Devour Your TBR discussion

Want to participate in Monstrous March? Then this is the place to be!

Simply post your TBR - AKA the list of monstrous books you want to read - here and you're officially signed up!

Don't forget to adapt your TBR-comment throughout the challenge.
Strike the books you've read and add the books you're adding to your jar should you decide on putting in more options.

My Monstrous March TBR-
The Grip of It by Jac Jemc
Will Haunt You by Brian Kirk
Seven Days by Patrick Senécal
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White

Monstrous March TBR


General TBR


I might add The Priory of the Orange Tree if I have time because the fact that it's almost 900 pages absolutely terrifies me.

Bri wrote: "My Monstrous March TBR-
The Grip of It by Jac Jemc
Will Haunt You by Brian Kirk
Seven Days by [author:Patrick Senéc..."

The Grip of It sounds so good! I'm also probably reading Will Haunt You for MM, unless I can get to it before the end of Feb :)

abi wrote: "Monstrous March TBR
"

Ooooh, I love Grady Hendrix 😍

5 Monstrous Books that have been on my TBR list for too long:

Land of Bones - Glenn Rolfe
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Devil's Retribution - Debbie Boek
Pet Sematary - Stephen King
Dracula - Bram Stoker

I'm not much of a fan of all-out horror, but I have a few creepyish books I've been saving up... ;)
I also want to read The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstien by Kiersten White
and Far From You by Tess Sharpe,
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant,
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor,
The Wicked King by Holly Black,
The Truth About Keeping Secrets by Savannah Brown,
Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly,
and We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
(I'm not able to edit my comments on the GR app, so I'll probably just strike out all the books I read at the end.)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco

Backups:

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
Slasher Girls & Monster Boys by April Genevieve Tucholke (et al.)
You by Caroline Kepnes
Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

destiny ♡⚔♡ wrote: "Ooooh, I love Grady Hendrix 😍"

I've never read anything by them before but I've heard good things about that book so I thought why not!

Monstrous is my middle name LOL:
print:
Another
The Anomaly
The Haunted
The Merciless
Nine Perfect Strangers
Not That I Could Tell
Goosebumps boxed 13-16
Goosebumps boxed 21-24
The Silent Patient

Kindle:
Creatures: The Legacy of Frankenstein NetGalley ARC
Frankenstein (The 1818 Text)
For Such a Time as This: Hope and Forgiveness After the Charleston Massacre NetGalley ARC
Grace Will Lead Me Home by Jennifer Berry Hawes NetGalley ARC
The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation NetGalley ARC
Elevation
Circus Tarot
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories: Twisted Tales Not to Be Read at Night!

Three Truths and Other Unsettling Tales--GR review
At The Cemetery Gates: Volume 2
Lock Every Door NetGalley ARC
My Sister, the Serial Killer NetGalley ARC
Master of the Forest: A Horror Novel Set in Siberia
Paradise, Maine NetGalley ARC
In the Shadow of Spindrift House NetGalley ARC
Lucifer SamLUCIFER SAM by Leo Darke (publisher ARC, April 15)
The Bakken Blade
Palace of Ghosts
Cthulhu Armageddon
Crow's Cottage
A Breath from the Sky: Unusual Stories of Possession
Piercing the Veil
Surviving the Swamp
The Worship of Mystery
The House Next Door Mister Jones Mysteries #3)
Necropolis
The Widening Gyre
Spells, Salt, & Steel
Martian Insurrection
Dragon Assassin 3: Dark Wings
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Widening Gyre
The Devil Virus
Lovecraft Alive!: A Collection of Lovecraftian Stories
After the Green Withered
Gone is Gone
Deep Zero
A Game For All The Family
Lies Never Sleep
Dead of Winter
Dead of Spring
The Treasure of Westminster Abbey: A ghost story
Corporate Cthulhu: Lovecraftian Tales of Bureaucratic Nightmare
Dead God of Holdrege Valley
The Ghost of Normandy Road
The Girls on the Hill
Asteroids: Escape from the Arcadians
The Long Dead
Clouds and Earth
The Curse: A Post-Apocalyptic Thriller
The Sinners
The Haunting of Elmwood Manor
At The Cemetery Gates: Volume 2
In the Shadow of Spindrift House


(April is a full-month "Spring Into Horror" Readathon at Seasons of Reading blog (also Seasons of Reading Group on GR and on FB), so I'll carry over whatever I don't read this month for April Horror reading.)

