Devour Your TBR discussion

It's time for Study Hall September!

I want you to read books recommended by other readers, whether that's your best friend, your mom, or that random booktok account you started following the other day. If you added it to your TBR shelf because someone else raved about it, now is the time!

REMINDER: You don't have to only post the books you read that fit the theme, as long as one or more of your reads during the month match the prompt! (I personally like to notate in my list which of my reads fit the theme and which ones don't!)

If you have any questions, check our general FAQ topic and see if it's been answered already. If not, ask away!

Happy reading, friends!

Sorry this month's post is up so late - the end of August slipped right past me!

1.*Uncharted Waters
2.*What We Fed to the Manticore Audio
3.*Beneath the Maize
4. *Alien Genesis
5.*The Cabin on Souder Hill
6.*Anne and Her Tower of Giraffes: The Adventurous Life of the First Giraffologist
7.*What We Fed to the ManticoreARC book
8.*The Sunbearer Trials ARC audio
9.*The Sunbearer Trials book ARC
10.*The Weight of Blood
11.Descent
12.*The Other Place
13.*Devil in Ohio
14. *Back to the Garden
15. *Z2134
16.*Gallows Hill
17.*The Island: Tales of Terror
18. *Saving Sanders: A Very Human Dog Lover Story
19. *Dogs of the Deadlands
20. *Mask of Death: Supernatural Suspense with Scary & Horrifying Monsters
21. The Amusement Park
22. *Spidersight: A Horror Novel
23. Branden's Ghosts: The First Hunt 5*
24. Calix and the Fire Demon
25. *Moral Code 5*
26. *The Wehrwolf*5
27. Slaughter Lake unrated
28. Daphne 3*
29. The House Across the Street 5*
30. The Haunting of Littman House: A Paranormal Ghost Story 4*
31. *Hemlock Grove 5*
32. Hollow Moon
33. *It Waits on the Top Floor 5*
34. *Shadows of Death: Supernatural Suspense with Scary & Horrifying Monsters 5*
35. *The Ghostly Visitation: A Sycamore Grove Paranormal Cozy Mystery *5
36. *We Spread *5
37. *A Liar and a Layer*5
38. *Slaughter at Seabridge*5
39. *Shell Game*4
40. *Fairy Tale

Avid's Study Hall September

TBR Books that fit theme
Hook, Line, and Sinker -rec'd on FB ★★★ & 1/2
Upgrade - BOTM book ★★★★★
Love on the Brain - BOTM book and rec'd on FB- ★★★ & 1/4
Killers of a Certain Age -author rec'd to me ★★★★&3/4
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them - in library magazine ★★★

TBR Books that don't fit theme
The Counselors ★★★
Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod ★★ & 1/2
Very Bad People ★★ & 3/4
Rivals ★★★★

Non-TBR Books that fit theme
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape - GR yearly nominee ★★★ & 1/2

Non-TBR Books that don't fit theme
How to Survive Your Murder ★★ & 1/4
These Fleeting Shadows ★★★ & 3/4
All Signs Point to Yes ★★★
Blackwater ★★★

Ravenfall by Kalyn Josephson - 5 Stars
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones - DNF
It Looks Like Us by Alison Ames - 4.5 Stars
Raising the Horseman by Serena Valentino - 4.5 Stars
The Last Book You'll Ever Read by Cullen Bunn - 3.75 Stars
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert - 4.75 Stars
The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - 5 Stars
The Killing Code by Ellie Marney - 3.5 Stars
The Epic Story of Every Living Thing by Deb Caletti - 3.75 Stars
Lord of the Fly Fest by Goldy Moldavsky - 3.25 Stars
Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen - 4.5 Stars
Soul of the Deep by Natasha Bowen -

My themed reads will be:

- The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer
- The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss
- Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

My non-themed reads will be:
- The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield
- Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton
- Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives by Adam Cesare
- Carnival Chaos by Ron Bates
The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed by Sara Gay Forden
- The Initial Insult by Mindy McGinnis
- Into the Sublime by Kate A. Boorman
- Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- My Imaginary Mary by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
- Nothing More to Tell by Karen M. McManus
- One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
- The Retreat by Sarah Pearse
- Romancing Mr Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

