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Kendra's 2024 Challenges
💭2024 Plan💭💭Planned Reads: 130
⬜Unread: 42
✅Read: 79
🛑DNF: 2
⏰Publish date moved back: 7
📈 79/121 = 65.3%
[Read / Planned - (DNF + Publish date moved)]
Published in 2024:
✅Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Jan)
✅The Bright Spot (Jan)
✅Fence, Vol. 6: Redemption (Jan)
⬜House of Flame and Shadow (Jan)
✅Bride (Feb)
⬜The Phoenix Crown (Feb) (ATY: Historical fiction)
✅To Woo and to Wed (Feb)
✅Not Your Crush's Cauldron (Feb) (ATY: Pronoun) (Used for ATY Rewind: Negative in title)
✅Mr. Villain's Day Off 03 (Feb)
✅Aftermarket Afterlife (Mar)
✅The Prisoner's Throne (Mar) (ATY: Same cover)
✅The Innkeeper Chronicles (Mar)
✅The Familiar (Apr) (ATY: The ______) (Used for ATY: Touch of magic)
✅Spy x Family, Vol. 11 (Apr)
✅Funny Story (Apr)
✅Lore Olympus: Volume Six (May)
✅Winter Lost (June) (PS: Set in snow)
⬜Mirrored Heavens (June)
✅Not in Love (June)
✅Tidal Creatures (June)
✅The Summer Escape (June)
✅The Grandest Game (July)
✅The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams (July)
⬜Magical Meet Cute (Aug)
✅Spy x Family, Vol. 12 (Aug)
🛑Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Sept) (ATY: Related to Sea)
✅Lore Olympus: Volume Seven (Sept)
⬜Monstress, Vol. 9: The Possessed (Nov)
⏰Heartstopper: Volume Six (?)
⏰The Night Eaters, Vol. 3: Our Kingdom Come (PS: BIOPOC Horror)
⏰October Daye 19
⏰Murderbot 8
⏰Thief of Night (ATY: Related to night)
⏰Maggie the Undying
⏰Amina al-Sirafi 2 Untitled
Carryover from 2023:
✅The Sandman: Book of Dreams
⬜The Winners
⬜The Shadow Rising
🛑Lost in the Never Woods
✅The Kingdom of Copper
Read for a Challenge:
✅A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking (ATY: Cozy Mystery)
✅The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey through the Art and Craft of Humor (ATY: Related to a Ben & Jerry's flavour)
⬜Life Signs (ATY: Chilling atmosphere)
✅Me: Moth (ATY: Wings on cover)
✅Black Friend: Essays (ATY: Z author)
⬜XOXO (PS: Kpop)
⬜The Girl with All the Gifts (PS: Recomended by McNally's)
⬜Hana Khan Carries On (PS: 24 year old MC)
✅From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way (PS: Incarcerated author)
⬜XOXO, Cody: An Opinionated Homosexual's Guide to Self-Love, Relationships, and Tactful Pettiness (PS: X title)
⬜Brutally Honest (PS: Music Memoir)
✅One Piece, Volume 1: Romance Dawn (PS: Pirates)
✅The Serpent and the Wings of Night (ATY: Same cover)
⬜The Un-Arranged Marriage (PS: Hard of hearing author)
✅Stag's Leap (PS: Leap in title)
✅The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (PS: Set in 1 day)
⬜Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music (PS: Music Memoir)
Erica Recommends:
⬜Fourth Wing
✅The Atlas Six
✅Carrie Soto Is Back
⬜Serpent & Dove
✅Starfish
⬜The Song of Achilles
⬜Six Crimson Cranes
Book Basket:
✅The Lightning Thief (ATY: Edgar award winning author)
⬜Dead But Not Forgotten: Stories from the World of Sookie Stackhouse
✅This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
⬜The Swan Maiden
⬜The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
⬜Project Hail Mary
✅The Auschwitz Photographer: The powerful true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner number 3444
⬜The Odessy (PS: Blind Author)
⬜Three Holidays and a Wedding
⬜Canada and Impressionism: New Horizons
Other New Reads:
✅Instant Attraction
✅Instant Gratification
✅Instant Temptation
✅Ru
✅The Witness for the Dead
⬜The Sweetest Betrayal (ATY: Orange cover)
✅The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (ATY: Jimmy Buffet)
⬜Starling House
⬜Nettle & Bone
⬜The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 7
⬜The Weaver and the Witch Queen
✅Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
✅The Goodbye Cat
✅Lonely Castle in the Mirror
⬜Stardust
⬜Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
✅What You Are Looking For Is in the Library (ATY: 6+ word title)
✅Before We Say Goodbye
✅Bitter Medicine
⬜Kissing Kosher
✅When Clouds Touch Us
✅What Moves the Dead
✅His Majesty's Dragon (PS: Dragons)
⬜Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
✅MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
✅The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case (ATY: Crime other than murder)
✅The Wishing Game
⬜The House of Eve
✅Ink Blood Sister Scribe
✅Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
⬜You Could Make This Place Beautiful
✅The Marriage Game
✅The Dating Plan
✅The Ten Thousand Doors of January
✅Heartstopper: Volume Five
✅Coraline
✅Wicked Beauty
⬜Firekeeper's Daughter
✅Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 15
✅Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 16
✅Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 17
✅Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 18
✅Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 19
✅Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 20
✅Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 21
✅Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 22
✅Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 23
✅Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 24 (PS: Author's 24th book)
✅Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 25
✅Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 26
✅Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 27
⬜Loveless
⬜Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903
Jane Austen Reread:
⬜Northanger Abbey
Other Rereads:
⬜The Empire of Gold
⬜The River of Silver
🅰️2024 ATY Challenge🅰️ 52/52
✅1. A book with a title that ends in A, T or Y.
Wicked Beauty - Jan. 26th
✅2. A book connected to something you read in 2023.
The Auschwitz Photographer - June 25th
✅3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the final list.
A winner or nominee from the 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards. (Pre-Poll)
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma - May 16th
✅4. A book related to something mentioned in the lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong.
And I Think to Myself - Feb. 15th
✅5. A book set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the world. (San Francisco)
The Dating Plan - Mar. 1st
✅6. A book with wings on the cover.
Me: Moth - Jan. 30th
✅7. A book with a pronoun in the title.
Dance with Me - Apr. 29th
✅8. A book by an author from Canada, Australia or New Zealand.
Hark! A Vagrant - Aug. 25th
✅9. A book with fewer than 2024 ratings on Goodreads. (7 ratings)
The World's Even Dumber Criminals: Unbelievable True Tales of Crime Gone Wrong - Jan. 9th
✅10. A history or historical fiction book.
The Angel of the Crows - Sept. 8th
✅11. A book with an X connection.
The Innkeeper Chronicles - Mar. 25th
✅12. A book that has been on your TBR for over a year.
Winter Lost - June 23rd
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✅13. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists.
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - Mar. 30th
✅14. A book with a main character who is BIPoC.
The Marriage Game - June 19th
✅15. A book whose author’s name includes one of the 4 least used letters in the alphabet. (JQZX)
Black Friend: Essays - Jan. 11th
✅16. A book related to the phrase "It's Raining Cats and Dogs".
The Goodbye Cat - Feb. 10th
✅17. A book involving intelligence.
Spy×Family, vol. 11 - Apr. 14th
✅18. A book with a botanical cover.
The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Jan. 21st
✅19. A book connected in some way to your favourite flavour of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. (Vermonty Python)
The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey through the Art and Craft of Humor - Jan. 10th
✅20. A book with a single word title.
Blood - Feb. 10th
✅21. A book with a title containing 6+ words.
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library - Sept. 16th
✅22. A book by an author from an African country.
We Should All Be Feminists - Oct. 27th
✅23. A book related to Boats, Beaches, Bars, Ballads, or Jimmy Buffett.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - June 9th
✅24. A book with an orange, green or purple cover.
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza - June 29th
✅25. A book involving a crime other than a murder.
The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case - Feb. 19th
✅26. A book by an author known by their initials.
Paladin's Strength - Sept. 25th
✅27. A book related to land.
Regina's Secret Spaces: Love and Lore of Local Geography - July 31st
✅28. A book related to sea.
The Sea of Monsters - Feb. 9th
✅29. A book related to air.
Wynd, Book One: The Flight of the Prince - Feb. 4th
✅30. A book set in a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea.
Three Fires - Apr. 24th
✅31. A book related to “Going for the Gold”.
You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love - Jan. 24th
✅32. A book with a number in the title.
100 Children's Books That Inspire Our World - Mar 22nd
✅33. A book involving travel.
The Battle of the Labyrinth - Apr. 2nd
✅34. A book related to the name of one of Snow White's seven dwarfs.
Instant Gratification - May 23rd
✅35. A science or science fiction book.
After the Dragons - Sept. 20th
✅36. A book featuring a character in education.
Heartstopper: Volume Five - Jan. 3rd
✅37. A book that is part of a series.
Lore Olympus: Volume Six - June 5th
✅38. Two books with similar covers: Book 1.
The Serpent and the Wings of Night - Jan. 8th✅39. Two books with similar covers: Book 2.
The Prisoner’s Throne - Apr. 6th✅40. A book involving a wild animal or endangered species, in the content, title, or on the cover.
Dinosaur Sanctuary, Vol. 1 - Jan. 14th
✅41. A book with a chilling atmosphere.
Burning Cold - Apr. 7th
✅42. A book with a sound-related word in the title.
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession - Mar. 23rd
✅43. A book by an Edgar Award-winning Author.
The Lightning Thief - Jan. 31st
✅44. A book with a touch of magic.
The Familiar - May 13th
✅45. A book that is not a novel.
The Demigod Files - Apr. 8th
✅46. A book related to night.
The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King - May 27th
✅47. A book with a two-word title beginning with THE.
The Premonition - Mar. 7th
✅48. A second book that fits your favorite prompt.
A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the final list: A book to fit a prompt from a past ATY challenge. (Poll 13)
A book with a weird or intriguing title.
Why Am I Taller? What Happens to an Astronaut's Body in Space - May 4th
✅49. A book with a senior citizen character.
Once & Future, Vol. 1: The King is Undead - Mar. 20th
✅50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024.
When Among Crows - Sept. 1st
✅51. A book published in 2024.
The Fox Maidens - July 8th
✅52. A cozy mystery.
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking - Jan. 18th
🆎ATY Rejects Challenge🆎 25/25
✅1. A winner or nominee from the 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards. (Same as ATY main challenge)
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma - May 16th
✅2. A book related to the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Terracotta Army.
The Wonder Engine - Aug. 4th
✅3. A biography, autobiography, or memoir.
Almost American Girl - Aug. 15th
✅4. A book related to or by an author we lost in 2023.
Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters - Apr. 13th
✅5. A book with disembodied hand(s) on the cover.
Six Scorched Roses - Jan. 23rd
✅6. A book related to truth.
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning - Aug. 12th
✅7. A book related to dare.
The Grandest Game - Aug. 8th
✅8. A book with a hidden object on the cover.
Twilight Territory - July 29th✅9. A book featuring a "First Responder".
Almost Just Friends - Dec. 4th
✅10. A book with twins in it.