I'm reading a monster of a book for March, around 1,000 pages.

The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition

TBR:
The Stormlight Archive series:
The Way of Kings 3-30 to
Mistborn series:
The Final Empire 5🌟3-2 to 3-7
The Well of Ascension 5🌟3-8 to 3-13
The Hero of Ages 5🌟3-15 to 3-29
The Alloy of Law 4🌟 3-29 to 3-30
Loves Music, Loves to Dance
Death Masks

LIBRARY BOOKS:
The Bear and the Nightingale returned to read Mistborn, might come back to some other time

BOOKS THAT WEREN'T ON MY TBR:
Crenshaw 4🌟 3-30

So this month, I'm using the "Monstrous" theme for books both with monsters/monstrous features AND for books that I've had an absolutely monstrous time getting around to reading. Some are one or the other interpretation, and some are both.

Vengeful
Heartless
The Graveyard Book
The Hero of Ages
Spinning Silver
All the Light We Cannot See
Becoming
The Near Witch (re-read)
We Hunt the Flame (ARC)
Aurora Rising (ARC)
The Candle and the Flame (ARC)

Hello everyone! I'm new to interacting in the group :) I wish everyone luck on their TBR! Mine is hopefully going to be:
- Stain by A.G. Howard
- finish A Curse So Dark and Lonely
- Spin the Dawn (ARC)
- Oddmire: Changeling by William Ritter (ARC)
- Undying #2 (audio book)
- The Waning Age by S.E. Grove
My TBR is monstrous lol. Wish me luck!

Jamie wrote: "I'm also going with a monster big book for March. The Way Of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, it has 1,001 pages. If I finish it before the end of March I might continue with the Dresden Files by Jim Bu..."

Good luck with Way of Kings! That series is one of the best fantasy series ever! The audio is really good as well. Dresden Files is also great. Which Dresden book are you on?

okay so this is going to be the shortest TBR I have ever made lol... Apparently YA authors don't like writing scary books which is a shame. SO! I guess I'm going off the map for this month!

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
The Night Olivia Fell

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury Review Here
The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales by Kate Mosse
Prince of Nightmares by John McNee Review Here
Halcyon by Rio Youers Review Here
and I'm also adding
The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas because the book itself is a monster that will likely take me the entire month to get through. XD

My first time with this group, I will simply post all of what is currently in my TBR fitting the theme, and see how much I get to during the month. This seems like a great way to steal find suggestions from other readers too.

In order of publication:
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson - finished 3/13/2019
Dark Gods by T.E.D. Klein. (don't know if I will have the dough to spare for a copy of this but we will see) not reading this month, due to cost and current bandwidth. UPDATE: ordered it from Thriftbooks because the price dropped in half. Not committing to reading it this month though.
Books of Blood: Volume One by Clive Barker finished 3/6/19. That last story, In the Hills, the Cities, hoo boy!
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (first of two recommendations from my local public library's director) - finished 3/18/2019.
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill - finished 3/4/19.
Evil Librarian by Michelle Knudsen NOPE, not reading it. Way too pre-teen-ish.
Revival by Uncle Steve - finished 3/9/2019. 5 starts, it was electric!
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff - finished 3/11/2019
Kill Creek by Scott Thomas (second of two recommendations from my local public library's director) not reading this month due to unavailability at library.
Added: The Vampire's Assistant - finished 3/16/2019

Whew! That's gonna be a lot of scary stuff (hopefully). I may not sleep at all in March. Who am I kidding, I have kids so I will not be sleeping anyway.

