Devour Your TBR discussion

Mayday! Mayday! Read books with characters in trouble—whether the stakes are low (like a cute rom-com) or high (like an edge-of-your-seat thriller) is up to YOU.

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!

currently reading:

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Sounds great!
I have a few planned for May. I'll get back to update the comment. :)

Almost everything I read fits this theme: whether Horror, SciFi, Psychological Thriller, Fantasy. Maybe that says something about me.🙂
TBR: Neverest KU Virtual IF I can hold off till Monday!
Graveyard of Lost Children NG ARC Release May 9
Fatal North: Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition Scribd Virtual
What Lies in the Woods
Rules for Vanishing
Ascension New
Cofer Woods KU
The Eden Test New
The Blinds Mount TBR
The Seep Mount TBR
My Dearest Darkest Mount TBR
Empire of the Vampire Libby Virtual Grimdark
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
Mountain of the Dead: The Dyatlov Pass Incident
Return to Dyatlov Pass
Dyatlov Pass: Based on the true story that haunted Russia
Ghosts of Harvard

Titles Read:
1. ** Best Men
2. ** The Buried
3. ** Sneak Peek for Maeve Fly
4. ** Distress Signals Extra Stars for the amount of danger to multiple characters!
5. **and again, EXTRA Stars! Welcome to Nightmare Island
6. **yep, Extra Extra Extra stars! So much danger! So strong a heroine! The Last Word
7. ****** Black River Orchard
8. **** Graveyard of Lost Children
9. **** Serial Publication
10. **** Adrift
11. **** Summer Rental
12. ***** Slashtag
13. **** Neverest
14. **** Cofer Woods
15. **** There's Something Wrong with Aunty Beth
16. **** Fractal Noise
17. Ready, Set, Mars
18. ****Table for 3
19. **Sew Into You
20. *The Clever Octopus
21. ****Two Minutes With the Devil, Matt Micheli
22. ****Ghost 19
23. ****The Book of Cold Cases
24. ****Delicate Condition
25. ****3:33
26. ****Whatever Remains Of Us In The End
27. ****The Darwin Project
28. ****Slime Doesn't Pay!
29. ****The World Beneath: Splatter at Sea
30. **OVEREMOTIONAL by David Fenne, Sampler, NetGalley
31. **** Witch King
32. ***Restoration
33. 8 Tiny Reindeer: An Advent Calendar Adventure
34. Cone Dog
35.*The Celebrants
36. ***Dyer Lane
37. ****Once Returned
38. ***Murder Off the Books

Avid's Mayday Mayday!

TBR
56 Days
Big Bad
How to Hang a Witch
Forged
Mere Mortals
We Were Kings
Five Survive
The Writing Retreat
A Sinister Revenge
Out of the Ashes
Going Dark
The Only Survivors
✔️Four Found Dead ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️Delicious Monsters ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️Hidden Pictures ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Non-TBR books- Fit-Theme
✔️We Don't Swim Here ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️The Eden Test ⭐⭐⭐
✔️Our Share of Night ⭐⭐⭐
✔️Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake ⭐⭐

Non-TBR books-Off-Theme
✔️The Fiancée Farce ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️The Off Limits Rule ⭐⭐⭐

Cobwebby Eldritch Reading Reindeer wrote: "Almost everything I read fits this theme: whether Horror, SciFi, Psychological Thriller, Dantasy. Maybe that says something about me.🙂
TBR: Ascension New
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Haha same here!

Given my love of horror and mysteries, I have a lot of options for themed reads! They will be as follows:

- Big Bad by Lily Anderson
- Cackle by Rachel Harrison
- Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives by Adam Cesare
- For You and Only You by Caroline Kepnes
- Going Dark by Melissa de la Cruz
- Harley Quinn: Reckoning by Rachael Allen
- Into the Pit by Scott Cawthon
- Into the Sublime by Kate A. Boorman
- A Long Stretch of Bad Days by Mindy McGinnis
- Mastering the Art of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge
- Missing Clarissa by Ripley Jones
- Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson
- Nine Lives by Peter Swanson
- Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six by Lisa Unger
- These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall
- Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

Currently Reading:
- The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield
- Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss

My other reads will be:

- Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brene Brown
- By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
- Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Loathe to Love You by Ali Hazelwood
- The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
- My Imaginary Mary by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
- Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

Last, but not least, I'll either read Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, or Mansfield Park. I just haven't decided which one yet.

Pretty much every book I read has someone in trouble whether it's being yelled at and threatened with arrest for interfering by the detective in charge or from the killer itself...for the same reason lol.

