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Junior July 2025Books <200 pages
Books/authors linked when read
Murder Served Cold Daisy Belle 7/4/25
Bears, Berries & Beginnings Fran Heap 7/9/25
Murder in the Mountains Jamie Lassen 7/7/25
This Is Not My Life (But the Scones Are Good} Marie Christina 7/15/25
Death by Diamond Lab Tess Marlowe 7/6/25
Twisted in Mystery Patti Benning 7/10/25
A Deadly Dunk Cindy Bell 7/5/25
Wedding Cake and Casualties Kathleen Suzette 7/16/25
Dye Hard with a Vengeance Amber Crewes 7/14/25
currently reading:
under 200 pages:
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(104)other:
☀️ MY TBR ☀️➽ Top Books I want to read this month!
☀️ PROGRESS ☀️
➽ Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ Der Sommer, in dem Hikaru starb 06 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ One Piece, Volume 76: Just Keep Going ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ Spy x Family, Vol. 13 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
I have been making a pile of tiny reads for Junior July since the beginning of the year. Here is my tbr for this month.Tiny Reads TBR:
- 84, Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff (97 p.), finished 7/3/25, 5 stars
- Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore (148 p.) - finished 7/5/25, 4 stars
- August: Osage County by Tracy Letts (138 p.), finished on 7/8/25, 5 stars
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (116 p.), finished 7/30/25, 5 stars
- Three Days in June by Anne Tyler (165 p.), finished 7/28/25, 4 stars
Finished, Non-theme
- Liberation Day by George Saunders, finished on 7/21/25, 3 stars
- The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert, finished on 7/26/25, 4 stars, (495 pages, probably one of the longest books I have read all year)
This'll probably be one that I keep track of as I go (any short ones I read will end up marked with asterisks)Currently reading:
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- People We Meet on Vacation
- The Queen
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- An Unlikely Proposition
- Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
The rest will be:
- All Systems Red
- All the Stars Align
- The Amalfi Curse
- Ask a Matchmaker: Matchmaker Maria's No-Nonsense Guide to Finding Love
- The Babysitters Coven
- The Bang-Bang Sisters
- Beach Read
- Bed and Breakup
- Begin Again
- Bemused
- The Bewitching
- The Bewitching Hour: A Tara Prequel
- Blood in the Water
- Bloom
- The Boo Hag Flex
- Bunny
- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
- Butcher & Blackbird
- Cake Eater
- Can You Solve the Murder?
- Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop
- The Cinnamon Bun Bookstore
- Clap When You Land
- Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe
- Cold Eternity
- Cuckoo
- Curse of the Werewolves
- Damned
- Dark Harvest
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
- A Daughter of Fair Verona
- The Dead Romantics
- Dead of Summer
- Dead Silence
- Deadstream
- Death in the Cards
- The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
- The Doorman
- Drizzle, Dreams, and Lovestruck Things
- Earls Trip
- Elphie: A Wicked Childhood
- Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
- Every Tom, Dick & Harry
- The Ex Hex
- Fable for the End of the World
- Find Him Where You Left Him Dead
- Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
- Four Found Dead
- From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi
- From Bad to Cursed
- The Full Moon Coffee Shop
- Funny Story
- Gamora & Nebula: Sisters in Arms
- The Gatsby Gambit
- Ghost Scout's Honor
- Ghost Station
- The Girl in Question
- Going Bicoastal
- Gothictown
- Grayscale
- Great Big Beautiful Life
- Happy Medium
- Happy Place
- Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
- Havoc
- The Honeys
- The House of Last Resort
- How to Seal Your Own Fate
- How to Survive Your Murder
- I Curse You With Joy
- I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
- I Need You to Read This
- I Was a Teenage Slasher
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some
- The Influencers
- Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix
- I.R.L.