Update 3/1/2019: Challenge started! I have over 3000 pages lined up to read this month. Starting 'Monstrous' list with NOS4A2. I am eliminating any chance of reading Kill Creek (because it is not available at my public library) or Dark Gods (because of cost and aforementioned 3000 pages already on hand).

Update 3/11/2019:: I'm gonna make it with time to spare!

Update 3/13/2019:: All I have to read now to finish my initial TBR plan is Hex. I took out From a Buick 8 from the library too, in keeping with the month's theme.

Update 3/18/2019: ...and finishing my original ambitious list today! Even with the two I had to remove due to unavailability, that is over 3000 pages blitzed and the month is not even 2/3 done. Yay me! Some damn good stuff there too that, were it not for this challenge, I don't know when I might have gotten to.

Marc wrote: "My first time with this group, I will simply post all of what is currently in my TBR fitting the theme, and see how much I get to during the month. This seems like a great way to steal find suggest..."

I LOVED HEX!!

Universal Harvester
Cabin at the End of the World
And Then There Were None
Origin
Baby Teeth

Like some others here I will go with

- Pet Sematary by Stephen King

I've got lots of unread horror books, but as I already read the new release from Josh Malerman

- On This, the Day of the Pig which was on my tbr I think I will continue with his work

- Unbury Carol
- Goblin: A Novel in Six Novellas

backup reads will maybe be
- The Cabin at the End of the World
- A Head Full of Ghosts
both by Paul Tremblay

Graphic Novel:
- Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood by Marjorie M. Liu & Sana Takeda

My tentative TBR for March:

-Alice Isn't Dead
-I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
-The Night Sister
-Nightmares and Dreamscapes (reread)
-Heart-Shaped Box

My Tentative TBR:

(Finished)
(Finished)
(Finished)
(Finished)
(Finished)
(Finished)

tentative tbr not sure how much i will get through this month

Academ's Fury
Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition 1
A Court of Mist and Fury
Heir of Fire
Dead Beat
The High King's Tomb
Fairy Tail Master's Edition, Vol. 1
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Caliban's War

I'm not a huge fan of scary stories, but I like the idea of monstrous sized books! It works perfectly for what's already on my list to read this year. Up next is the Otherland series by Tad Williams. There's over 3,000 pages in this series.

City of Golden Shadow
River of Blue Fire
Mountain of Black Glass
Sea of Silver Light

I’m going to count March as various different things.

1) The books I’m taking awhile to read (saw someone else mention this and decided to do it):

Labyrinth lost
Heroine Complex
The adventurers guild
Hello sunshine
Save the date

2) Big books:

Eona
The women’s war

3) Monstrous books/Dark fantasy:

Wicked saints
The queen of blood

4) Spookyish books:

Ruby and Olivia
The architect of song

Good luck to everyone!

1. The Sea of Monsters (has 'monster' in the title)
2. Final Girls
3. The Woman in the Window
4. Into the Water
5. The Graveyard Book
6. Blood Promise (vampires are pretty monstrous)
7. The Silkworm
8. A Question of Holmes
Hopefully i get to all these books!

Here's what I've got planned so far:
The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty
Brave New World
Carrie
Jumper
Northanger Abbey

Amanda wrote: "Jamie wrote: "I'm also going with a monster big book for March. The Way Of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, it has 1,001 pages. If I finish it before the end of March I might continue with the Dresden F..."
Thank you 😊 I'm on book 5 of The Dresden Files , about 100 pages in, but haven't read any of it this month.