Mayday, Mayday 2023

Books/authors linked when read

Murder at the Cheese Shop Dani Simms 5/4/23
Tell-Tale Bones Carolyn Haines 5/16/23
Poppy Harmon and the Shooting Star Lee Hollis 5/19/23
Flat White Fatality Emmaline Duncan 5/22/23
The Diva Delivers on a PromiseKrista Davis 5/24/23
Witch Upon a Star Angela M. Sanders 5/23/23
Give Fudge a Chance Nancy CoCo 5/28/23
Blueberry Blunder Amanda Flower 5/30/23
Hard Dough Homicide Olivia Matthews 5/25/23
Murder Off the Books Tamara Berry 5/31/23
Berth Mark Wendy Neugent 5/10/23

I'm still planning things out, but here's a list of all the books I have planned thus far!

- Go the Distance by Jen Calonita

- Broken Bonds by J. Bree

- Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

- The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones

💕 MY TBR 💕
➽ Top Books I want to read this month!



💖 PROGRESS 💖


➽ Fence, Vol. 5: Rise ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ You'd Be Home Now ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ This Is the Way the World Ends ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
➽ Troy ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ Killers of a Certain Age ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ The Last Tale of the Flower Bride ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ The Agathas ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ XOXO ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ The Last Time We Say Goodbye ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I'll for sure read 'The Flight Attendant' in May

Will add other books here later

Currently reading:
↪︎ A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

TBR:
↪︎ Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman
↪︎ Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
↪︎ Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Most of the books I read in the average month fit this prompt 😅

TBR & current reads:
(💀 on theme, 💗 off theme)
💀 Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women {currently reading}
💀 The Fragile Threads of Power {currently reading}
💀 Dracula Daily: Reading Bram Stoker's Dracula in Real Time With Commentary by the Internet {currently reading}
💀 Eragon {re-read; currently reading}

completed reads:
💗 The Awkward Yeti Presents: Heart and Brain: Onward to Good Things!: A Heart and Brain Collection ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 Hannah-Beast ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 Coraline ⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 Kingdom of Ash ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 Swordheart ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 The Last Tale of the Flower Bride ⭐⭐
💀 Our Own Unique Affliction ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
💀 Shutter ⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 Howl’s Moving Castle ❌DNF❌
💀 Looking Glass Sound ⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 The Salt Grows Heavy ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 Hidden Pictures ⭐💫
💀 Sacred Lamb ⭐⭐
💀 The Asylum Confessions ❌DNF❌
💀 City of Ghosts ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (re-read)
💀 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue ⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 Don't Kiss the Bride ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
💀 The Ruins ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (re-read)

Not entirely sure what I'm going to be reading yet so I'll be adding as I go.

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Doesn't fit theme

Seems like just about any fiction book should fit this theme, as the nature of plot is to get characters into trouble. That said, here is my reading hopefuls for May (I'll add a * to those that fit the theme):

*Tress of the Emerald Sea - FINISHED
Six of Crows
A is for Alibi
Stars Above
*Nansen - FINISHED (lost on the polar ice in 1896 w/o adequate navigational tools, sounds like trouble to me!)
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights - FINISHED
*Wolf Hollow - FINISHED
Shiloh
*Firekeeper's Daughter - FINISHED
*The Door in the Wall - FINISHED
Kira-Kira - FINISHED
*Teen Titans: Beast Boy Loves Raven - FINISHED

T. wrote: "Seems like just about any fiction book should fit this theme, as the nature of plot is to get characters into trouble. "

Yeah... the theme was a lot more specific in my head than it has turned out to be in actuality 😅

THRILLERS ETC🩸🔪🕵

✿ You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks
✿ The It Girl by Ruth Ware
✿ The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks
✿ Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield 📲
✿ 2nd Chance by James Patterson 📲
✿ Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister 🎧
✿ The Family Game by Catherine Steadman 🎧
✿ The Housemaid by Freida McFadden🎧
✿ The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell🪪

FANTASY🧚‍♀️🏹🔮🏰🪄

✿ House of Earth and Blood and House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas📲

CATCH-UP (aka library books I need to finish before I return them lol)📖☕

✿ The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman🪪
✿ Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction by Grady Hendrix🪪
✿ Exes and O's by Amy Lea🪪
✿ Blood on the Tracks, Vol. 1 by Shuzo Oshimi🪪
✿ Uzumaki by Junji Ito🪪
✿ Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex by Rachel Feltman ⭐⭐⭐

📲On Kindle
🪪From Library
🎧Audiobook

I'm so bad at sticking to TBRs, but here's what I'm hoping to read in May!

-The Bone Shard War by Andrea Stewart
-A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
-A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon
-In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
-The Shadow of Perseus by Claire Heywood

I'm sure there will be others that I'll end up picking up, but these are the ones I'm going to try and prioritize!

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Here is what I read so far this month that fits the theme:

Blacktop Wasteland
Death by Spiced Chai
Lost Boy: The true story of Captain Hook

I have been in a really bad reading slump and I am trying to get out of it so here it goes....

Finished:

Finished everything I wanted to and a couple extra, msg 9 :)