Pick-a-Shelf discussion

This is the thread for July. Some of the instructions are posted below as well for your ease of reference.

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from May 2025 reads.

C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves (aside from "to-read", "currently-reading"). (they may end up being duplicated if you are a genre reader).

You will read a book from each of these shelves (preferably those already on your TBR).

D. Your Options

For this section, you may choose to either read purely from your TBR or new books* or BOTH! There are separate tasks as per below options:

*the definition of new books here is quite liberal; it could literally be a new book you've brought home or newly published book which you've put on your TBR last year or new-to-you... whichever works for you

Each of the books you read for L4L are to be used as starting point for each of below prompts (ie. 1 book cannot be used for more than 1 prompt per option).

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.


D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)

4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages

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TBR Bender, July 2025

✔B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from May 2025 reads.

1.
The Bohemians, Jasmin Darznik
historical fiction, book club, art

2.
The Bookseller at the End of the World, Ruth Shaw
nonfiction, memoir, books about books

3.
OverKill, J.A. Jance
mystery, suspense, thriller

✔C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelf.

1. (The Bohemians, historical fiction)
Together Tea, Marjan Kamali, 5 July 2025


2. (OverKill, mystery, thriller)
Endangered, C.J. Box, 7 July 2025


3. (The Bookseller at the End of the World, nonfiction)
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos, Judy Batalion, 14 July 2025


✔D. Your Options

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)

✔2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series.
(Endangered, Joe Pickett #15)
Off the Grid, C.J. Box, 29 July 2025, Joe Pickett #16


3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)

✔4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature
(The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos, Days/Day)
Remainders of the Day: A Bookshop Diary, Shaun Bythell, 15 July 2025


✔5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
(Together Tea, 338 pp.)
All the Broken Places, John Boyne, 6 July 2025, 400 pp.


D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)

4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages

JULY

My Top 5 Reads in January & shelves:

Like 4 Like : a book on one of the 3-5 top shelves

Top Shelf:
Book 1:

Top Shelf:
Book 2:

Top Shelf:
Book 3:

Top Shelf:
Book 4:

Top Shelf:
Book 5:

D1 Your TBR

1. Date: Using one of your [Like 4 Like] books, read from closest date added

2. Series: Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or another book by the same author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)

4. Title:Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.

TBR Bender

Top 3 for May:
1. Sweet Bean Paste - Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Asia
2. Discover Your God-Given Gifts - Spirituality, Nonfiction, Self-Help
3. Gabriel's Angel - Romance, Contemporary, Holiday

Like for Like:
1. Sweet Bean Paste - Literary Fiction
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

2. Discover Your God-Given Gifts - Spirituality
The Celestine Prophecy

3. Gabriel's Angel - Contemporary
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added
The Celestine Prophecy added 5/30/17
A House Without Windows added 5/31/17

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - bones
Bones of Betrayal

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow = 401 pages
The Pony Wife = 456 pages

JULY BENDER

Top 3 of may:
1 The Names historical fiction, literary fiction, contemporary
2 Mrs. March thriller, mystery, historical fiction
3 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August book club, science fiction

Like for Like
1 The Names historical fiction == Beyond That, the Sea ✔️
2 Mrs. March == mystery, historical fiction == Jamaica Inn✔️
3 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August == book club, science fiction == Beautyland✔️

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author
Beautyland == Exit Zero✔️

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials
Jamaica Inn == DM == The Unquiet Grave ✔️

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
Beyond That, the Sea == that == All That We See or Seem ✔️

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.

TBR Bender July
Read: 6/6 - Completed 9/28/25

Top Reads for May:
* The Wishing Game - Fantasy, Romance, Contemporary
* Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, And A Journey To The Ends Of The Earth - Nonfiction, Adventure, Family
* We Do What We Do in the Dark - LGBT, Romance, Contemporary

L4L:
The Wishing Game - Fantasy, Romance, Contemporary
✅1. The Measure - Fantasy - 6/30/25

Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, And A Journey To The Ends Of The Earth - Family
✅2. Amy and Isabelle - Family - 7/31/25