Arch-Conspirator - Feb. 18th
✅11. A book with an author OR character whose first name is considered gender neutral
Instant Temptation - May 29th
MCs are named Harley & TJ.
✅12. A book where something on the cover is tilted or upside down.
Nightmare Country, Vol. 1 - Sept. 18th
✅13. A book related to Sailor Moon.
Tidal Creatures - June 21st
✅14. A book with a chair on the cover.
Before We Say Goodbye - Feb. 23rd✅15. A book whose title is a prepositional phrase.
When Clouds Touch Us - Feb. 15th
✅16. A book with a character that could be described as one of the classes in Dungeons and Dragons. (Thief & Fighter)
Five Broken Blades - June 5th
✅17. A graphic novel/comic with a female main writer and female main artist.
Medea - July 4th
✅18. A book with an ex.
Funny Story - May 5th
✅19. A book with a character who works with animals.
The Bright Spot - Feb. 8th
✅20. A book with a warm or heated atmosphere.
Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 3: The Prophet - Aug. 13th
✅21. A book with an anti-hero as a main character.
Mr. Villain's Day Off 03 - Mar. 24th
✅22. A book related to one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
What Moves the Dead - Apr. 10th (Pestilence)
✅23. A book with a child character.
The Titan’s Curse - Mar. 11th
✅24. A book with a character who has an alter ego.
Southern Fried Sass: A Queen's Guide to Cooking, Decorating, and Living Just a Little "Extra" - Mar. 5th
✅25. A book known to have a great last line.
The Wishing Game - Sept. 20th
"When you gotta scream, you gotta scream"
🔁ATY Rewind Challenge🔁25/25
✅1. A book related to “In the Beginning...”
Sanctuary - Aug. 29th
✅2. A book with a title beginning with the 1st letter of your name.
The Kamogawa Food Detectives - July 5th
✅3. A book with a negative in the title.
Not Your Crush's Cauldron - Mar. 21st
✅4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E".
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known - Jan. 20th
✅5. A book with illustrations.
The Sandman: The Deluxe Edition, Book Five - Mar. 9th
(The Sandman: The Dream Hunters)
✅6. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title.
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English - Jan. 28th
✅7. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins.
🔹Lust Radiant Sin - Feb. 4th
✅8. A book featuring indigenous people of a country.
Wenjack - Aug. 28th
✅9. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #1 Something Old.
Quit Being an Idiot: Life Lessons from The Golden Girls - Jan. 14th
✅10. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #2 Something New.
The Black Bird Oracle - Aug. 20th
✅11. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #3 Something Borrowed.
Punderworld, Volume 1 - Mar. 17th
✅12. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #4 Something Blue.
The Lady in Glass and Other Stories - Mar. 13th
✅13. A book with a weird or intriguing title. (Same as ATY main challenge)
Why Am I Taller? What Happens to an Astronaut's Body in Space - May 4th
✅14. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y.
Bride - Feb. 26th
✅15. A book by an author you've only read once before.
Wandering Stars - Apr. 4th
✅16. A book with a silhouette on the cover.
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - May 14th
✅17. A book with a female villain or criminal.
Slaying the Vampire Conqueror - June 18th
✅18. A book related to a word given by a random word generator: Control.
MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios - Feb. 18th
✅19. A nonfiction book by a BIPOC author.
Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse - May 24th
✅20. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name.
Ghost Roast - July 22nd
✅21. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities"
🔹Sporty Fence, Vol. 6: Redemption - Feb. 10th
✅22. A book with a con, deception, or fake.
Take the Lead - Apr. 12th
✅23. A book that has been translated from another language.
Spice & Wolf, Vol. 1 - May 28th
✅24. A book with a full name in the title.
Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs - Nov. 13th
✅25. A book related to "the end".
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 27 - June 14th
🍧2024 Popsugar🍧50/50
✅1. A book with the word "leap" in the title.
Stag's Leap - Jan. 2nd
✅2. A bildungsroman book.
The Last Olympian - May 6th
✅3. A book about a 24-year-old.
Rizzio - Apr. 19th
✅4. A book about a writer.
The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams - Sept. 15th
✅5. A book about K-pop.
The Yakuza's Bias, Volume 1 - Sept. 30th
✅6. A book about pirates.
One Piece, Volume 1: Romance Dawn - Mar. 17th
✅7. A book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete.
Carrie Soto Is Back - July 14th
✅8. A book by a blind or visually impaired author.
The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers - Nov. 20th
✅9. A book by a Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing author.
El Deafo by Cece Bell - Mar. 18th
✅10. A book by a self-published author.
Rafe - June 30th
✅11. A book from a genre you typically avoid.
Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity - Feb. 2nd
✅12. A book from an animal's POV.
A Man and His Cat, Vol. 1 - Jan.8th
✅13. A book originally published under a pen name.
The Grief of Stones - Apr. 26th
✅14. A book recommended by a bookseller.
Mina's Matchbox - Sept. 21st
✅15. A book recommended by a librarian.
Paladin’s Grace - Sept. 3rd
✅16. A book set (approximately) 24 years before you were born.
The Phantom Tollbooth - Oct. 4th
✅17. A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list.
Coraline - May 14th
✅18. A book set in space.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - July 22nd
✅19. A book set in the future.
Firefly: Return to Earth That Was Vol. 3 - June 13th
✅20. A book set in the snow.
Instant Attraction - May 19th
✅21. A book that came out in a year that ends with "24".
The Summer Escape - July 7th
✅22. A book that centers on video games.
Cat + Gamer, Volume 1 - June 15th
✅23. A book that features dragons.
His Majesty's Dragon - June 11th
✅24. A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours.
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 - Feb. 13th
✅25. A book that was published 24 years ago (2000).
The Duke and I - Oct. 27th
✅26. A book that was turned into a musical.
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant - Jan. 28th
✅27. A book where someone dies in the first chapter.
Aftermarket Afterlife - Mar. 7th
✅28. A book with a main character who's 42 years old.
Teach Me - Oct. 8th
✅29. A book with a neurodivergent main character.
Meegan - Sept. 12th
✅30. A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary.
Ru - Jan. 1st
✅31. A book with a title that is a complete sentence.
Call Us What We Carry: Poems - Mar. 25th
✅32. A book with an enemies to lovers plot.
Cruel Seduction - Apr. 29th
✅33. A book with an unreliable narrator.
Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome - Feb. 22nd
✅34. A book with at least 3 POVs.
This Winter - June 18th
✅35. A book with magical realism.
Change of Heart - June 16th
✅36. A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person.
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way - Mar. 3rd
✅37. A book written during NaNoWriMo.
Clockwork Boys - July 26th
✅38. A cozy fantasy book.
The Witness for the Dead - Apr. 18th
✅39. A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author.
The Sunbearer Trials - Oct. 4th
✅40. A horror book by a BIPOC author.
Graveneye - Nov. 13th
✅41. A memoir that explores queerness.
The House of Hidden Meanings - Mar. 16th
✅42. A nonfiction book about Indigenous people.
Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band - Jan. 23rd
✅43. A second-chance romance.
To Woo and to Wed - Feb. 18th
✅44. An autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll.
Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music, and Fame - Jan. 12th
✅45. An LGBTQ+ romance novel.
Mooncakes - Aug. 21st
✅46. A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours.
The Sandman: Book of Dreams - Jan. 5th
✅47. A book with 24 letters in the title.
More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - July 17th
✅48. A collection of at least 24 poems.
Moving Upstream - Feb. 1st
✅49. The 24th book of an author.
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 24 - May 20th
✅50. A book that starts with the letter "X".
Xeni - July 10th
🏅Goodreads Choice🏅 33/30
Book - Award - Year (🏆Winner, 🎉Nominee)
1. Black Friend: Essays - Humour - 2023🎉
2. The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Fantasy - 2019🎉
3. Me: Moth - Poetry - 2021🎉
4. The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 - History & Biography - 2019🎉
5. Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome - Humour - 2023🎉
6. The Dating Plan - Romance - 2021🎉
7. Hair Love - Picture Books - 2019🎉
8. El Deafo - Middlegrade - 2014🎉
9. Call Us What We Carry: Poems - Poetry - 2022🎉
10. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - History - 2017🎉
11. The Good Egg - Picture Books - 2019🎉
12. What Moves the Dead - Horror - 2022🎉
13. The Last Olympian - YA - 2009🎉
14. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma - Nonfiction - 2023🎉
15. The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King - Romantasy - 2023🎉
16. Dragons Love Tacos - Picture Book - 2012🎉
17. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - YA Fantasy - 2020🎉
18. Slaying the Vampire Conqueror - Romantasy - 2023🎉
19. Carrie Soto Is Back - Historical Fiction - 2022🏆
20. Almost American Girl - Graphic Novel - 2020🎉
21. Mooncakes - Graphic Novel - 2019🎉
22. Hark! A Vagrant - Graphic Novel - 2011🎉
23. The Wishing Game - General Fiction - 2023🎉
24. We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story - Memoir - 2022🎉
25. The Sunbearer Trials - YA Fantasy - 2022🎉
26. Crumbs - Graphic Novel - 2022🎉
27. Ink Blood Sister Scribe - Fantasy - 2023🎉
28. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Historical Fiction - 2017🎉
29. The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers - Poetry - 2013🎉
30. The Atlas Six - Fantasy - 2022🎉
31. The Lost Hero - YA Fantasy - 2010🎉
32. Starfish - Middlegrade - 2021🎉
33. The Son of Neptune - Middlegrade - 2011🏆
Rereads
1. Nimona - Graphic Novel - 2015🎉
2. Bridge of Dreams - Fantasy - 2012🎉
3. Spinning Silver - Fantasy - 2018🎉
4. The Huntress - Historical Fiction - 2019🎉
5. The Kingdom of Copper - Fantasy - 2019🎉
6. Middlegame - Fantasy - 2019🎉
7. Midnight Sun - Fantasy - 2020🎉
8. The Brothers Hawthorne - YA - 2023🎉
9. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - Fantasy - 2021🎉
10. Rebound - Poetry - 2018🎉
11. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Mystery - 2018🎉
2024 Nominees read before they were nominated
1. Wandering Stars - Fiction
2. Funny Story - Romance
3. Not in Love - Romance
4. Bride - Romance
5. When Among Crows - Fantasy
6. The Black Bird Oracle - Fantasy
7. The Familiar - Fantasy
8. Five Broken Blades - Fantasy
9. The Prisoner’s Throne - YA Fantasy
10. The Grandest Game - YA Fiction
11. Heartstopper #5: A Graphic Novel - YA Fiction
12. The House of Hidden Meanings - Memoir
🧺Book Basket🧺 12/10
1. The Lightning Thief
2. The Sea of Monsters
3. And I Think to Myself
4. The Titan’s Curse
5. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
6. The Innkeeper Chronicles
7. Change of Heart
8. Winter Lost
9. The Auschwitz Photographer: The powerful true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner number 3444
10. Carrie Soto Is Back
11. Regina's Secret Spaces: Love and Lore of Local Geography
12. Agnes Grey
🫂Diversity Baseline Challenge🫂All books must be written by a BIPoC author.
33/36
✅1. A poetry collection.