Bryce wrote: "tentative tbr not sure how much i will get through this month
The Eye of the World
Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition 1
A Court of Mist and Fury
[book:H..."
I hope you enjoy the Wheel Of Time series 😊 I read them last year and loved them!

keep trying to get into series. it seems good but i am having trouble getting into the book. are the later books easier to get into? also does the pace pick up

I have thrillers to get trough that I bought at the book sale in Sweden,

Hemmet
Koka björn
Silvervägen
Norra Latin

Then my other tbr, which doesn't include thrillers, is;

A Clash of Kings (read at least 50% during the month) - currently reading
Kingdom of Ash (read at least 50% during the month)
City of Glass
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Dark Vault: Unlock the Archive (read at least the first book) - currently reading

@Bryce I find most author's newer books are easier to get into as they grow as a writer and get into a grove writing in that world. The later books do pick up once there's not as much world building going on as well, tho the later books do have some world building.

Krystal wrote: "I LOVED HEX!! "

I hope I will be filled with the same excitement once I read it! I have already checked it out from the library, along with 4 other books on my list for March, after I posted it... so ready for 3/1/19 to drop!

These aren't spooky books, but they are monsters!




And if I can finish these two:



For a total of 3,342 pages

monstrous march tbr going for more length than spooky books but will see if i can get some monster books in there as well

The Casual Vacancy

Blue Lily, Lily Blue

I plan on reading:
A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
A Thin Dark Line By Tami Hoag
And hopefully The Lord of the rings Trilogy!

Two of them may not be Horror or Dark themed but they are Monsters and have Fantastic Monsters in them.

Terry wrote: "These aren't spooky books, but they are monsters!




And if I can finish these two:



For..."

Monstrous indeed. 😯😯 Good luck!

I'm not a huge reader of horror or traditional monster books, so I actually wanted to keep this challenge as is to, you know, challenge myself, but I also want/need to catch up on other books as well. So pardon my short TBR list once more, friends, but here's what I hope to tackle:

Heart Of Jet
Demon's Prize
Lycopolis

BOOM! Have started all the monstrous books on my TBR!

C.E. wrote: "I'm not a huge reader of horror or traditional monster books, so I actually wanted to keep this challenge as is to, you know, challenge myself, but I also want/need to catch up on other books as we..."

I've just added all of these, they sound like fun!!

Terry wrote: "These aren't spooky books, but they are monsters!




And if I can finish these two:



For..."

I have The Stormlight Archive on my to-read for March too 😊 Will it be your first time reading it?

Krystal wrote: "C.E. wrote: "I'm not a huge reader of horror or traditional monster books, so I actually wanted to keep this challenge as is to, you know, challenge myself, but I also want/need to catch up on othe..."

Right?! Here's hoping we won't be disappointed! or I won't be if I read all of them first lol!

I’m definitely more of a ‘dark fantasy’ person as opposed to horror/thrillers, so I’m going with the monstrous interpretation of it:
1) The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
2) This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab
3) A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (Titles pretty self explanatory)
4) The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke
5) To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo
6) Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer
I’m pretty sure these are all monstrous (if deadly sirens and talking wolves count), so I’m super excited to start

Jamie wrote: "Terry wrote: "These aren't spooky books, but they are monsters!




And if I can finish these two:



It is my first time! I've only ever finished The Final Empire by Sanderson ,so I am excited for these!

Since I suspect I have failed the last two months' challenges because I set up a specific TBR and got intimidated by having to read those specific books, I am just going to go ahead and say my TBR for March is any spooky book on my ' want-to-read- ' shelf here on Goodreads.

Terry wrote: "Jamie wrote: "Terry wrote: "These aren't spooky books, but they are monsters!




And if I can finish these two:



It is m..."

It'll be my first time reading The Stormlight Archive too. I've read the few WoT books he finished and Skyward by Brandon Sanderson. I'm excited for Stormlight and hoping to pick up more of his books.

Terry wrote: "These aren't spooky books, but they are monsters!




And if I can finish these two:



For..."

My absolute favourite!!

I don't read that much horror or thrillers, so I chose one horror book, one scary paranormal book and two mystery books:



I hope I manage to read all of them!

The Silkworm
Career of Evil
PROFAJLER
Indigo
The Vanished Ones

They're all mystery/thrillers. I'm hoping I'll be able to go through them all (plus the first two are pretty big - maybe not monstrous exactly but close).