2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

last year i hit 130 books but i just want to keep it low in case of slumps etc.

first book of the year: Lovelight. L'amore al primo posto (reread)
6 stars obv

cr: on kindle Quel che nasconde il fiume
physicallyLa ballata delle falene: l'esilio dal mondo

2nd book of the year: Quel che nasconde il fiume
3.75 stars

new kindle cr: Collide

3rd book of the year Collide
4.5 stars

january ౨ৎ

- Lovelight Farms 💝 ✨️ 🫀
- Quel che nasconde il fiume🐲
- la ballata delle falene 💝🫀
- collide 💝 🫀
- Dilemma d'amore 💝🫀
- Wild love 💝 ✨️
- Done and dusted 💝
- Beat💝
- Fall 💝 🫀
- Provaci ancora Annie 💝 🫀

➙ january stats:

- favorite book: Dilemma d’amore
- least favorite book: Done and dusted
- amount of books read: 10
- average star rating: - 4.225⭐️

we def need to update this page

first thing first legenda:
➙ key:

- classic/fiction: 🏛️
- romance: 💝
- fantasy: 🐲
- favs: 🫀
- dnf: 🗑️
- reread: ✨

💌 february ౨ৎ

- Mile high 💝 🫀
- Deep end 💝 🫀
- Quicksilver 🐲
- dolci misteri alla libreria cinnamon bun 💝 🫀
- lettere d’amore da montmartre 🏛️ 🫀
- i cartografi 🏛️
- ti odio anzi no ti amo 💝
- caraval 🐲
- This is how you lose the time war🏛
- His road home💝

➙ february stats:

- favorite book: Mile high
- least favorite book: His road home
- amount of books read: 10
- average star rating: 3,9 ⭐️

🌱 march ౨ৎ

- L’ultima lettera d’amore 💝
- our infinite fates 🐲
- Spiral 💝 🫀
- the favourites 🏛️
- close to me 💝
- unsteady 💝 🫀
- wild eyes 💝 🫀
- la bella e il campione 💝
- collieded 💝
- yours truly 💝
- the darkest corner of the heart 💝

➙ march stats:

- favorite book: Wild eyes
- least favorite book: collided
- amount of books read: 11
- average star rating: 3,9⭐️

🌷 april's tbr౨ৎ
(Game of Chaos: Redenzione (Game of Gods Vol. 3) & Game of Desire (edizione italiana): Devozione )
Fearless
L'amante perduta di Shakespeare
Drive Me Wild
The Nanny
Le sorelle Blue
The Right Move
Indigo Ridge
The Seven Year Slip
Guilty. Burn for love (Libri)

🌷 april ౨ৎ

- la ballata delle falene le gioie violente 🏛️ 🫀
- hate mail 💝
- chemical hearts 💝
- jane eyre 🏛️
- maybe someday 💝
- fearless 🐲
- drive me wild 💝
- l’amante perduta di shakesperare 💝
- il custode delle favole 💝
- the nanny 💝
- indigo ridge 🕵️‍♂️
- taste me 💝 🫀
- the right move 💝 🫀
- aspettami ancora 💝
- abroad 💝
-DNF: le sorelle blue
➙ april stats:

- favorite book: la ballata, taste me, the right move
- least favorite book: abroad
- amount of books read: 15
- average star rating: 3,63⭐️

🌷april tbr: completed 7/9

🌸 may ౨ৎ

- night shifts 💝
- onyx strorm 🐲 🫀
- tracotanza 💝
- check and mate 💝
- la principessa e l’l'atleta 💝
- guity burn for love 🐲 🫀
- before i let go 🏛️
- wings of starlight 🐲
- caught up 💝
- binding 13 💝 🫀
- before dawn 💝
- keeping 13 💝

➙ may stats:

- favorite book: onyx storm
- least favorite book: la principessa e l’altleta
- amount of books read: 12
- average star rating: 4,23⭐️

Hi juls! Looks like you're crushing your goal! Way to go! Hope that there have been a lot of fabulous books in your reading journey so far this year!

