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Luckily I recently started a psychological Thriller/Suspense series which goes to about 38 books and includes a "smut-aficionado" important secondary character plus the "i don't need romance" Protagonist! https://www.goodreads.com/series/3087....
Ah ha! Agatha Christie penned several "romantic" novels as "Mary Westmacott"!
Giant's Bread
The Rose and the Yew Tree
Absent in the Spring
The Burden
Unfinished Portrait
A Daughter's a Daughter, and all 6 are available on KU, so I'll see how many I can fit in among September's Horror and Dystopia. 🎃
---A Detective in Love KU
👄💞 = On Theme
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romance and spice:
other:
Finished: 
Others Finished
ARCs Finished:
Romance TBR:A Five-Letter Word for Love by Amy James, finished 9/16/25, 4 stars
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle, finished 9/21/25, 4.5 stars
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Other TBR:
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard - finished 9/9/25, 3 stars
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, finished 9/7/25, 5 stars
Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, finished 9/25/25, 3 stars
The Half Moon by Mary Beth Keane - currently reading
Carryover from August:
- Old Crimes: and Other Stories by Jill McCorkle, finished 9/2/2025, 4 stars
- A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary by Virginia Woolf - currently reading, less than 100 pages left!!
Avid's Smut-tember 2025A great theme!
Romance TBR Reads:
Haunted Ever After
Love & Other Killers
Other TBR Reads:
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
Too Old for This
Trust and Safety
The Nosy Neighbor
Making Friends Can Be Murder
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
Romance Non-TBR Reads:
Currently reading (the three starred ones being my main themed reads):-
- Just for the Summer*
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- People We Meet on Vacation*
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- An Unlikely Proposition
- Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
The rest will be (lots of romance books in here too):
- Acceptance
- The Amalfi Curse
- Argylle
- Ask a Matchmaker: Matchmaker Maria's No-Nonsense Guide to Finding Love
- Authority
- The Babysitters Coven
- The Bang-Bang Sisters
- Beach Read
- Bed and Breakup
- Begin Again
- Bemused
- Better Must Come
- The Bewitching
- Black Flame
- Blood in the Water
- Bloom
- The Boo Hag Flex
- Breathe In, Bleed Out
- Bunny
- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
- Butcher & Blackbird
- By the Book
- The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands
- Celestial Banquet
- Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop
- The Cinnamon Bun Bookstore
- Clap When You Land
- Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe
- Cold Eternity
- Cuckoo
- 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
- Don't Let Him In
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- Eat Your Heart Out
- Elphie: A Wicked Childhood
- Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
- The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand
- The Ex Hex
- The Expectant Detectives
- Fable for the End of the World
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- Five Found Dead
- The Forest Demands Its Due
- The Frame-Up
- From Bad to Cursed
- Funny Story
- Gamora & Nebula: Sisters in Arms
- The Gatsby Gambit
- Ghost of the Harvest
- Ghost Station
- The Girl in Question
- Gothictown
- Great Big Beautiful Life
- Hangry Hearts
- Happy Medium
- Happy Place
- Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
- Havoc
- Holly Horror
- Home Is Where the Bodies Are
- The Honeys
- The House of Last Resort
- How to Seal Your Own Fate
- How to Survive a Horror Story
- How to Survive Your Murder
- 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
- The Impossible Fortune
- In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some
- The Influencers
- I.R.L.
