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My themed read will be:-
Currently reading:
- The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield
- Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
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Other reads will be:
- All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
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- Big Bad by Lily Anderson
- By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
- Camp Sylvania by Julie Murphy
- Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano
- Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine
- Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong
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- Doctor Who Meets Scratchman by Tom Baker
- The Drift by CJ Tudor
- Emma of 83rd Street by Audrey Bellezza
- The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer
- Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- Going Dark by Melissa de la Cruz
- Harley Quinn: Reckoning by Rachael Allen
- Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman
- An Improbable Season by Rosalyn Eves
- Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
- The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst
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- Love & War by Melissa de la Cruz
- Missing Clarissa by Ripley Jones
- My Imaginary Mary by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
- Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy by Angie Thomas
- Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi
- Nine Lives by Peter Swanson
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- Panic by Lauren Oliver
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Queerly Beloved by Susie Dumond
- Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball by Jason June
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- Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
- Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- The Stitchers by Lorien Lawrence
- Submechanophobia: An AFK Book by Scott Cawthon
- The Tale of the Gravemother (Are You Afraid of the Dark #1) by Rin Chupeco
- These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall
- This Coven Won't Break by Isabel Sterling
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- What's Coming to Me by Francesca Padilla
- Women Talking by Miriam Toews
Almost Autumn!TBR:
September Fantasy Devour Your TBR;
The Darkness Before Them: GR Giveaway Win
ALTERNATES: THE KNIFE OF NEVER LETTING GO.
LABYRINTH OF THE SPIRITS.
GODS OF LOVECRAFT.
DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE.
WARRIOR OF THE WIND. NG ARC new
IN SEARCH OF SUPERPOWERS. Edelweiss.
EMPIRE OF EXILES. KINDLE. August 22.
PRENTICE ASH. Antlers. Series KU. Acquired Kindle August 13.
CHRYSALIS (ANTVERSE). KU SERVANT OF THE CROWN. Acquired Kindle August 24.
A BLOODY CHORUS. NG August 13.
Lantern. NG ARC. August 24
The Griffin's Egg. NG ARC. August 24.
THE DARKNESS BEFORE THEM. NG August 15.
EMPEROR'S SHADOW. NG August 15.
RISE OF DRESCA. NG August 15.
CURSE OF THE MOONWRAITH, Janny Wurts. Own. Mount TBR.
FORTRESS OF ICE. CHERRYH. SCRIBD.
UNEASY ALLIANCES. CHERRYH. SCRIBD.
THIEVES WORLD (Series). SCRIBD.
R. SCOTT BAKKER
JOHN GWYNN.
DAVID DALGLISH.
MICHAEL SWANWICK.
EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE. LIBBY/SCRIBD
Stephen King Month:
THE TALISMAN (FANTASY)
BLACK HOUSE (FANTASY)
ELEVATION
REVIVAL.....
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Titles Read:
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currently reading:
anything fantasy:
other:
💕 MY TBR 💕➽ Top Books I want to read this month!