Happy reading!

🍉 june ౨ৎ

- lessons in faking 💝
- fuori pista 💝
- finchè l’estate non ci separi 💝 🫀
- cruel summer. giovane carina crudele 💝
- rose di carta 💝 🫀
- al limite 💝
- funny story 💝
- fragili scintille 💝
- i hope this doesn’t find you 💝
- storia di una libraia di tokyo 🏛️
- sangue e cenere 🐲 🫀
- regno di carne e fuoco 🐲

➙ june stats:

- favorite book: rose di carta
- least favorite book: al limite
- amount of books read: 12
- average star rating: 4.25⭐️ su 11 perchè c’è una dnf

☀️ july ౨ৎ

- La corona di ossa 🐲🫀
- Odio a prima vista 💝
- Phantasma 🐲
- Il mio anno con te 💝
- Nora goes off script💝🫀
- Magnolia parks 💝
- Wild side💝🫀
- Tutta colpa di un playboy💝
- Daylight 💝🫀
- The bromance book club💝
- Bad cruz💝🫀
- Maledetto il giorno che ci ha fatto incontrare 💝
- Love island💝🫀
- Un attimo soltanto 💝🫀
- Zucchero amore e tanti guai 💝
- Heart bones💝
- La magia dei momenti no🏛
- Behind the net💝🫀

➙ july stats:

- favorite book: love island
- least favorite book: il mio anno con te
- amount of books read: 18
- average star rating: 3,9 ⭐️

🌻 august ౨ৎ

- it starts with us 💝
- la lama dell’assassina 🐲
- atlas la storia di pa salt 🏛
- ride with me 💝
- in fuga dall’altare DNF
- carrie soto is back 🏛 🫀
- happy place 💝
- innamorarsi a story lake town 💝
- la stagione del coraggio 🏛
- l’amore e tutti i suoi cliche 💝
- malibu rising 🏛
- kala DNF 🏛
- frutti della memoria 💝
- out on a limb 💝 🫀
- io che non ho conosciuto gli uomini 🏛
- you’re mine 💝
- scandalo a hollywood 💝 🫀
- solo per un’estate 💝

➙ august stats:

- favorite book: out on a limb
- least favorite book: ride with me
- amount of books read: 16
- average star rating: 3,7 ⭐️

Congratulations on hitting your goal, juls! Well done! Hope you've been enjoying your 2025 books!

🍂 september ౨ৎ

- two twisted crowns 🐲 🫀
- lo spezzacuori 💝
- the dead romantics 💝
- loveligh 4 💝
- il sortilegio del trono di quercia 🐲
- complice cercasi 🐲
- wild card 💝 🫀
- una di famiglia 🏛
- say you’ll remember me 💝
- summer in the city 💝
- parigi non aspetta l’alba 🏛
- non proprio un colpo di fulmine 💝
- il mio coinquilino è un vampiro 💝
- dove i cuori si infrangono 💝
- wild hearts 💝 🫀
- imagine me 🐲
- nightcall 💝 🫀
- throne of glass 🐲
- my dark romeo 💝
- hot for slayer 🐲 🫀

➙ september stats:

- favorite book: two twisted crowns
- least favorite book: imagine me
- amount of books read: 20
- average star rating: 3,8 ⭐️

🎃 october ౨ৎ

- sin-bin 💝
- the beast and the ballerina 💝 🫀
- mate 🐲
- mistero al profumo di caffè 🏛
- ancora una volta con te 💝 🫀
- get to you 💝 🫀
- amori e scintille al baby dragon cafe 🐲
- lonely heart 💝 🫀
- fragile heart 💝 🫀
- the cock down the block 💝
- la strega ribelle 🐲
- play along 💝 🫀
- the knight and the moth 🐲 🫀

➙ october stats:

- favorite book: play along
- least favorite book: amori e scintille al baby dragon cafe
- amount of books read: 13
- average star rating: 4,08⭐️