We Do What We Do in the Dark - LGBT
✅3. The Pull of the Stars - LGBT - 7/19/25

TBR:
Title: The Pull of the Stars
✅4. The Calculating Stars -7/15/25

Pages:The Measure - 353pp
✅5. Feel Free: Essays - 464pp - 9/28/25

New:
Pages: Amy and Isabelle - 304pp
✅6. The God of the Woods - 478pp - 7/31/25

JULY - Completed 7/30/25

Your Books
Pick your 5 top reads from May 2025

C. Like for Like (L4L)
1. A Terrible Kindness - historical-fiction
Strangers in Time - Completed 6/29/25

2. Mercy Kill - mystery
Divided in Death - Completed 6/22/25

3. Look Both Ways - thriller
Pines - Completed 7/3/25

4. Leaving Eastern Parkway a novel - book-club
Demon Copperhead - Completed 6/28/25

5. Break Every Rule - 2025
The Summer Guests - Completed 7/6/25

D. Your Options

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Strangers in Time
Lethal Prey (closest date added - both added April 27, 2025) - Completed 6/7/25

2. Series: Pines
Wayward (next book in the series) - Completed 7/8/25

3. Author: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer (author with the same initials) - Completed 7/28/25

4. Title: Divided in Death
Visions in Death (identical word in title) - Completed 7/8/25

5. Pages: The Summer Guests - 363 pages
Home of the American Circus - 432 pages (at least 50 pages more) - Completed 7/13/25

D.2. new books
1. Date: Demon Copperhead
Unlikely Animals (published in the same year - 2022) - Completed 7/25/25

2. Series: The Summer Guests
Pandemic (a series by a new-to-you author) - Completed 7/19/25

3. Author: Pines by Blake Crouch
Endangered by C.J. Box (authors have same first & last initials reversed) - Completed 7/13/25

4. Title: Divided in Death
word in title: death
All the Colors of the Dark - Completed 6/18/25

5. Pages: Strangers in Time - 435 pages
the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages
Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History - 530 pages - Completed 7/30/25

JULY

My Top 5 Reads in January & shelves:
✔Babel-17: science fiction, fiction, classics, space opera, science fiction fantasy
✔The Harbors of the Sun: fantasy, fiction, high fantasy, adventure, epic fantasy
✔The Jane Austen Project: historical fiction, time travel, fiction, science fiction, romance
✔The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway #8): mystery, crime, fiction, british literature, mystery thriller
✔The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds #1): science fiction, romance, fantasy, space opera, fiction

Like 4 Like : a book on one of the 3-5 top shelves

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Woman in Blue)
✔Book 1: Mississippi Blood - fin 7/7

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Babel-17)
✔Book 2: Gravity Lost - fin 7/22

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (The Blighted Stars)
✔Book 3: Muse of Nightmares - fin 6/17

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (The Jane Austen Project)
✔Book 4:Waiting on a Bright Moon - fin 5/31

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (The Harbors of the Sun)
✔Book 5: Steal the Sky - fin 8/14

D1 Your TBR

1. Date: Using one of your [Like 4 Like] books, read from closest date added
✔Muse of Nightmares, added 6/27/24
✔Leviathan Wakes, added 6/3/2024 - fin 6/14

2. Series: Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or another book by the same author
✔Mississippi Blood
✔Southern Man - fin 9/15

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
✔Steal the Sky, Megan O'Keefe
✔The First Omega, by Malka Ann Older - fin 7/21

4. Title:Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
✔Waiting on a Bright Moon, moon
✔Relentless Moon - fin 9/28

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
✔Gravity Lost, 387 pages
✔Some Desperate Glory, 438 pages - fin 4/4

COMPLETED 9/28

My top 3 reads in May:

The Ardent Swarm - Fiction / Historical Fiction / Tunisia / Literary Fiction / Contemporary
Gli onori perduti - Africa / Cameroon / Fiction / Novels / France
Della donna aracnide - Horror

L4L

The Ardent Swarm by Yamen Manai
Top shelf: fiction
Book #1: Coriolanus - read 02/08

Gli onori perduti by Calixthe Beyala
Top shelf: fiction
Book #2: ’Salem’s Lot - read 12/08

Della donna aracnide by Luigi Musolino
Top shelf: horror
Book #3: I Am Legend - read 03/08

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)

5. Pages: Coriolanus (202 pages) -> I fiumi di Londra (350 pages) (read 18/08)

Books read: 4/6

July Spot

B: My Books - May
1. Sunrise on the Reaping - Favorites / Dystopian / Young Adult
2. Divergent - Young Adult / Dystopia / Fantasy
3. Station Eleven - Fiction / Favorites / Science Fiction

C. Like for Like
1. Gilead Shelf: Favorites Added: Mar 28, 2019
2. Dangerous Shelf: Young Adult Added: Mar 14, 2014
3. East of Eden Shelf: Favorites Added: Feb 28, 2022

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach (using Gilead by Marilynn Robinson)

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)
A Dangerous Legacy (using Dangerous)

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
The Eye of the World (800 pages, using East of Eden with 601 pages)