- It Came from the Trees
- It Will Only Hurt for a Moment
- Julie Chan Is Dead
- Just for the Summer
- Kill Your Darlings
- Killer House Party
- King of Ashes
- Kingdom of the Wicked
- Lady’s Knight
- The Lake House
- Leia: Princess of Alderaan
- Listen to Your Sister
- The Lost Story
- Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
- Love & Olives
- Love & War
- Margo's Got Money Troubles
- Moon Madness
- Motherthing
- Mr. Lemoncello's Fantabulous Finale
- Murder at Gulls Nest
- My Roommate Is a Vampire
- My Salty Mary
- The Nigerwife
- The Night in Question
- No Body No Crime
- Not Quite Dead Yet
- A Novel Love Story
- Once Bitten, Twice Dead
- One Death at a Time
- The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love
- Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer
- The Plus One
- Poor Things
- The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night
- A Queen's Game
- Queen's Shadow
- The Queer Allies Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Being an Empowering LGBTQIA+ Ally
- Raining Cats and Dogs
- Rani Choudhury Must Die
- Rebel Robin
- Ride or Die
- Rise and Divine
- The Rose Bargain
- Slayers, Every One of Us: How One Girl in All the World Showed Us How to Hold On
- Snow White: Fair & Sinister Heart
- So Thirsty
- Someone You Can Build a Nest In
- The Spellshop
- Star Wars: The Acolyte: Wayseeker
- Such Sharp Teeth
- The Sun Down Motel
- Sycamore
- A Tempest of Tea
- Tender Beasts
- This Is Not a Game
- Tide Bound
- Tokyo Ever After
- Two Sides to Every Murder
- The Unfinished
- The Unmaking of June Farrow
- Voyage of the Damned
- We All Fall Before the Harvest
- We Kept Her in the Cellar
- We Were Liars
- Weetzie Bat
- Whalefall
- What the River Knows
- Where Sleeping Girls Lie
- The Wild Robot
- Witchlings
- Women Living Deliciously
- Women's Hotel
- Worth Fighting For
- You Have a Match
- You've Awoken Her
Audiobook options:
- Absolution
- The Case of the Missing Marquess
- The Changeling
- Dracula
- End of Watch
- The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
- The Grandest Game
- The Great Gatsby
- Hercule Poirot's Silent Night
- Iris Kelly Doesn't Date
- Jane Eyre
- Lies and Weddings
- Natural Beauty
- Never Flinch
- No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding
- Onyx Storm
- The Perfect Couple
- Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball
- The Secret Garden
- The Tainted Cup
- This Ravenous Fate
- Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
- The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
- Wuthering Heights
Ebook options:
- American Rapture
- As Good As Dead
- Atmosphere
- Below the Grand Hotel
- Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
- Episode Thirteen
- Harley Quinn: Ravenous
- Harley Quinn: Redemption
- My Throat an Open Grave
- The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh
- The Poppy War
- Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View
- Stranger Things: Flight of Icarus
- Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets
- That's Not My Name
- The Treasure Hunters Club
- The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society
- Witchblood #1
Graphic novel options (pretty much all of these fit the brief):
- America, Vol. 1: The Life and Times of America Chavez
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- Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks & Scones
- Crumble
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- Gotham City Sirens: Trigger Happy
- The Haunted Blizzard
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- Lore Olympus: Volume Eight
- Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy
- The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien
- Occupy Avengers, Vol. 1: Taking Back Justice
- Over The Garden Wall, Vol. 1
- Over the Garden Wall Vol. 2
- Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat!, Volume 1: Hooked on a Feline
- Plain Jane and the Mermaid
- Saint Catherine
- Sea Legs: A Graphic Novel
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- Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider (2024-) #1
- The Tea Dragon Festival
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- The Tea Dragon Tapestry
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- Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
- The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: Apocalypse Suite
- Wonder Woman, Volume 8: A Twist of Fate
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Titles Read:👼 = 200 minus.
1. 👼Meet the Cephalopods: Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish, Nautilus 48 pp.
2.👼 Taste of Death (Ravenous Spirits Bool 1), Ron Ripley, Scare Street ARC. 189 pp. Release July 2.
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4. With a Vengeance. Not Junior. Libby Virtual. 400 pp.
5. 👼 Sneak Peek for Girl in the Creek. 64 pp.
6. 👼 First Touch - Sneak Peek. 63 pp.
7. 👼Nectar of the Dogs. Everand Virtual. 29 pp.
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TBR:Currently Reading:
READ:
READ ON THEME:
DNF:
(wasn't in the mood for this one)
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Others Finished:
Here's my July list so far (*denotes <200 pages):Starlight
*The House on the Cliff
Doing Time
*The Wandering Earth: Cixin Liu Graphic Novels #2
The Coworker
*Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
The Dragons of Ordinary Farm
*Child of an Ancient City
*The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie
Avid's Junior July 2025anything less than 200 pages long counts for a "junior" read!
TBR Junior Books
✔️The Housemaid Is Watching
✔️His Risk to Take
Royal Valentine
#CrimeTime
Death Row & rest of series
The Nosy Neighbor & rest of series
The Mosquito & rest of series
Two Can Play
Ants in Santa's Pants
Bear Naked with the Bearded Baller
Cut and Thirst
✔️The Housemaid Is Watching
✔️His Risk to Take
Royal Valentine
#CrimeTime
Death Row & rest of series
The Nosy Neighbor & rest of series
The Mosquito & rest of series
Two Can Play
Ants in Santa's Pants
Bear Naked with the Bearded Baller
Cut and Thirst
✔️Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis
Zero In
✔️The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie
TBR Other Books
✔️Hollywood Vampires: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, and the Celebrity Exploitation Machine
✔️Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave
✔️Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
✔️The Ex
✔️The Duchess by Amanda Foreman
✔️Everything She Ever Wanted: A True Story of Obsessive Love, Murder, and Betrayal
✔️How to Seal Your Own Fate
✔️The Jack*ss In Class
✔️Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
✔️Murder Beyond the Grave
✔️Scythe & Sparrow
The Woman in Suite 11
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