- It Came from the Trees
- It Will Only Hurt for a Moment
- Julie Chan Is Dead
- Katabasis
- Kill Your Darlings
- Killer House Party
- King of Ashes
- Kingdom of the Wicked
- Lady’s Knight
- The Lake House
- The Last Flight
- Leia: Princess of Alderaan
- The Library at Hellebore
- Listen to Your Sister
- The Lost Story
- Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
- Love & Olives
- Love & War
- The Magician of Tiger Castle
- Moon Madness
- A Most Puzzling Murder
- Motherthing
- Mr. Lemoncello's Fantabulous Finale
- Murder at Gulls Nest
- Murder Takes a Vacation
- My Roommate Is a Vampire
- My Salty Mary
- The Night in Question
- No Body No Crime
- Once Bitten, Twice Dead
- One Death at a Time
- Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer
- The Plus One
- Poor Things
- Predatory Natures
- The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night
- A Queen's Game
- The Rainfall Market
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- Rani Choudhury Must Die
- Rebel Robin
- A Resistance of Witches
- Rise and Divine
- The Rose Bargain
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- Sisters in the Wind
- 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
- Star Wars: The Acolyte: Wayseeker
- Such Sharp Teeth
- The Sun Down Motel
- Sycamore
- A Tempest of Tea
- Tender Beasts
- They Bloom at Night
- This Is Not a Game
- Tide Bound
- Tokyo Ever After
- Twelfth Knight
- Two Sides to Every Murder
- The Unfinished
- The Unmaking of June Farrow
- We All Fall Before the Harvest
- We Kept Her in the Cellar
- We Were Liars
- Weetzie Bat
- Welcome to Murder Week
- Welcome to the Ghost Show
- Whalefall
- What the River Knows
- What Wakes the Bells
- What's Coming to Me
- When Devils Sing
- The Wild Robot
- The Wishless Ones
- A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
- The Woman in Suite 11
- Women Living Deliciously
- Women's Hotel
- Worth Fighting For
- You Have a Match
- You've Awoken Her
- Your Lonely Nights Are Over
Graphic novel options:
- Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 1: The Last Amazon
- The Avengers in the Veracity Trap!
- Batgirl Vol. 1: Mother
- Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks & Scones
- Crumble
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- The Deep Dark
- Drama
- Gotham City Sirens: Trigger Happy
- Laura Kinney: Wolverine (2024-) #1
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- The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien
- Occupy Avengers, Vol. 1: Taking Back Justice
- Oddity Woods
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- Plain Jane and the Mermaid
- Saint Catherine
- Spent: A Comic Novel
- Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider (2024-) #1
- The Tea Dragon Festival
- The Tea Dragon Tapestry
- Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
- The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: Apocalypse Suite
- The Witch Boy
Audiobook options:
- Absolution
- The Case of the Missing Marquess
- The Changeling
- The Death of Jane Lawrence
- Dracula
- End of Watch
- Firekeeper’s Daughter
- 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
- 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
- Warrior Girl Unearthed
- 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
- The Treasure Hunters Club
- The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society
🍂 MY TBR 🍂➽ Top Books I want to read this month!
🍂 PROGRESS 🍂
➽ Great Big Beautiful Life ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!, Vol. 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
➽ Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!, Vol. 6 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
➽ Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!, Vol. 7 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
➽ Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!, Vol. 8 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
➽ Haunted Ever After ⭐⭐⭐
Mod
TBR:
🧡 Ghost Business
- Demon Song
- Roots of My Fears
- The Library at Hellebore
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current reads:
🧡 Gothikana
🧡 Making Out With Mermaids
🧡 Taken by the Dark Elf King
🧡 The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy
- Hemlock & Silver
🧡 The Gingerbread Bakery
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completed reads:
- Graveyard Shift ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- How to Stop Trying: An Overachiever’s Guide to Self-Acceptance, Letting Go, and Other Impossible Things ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🧡 The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
- Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch ❌ DNF ❌
- The Knight and the Butcherbird ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Veil ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Third Parent ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🧡 The Entanglement of Rival Wizards ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Indigo Room ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🧡 Hot for Slayer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🧡 Falling ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature ⭐⭐⭐⭐
ON THEME
Not on Theme
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DNF
Oops I totally forgot about this challenge all summer lol (my computer broke so my Goodreads time has been very limited for a couple months now). Well, back to it then!Finished on theme:
Finished not on theme:
Currently reading:
I honestly exceeded my own expectations of me in this challenge, because I actually read 3 smut books:- Tentacles & Triathlons
- Planes, Trains & All the Feels
- Say You'll Remember Me
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