Moving Upstream by Mary Barnes - Feb. 1st
✅2. A book by a Latine author.
Take the Lead by Alexis Daria - Ap. 12th
⬜3. A book with a plus sized MC.
✅4. A book with a Black author.
Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman - Mar. 25th
✅5. Historical fiction.
When Clouds Touch Us by Thanhhà Lại - Feb. 15th
✅6. A book with a found family.
Mr. Villain's Day Off 03 by Yuu Morikawa - Mar. 24th
✅7. A book that's been translated.
Ru by Kim Thúy - Jan. 1st
✅8. A book by an Indigenous author.
Wenjack by Joseph Boyden -Aug. 28th
⬜9. A book by an author with from a different religion than you.
✅10. A book about chronic illness/pain.
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way by Jesse Thistle - Mar. 3rd
✅11. A book by a Middle Eastern or North African Author.
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha - June 29th
✅12. A book about colonisation.
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange - Apr. 4th
✅13. A book by an East Asian or Pacific Islander author.
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa - May 14th
✅14. A book by a South Asian author.
The Dating Plan by Sara Desai - Mar. 1st
✅15. A book with a teen MC
Me: Moth by Amber McBride - Jan. 30th
✅16. A book with a queer author.
Blood by Tyler Pennock - Feb 10th
✅17. A book that was published independently.
Rafe by Rebekah Weatherspoon - June 30th
✅18. A novella.
The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto - Mar. 7th
✅19. A book by an author that has a disability.
The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers by Alice Walker - Nov. 20th
✅20. A nuerodivergent author.
Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome by Aparna Nancherla - Feb. 22nd
✅21. A book with real people on the cover. (As in a photo)
The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul - Mar. 16th
✅22. A book by a biracial author.
The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey through the Art and Craft of Humor by Keegan-Michael Key - Jan. 10th
✅23. An anthology from multiple authors.
Burning Cold: An Inuit and Dene Comics Collection by Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley & Richard Van Camp
✅24. A retelling.
The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha - July 8th
✅25. A SFF.
Dinosaur Sanctuary, Vol. 1 by Itaru Kinoshita - Jan. 14th
✅26. A memoir.
Almost American Girl by Robin Ha - Aug. 15th
✅27. A picture book.
Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry - Mar. 7th
✅28. A horror, thriller or mystery.
Graveneye by Sloane Leong - Nov. 13th
✅29. A book by a trans, NB or genderqueer author.
The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas - Oct. 4th
✅30. A nonfiction book.
Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse by Maya Phillips - May 24th
✅31. A literary fiction.
The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa - Feb. 10th
✅32. A magical realism.
Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi - Feb 23rd
✅33. A graphic novel.
A Man and His Cat, Vol. 1 by Umi Sakurai - Jan. 8th
✅34. A book about intersectional feminism.
Black Friend: Essays by Ziwe - Jan. 11th
⬜35. A holiday romance.
✅36. A cozy mystery or fantasy.
The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai - July 5th
January - 7
February - 10
March - 11
April - 7
May - 11
June - 9
July - 7
August - 4
September - 9
October - 6
November - 9
December - 8
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ATY Rewind
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Other New Reads
Rereads
👍Best/Worst👎Book of the Month Picks:
Best new stand alone fiction:
Best new series:
Best new books in old series:
Best new nonfiction:
Best new-to-me authors:
Carissa Broadbent - 4
Itaru Kinoshita - 5
Amber McBride
Rick Riordan - 8
Kieron Gillen - 5
Alexis Daria - 2
Denise Mina - 2
Satoshi Yagisawa - 2
Mai Corland
Hisashi Kashiwai - 2
Taylor Jenkins Reid - 2
Teki Yatsuda - 2
Julia Quinn - 4
Olivie Blake
Rie Aruga - 11
Books that disappointed me:
Books I didn't enjoy:
DNFs:
January
📕Total: 30
♻️Rereads: 5
📝Non-Fiction: 10
🎓YA: 8
🖍️Graphic Novels: 8
🐞Under 300 pages: 15
🐘Over 499 pages: 3
🛑DNFs: 0
Best (new) books of the month:
Six Scorched Roses
Me: Moth
Runners up:
The Serpent and the Wings of Night
The Sandman: Book of Dreams
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known
Dinosaur Sanctuary, Vol. 1
Dinosaur Sanctuary, Vol. 2
Heartstopper: Volume Five
Wicked Beauty
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
Ru
The Lightning Thief
My least favourite book of the month:
Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music, and Fame
Ratings:
🍧🫂🍁🌎🧓🐞Ru - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📝🧓🐞Stag's Leap - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🖍️🎓Heartstopper: Volume Five - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🧓The Sandman: Book of Dreams - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🖍️🐘🧓The Sandman: The Deluxe Edition, Book One - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🫂🖍️🐞🌏A Man and His Cat, Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🐘The Serpent and the Wings of Night - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝🍁The World's Even Dumber Criminals: Unbelievable True Tales of Crime Gone Wrong - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🫂📝The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey through the Art and Craft of Humor - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🫂📝🐞🏅Black Friend: Essays - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📝🐞Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music, and Fame - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🖍️🧓The Sandman: The Deluxe Edition, Book Two - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🫂🖍️🌏🐞Dinosaur Sanctuary, Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔁📝🐞Quit Being an Idiot: Life Lessons from The Golden Girls - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🖍️🐘🧓The Sandman: The Deluxe Edition, Book Three - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🎓A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking - ⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞Dinosaur Sanctuary, Vol. 2 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🎓🧓🐞Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🎓🧓🐞Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - ⭐⭐⭐
🔁🎓🐞👶Mislaid in Parts Half-Known - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🏅The Ten Thousand Doors of January - ⭐⭐⭐
🆎🐞Six Scorched Roses - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🖍️📝🐞Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝👶You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love - ⭐⭐⭐
📔🎓🐞Nothing Rhymes with Orange - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️Wicked Beauty - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📝Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant - ⭐⭐⭐
🔁📝Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🫂🎓🏅🐞Me: Moth - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🎓🧓🧺The Lightning Thief - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 1 - 5
🔹Week 2 - 9
🔹Week 3 - 7
🔹Week 4 - 7
🔹Week 5 - 2
February
📕Total: 30
♻️Rereads: 2
📝Non-Fiction: 9
🎓YA: 11
🖍️Graphic Novels: 11
🐞Under 300 pages: 22
🐘Over 499 pages: 2
🛑DNFs: 0
Best (new) book of the month:
Before We Say Goodbye
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Runners up:
Fence, Vol. 6: Redemption
To Woo and to Wed
The Sea of Monsters
Dinosaur Sanctuary Vol. 3
And I Think to Myself
When Clouds Touch Us
The Goodbye Cat
My least favourite book of the month:
Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity
Ratings:
🍧🫂📝🍁🐞Moving Upstream - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📝🐞Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🎓🖍️🐞Wynd, Book One: The Flight of the Prince - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔁Radiant Sin - ⭐⭐⭐
🆎👶The Bright Spot - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🎓🧓🐞🧺The Sea of Monsters - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🫂📝🍁🐞Blood - ⭐⭐⭐
🔁🎓🖍️👶🐞Fence, Vol. 6: Redemption - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🫂🌏🐞The Goodbye Cat - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🖍️🧓🐘The Sandman: The Deluxe Edition, Book Four - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📝🐞Royal Trivia: Your Guide to the Modern British Royal Family - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📝🏅The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🐞Wynd, Book Two: The Secret of the Wings - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞Dinosaur Sanctuary Vol. 3 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🌏🧓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 15 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎🫂🎓🐞When Clouds Touch Us - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🍁🧓📝🐞🧺And I Think to Myself - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🌏🧓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 16 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧👶To Woo and to Wed - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔁📝🐘MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios - ⭐⭐⭐
🆎🐞Arch-Conspirator⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝🍁🐞The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case - ⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🌏🧓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 17 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🌏🧓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 18 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🌏🧓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 19 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🫂📝🏅Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome - ⭐⭐⭐
🆎🫂🌏🐞Before We Say Goodbye - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐞🧓Macbeth - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔁👶Bride - ⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🐞Wynd, Book Three: The Throne in the Sky - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 5 - 4
🔹Week 6 - 7
🔹Week 7 - 10
🔹Week 8 - 7
🔹Week 9 - 2
March
📕Total: 26
♻️Rereads: 1
📝Non-Fiction: 8
🎓YA: 4
🖍️Graphic Novels: 11
🐞Under 300 pages: 15
🐘Over 499 pages: 1
🛑DNFs: 0
Best (new) book of the month:
The Innkeeper Chronicles
Runners up:
Mr. Villain's Day Off 03
Aftermarket Afterlife
The Sandman: The Deluxe Edition, Book Five
The Lady in Glass and Other Stories
Punderworld, Volume 1
The Titan’s Curse
My least favourite book of the month:
The Premonition
Ratings:
🅰️🫂🍁🏅The Dating Plan - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🫂🍁📝From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎📝🐞Southern Fried Sass: A Queen's Guide to Cooking, Decorating, and Living Just a Little "Extra" - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧👶Aftermarket Afterlife - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🫂📔🎓🏅🐞Hair Love - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🫂🌏🧓🐞The Premonition - ⭐⭐⭐
🔁🖍️🧓🐘The Sandman: The Deluxe Edition, Book Five - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎🎓🧺🧓The Titan’s Curse - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔁👶The Lady in Glass and Other Stories - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞A Man and His Cat, Vol. 2 - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧🫂📝👶🐞The House of Hidden Meanings - ⭐⭐⭐
🔁🖍️🐞Punderworld, Volume 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎓🖍️🐞🧓🌏One Piece, Volume 1: Romance Dawn - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📝🎓🖍️🐞🏅El Deafo: Superpowered Edition!: A Graphic Novel - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🖍️🐞Once & Future, Vol. 1: The King is Undead - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞Once & Future, Vol. 2: Old English - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔁👶Not Your Crush's Cauldron - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝🐞100 Children's Books That Inspire Our World - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝🧓🧺This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession - ⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞🌏A Man and His Cat, Vol. 3 - ⭐⭐⭐
🆎🫂🖍️🐞🌏Mr. Villain's Day Off 03 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🫂📝🏅🐞Call Us What We Carry: Poems - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🖍️👶🧺The Innkeeper Chronicles⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞A Man and His Cat, Vol. 4 - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝🏅Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🧓Sebastian - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 9 - 2
🔹Week 10 - 5
🔹Week 11 - 6
🔹Week 12 - 8
🔹Week 13 - 5
April
📕Total: 29
♻️Rereads: 7
📝Non-Fiction: 2
🎓YA: 6
🖍️Graphic Novels: 7
🐞Under 300 pages: 21
🐘Over 499 pages: 0
🛑DNFs: 1
Best (new) book of the month:
Wandering Stars
The Grief of Stones
Runners up:
The Prisoner’s Throne
The Battle of the Labyrinth
Burning Cold: An Inuit and Dene Comics Collection
Dinosaur Sanctuary Vol. 4
The Witness for the Dead
Once & Future, Vol. 3: The Parliament of Magpies
Once & Future, Vol. 4: Monarchies in the UK
Once & Future, Vol. 5: The Wasteland
Take the Lead
Dance with Me
Spy×Family, vol. 11
Rizzio
My least favourite book of the month:
Cruel Seduction
Ratings:
🅰️🎓🧓The Battle of the Labyrinth - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔁🫂👶Wandering Stars - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎓🐞🏅The Good Egg - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🎓👶The Prisoner’s Throne - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🫂🖍️🍁👶🐞Burning Cold: An Inuit and Dene Comics Collection - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🎓🧓🐞The Demigod Files - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎🐞🏅What Moves the Dead - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🧓🐞Mr. Lazy - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🧓🐞Mr. Mean - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🧓🐞Mr. Muddle - ⭐⭐⭐
🔁🫂Take the Lead - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎📝🐞Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🎓🖍️🐞🌏Spy×Family, vol. 11 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🧓Belladonna - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞Once & Future, Vol. 3: The Parliament of Magpies - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🐞The Witness for the Dead - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🐞Rizzio - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🖍️🏅🐞Nimona - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞Dinosaur Sanctuary Vol. 4 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📝🐞🧓In the Kitchen With Miss Piggy: Fabulous Recipes from My Famous Celebrity Friends - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🏅🧓Bridge of Dreams - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞Once & Future, Vol. 4: Monarchies in the UK⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🐞Three Fires - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧🐞The Grief of Stones - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🏅Spinning Silver - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧Cruel Seduction - ⭐⭐
🅰️🐞Dance with Me - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞Once & Future 5 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎓🌏🐞Spy x Family: Family Portrait - ⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 14 - 5
🔹Week 15 - 8
🔹Week 16 - 6
🔹Week 17 - 6
🔹Week 18 - 4
May
📕Total: 25
♻️Rereads: 7
📝Non-Fiction: 3
🎓YA: 9
🖍️Graphic Novels: 6
🐞Under 300 pages: 16
🐘Over 499 pages: 2
🛑DNFs: 0
Best (new) book of the month:
The Familiar
The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King
Runners up:
Funny Story
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Coraline
The Last Olympian
Why Am I Taller? What Happens to an Astronaut's Body in Space
Instant Attraction
My least favourite book of the month:
Spice & Wolf, Vol. 1
Ratings:
♻️🎓🐞🧓🍁The Secret World of Og - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🔁📝🍁🐞Why Am I Taller? What Happens to an Astronaut's Body in Space - ⭐⭐⭐
🆎👶Funny Story - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎓🧓🏅The Last Olympian - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🌏🧓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 20 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🏅🐘The Huntress - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🌏🧓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 21 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🌏🐞Before the Coffee Gets Cold - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🎓🧓🐞Sideways Stories from Wayside School - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️👶The Familiar - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎓🧓🐞Coraline - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔁🫂🧓🌏🐞Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🌏🐞Tales from the Café - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🌏🧓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 22 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🆎📝🏅🐞Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧🧓Instant Attraction - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🌏🧓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 23 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🖍️🌏🧓🎓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 24 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🌏Before Your Memory Fades - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🧓Instant Gratification - ⭐⭐⭐
🔁🫂📝🐞Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🏅🐘The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔁🖍️🌏🧓🐞Spice & Wolf, Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐
🆎🧓Instant Temptation - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🌏🐞Before We Say Goodbye - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 18 - 3
🔹Week 19 - 6
🔹Week 20 - 8
🔹Week 21 - 4
🔹Week 22 - 4
June
📕Total: 22
♻️Rereads: 3
📝Non-Fiction: 3
🎓YA: 7
🖍️Graphic Novels: 6
🐞Under 300 pages: 11
🐘Over 499 pages: 4
🛑DNFs: 0
Best (new) book of the month:
Tidal Creatures
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
Runners up:
Five Broken Blades
Winter Lost
Lore Olympus: Volume Six
His Majesty's Dragon
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Slaying the Vampire Conqueror
My least favourite book of the month:
Change of Heart
Ratings:
♻️🏅🐘The Kingdom of Copper - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎓🏅🧓🐞Dragons Love Tacos - ⭐⭐⭐
🆎👶Five Broken Blades - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🖍️👶Lore Olympus: Volume Six - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🎓🏅🐘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧🧓His Majesty's Dragon - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🧓🌏🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 25 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🖍️🐞Firefly: Return to Earth That Was Vol. 3 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🌏🧓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 26 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔁🖍️🎓🌏🧓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 27 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🖍️🌏🐞Cat + Gamer, Volume 1 - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧🧺🧓🐘Change of Heart - ⭐⭐
🔁🏅Slaying the Vampire Conqueror - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎓🐞This Winter - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️The Marriage Game - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎👶Tidal Creatures - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📝🐞I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🧺👶Winter Lost - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝🌍🧓🧺The Auschwitz Photographer: The powerful true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner number 3444 - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🎓🧓🐞Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🫂📝🐞Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🏅🐘Middlegame - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🫂🐞Rafe⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 22 - 1
🔹Week 23 - 4
🔹Week 24 - 7
🔹Week 25 - 6
🔹Week 26 - 5
July
📕Total: 16
♻️Rereads: 3
📝Non-Fiction: 1
🎓YA: 2
🖍️Graphic Novels: 3
🐞Under 300 pages: 7
🐘Over 499 pages: 0
🛑DNFs: 1
Best (new) book of the month:
Carrie Soto Is Back
Clockwork Boys
Runners up:
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
The Summer Escape
My least favourite book of the month:
Ghost Roast
Ratings:
🐞The Last Chance Motel - ⭐⭐⭐
🆎🖍️🌍👶Medea - ⭐⭐⭐
🔁🫂🌏🧓🐞The Kamogawa Food Detectives - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧👶The Summer Escape - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🫂🖍️👶The Fox Maidens - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🐞Xeni - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️Seasonal Fears - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🧺🏅Carrie Soto Is Back - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🌏🧓🐞More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️👶Tidal Creatures - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔁🖍️🎓👶🐞Ghost Roast - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧🧓The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🐞Clockwork Boys - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎👶Twilight Territory - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🎓🧓Twilight - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝🧺🧓🍁🐞Regina's Secret Spaces: Love and Lore of Local Geography - ⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 27 - 4
🔹Week 28 - 4
🔹Week 29 - 2
🔹Week 30 - 3
🔹Week 31 - 3
August
📕Total: 20
♻️Rereads: 6
📝Non-Fiction: 4
🎓YA: 9
🖍️Graphic Novels: 6
🐞Under 300 pages: 11
🐘Over 499 pages: 4
🛑DNFs: 0
Best (new) book of the month:
The Wonder Engine
Sanctuary
Runners up:
The Grandest Game
Not in Love
Mr. Villain's Day Off 04
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
The Black Bird Oracle
Wenjack
Spy x Family, Vol. 12
Hark! A Vagrant
Mooncakes
My least favourite book of the month:
Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 3: The Prophet
Ratings:
🆎The Wonder Engine - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🎓🏅🐘Midnight Sun - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎🎓👶The Grandest Game - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎📝👶🐞Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎🖍️👶🐞Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 3: The Prophet - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🧓🐞🌏Mr. Villain's Day Off 04 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🎓🏅The Brothers Hawthorne - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎🖍️📝🐞🏅Almost American Girl - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🎓🧓🐘New Moon - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔁👶The Black Bird Oracle - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎓🖍️🐞🏅Mooncakes - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📝🐞🧓All in a Day's Work - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🎓🧓🐘Eclipse - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🎓🧓🐞The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🖍️📝🍁🐞🧓🏅Hark! A Vagrant - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎓🖍️🌏🐞Spy x Family, Vol. 12 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
👶Not in Love - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔁🫂🍁🐞Wenjack - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔁👶🐞Sanctuary - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🎓🧓🐘Breaking Dawn - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 31 - 1
🔹Week 32 - 2
🔹Week 33 - 6
🔹Week 34 - 6
🔹Week 35 - 5
September
📕Total: 26
♻️Rereads:
📝Non-Fiction:
🎓YA:
🖍️Graphic Novels:
🐞Under 300 pages:
🐘Over 499 pages:
🛑DNFs: 2
Best (new) book of the month:
When Among Crows
Paladin's Strength
Runners up:
The Wishing Game
Paladin's Grace
After the Dragons
All the Horses of Iceland
Nightmare Country, Vol. 1
The Yakuza's Bias, Volume 1
Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
My least favourite book of the month:
I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry
Ratings:
🅰️🐞👶When Among Crows - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧Paladin’s Grace - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📝👶🐞Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️The Angel of the Crows - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧👶Meegan - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🏅The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🎓🧓🐞Wayside School Is Falling Down - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍁🐞You Are Not What We Expected - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧👶The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🎓🍁🧓🐞Underground to Canada - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🌏What You Are Looking For Is in the Library - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎓🖍️🐞The Crossover Graphic Novel - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍁🧓🐞Remembrance - ⭐⭐⭐
🍁🐞All the Horses of Iceland - ⭐⭐⭐
🆎🖍️🐞Nightmare Country, Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🎓🏅Rebound - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎🏅The Wishing Game - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🐞After the Dragons - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🌏🧓🐞Mina's Matchbox - ⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞Clue: Candlestick - ⭐⭐⭐
🎓🖍️🐞Booked Graphic Novel - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📝🐞I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️Paladin's Strength - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📝🍁🏅🐞We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🧓On the Edge - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🖍️🌏🐞The Yakuza's Bias, Volume 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 35 - 1
🔹Week 36 - 3
🔹Week 37 - 5
🔹Week 38 - 13
🔹Week 39 - 3
🔹Week 40 - 1
October
📕Total: 22
♻️Rereads: 1
📝Non-Fiction: 5
🎓YA: 3
🖍️Graphic Novels: 7
🐞Under 300 pages: 11
🐘Over 499 pages: 0
🛑DNFs: 0
Best (new) book of the month:
Paladin's Hope
Runners up:
The Sunbearer Trials
Paladin's Faith
Lore Olympus: Volume Seven
Dinosaur Sanctuary Vol. 5
The Yakuza's Bias 2
Nightmare Country, Vol. 2: The Glass House
Celestial Monsters
The Duke and I
Cat + Gamer, Volume 2
My least favourite book of the month:
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World
Ratings:
📝🍁👶🐞Planet Drag: Uncover the Global Herstory - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎓🧓🐞The Phantom Tollbooth - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🫂🎓🏅The Sunbearer Trials - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📝🍁Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧Teach Me - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️👶🐞Nightmare Country, Vol. 2: The Glass House - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️📝👶🐞Adulthood Is a Gift! - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🧓Bayou Moon - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️👶Lore Olympus: Volume Seven - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞Dinosaur Sanctuary Vol. 5 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎓👶Celestial Monsters - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌏🧓🐞The Restaurant of Lost Recipes - ⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞The Yakuza's Bias 2 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
