turner
⭐ Million Dollar Consulting, Million Dollar Proposals - Alan Weiss
Cooking:
The Complete Autumn and Winter Cookbook - America's Test Kitchen
Sheet Pan Suppers - Molly Gilbert
Quick & Simple - Jacques Pepin
Crafting:
First Time Sewing - Creative Publishing International
Thrift Shopping - Dandy Donovan
Cutting Machine Crafts with Your Cricut, Sizzix, or Silhouette - Lia Griffith
Trash To Treasure Papermaking - Arnold Grummer
A Year of Creativity - Petra Hoeksema
Super Subversive Cross Stich - Julie Jackson
⭐Mystical Stitches - Christi Johnson
Christmas with Kim-Joy - Kim-Joy
Visible Mending - Arounna Khounnoraj
Zakka from the Heart - Minki Kim
Cool Knitting for Kids - Alex Kuskowski
Keeping a Nature Journal - Claire Leslie
True Vision - LK Ludwig
101 Wire Earrings - Denise Peck
Feminist Stiches - Haley Pierson-Cox
Shedding the Shackles - Lynn Stein
Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts - Martha Stewart
Crafty Girl - Jennifer Traig
Faux Taxidermy Knits - Louise Walker
Drawing and Painting:
The Joy of Watercolor - Emma Block
Botanical Line Drawing - Peggy Dean
Manga For The Beginner: Shoujo - Christopher Hart
⭐ How to Draw Anything Anytime - Kamo
How to Draw Manga! - Tadashi Koda
Draw Every Little Thing - Flora Waycott
Philosophy:
Joyful Militancy - Carla Bergman, Nick Montgomery
That Sucked. Now What? - Dr. Neeta Bhushan
The Solution Focused Brief Therapy Diamond - Elliott E. Connie
Cunningham's Book of Shadows - Scott Cunningham
Think for Yourself - Andrea Debbnick
Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People - Renee Evenson
Take Back the Magic - Perdita Finn
The Enneagram & You - Gina Gomez
Witchcraft - Anastasia Greywolf
The Witch's Way - Shawn Robbins, Leanna Greenaway
⭐ The Big Leap, The Genius Zone - Gay Hendricks
Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Conquering Fear - Harold Kushner
Feng Shui Made Easy - Davina Mackail
Samhain, Mabon, Yule - Llewellyn, Susan Pesznecker
Ask More - Frank Sesno
Entangled Life - Merlin Sheldrake
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tse
⭐ The Socrates Express - Eric Weiner
The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates - Xenophon
Fiction:
Dare Me - Megan Abbott
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
⭐ A Rip in Time, The Poisoner's Ring, A Twist of Fate, A Turn of the Tide, A Castle in the Air, Bitten - Kelley Armstrong
⭐The Familiar - Leigh Bardugo
The Shining Girls - Lauren Beukes
Fierce Reads - Lauren Burniac
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
Rule, Jet, Nash, Rowdy, The Silence of Monsters - Jay Crownover
Hello, Gorgeous, Derik's Bane, Undead and Unemployed - MaryJanice Davidson
⭐ A Conjuring of Ravens +4 - Azalea Ellis
Morgan Is My Name - Sophie Keetch
Fairy Tale - Stephen King
Mr. Robot - Sam Esmail, Courtney Looney
The Shell Game, Pros and Cons, The Heist, The Chase, The Job, The Scam, The Pursuit, The Bounty, Going Rogue, The Recovery Agent, Troublemaker - Janet Evanovich
The Black Witch Chronicles V.1- Laurie Forest
Shadow of Night, The Book of Life, Time's Convert - Deborah Harkness
Check & Mate, Love, Theoretically - Ali Hazelwood
Slow Horses, Dead Lions, The List, Standing by the Wall, Real Tigers, Spook Street, London Rules, Joe Country, Slough House, Bad Actors, The Catch, The Secret Hours, Dolphin Junction, This is What happened - Mick Herron
Squirm - Carl Hiaasen
The Five-Star Weekend - Elin Hilderbrand
The Fortune Seller - Rachel Kapelke-Dale
The Secret of the Old Clock, The Hidden Staircase - Carolyn Keene
The Dixon Rule - Elle Kennedy
The True Love Experiment - Christina Lauren
When He Was Bad, The Unyielding - Shelley Laurenston
The Mystery at Dark Cedars - Edith Lavell
Throne of Glass - Sarah Maas
The Happiness Plan - Susan Mallery
Six Weeks to Live - Catherine McKenzie
The London Seance Society - Sarah Penner
The Complete Elfquest, Volume 1 - Richard Pini, Wendy Pini
After the End, Until the Beginning - Amy Plum
Blood Countess, Poison Priestess, Wicked Like Wildfire - Lana Popovic
Story of O - Pauline Reage
⭐ Hunt on Dark Waters, Blood On The Tide - Katee Robert
Neon Gods - Katee Robert
Dark One Book 1 - Brandon Sanderson
The Near Witch, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, Vicious, Vengeful, City of Ghosts, Darker Shade of Magic - V.E. Schwab
Green Darkness - Anya Seton
Orange - Ichigo Takano
Spill Zone Book 1 - Scott Westerfield
Call Me A Cab - Donald Westlake
Crave, Crush, Covet, Court, Ruined - Tracy Wolff
⭐ Fourth Wing, Iron Flame - Rebecca Yarrow
Thrust - Lidia Yuknavitch
Kids/Teens:
Bad Girls Don't Die - Katie Alender
Demon in the Wood, Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo
The Love Report Volume 1 & 2 - BeKa
Zora and Me - Victoria Bond, T.R. Simon
The School for Good and Evil - Soman Chainani
Feminist AF - Brittney Cooper, Chanel Tanner, Susana Morris
⭐ Stealing Parker - Miranda Kenneally
Fire Logic - Laurie Marks
My Beating Teenage Heart - C.K. Kelly Martin
The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones - Daven McQueen
Double Love - Francine Pascal
Mumbet's Declaration of Independence - Gretchen Woelfle
Other:
The Calorie Myth - Jonathan Bailor
⭐ The Body - Bill Bryson
A Crack In Creation - Jennifer Doudna
Wild New World - Dan Flores
Atlas Obscura - Joshua Foer
Cryptanalysis - Helen Gaines
⭐The 1619 Project - Nikole Hannah-Jones
Feng Shui For Dummies - David Kennedy
The Capsule Wardrobe: 1,000 Outfits from 30 Pieces - Wendy Mak
Behave - Robert Sapolsky
Calypso - David Sedaris
Office Feng Shui - Darrin Zeer