My spot! =D

Completed
✦Wicked Promises by S. Massery ▪️ Social Media Rec
✦Phase of Hate by Coralee June ▪️ Social Media/Author Rec
✦Renegades by Marissa Meyer ▪️ Hype
✦All Systems Red by Martha Wells ▪️ Social Media/Hype
✦The Chase by Elle Kennedy ▪️ Hype/GR Rec
✦The Young Elites by Marie Lu ▪️ Hype
✦Mansplainer by Avery Flynn ▪️ Publisher Rec
✦All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody, Christine Lynn Herman ▪️ Hype/Social Media Rec
✦Gilded by Marissa Meyer ▪️ Hype
✦Midnight Moon: Alpha Games Book One by Samantha Britt ▪️ Social Media Rec
✦The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes ▪️ Hype/GR Rec
✦Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy by Cassandra Clare ▪️ Hype
✦The Risk by Elle Kennedy ▪️ Hype/GR Rec
✦The Play by Elle Kennedy ▪️ Hype/GR Rec
✦The Dare by Elle Kennedy ▪️ Hype/GR Rec
✦Challenged Mate: Alpha Games Book Two by Samantha Britt ▪️ Social Media Rec
✦Rule #1: You Can't Date the Coach's Daughter by Anne-Marie Meyer ▪️ Social Media Rec
✦Kiss and Don't Tell by Meghan Quinn ▪️ Social Media Rec
✦Those Three Little Wordsby Meghan Quinn ▪️ Social Media Rec
✦How to Fake It in Hollywood by Ava Wilder ▪️ Social Media Rec
✦Not the Witch You Wed by April Asher ▪️ Social Media Rec
✦The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren ▪️ GR User Rec
✦The Unbreakable Bladesong Druid by Annette Marie
✦Fauxmance by Cookie O'Gorman
✦Finale by Stephanie Garber ▪️ Hype
✦The One Night by Meghan Quinn ▪️ Social Media Rec
✦I Like You Like That by Kayla Grosse ▪️ Social Media Rec

📚 MY TBR 📚
➽ Top Books I want to read



📚 PROGRESS 📚


The Sunbearer Trials ➽ Hype/Social Media
The Library of the Unwritten ➽ Melanie @ meltotheany
I'm Glad My Mom Died ➽ Maria @ The Character Study
Anatomy: A Love Story ➽ Andee @ Mouse Reads
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It ➽ Destiny @ howlinglibraries
Sweat and Soap, Vol. 1 ➽ Destiny @ howlinglibraries
Malibu Rising ➽ Hype/Social Media
Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1 ➽ May @ foreverandeverly
The Marvellers ➽ Hype/Social Media

They Both Die at the End
After
Fairy Tale
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
Mr Wrong Number

I actually have quite a few on the line anyway :)

recommended in any way:


other:

TBR (✨ for prompt-fitting ones)
• Book of Night
• Just Like Mother
• The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
• The Ghost that Ate Us
• House of Earth and Blood
✨ Sea of Thieves: Athena's Fortune (recommended by my spouse)
✨ I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (recommended by my mom)
• The Dead House
• Return To The Black Farm
✨ Under the Whispering Door (recommended by Caro)
• Spy x Family, Vol. 8
✨ The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Vol. 1 (recommended by Malli)
• Only Human
✨ How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals (recommended by Malli)
• Black Tide
• The Final Girl Support Group
• Kingdom of the Cursed
✨ Wolfsong (recommended by Sionna)
• My Heart Is a Chainsaw
• Full Throttle
• Hammers on Bone
• Frightmares
• Tender is the Flesh
• A Dowry of Blood
• A ​Court of Silver Flames
• Vespertine



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completed reads (✨ for prompt-fitting ones)
• Spy x Family, Vol. 5
• Spy x Family, Vol. 6
• Spy x Family, Vol. 7
• One Cup at a Time: A Cat's Café Collection

Some TBR ideas for this theme are:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (recommended by my sister)
Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard (recommended by literary magazine)
What Are People For?: Essays (recommended by Jane Mount and Barbara Kingsolver)

More to come

TBA

Funny! I forgot what I decided to read this month for this challenge. I just finished a book that was recommended by the Book of the Month (4 years ago). I finally read it this week. 4 stars - page-turner with some controversy. The topics covered are probably not for everyone. I feel like this book flew under the radar when it came out. It almost has a Handmaid's Tale feel to it.