Happy New Year! It’s lastly time to formally begin the 2024 Read Harder Challenge! Throughout the yr, I’ll be sharing suggestions of books to learn that full every of the duties. A pair titles might be obtainable for everybody, whereas paid subscribers to the Read Harder publication will get extra suggestions, plus you’ll have the opportunity to commerce concepts within the feedback with different subscribers.
What higher place to begin than from the highest? Task primary is Read a cozy fantasy. This is without doubt one of the duties I’m most enthusiastic about, as a result of that is a subgenre I lately fell in love with. Why learn cozy fantasy in 2024? Because this subgenre has exploded in reputation recently! If you haven’t tried it already, that is a good time to see what all of the fuss is about. The Read Harder Challenge is a chance to pattern sorts of books you may not in any other case have picked up. You may even discover a new favourite!
Without additional ado, listed below are seven cozy fantasy books you should utilize to full job quantity one of many 2024 Read Harder Challenge.
Legends and Lattes and Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree
I couldn’t have a record of cozy fantasy suggestions with out mentioning the guide that helped propel the subgenre into its present reputation, Legends and Lattes. This is a very mild, slow-paced fantasy novel about an orc hanging up her sword to begin a espresso store in a city the place nobody has even heard of espresso. It has low stakes, a discovered household component, and a slow-burn F/F romance. The prequel is out now, and it’s simply pretty much as good, however set in a rundown bookstore. And it has an owl/pug gryphet named Potroast!
Hakumei & Mikochi: Tiny Little Life within the Woods by Takuto Kashiki
Comics are a excellent spot to discover cozy fantasy! This cozy fantasy manga is about two little sprites dwelling within the woods collectively, stepping into adventures. It’s completely cute, and every quantity is a form of quick story assortment, providing vignettes about them trying to find their misplaced pockets available in the market, or visiting a good friend, or making meals collectively. It’s a very mild learn, and there are eleven books within the collection thus far!
Oh, I virtually forgot, let me introduce you to the mascot of this yr’s Read Harder Challenge: my canine Scrappy. You’ll be seeing a lot of him. He’s a three-year-old little pitbull combine that I adopted from Mexico 9 months in the past, and he’s a menace. I am keen on him. This is a image of us watching the primary dawn of 2024 collectively.
Which cozy fantasy guide are you planning to learn to full job primary? Let us know within the feedback! I’d additionally love to hear which duties you’re wanting ahead to, and which you suppose might be hardest to full.
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