👶Buried Deep and Other Stories - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🐞Paladin's Hope - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️👂🐞Clean Sweep Dramatized Adaptation - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞Cat + Gamer, Volume 2 - ⭐⭐⭐
📝👶Witches Run Amok: The Oral History of Disney's Hocus Pocus - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧🧓The Duke and I - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝🧓🐞We Should All Be Feminists - ⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🏅Crumbs - ⭐⭐⭐
Paladin's Faith - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 40 - 4
🔹Week 41 - 6
🔹Week 42 - 4
🔹Week 43 - 6
🔹Week 44 - 2
November
📕Total: 19
♻️Rereads: 2
📝Non-Fiction: 3
🎓YA: 2
🖍️Graphic Novels: 6
🐞Under 300 pages: 11
🐘Over 499 pages: 1
🛑DNFs: 2
Best (new) book of the month:
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Atlas Six
Runners up:
The Viscount Who Loved Me
Games Untold
Bitter Medicine
Before We Forget Kindness
The Lost Hero
Cat + Gamer, Volume 3
Perfect World, Vol. 1
Perfect World, Vol. 2
Perfect World, Vol. 3
Perfect World, Vol. 4
My least favourite book of the month:
Ink Blood Sister Scribe
Ratings:
🖍️🌏🐞Cat + Gamer, Volume 3 - ⭐⭐⭐
📝🧓🐞The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy - ⭐⭐⭐
🏅Ink Blood Sister Scribe - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️👂🐞Sweep in Peace Dramatized Adaptation - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Bitter Medicine - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🧓Fate's Edge - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔁📝👶🐞Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧🫂🖍️🐞Graveneye - ⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞Perfect World, Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🧓The Viscount Who Loved Me - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌏🐞Before We Forget Kindness - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🏅The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎓👶Games Untold - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🫂📝🏅🧓🐞The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers - ⭐⭐⭐
🏅The Atlas Six - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞Perfect World, Vol. 2 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞Perfect World, Vol. 3 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞Perfect World, Vol. 4 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎓🏅🧓🐘The Lost Hero - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 44 - 2
🔹Week 45 - 3
🔹Week 46 - 7
🔹Week 47 - 4
🔹Week 48 - 3
December
📕Total: 28
♻️Rereads: 6
📝Non-Fiction: 2
🎓YA: 2
🖍️Graphic Novels: 9
🐞Under 300 pages: 16
🐘Over 499 pages: 1
🛑DNFs:
Best (new) book of the month:
Romancing Mister Bridgerton
Runners up:
Mr. Villain's Day Off 05
The Songbird & the Heart of Stone
The Son of Neptune
Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
My least favourite book of the month:
Best Canadian Essays 2025
Ratings:
🧓An Offer From a Gentleman - ⭐⭐⭐
🆎♻️👂Almost Just Friends - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🧓🐞The Picture of Dorian Gray - ⭐⭐⭐
🧺🧓🐞Agnes Grey - ⭐⭐⭐
🎓🏅🐞Starfish - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️👂🐞One Fell Sweep Dramatized Adaptation - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🧓Romancing Mister Bridgerton - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📝🍁🐞Best Canadian Essays 2025 - ⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞Perfect World, Vol. 5 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞Perfect World, Vol. 6 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️👂🧓Magic Bites Dramatized Adaptation - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
👶The Songbird & the Heart of Stone - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍁🐞Seven Down - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️👂🏅The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️👂Sweep with Me Dramatized Adaptation - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞Perfect World, Vol. 7 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞Perfect World, Vol. 8 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞Perfect World, Vol. 9 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞Perfect World, Vol. 10 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌏Lonely Castle in The Mirror - ⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞Perfect World, Vol. 11 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🧓👂🐞Magic Burns Dramatized Adaption - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞Perfect World, Vol. 12 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🌏🐞Mr. Villain's Day Off 05 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Christmas at Holiday House - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️👂Sweep of the Blade Dramatized Adaptation - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📝👶Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎓🧓🐘🏅The Son of Neptune - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 49 - 6
🔹Week 50 - 8
🔹Week 51 - 10
🔹Week 52 - 4
My Choice Awards:Best Author (Old)
🔹T. Kingfisher
🔹Ilona Andrews
🔹Seanan McGuire
🔹Leigh Bardugo
🔹Katherine Addison
Best Author (New)
🔹Carissa Broadbent
🔹Taylor Jenkins Reid
🔹Rick Riordan
🔹Julia Quinn
🔹Itaru Kinoshita
Best New-to-me Series
🔹The Crowns of Nyaxia
🔹The World of the White Rat
🔹Percy Jackson
🔹Bridgertons
🔹The Broken Blades
Best New-to-me Graphic Novel/Manga Series
🔹Dinosaur Sanctuary
🔹Once & Future
🔹Yakuza's Bias
🔹Perfect World
🔹Cat + Gamer
Best New Book in an Series I'm Already Reading
🔹Sanctuary
🔹Tidal Creatures
🔹Winter Lost
🔹The Grief of Stones
🔹To Woo and to Wed
Best Nonfiction
🔹The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
🔹Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
🔹Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch
🔹Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
🔹Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
Best Romance (Not already mentioned)
🔹Funny Story
🔹Dance with Me
🔹The Summer Escape
🔹The Bright Spot
🔹Not in Love
Best YA (Not already mentioned)
🔹Me: Moth
🔹The Sunbearer Trials
🔹The Grandest Game
🔹Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection
🔹Starfish
Best SFF (Not already mentioned)
🔹When Among Crows
🔹Before We Say Goodbye
🔹The Black Bird Oracle
🔹The Familiar
🔹The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Best Fiction (All Other Genres)
🔹Carrie Soto Is Back
🔹The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
🔹The Wishing Game
🔹Wenjack
🔹Wandering Stars
Best Graphic Novel/Manga (Not already mentioned)
🔹Burning Cold: An Inuit and Dene Comics Collection
🔹Mr. Villain's Day Off 04
🔹Fence, Vol. 6: Redemption
🔹Lore Olympus: Volume Seven
🔹Heartstopper: Volume Five
Week 1 (Jan. 1st - Jan. 7th)Well first week, and I'm already off to a good start, even though my books seem to be working for Popsugar more than ATY. I'm sure that will change as time goes on.
Ru by Kim Thúy - Jan. 1stI really enjoyed this. It was dreamlike, which the best of her books have been, and I was just drawn into it. It works perfectly for the PS prompt given it opens with what the title means in French and in Vietnamese. (A small stream and a lullaby respectively)
🍧30. A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary.
Stag's Leap: Poems by Sharon Olds - Jan. 2ndMy sister had this, and it worked for the prompt so I read it. It was okay, but not completely to my taste. It was just a little too abstract in places for me.
🍧1. A book with the word "leap" in the title.
Heartstopper: Volume Five by Alice Oseman - Jan. 3rdThe only reason I didn't get to this one last year was that my library hold didn't come in until yesterday. It was just as sweet and lovely as every other book in the series.
🅰️36. A book featuring a character in education.
The Sandman: Book of Dreams edited by Neil Gaiman - Jan. 5thI'm kicking myself because I almost bought this last year, but given I didn't know most of the authors and of the ones I did know, one I didn't like, I decided against it. But I loved this collection, and even the Susanna Clarke story was good.
🍧46. A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours.
The Sandman: The Deluxe Edition, Book One by Neil Gaiman - Jan. 6thI enjoyed the short stories so much I decided to reread the original series.
In Progress:
The Serpent and the Wings of Night
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
Week 2 (Jan. 8th - Jan. 14th)I ended up in a nonfiction mood, so all the wonderful fiction I had sitting waiting for me gathered dust and I hit the library for a bunch of Nonfiction.
A Man and His Cat, Vol. 1 by Umi Sakurai - Jan. 8thThis was cute and sweet, although the puns got to be a bit too much. And given my high tolerance for puns, that's saying something.
🍧12. A book from an animal's POV.
The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent - Jan. 8thThis was wonderful. Twisted and dark and complicated without being overly dramatic or sacrificing character intelligence for the sake of plot.
🅰️38. Two books with similar covers: Book 1.
The World's Even Dumber Criminals: Unbelievable True Tales of Crime Gone Wrong by Duncan McKenzie - Jan. 9thI'm in a nonfiction mood, and this made me laugh, so it was perfect. And as I became the 8th person to rate it, I'de say it works for the prompt.
🅰️9. A book with fewer than 2024 ratings on Goodreads.
The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey through the Art and Craft of Humor by Keegan-Michael Key & Elle Key - Jan. 10thI've been itching to read this since it was published in Oct. but I held off because it was too perfect for the Ben & Jerry's prompt. It was fun and informative, although I still ended up wanting more.
🅰️19. A book connected in some way to your favourite flavour of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. (Vermonty Python)
Black Friend: Essays by Ziwe - Jan. 11thThis was interesting, but otherwise just fine.
🅰️15. A book whose author’s name includes one of the 4 least used letters in the alphabet. (JQZX)
Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music, and Fame by Lisa Robinson - Jan. 12thAnother nonfiction that was just so-so. It had some nice behind the scenes stories, but the author's outright dismissal of Taylor Swift make me question her qualifications as a reporter. You don't have to like her music, but to condemn her for the very things you're praising Beyonce for is just plain incompetence.
🍧44. An autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll.
The Sandman: The Deluxe Edition, Book Two by Neil Gaiman - Jan. 13thContinuing my reread of the series.
Dinosaur Sanctuary, Vol. 1 by Itaru Kinoshita - Jan. 14thThis was so much fun. It was like a hard science look at Jurassic Park, but on the day-to-day running of the place.
🅰️40. A book involving a wild animal or endangered species, in the content, title, or on the cover.
Quit Being an Idiot: Life Lessons from The Golden Girls by Robb Pearlman - Jan. 14thI had time to kill in the library. It was a fun way to pass the time, but I'm not a big enough fan of the show to make this special. And it works for the prompt, because even though it's a new book, it's about an old TV show about older women.
🔁9. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #1 Something Old.
In Progress:
The Dating Plan
Week 3 (Jan. 15th - Jan. 21st)It was a slow reading week until Thursday... I had 2 books that i wasn't as into but they were do soon, so I forced myself to read them, and my reading suffered a little. But then I was done and free to read other things.
The Sandman: The Deluxe Edition, Book Three by Neil Gaiman - Jan. 18thContinuing my reread of the series.
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher - Jan. 18thThe first 60% of this was slow, meandering and boring, but then the actual story took over and it was wonderful.
🅰️52. A cozy mystery.
Dinosaur Sanctuary, Vol. 2 by Itaru Kinoshita - Jan. 18thContinuing to read through this series. It's just so fun.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl - Jan. 18thI got stuck waiting around for a meeting to end, and I finished the book I had with me. So I looked around and I managed to find the 2 Charlie Bucket books, and I read those while I waited. The first one holds up. The second not so much.
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl - Jan. 19thI could barely remember this when I started and I'm left wondering why I liked it so much.
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire - Jan. 20thI always prefer the odd numbered books in this series because they're the ones that tell the over arching story and the quests, as opposed to the even numbered ones which are all backstory.
🔁4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E".
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow - Jan. 21stThis reminded me of both The Wayward Children series and The Starless Sea, but not as good, which was a disappointment.
🅰️18. A book with a botanical cover.
In Progress:
You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love
The Bright Spot
Week 4 (Jan. 22nd - Jan. 28th)And I'm back on the nonfiction train.
Six Scorched Roses by Carissa Broadbent - Jan. 23rdI loved this even more then the first book. Now my hold on the next book needs to come in now!!!!
🆎5. A book with disembodied hand(s) on the cover.
Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band by Christian Staebler - Jan. 23rdThis was interesting, but I didn't really like the artwork, and because it was a graphic novel, there wasn't that much info actually.
🍧42. A nonfiction book about Indigenous people.
You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love by Marcia A. Zug - Jan. 24thWell, this wasn't quite what I was expecting. It ended up being a lot more depressing than I was expecting. But as it was about 'Gold digging' I felt it worked for the prompt.
🅰️31. A book related to “Going for the Gold”.
Nothing Rhymes with Orange by Adam Rex - Jan. 24thI saw this on my library list and the title caught my eye so I read it.
Wicked Beauty by Katee Robert - Jan. 26thI wasn't sure I would enjoy a poly romance, and I'm usually not big on erotica in general, but this series is so well done, I end up loving it. I still say it would have been better with less explicit sex, but I'm probably in the minority with that opinion.😉
🅰️1. A book with a title that ends in A, T or Y.
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant by Tracy Borman - Jan. 28thI've seen Borman's TV shows, so I was hopeful, but I think the fact is, I've read so many books about Tudor times, it takes a lot to stand out, and this just didn't. It was well written and not too dry, but I mostly knew everything. And while I know that it wasn't what was used for the bases of Six but the story of it was, so close enough.
🍧26. A book that was turned into a musical.
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English by Valerie Fridland - Jan. 28thThis was my first sociolinguistics book. My love for linguistics is kinda weird I know, but it's always fun. This one looked at why certain language habits are looked down on (hint: they're associated with minorities, kids or women) and why they shouldn't be (Jane Austen, William Shakespeare & Geoffrey Chaucer all used THEY in the singular sense, so arguments that it isn't grammatically right are just plain wrong).
🔁6. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title.
In Progress:
The Lightning Thief
Week 5 (Jan. 29th - Feb. 4th)This week has been a little crazy and I've been run off my feet, but I still managed to fit some books in. And it has been interesting switching between the Percy Jackson series and the Dark Olympus series.😏
Me: Moth by Amber McBride - Jan. 30thThis was beautiful and it made me cry.
🅰️6. A book with wings on the cover.
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan - Jan. 31stI'm sorry this wasn't written when I was a kid because I would have loved it.
🅰️43. A book by an Edgar Award-winning Author.
Moving Upstream by Mary Barnes - Feb. 1stThis was lovely. It was very nature inspired and I really enjoyed it.
🍧48. A collection of at least 24 poems.
Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity by Iliza Shlesinger - Feb. 2ndI watched Iliza on Celebrity Jeopardy and she was funny, so I wanted to try one of her books. This ran a bit too much toward being a self help book. But it was funny, so I gave it a 3, even though I didn't really enjoy it that much.
🍧11. A book from a genre you typically avoid.
Wynd, Book One: The Flight of the Prince - by James Tynion IV - Feb. 4thI didn't enjoy the last graphic novel by Tynion that I read, but this was much better. I'm hopeful, which is a good thing after the first book in a series.
🅰️29. A book related to air.
Radiant Sin by Katee Robert - Feb. 4thSo it was good, but the mystery was a little lacking and the connection to the original myths (Casandra & Apollo) was almost non-existent beyond character names. Just not as good as the previous books in the series.
🔁7. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins. (Lust)
In Progress:
The Sea of Monsters
Week 6 (Feb. 5th - Feb. 11th)I had a slow start to the week, where I was too busy to read, and then I was holding off until the read-a-thon started. And then it started and I was off to the races.
The Bright Spot by Jill Shalvis - Feb. 8thIt was a Shalvis, what can I say. I love these books.
🆎19. A book with a character who works with animals.
The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan - Feb. 9thI really am enjoying this series. It's funny, clever and everything I could have wanted when I was a kid. If only I'd had a time machine.....
🅰️28. A book related to sea.
Blood by Tyler Pennock - Feb. 10thI normally don't pick books based on the covers, but this was so pretty, and I love a good poetry collection. But I had a hard time rating this. I think it was well done, and very powerful, but I don't know that I enjoyed it... the whole thing felt like a dream, but I'm not sure if that was a good thing.
🅰️20. A book with a single word title.
Fence, Vol. 6: Redemption by C.S. Pacat - Feb. 10thThis series keeps getting better as it goes along.
🔁21. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities" (Sporty)
The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa - Feb. 10thThe short stories were sweet and not too sad, but the 2 side stories connected to The Travelling Cat Chronicles just made me want that book. But either way, she is a fabulous writer.
🅰️16. A book related to the phrase "It's Raining Cats and Dogs".
The Sandman: The Deluxe Edition, Book Four by Neil Gaiman - Feb. 11thContinuing my reread of the series.
Royal Trivia: Your Guide to the Modern British Royal Family by Rachel Bowie & Roberta Fiorito - Feb. 11thIt wasn't great, but it was short and sweet and perfect for a read-a-thon.
In Progress:
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
The Dating Plan
Week 7 (Feb. 12th - Feb. 18th)So the read-a-thon kept my number of books high. I still had so many library books to prepare and I think I'm going to have to send them back and try later because I'm just not getting to them anytime soon.
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff - Feb. 13thWow. This was powerful. And it gave me a different perspective on it.
🍧24. A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours.
Wynd, Book Two: The Secret of the Wings by James Tynion IV - Feb. 13thContinuing to read through this series.
Dinosaur Sanctuary Vol. 3 by Itaru Kinoshita - Feb 13thContinuing to read through this series.
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 15 by Hiromu Arakawa - Feb. 14thContinuing to read through this series.
When Clouds Touch Us by Thanhhà Lại - Feb 15thThis was really good, but just not quite as good as the first book. I read the author note at the end, where she talked about making it 'wordier' to show the switch in language, and I think that was what it was. It's just didn't flow as well as the first.
🆎15. A book whose title is a prepositional phrase.
And I Think to Myself by June Mitchell - Feb. 15thMy Dad knew the author. He had this sitting around, so I read it for the read-a-thon. I really loved a lot of these poems.
🅰️4. A book related to something mentioned in the lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong.
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 16 by Hiromu Arakawa - Feb. 16thContinuing to read through this series.
To Woo and to Wed by Martha Waters - Feb. 18thI'm sad it's over, but I really loved this series and I'm glad it went out on a good one. (I still don't like book 2 that much)
🍧43. A second-chance romance.
MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios by Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales & Gavin Edwards - Feb. 18thFor all that this took a warts and all approach by people who clearly love the movies/shows/characters in question, this was pretty watered down. It shows that Disney shut down people cooperating with the authors. Ended up being a bit of a snooze.
🔁18. A book related to a word given by a random word generator: Control.
Arch-Conspirator by Veronica Roth - Feb. 18thI don't like dystopians, and after The Divergent Series, I was leary of trying anything else by Roth. But this was short and based of Greek myths... And In the end, I didn't hate it. But I don't know I liked it either.
🆎10. A book with twins in it.
In Progress
The Dating Plan
Week 8 (Feb. 19th - Feb. 25th)So this week was finishing up books I had got for the read-a-thon that I didn't get to.
The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case by Jon S. Dellandrea - Feb. 19thThis was interesting, but not very detailed. It was mostly a bunch of photos and the court transcripts.
🅰️25. A book involving a crime other than a murder.
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 17 by Hiromu Arakawa - Feb. 19thContinuing to read through this series.
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 18 by Hiromu Arakawa - Feb. 20thContinuing to read through this series.
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 19 by Hiromu Arakawa - Feb. 20thContinuing to read through this series.
Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome by Aparna Nancherla - Feb. 22ndWhen I saw this title, I instantly thought of the prompt, and it just amused me to use it so much, so I read it. I'd never heard of the author before, but she is quite funny, even though she's dealing with tough subjects.
🍧33. A book with an unreliable narrator.
Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi - Feb 23rdI was actually thinking this one wasn't as sad as the last, and then the final story hit me.
🆎14. A book with a chair on the cover.
Macbeth by William Shakespeare - Feb. 23rdA question on a game show made me realize that after 25 years, I no longer have my part (Second Witch, the best part😉) memorized from when I did it in school. So I got out my copy and reread it.
In Progress
Bride
Wynd, Book Three: The Throne in the Sky
The Sandman: The Deluxe Edition, Book Five
Week 9 (Feb. 26th - Mar. 3rd)Well, my reading has finally slowed down to normal after the read-a-thon bump. I've had a bunch of books I've been dying to read come in, so I keep starting new books and not finishing things.
Bride by Ali Hazelwood - Feb. 26thWell, it wasn't just the same book, with different character names. It was fun and I was really enjoying it and then it got to the final sex scene which was unbelievably bad. I mean it was enjoyable in a bad-movie way, but still. The dialogue was soooooooo cringe worthy. I mean, it makes the prose in Twilight seem like Shakespeare.... lol.
🔁14. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y.
Wynd, Book Three: The Throne in the Sky by James Tynion IV - Feb. 27thI'm enjoying these books, but now I have to wait for the next one to be published.
The Dating Plan by Sara Desai - Mar. 1stI got stalled out a bit reading the first one too. I think she spends a bit too much time on set up with the characters apart. But once the romance gets going it's top notch.
🅰️5. A book set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the world. (San Francisco)
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way by Jesse Thistle - Mar. 3rdThis was dark and yet full of hope. Heavy and yet I couldn't put it down.
🍧36. A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person.
In Progress
Cruel Seduction
Call Us What We Carry: Poems
The Lady in Glass and Other Stories
Week 10 (Mar. 4th - Mar. 10th)So I kept starting new books and not finishing them this week. Too many books I want to read ASAP plus a few I don't really want to read, but that had due dates that moved them up the list. The Poetry book is taking longer because I'm reading it for a book club and so I'm sticking to the schedule that was set and ot just reading it all at once.
Southern Fried Sass: A Queen's Guide to Cooking, Decorating, and Living Just a Little "Extra" by Ginger Minj - Mar. 5thSo the recipes in this did not appeal to me at all, which bumped this down a bit, but given this was a memoir masquerading as a cookbook, the stories in it were fabulous.
🆎24. A book with a character who has an alter ego.
Aftermarket Afterlife by Seanan McGuire - Mar. 7thSo Mary's not my favourite MC, but I do love the world. It probably didn't help that this book was when the family's luck ran out and there were some actually consequences to the war. (view spoiler) But I want Annie as the MC for the next book.
🍧27. A book where someone dies in the first chapter.
Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry - Mar. 7thI was in the store today, so I finally managed to read through this short story, which I've been meaning to since the short film won the Oscar. I don't count it for the GR count, but I needed a picture book for the Diversity Baseline Challenge. The artwork was really nice.
The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto - Mar. 7thThis was very dreamlike, but I'm not sure that worked for me.
🅰️47. A book with a two-word title beginning with THE.
The Sandman: The Deluxe Edition, Book Five by Neil Gaiman - Mar. 9thSo I'd read half of this before, but the second half was brand new to me. The written story with the illustrations was gorgeous and worth it, but having the graphic novel version next just reinforced how ugly the artwork for the series generally was. But the story was top notch.
🔁5. A book with illustrations.