📚 PROGRESS 📚
➽ One Piece, Volume 1: Romance Dawn ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ One Piece, Volume 2: Buggy the Clown ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
➽ Garlic and the Witch ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
➽ All of Our Demise ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ The Secrets of the Stormforest ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ Hollow ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ Greymist Fair ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ This Coven Won't Break ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ The Ex Hex ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ Divine Rivals ⭐⭐⭐.5
Pretty excited for this one!TBR:
Finished:
TBR soon to come!Some type of Fantasy:
Not Fantasy:
September Reading GoalsFantasy:
➼ The Book of Witches
➼ Vampires of El Norte
➼ Tangling with Trolls
➼ Soul of a Witch
➼ Across the Green Grass Fields
➼ Supra Velum: A Spooky Scifi Romance Anthology
➼ In These Hallowed Halls
➼ Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus
Not Fantasy:
➼ Well Matched
➼ None Of This Is True
➼ Adelaide
➼ The Followers
The Golden EnclavesModern Divination
House of Earth and BloodThe Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill
The Drowned Woods
Sorcery of Thorns
Mod
TBR & current reads →
• Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror {currently reading}
⚔️ Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology {currently reading}
⚔️ Starling House {currently reading}
• Off Season {currently reading}
⚔️ Rule of Wolves {currently reading}
⚔️ Vampires of El Norte
⚔️ The Book of Witches
⚔️ The Murders of Molly Southbourne
⚔️ Night's Edge
• Drowning
• Mister Magic
• The September House
completed reads →
⚔️ Tunnel of Bones ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
⚔️ Bridge of Souls ⭐⭐⭐⭐
⚔️ The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
⚔️ The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
⚔️ Soul of a Witch ❌ DNF ❌
• Schrader's Chord: A Novel ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• How to Sell a Haunted House ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Small Spaces ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (re-read)
• Plastic Monsters ⭐⭐
• Black Sheep ❌ DNF ❌
⚔️ Tangling With Trolls: A Sweet Small-Town Troll Romance ⭐⭐⭐
• We Need to Do Something ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
• Asylum of Shadows ⭐⭐⭐💫
• Dead Voices ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
⚔️ Kingdom of the Cursed ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Camp Damascus ❌ DNF ❌
• The Ghost Tree ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Hooray for fantasy! I certainly have a few of those on my TBR. I'll update my list as I go.Fantasy:
Crossroads of Twilight - FINISHED
Knife of Dreams
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Only a Monster - FINISHED
Damia
Enchantress from the Stars - FINISHED
Twilight
The Tower of Nero
The Dark Secret
Not fantasy:
Out of the Silence: After the Crash - FINISHED
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories - FINISHED
Heart of a Samurai - FINISHED
Old Ramon - FINISHED
The Bourne Identity
Yay, fantasy books. Hopefully this means my reading will pick up again in September. Editing this more later, but just putting them all together for now. 
Currently reading:✨ Winter Harvest by Ioanna Papadopoulou
TBR:
✨ The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
✨ Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb
✨ Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie
✨ (not in theme) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Read:
✨ (not in theme) Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (3.5★; my review)
✨ Solo Leveling, Tome 8 by Chugong (4★; my review)
✨ Solo Leveling, Tome 9 (5★; my review)
✨ Solo Leveling, Tome 10 (5★; my review)
✨ (not in theme) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson (5★; my review)
✨ Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie (2.5★; my review)
✨ The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett (3★; my review)
Avid's Sword & Shield SeptemberHaven't been reading much fantasy lately so we'll see if I read any!
TBR Reads
The Night in Question ⭐⭐⭐⭐
[[book:What Happened on Hicks Road|62326609] ⭐⭐⭐
You Can Trust Me ⭐⭐⭐
🧝♀️My Roommate Is a Vampire ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Non-TBR Reads
The Coworker ⭐⭐⭐
Good as Gold ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I Am A Killer: What makes a murderer, their shocking stories in their own words ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Reunion ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Secrets Never Die ⭐⭐⭐⭐
First Down ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Cases That Haunt Us ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Suddenly a Murder ⭐⭐⭐⭐
To Have and to Heist ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Kind Worth Saving ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World ⭐⭐⭐
Good Bad Girl ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Your Lonely Nights Are Over ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
How to Find a Missing Girl ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🧝♀️= fits theme
Read
Off-theme
My fantasy TBR: * Down Comes the Night (Currently reading)
* From Blood and Ash (Currently reading)
* Silver in the Bone (Finished!)
* The Black Witch
* Woven in Moonlight
* A Court of Silver Flames
* House of Sky and Breath
* The Ashes and the Star Cursed King
* Weyward
* Fourth Wing
* The Dragon Republic
* The Bone Shard Emperor
* Wolf, Willow, Witch
* One Dark Window
-- 5 Stars
-- 4 Stars 
-- 4 Stars
-- 4.5 Stars 
-- 4.5 Stars
TBR On ThemeShark Heart: A Love Story (library loan)
Kindred
TBR not on theme:
Daughter of Fortune
Currently reading:
Not on Theme
Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop
Rememberings
Finished:
Goats in the Time of Love, a Martha's Vineyard love story with goats, a dog and some recipes not on theme, 4 stars
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Get your swords ready, friends: September is all about fantasy books! From the epic high fantasy journeys all the way to the chill paranormal romance novellas, if it’s fantasy, it counts.
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