Read: 0/6

Joyce's July TBR Bender: - COMPLETED

B. My Top May 2025 Reads

1. Friend of the Devil 5/25/25
2. Sparrow Hill Road 5/26/25
3. Mickey7 5/15/25

C. Like 4 Like (numbers correspond with books as listed above)

1. May Book - HORROR Friend of the Devil- The Haunted Forest Tour 7/25/25
2. May Book - GHOST Sparrow Hill Road- Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper 9/15/25
3. May Book -SCIENCE FICTION Mickey7 -System Collapse 7/2/25

D2

1. L4L book- PAGES The Haunted Forest Tour 375 Pages - The Devils 560 pages 8/26/25
2. L4L book - SERIES Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper - Casting Call for a Corpse 9/18/25
3. L4L book - DATE System Collapse 2023 The Hexologists 9/19/25

My Top 5 reads & shelves
Cats of the Louvre by Taiyo Matsumoto : manga, graphic-novels, comics, fantasy, cats
The Torment of Others (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan #4) by Val McDermid : mystery, fiction, crime, thriller, val-mcdermid
The Dark Tide (Anglesey #1) by Simon McCleave : netgally, kindle, 2023, audiobook, thriller
No-No Boy by Ken Narasaki : historical-fiction, plays, audiobook, war, historical
A Power Unbound (The Last Binding #3) by Freya Marske : fantasy, 2024, lgbt, historical-fiction, queer

Like 4 Like

Top Shelf: graphic-novels
Book 1: Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman

Top Shelf: fiction
🗸 Book 2: The Haunted Vintage by Marjorie Bowen -Read 08/21

Top Shelf: thriller
🗸 Book 3: The Last 10 Seconds (Tina Boyd #5) by Simon Kernick -Read 10/15

Top Shelf: audiobook
Book 4: Spellslinger (Spellslinger #1) by Sebastien de Castell

Top Shelf: fantasy
Book 5: Skyhunter (Skyhunter #1) by Marie Lu

D.1. Your TBR (all these books are on my TBR)
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added
Skyhunter (Skyhunter #1) by Marie Lu >> add May '20 >> The Deceptions by Suzanne Leal

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author
Spellslinger (Spellslinger #1) by Sebastien de Castell >> Shadowblack (Spellslinger #2)

🗸 3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
The Haunted Vintage by Marjorie Bowen >> MB >> Homesickness by Murray Bail -Read 08/04

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)
The Last 10 Seconds (Tina Boyd #5) by Simon Kernick >> Last Liar Standing by Danielle M. Wong

🗸 5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman >> Iron Flame (The Empyrean #2) by Rebecca Yarros -Read 07/28

D.2. new books
🗸 1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
Spellslinger (Spellslinger #1) by Sebastien de Castell >> pub 2017 >> After She's Gone by Camilla Grebe -Read 07/04

🗸 2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author
The Haunted Vintage by Marjorie Bowen >> Sky Blue Sky by Mark Warford -Read 07/05

🗸 3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)
The Last 10 Seconds (Tina Boyd #5) by Simon Kernick >> SK >>KS >> Wildflowers by Kylie Scott -Read 07/07

🗸 4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective
Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman >> heartstopper >>> One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston -Read 07/30

🗸 5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages
Skyhunter (Skyhunter #1) by Marie Lu >> 371p >> 132p - Copenhagen by Michael Frayn -Read 07/18

TBR Bender ❱❱ July ❱❱ COMPLETE
July - December 2025

My July TBR Bender (msg 14)

May Books
🔺A Very Friendly Valentine's Day ❱❱ friends-lovers; romance; holiday; forced prox
🔺Gage ❱❱ romance; contemporary romance; new adult; erotica; western
🔺Edge of the Enforcer ❱❱ bdsm; erotica; romance; contemporary romance; suspense

Like for Like



☑️romance ❱❱ A Very Friendly Valentine's Day
🔺Heir Untamed ❱❱ 06.05 ★★★★
☑️western ❱❱ Gage
🔺Native Silver ❱❱ 06.19 ★★★
☑️suspense ❱❱ Edge of the Enforcer
🔺Slow Burn ❱❱ 08.16 ★★★★

Options - TBR



☑️Date ❱❱ Native Silver ❱❱ added June 2014
🔺Invisible Fears ❱❱ 06.16 ★★★★
☑️Title ❱❱ Slow Burn ❱❱ slow
🔺Slow Tango with a Prince ❱❱ 08.12 ★★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ Heir Untamed ❱❱ 312 pp ❱❱ 368 pp
🔺Wicked Lust ❱❱ 10.01 ★★★★