In Progress
The House of Hidden Meanings
The Lady in Glass and Other Stories
Call Us What We Carry: Poems
Not Your Crush's Cauldron
Cruel Seduction
Week 11 (Mar. 11th - Mar. 17th)
The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan - Mar. 11thI'm really enjoying going through this series.
🆎23. A book with a child character.
The Lady in Glass and Other Stories by Anne Bishop - Mar 13thSo as a short story collection, this was a bit of a mixed bag. There were a couple that were terrible, but they tended to be the stories she wrote early in her writing career. The ones she wrote for this collection were all 5 star reads though, and it including the story she wrote for Heroic Hearts that I loved.
🔁12. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #4 Something Blue.
A Man and His Cat, Vol. 2 by Umi Sakurai - Mar. 14thReading through this series. It's sweet, but nothing special.
The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul - Mar. 16thI read a lot of celebrity memoirs and this was just okay.
🍧41. A memoir that explores queerness.
Punderworld, Volume 1 by Linda Šejić - Mar. 17thYet another retelling of the Hades & Persephone myth. The artwork was gorgeous and it managed to be unique, despite how many times this has been redone in the last few years.
🔁11. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #3 Something Borrowed.
One Piece, Volume 1: Romance Dawn by Eiichiro Oda - Mar. 17thThis has a lot of promise to be a great series, but it still felt like all setup.
🍧6. A book about pirates.
In Progress:
Not Your Crush's Cauldron
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
Call Us What We Carry: Poems
Week 12 (Mar. 18th - Mar. 24th)It seems like a lot, but it's mostly graphic novels/manga.
El Deafo: Superpowered Edition!: A Graphic Novel by Cece Bell - Mar. 18thThis was nice. It was an interesting perspective and the artwork was pleasant.
🍧9. A book by a Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing author.
Once & Future, Vol. 1: The King is Undead by Kieron Gillen - Mar. 20thThis was a cool take on the Arthurian legends while being a modern 'ordinary person finds out they come from a family of monster slayers' story. Good humour, okay artwork.
🅰️49. A book with a senior citizen character.
Once & Future, Vol. 2: Old English by Kieron Gillen - Mar. 20thSo this volume earned an extra star for having a Hot Fuzz cameo and then lost a star because (view spoiler)
Not Your Crush's Cauldron by April Asher - Mar. 21stThis wasn't as good as book 2, but it was still a lot of fun. Now the author just needs to write Harper & Adrian's book next....
🔁3. A book with a negative in the title.
100 Children's Books That Inspire Our World by Colin Salter - Mar. 22ndThis was a nice list, but it was very British , it ignored most controversy, got a few facts wrong, and didn't include Love You Forever which was it's biggest crime.
🅰️32. A book with a number in the title.
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin - Mar. 23rdI've had this on my TBR since it came out and I finally got around to it. It wasn't as good as This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You. It explained the science behind some music theory, which I found fascinating, but most of the other science was only tangentially related to the point the author was making.
🅰️42. A book with a sound-related word in the title.
A Man and His Cat, Vol. 3 by Umi Sakurai - Mar. 24thSweet, and it's finally getting some plot.👍
Mr. Villain's Day Off 03 by Yuu Morikawa - Mar. 24thI love this series. This one gives some backstory for the rangers.
🆎21. A book with an anti-hero as a main character.
In Progress:
Call Us What We Carry: Poems
The Prisoner's Throne
Week 13 (Mar. 25th - Mar. 31st)
Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman - Mar. 25thMy sister had built this up so much, I don't know that it could have lived up to it. And while some of the poetry did blow me away, some of it did not.
🍧31. A book with a title that is a complete sentence.
The Innkeeper Chronicles by Ilona Andrews (adapted by ChrossxXxRodes) - Mar. 25thI loved this, but I knew I was going to. Still, I laughed so hard at the Arland-drinks-coffee scene. My only quibble is that Maud is NOT a blond.
🅰️11. A book with an X connection.
A Man and His Cat, Vol. 4 by Umi Sakurai - Mar 26thIt's cute, but I wish there was more story, and less snippets of cat antics.
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann - Mar. 30thThis was better than The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder. It was less dry, probably because the author had access to more sources, and was actually able to talk to living people (grandkids of the people involved). But even as phenomenal as the writing was, the subject matter was so upsetting I was never going to be able to give the book more than a 3.
🅰️13. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists.
Sebastian by Anne Bishop - Mar. 30thGo figure, when I read the book I actually feel like reading instead of picked based off library due dates, I'm much happier and the book speeds by.
In Progress:
Belladonna
The Battle of the Labyrinth
Week 14 (Apr. 1st - Apr. 7th)
The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan - Apr. 2ndStill working my way through this series.
🅰️33. A book involving travel.
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange - Apr. 4thI loved There There so much, I had to read this right away, but I didn't realize it was a sequel/prequel showing the lives of the generations that came before the events in TT and the aftermath (for the characters that were related). In some ways it was sad, but in others it was so hopeful and in the end, I loved it just as much.
🔁15. A book by an author you've only read once before.
The Good Egg by Jory John - Apr. 6thThat was a useless book. It was mildly funny.
The Prisoner’s Throne by Holly Black - Apr. 6thA satisfying ending to the duology, I still prefer the original trilogy.
🅰️39. Two books with similar covers: Book 2.
Burning Cold: An Inuit and Dene Comics Collection by Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley & Richard Van Camp - Apr. 7thThis was a fun little collection. Some were better than others, but the artwork was phenomenal.
🅰️41. A book with a chilling atmosphere.
In Progress
The Demigod Files
Week 15 (Apr. 8th - Apr. 14th)So I did a major reorg of my bookshelves this week and I managed to get all my new books fit in so I no longer have 2 ridiculously high stacks of books on top of my dresser. Plus, I found a book I thought I had lost. 🤗🥳
The Demigod Files by Rick Riordan - Apr. 8thContinuing to read through this series.
🅰️45. A book that is not a novel.
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher - Apr. 10thI didn't enjoy the original story, and while this was better, I still was underwhelmed.
🆎22. A book related to one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Pestilence)
Mr. Mean by Roger Hargreaves - Apr. 10thI'm doing a bookshelf reorg, and I pulled these out and reread them for a quick blast from the past.
Mr. Lazy by Roger Hargreaves - Apr. 10thSee above.
Mr. Muddle by Roger Hargreaves - Apr. 10thSee above.
Take the Lead by Alexis Daria - Apr. 12thAs someone who has watched almost ever season of DWTS, this was always going to be my kind of book. I am such a sucker for reality TV romances.
🔁22. A book with a con, deception, or fake.
Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters by Daniel M. Lavery - Apr. 13thThis was funny but uneven. The Les Miserable section killed me.
🆎4. A book related to or by an author we lost in 2023. (Cormac McCarthy)
Spy×Family, vol. 11 by Tatsuya Endo - Apr. 14thI loved it, although I am happier when they don't have the creepy brother.
🅰️17. A book involving intelligence.
In Progress
The Witness for the Dead
Belladonna
Week 16 (Apr. 15th - Apr. 21st)
Belladonna by Anne Bishop - Apr. 16thContinuing to reread the trilogy.
Once & Future, Vol. 3: The Parliament of Magpies by Kieron Gillen - Apr. 17thContinuing to read through this series. It just keeps getting better and better!
The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison - Apr. 18thThe ending was a little abrupt, but otherwise this was every bit as good as The Goblin Emperor.
🍧38. A cozy fantasy book.
Rizzio by Denise Mina - Apr. 19thI really enjoyed this little book. It told the story in snippets, which worked, although I wish there had been more. The humour in the turn of phrases made it sparkle though.
🍧3. A book about a 24-year-old. (Mary Queen of Scotts was 24 when this happened)
Nimona by N.D. Stevenson - Apr. 20thI just felt like rereading this.
Dinosaur Sanctuary Vol. 4 by Itaru Kinoshita - Apr. 21stMy favourite part is the science column from the technical adviser to the series.
In Progress:
Bridge of Dreams
The Last Olympian
Week 17 (Apr. 22nd - Apr. 28th)
In the Kitchen With Miss Piggy: Fabulous Recipes from My Famous Celebrity Friends by Jim Lewis - Apr. 22ndMy family has an old Miss Piggy Christmas card, and whoever has the card has to send out a newsletter (in character) telling what Miss Piggy has been up to over the past year, and then pass the card along. So when my uncle found this at a book sale, he had to get it to pass along through the family. The recipes aren't very good (One is literally "Cut up a pear and serve it with cheese"), but the other bits are fun.
Bridge of Dreams by Anne Bishop - Apr. 23rdAnd now I'm finished with my reread of the trilogy.
Once & Future, Vol. 4: Monarchies in the UK by Kieron Gillen - Apr. 24thI almost don't want to read the last book, cuz then it will be over. It is just sooo good.
Three Fires by Denise Mina - Apr. 24thI really like the way she writes historical fiction. It gets to the heart of what happened, but goes by so quick.
🅰️30. A book set in a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea. (Italy)
The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison - Apr. 26thThe ending wasn't as rushed and felt more finished, even though it's clear that the story isn't over, unlike the first book in this series.
🍧13. A book originally published under a pen name.
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik - Apr. 28thI felt like rereading this. I really do love it.
In Progress:
Dance with Me
The Last Olympian
Week 18 (Apr. 29th - May 5th)
Cruel Seduction by Katee Robert - Apr. 29thI basically hate read this. I really like the series, and I want to know what happens, but this felt like treading water while give a HEA to a couple of characters that I couldn't stand. I will be taking a break before I try the next one.
🍧32. A book with an enemies to lovers plot.
Dance with Me by Alexis Daria - Apr. 29thI think I prefer the first book slightly, but this was almost as good.
🅰️7. A book with a pronoun in the title.
Once & Future, Vol. 5: The Wasteland by Kieron Gillen - Apr. 30thIt ended well, but I am almost sad because it could have been left slightly more open ended. But I really do love this series as a whole.
Spy x Family: Family Portrait by Aya Yajima - Apr. 30thThe actuall short stories were nice, but they read as middlegrade almost with the language being very simplistic. It works as part of the manga, but here I wish they'd done more.
The Secret World of Og by Pierre Berton - May 1stThis was one of my favourite books as a kid, but I haven't reread it at least 20 years. It was time.
Why Am I Taller? What Happens to an Astronaut's Body in Space by Dave Williams & Elizabeth Howell - May 4thThe title caught my eye in the library. Despite it being very dense, it was fun and interesting. I really enjoyed it.
🅰️&🔁48. A second book that fits your favorite prompt.
A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the final list: A book to fit a prompt from a past ATY challenge: A book with a weird or intriguing title.
Funny Story by Emily Henry - May 5thSo my order of favorite Emily Henry books now reads: Book Lovers, Beach Read, Funny Story, Happy Place, People We Meet on Vacation. I loved the banter, as per usual.
🆎18. A book with an ex.
In Progress:
The Familiar
The Last Olympian
Week 19 (May 6th - May 12th)
The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan - May 6thThis was a lot of fun. Now I'm going to have to read Riordan's other series.
🍧2. A bildungsroman book.
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 20 by Hiromu Arakawa - May 9thContinuing to read through this series.
