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Every year, I set both a quantitative reading goal and a qualitative reading goal. For example: This year, I want to read at least 75 books and I want to read more nonfiction than I did in 2023. As a person who writes professionally about books, I often meet the quantitative goal, but not the qualitative. Looking at my “for work” TBR (which is so long, oh no), I think I might actually meet both goals this year. My “for pleasure/personal growth” TBR is very nonfiction-heavy, so we’ll see how things shake out in my end-of-the-year wrap-up.

For now, let’s talk about the books I read in the first quarter of 2024! Of the 27 books I read between January 1 and March 31, a handful stood out, and I’ve written about them below. Not included here are two incredible graphic novels I reviewed for The Beat: The Baker and the Bard by Fern Haught, a delightfully cozy fantasy adventure, and What’s Wrong? by Erin Williams, a candid exploration of disability told through profiles of Williams and four other disabled people. Both are brilliant, though as you might have noticed, they are wildly different. I highly recommend both.

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