Options - New



☑️Date ❱❱ Native Silver ❱❱ published 2013
🔺Evie ❱❱ 06.30 ★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ Slow Burn ❱❱ new series/author ❱❱ Magic Happens
🔺Shadow Magic ❱❱ 06.24 ★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ Heir Untamed ❱❱ 312 pp ❱❱ 292 pp
🔺Playing With Her Heart ❱❱ 06.04 ★★★

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from May 2025 reads.
The Book of Two Ways
Shatter Me
Sleeping Murder
C. Like for Like (L
4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves (aside from "to-read", "currently-reading"). (they may end
up being duplicated if you are a genre reader).
Closer to the Heart-romance
Completed 07/5/25
Closer to the Chest-romance-07/13/25
Redoubt-fantasy 07/19/25
Bastion-fantasy
By Any Other Name-romance


You will read a book from each of these shelves (preferably those already on your TBR).

D. Your Options

For this section, you may choose to either read purely from your TBR or new books* or BOTH! There are separate tasks as per below options:

*the definition of new books here is quite liberal; it could literally be a new book you've brought home or newly published book which you've put on your TBR last year or new-to-you... whichever works for you

Each of the books you read for L4L are to be used as starting point for each of below prompts (ie. 1 book cannot be used for more than 1 prompt per option).

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author
Cards on the Table
The A.B.C. Murders
Handle with Care

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position
4. Title: Using one of your
books, read a book with an
identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be
super strict here, it could
be exactly identical, found
intact or just of similar
nature (eg. monster -
monstrous is acceptable
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.


D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)

4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages

July
Goal: 3 Books
Read: 8/9

May Books
1. The Third to Die by Allison Brennan
Shelves: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, 2024, Series
2. Midnight Wolf by Jennifer Ashley
Shelves: Paranormal, Romance, Shifters, Jennifer Ashley, Fantasy
3. Random in Death
Shelves: 2024, Mystery, Romance, JDRobb, Crime

Like for Like
✔︎ 1. Suspense - Deep Dark by Laura Griffin
Read: August 22, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
✔︎ 2. Paranormal - Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews
Read: October 16, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
✔︎ 3. Mystery - Come Sundown by Nora Roberts
Read: July 23, 2025
Rating: 3 Stars

Options - TBR
✔︎ 1. Date (November 2024) - Olivia and the Masked Duke by Grace Callaway (October, 2024)
Read: July 30, 2025
Rating: 2 Stars
✔︎ 2. 50+ Pages (+208): The Girl With No Name by Lisa Regan (311)
Read: July 28, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
✔︎ 3. Same Author: Under Currents by Nora Roberts
Read: September 4, 2025
Rating: 3 Stars

Options - New
1. Title (Shelf-Dark): Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter (p.3)
✔︎ 2. Publication Year (2023): Magic Claims by Ilona Andrews
Read: October 22, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
✔︎ 3. New author: The Engagement Party by Darby Kane
Read: November 4, 2025
Rating: 2 Stars

Done!
Goal: 3 books
Read: 6/6

May Books
1. A Drop of Corruption
2. The Office of Historical Corrections
3. Catch-22

L4L
1. Fantasy - Blood Over Bright Haven 6/30
2. Short Stories - Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal 6/25
3. Classics - The Trial 6/15

Options: D.1 TBR
1. Title - The Saint of Bright Doors 9/9
2. Date - Girl in the Creek 11/24
3. Pages - 255 + 50 = 305 - Dead of Winter 11/29

JULY
0/6

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from May 2025 reads.
1. Emma of 83rd Street: A contemporary retelling of Jane Austen's Emma by Audrey Bellezza 6 May 2025 ★★★★ Romance, Retellings, Friends-to-lovers
2. Heaven's Queen: Paradox, Book 3 by Rachel Bach 22 May 2025 ★★★★ Science-fiction, Space Opera, Aliens
3. The Diva Delivers on a Promise by Krista Davis 31 May 2025 ★★★★ Cozy mystery, Humor, Amateur sleuths

C. Like for Like (L4L)
1. Retelling: The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White
2. Space Opera: An Accidental Goddess by Linnea Sinclair
3. Amateur sleuths: The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray



D.1. Your TBR
1. Date added: October 2020, The Guinevere Deception
Wolfhunter River by Rachel Caine

2.  Author: LS, An Accidental Goddess
The Entity Game by Lisa Shearin

3. Title: Murder, The Murder of Mr. Wickham
Murder in Highbury by Vanessa Kelly