The Huntress by Kate Quinn - May 9thI felt like a reread, and I liked it even more the second time through. Jordan's chapters didn't irritate me this time around.
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 21 by Hiromu Arakawa - May 10thContinuing to read through this series.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi - May 11thMy sister wanted to borrow this to read, but before I leant it to her, I wanted to do a reread of the series.
Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar - May 12thWhen I did my book shelf reorg, I moved all my old kids books, and so I've been going through and rereading them. I saved this one for the read-a-thon.
In Progress:
The Familiar
Week 20 (May 13th - May 19th)So the read-a-thon made my numbers high, but I managed almost all my goals.
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo - May 13thI loved it. It didn't jump back and forth in time and just gave a great little love story/historical fiction book.
🅰️44. A book with a touch of magic.
Coraline by Neil Gaiman - May 14thI've never seen the movie because I wanted to wait until after I'd read the book. So now I can finally get around to watching it.
🍧17. A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list. (England)
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - May 14thThis was a random pick for the read-a-thon and I'm so glad. I really loved this and I will now have to track down the sequel.
🔁16. A book with a silhouette on the cover.
Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi - May 15thContinuing my reread of the series. I didn't cry this time.
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 22 by Hiromu Arakawa - May 16thContinuing to read through the series.
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer - May 16thI barely gave this a passing grade, and I might downgrade it later. Most of it was good, but the section that talked about how Joni Mitchel giving up a baby for adoption made her a monster just really made me angry.
🅰️ & 🆎 3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the final list: A winner or nominee from the 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards. (Pre-Poll)
Instant Attraction by Jill Shalvis - May 19thThis was as good as her Wildstone series, although it did almost lose a star for having the phrase 'fiery fire' - Bad editor, Bad!
🍧20. A book set in the snow.
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 23 by Hiromu Arakawa - May 19thContinuing to read the series.
In Progress:
The Kingdom of Copper
Imogen, Obviously
Week 21 (May 20th - May 26th)
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 24 by Hiromu Arakawa - May 20thContinuing to read through the series. This one ended on a major cliffhanger.
🍧49. The 24th book of an author.
Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi - May 22ndContinuing my reread of the series.
Instant Gratification by Jill Shalvis - May 23rdNot as good as the first book in the series, but still, A Shalvis always makes me happy.
🅰️34. A book related to the name of one of Snow White's seven dwarfs. (Doc)
Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse by Maya Phillips - May 24thIt was fun, but it was mostly just an excuse for the author to wax poetic about her favourite fandoms, most of which were anime or anime adjacent.
🔁19. A nonfiction book by a BIPOC author.
In Progress:
The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King
The Kingdom of Copper
Week 22 (May 27th - June 2nd)
The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King by Carissa Broadbent - May 27thThis didn't surprise me like the first book, but it did draw me in and I never wanted it to end.
🅰️46. A book related to night.
Spice & Wolf, Vol. 1 by Isuna Hasekura - May 28thMy sister tried to warn me about this one, but thought A Man and His Cat, Vol. 1 was boring, but I enjoyed that one. Turns out this one was just a history of feudal economics lesson, where the female character is drawn naked as often as possible. So boring, and stupid, with a slice of why is she naked again?
🔁23. A book that has been translated from another language.
Instant Temptation by Jill Shalvis - May 29thThis was one of her weaker books - it jumped in to the story too quickly, didn't have much of a plot, and wrapped it up way too quickly. But it had the humour, so it still managed a passing grade from me.
🆎11. A book with a character whose first name is considered gender neutral. (Harley & TJ)
Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi - May 30thThis was to finish my reread of the series. It also becomes the first book that I read twice this year.
The Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty - June 2ndI do love this series, but Dara is still the worst and I got stuck on a Dara chapter and it took me 6 months to come back and finish.
In Progress:
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Week 23 (June 3rd - June 9th)
Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin - June 3rdI had never heard about this book until it was mentioned in Funny Story, but since then, I've had the book pop up in news articles, other people reviews, and all over the place. And then today I was in the store and there it was. So I read it quick. It was cute and funny.
Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland - June 5thMy sister told me I had to read this and she was right. It is like Six of Crows in all the best ways.
🆎16. A book with a character that could be described as one of the classes in Dungeons and Dragons. (Thief & Fighter)
Lore Olympus: Volume Six by Rachel Smythe - June 5thI love this series, but the wait between volumes is killing me. I just want the HEA and we're only in the middle of the story. But the artwork is gorgeous and I'd rather wait if it means the quality stays this good.
🅰️37. A book that is part of a series.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins - June 9thI didn't really want to read a prequel telling Snow's story, but then the movie came out and the trailer looked good, so I figured I should read the book first. It was interesting, but just as depressing as the original trilogy.
🅰️23. A book related to Boats, Beaches, Bars, Ballads, or Jimmy Buffett.
In Progress:
The Marriage Game
Week 24 (June 10th - June 16th)
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik - June 11thI don't normally go in for historical fiction focused on battles and military strategy. Turns out, they just need dragons to make them better. A really good author also helps.
🍧23. A book that features dragons.
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 25 by Hiromu Arakawa - June 13thContinuing to read through this series.
Firefly: Return to Earth That Was Vol. 3 by Greg Pak - June 13thIt took me 2 years to track down a copy, and I can only sort of remember vol 1 & 2, but I don't care, I read it as soon as I could. Now I have to decide if I want to go back and reread the other ones.
🍧19. A book set in the future.
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 26 by Hiromu Arakawa - June 14thContinuing to read the series. Only 1 more to go.
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 27 by Hiromu Arakawa - June 14thAnd now I'm done. It was a wild ride that nicely tied up everything for the end. It really stuck the landing. I'm a little sad it's over now.
🔁25. A book related to "the end".
Cat + Gamer, Volume 1 by Wataru Nadatani - June 15thMy library bought this and I thought it looked cute and then it was perfect for the PS prompt. It was cute, but nothing special. At least it didn't go overboard on the puns like the Man and his Cat series.
🍧22. A book that centers on video games.
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult - June 16thI couldn't put this down, and some of it I really enjoyed. I picked it up because it promised to be a look at the complex ethical issues around the death penalty and organ donation. And those parts were the parts I liked. The parts that were a Green Mile ripoff not so much. And given the set up of asking "Everyone knows it's wrong to execute an innocent person, but is it still wrong to execute a guilty person?", the fact that (view spoiler). So even though I enjoyed the book overall, the downsides mean I have to give it a 2.
🍧35. A book with magical realism.
In Progress:
Slaying the Vampire Conqueror
The Marriage Game
Week 25 (June 17th - June 23rd)
Slaying the Vampire Conqueror by Carissa Broadbent - June 18thThis was a little more run-of-the-mill PNR, but I love the world so much and the author is so good, I don't even care.
🔁17. A book with a female villain or criminal.
This Winter by Alice Oseman - June 18thThis was sweet, but it was barely there. It's just made me want to do a Hearstopper reread.
🍧34. A book with at least 3 POVs.
The Marriage Game by Sara Desai - June 19thI've now read this series, even though I finished with the first book. The ending was fun, although the sister's surprise engagement was a bit much.
🅰️14. A book with a main character who is BIPoC.
Tidal Creatures by Seanan McGuire - June 21stSo I guess it took till book 3 for this series to really grab me. Or maybe it just took that long for the series to get over the initial intro phase. Either way, I can't wait for more from this series.
🆎13. A book related to Sailor Moon.
I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks by Gina Sheridan - June 22ndThis was good for a few laughs.
Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs - June 23rdThis got it's publication day pushed back by almost a year, so I've been waiting for it for almost 2 years now. It was worth the wait.
🅰️12. A book that has been on your TBR for over a year.
In Progress:
The Summer Escape
Mirrored Heavens
Week 26 (June 24th - June 30th)
The Auschwitz Photographer: The powerful true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner number 3444 by Luca Crippa & Maurizio Onnis - June 25thI read The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive, and then this was in my pile of books, so I get a prompt, and a book that I can donate to make space for new books😉 I really don't need to read more books on WW2, but some how, I just can't seem to stop entirely.
🅰️2. A book connected to something you read in 2023.
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville - June 27thI went to a book sale today with my Mom and sister, and found this. And then while I waited for them to finish looking, I ended up reading it again. I'm glad to say it still holds up.
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha - June 29thThe poems were powerful and heartbreaking and beautiful.
🅰️24. A book with an orange, green or purple cover.
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire - June 30thI enjoyed the new book so much, I had to do a reread of the series.
Rafe by Rebekah Weatherspoon - June 30thI no longer feel like reading the book I had picked out for PS "A book with a title that starts with the letter X" so I found another book, but it was #2 in a series, so I decided to read the first book to see if I liked the author. This was fine. Notable only for NOT having the obligatory breakup so the characters could come back together at the end.
🍧10. A book by a self-published author.
In Progress:
Mirrored Heavens
The Summer Escape
Around the Year in 52 Books
Books mentioned in this topic
The Grief of Stones (other topics)Sanctuary (other topics)
Winter Lost (other topics)
To Woo and to Wed (other topics)
Heartstopper: Volume Five (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Carissa Broadbent (other topics)Seanan McGuire (other topics)
T. Kingfisher (other topics)
Leigh Bardugo (other topics)
Itaru Kinoshita (other topics)
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Challenges:
📕Books Read: 285/250 Finished Nov. 17th
📔Books I don't Count for the GR Challenge: 9
🅰️ATY: 52/52 Link Finished Oct. 27th
🆎ATY Rejects: 25/25 Link Finished Dec. 4th
🔁ATY Rewind: 25/25 Link Finished Nov. 13th
🍧Popsugar: 50/50 Link Finished Nov. 20th
🏅Goodreads Choice: 33/30 Link Finished Nov. 23rd
🧺Book Basket: 12/10 Link Finished July 14th
🫂Diverse Baseline Challenge: 33/36 Link
💭My Plan: 64.5% Link
Stats:
♻️Rereads: 50
📝Nonfiction: 53
🎓YA/Middle Grade: 69
🍁Can Lit: 23
🌏Translated: 65
👶Published in 2024: 49
🧓Published before 2014: 84
🖍️Graphic Novel/Manga/Comic: 84
👂Audiobooks: 9
🐞Short (>300): 173
🐘Long (>499): 18
Rating Breakdown:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 69
⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 130
⭐⭐⭐ - 92
⭐⭐ - 3
⭐ - 0
🛑(DNF) - 6
🧮Author Stats:
# of authors - 164
# of new-to-me authors - 101
Most Read Authors: (5 book minimum)
Hiromu Arakawa - 13
Ilona Andrews - 12
Rie Aruga - 12
T. Kingfisher - 8
Rick Riordan - 8
Neil Gaiman - 7
Seanan McGuire - 6
Stephenie Meyer - 6
Toshikazu Kawaguchi - 6
Jill Shalvis - 6
Kieron Gillen - 5
James Tynion IV - 5
Itaru Kinoshita - 5
Carissa Broadbent - 5
Monthly Summary
January - 30 total.
February - 30 total.
March - 26 total.
April - 29 total.
May - 25 total.
June - 23 total.
July - 16 total.
August - 20 total.
September - 26 total.
October - 22 total.
November - 21 total.
December - 28 total.
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