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message 1: by destiny ♡ (new)

destiny ♡ howling libraries (howlinglibraries) | 390 comments Mod


This one's probably obvious: read some romance books! (It's okay if you only like "closed door" romance—it still counts) While genre-blending is fine, romance must be one of the main themes of the book for it to count.

REMINDER: You don't have to only post the books you read that fit the theme, as long as one or more of your reads during the month match the prompt!

If you have any questions, check our general FAQ topic and see if it's been answered already. If not, ask away!

2025 STORYGRAPH CHALLENGE: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading...

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message 2: by Join the Penguin Resistance! (last edited Sep 30, 2025 03:37PM) (new)

Join the Penguin Resistance!   (readingreindeerproximacentauri) | 108 comments 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

Titles Read:
1. "Duel" by Richard Matheson in The Best of Richard Matheson Suspense Thriller

2. Eerie Basin: A Short Story Occult

3. Cryptid Zoo Cryptid Horror/Bioengineering SF

4. 👄💞 Sister Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Finding Freedom

5. A Puppy Named Jesus: Finding the Heart of Christmas

6. Cutest Cats of All Time


7. Octavio


8. 👄💞
The Missing Season KU

9. The Whale and the Caribou: A Journey Discovering Similarities in Diversity

10. Tonight Is Krampus Night!

11. A Billion Blue Wildebeest

12. The Legend of the Disappearing Dogs

13. 👄💞 The Island’s Vengeful Dead

14. Devouring Tomorrow: Fiction from the Future of Food

15.
. Olive Owlsly & The Moon-Egg Mystery: A bedtime desert tale about wonder, starry skies, and the magic of imagination

16. Higgledy Piggledy and the Pot of Gold: The Adventures of Higgledy Piggledy Book 1

17. The Lamb

18. Judgy Bunny and the Terrible Beach

19. Dandelion Wine

20. 👄💞 Saucer Man: A Space Fleet Science Fiction Adventure

21. Death's Mark: Supernatural Horror with Scary Ghosts & Haunted Houses . Scare Street ARC Release
September 15.

22. 👄💞 And Smutty! Play Nice Libby Virtual

23. 👄💞 Haunted are These Houses Mount TBR.

24. 👄💞 How Bad Things Can Get Romance and Horror

25. 👄💞 Romance, also Smut (short stories)
Dystopia: Collected Stories

26. 👄💞 Human Flesh: A Wendigo Thriller Very strong love backstory

27. 👄💞 Let's Split Up

28. 👄💞 👄💞 We Were Warned

29. 👄💞 (and smut-sigh) Room 55: A clever Scandi-Noir thriller set in Sweden's notorious psychiatric clinic

30. The Red-Headed League , online, Everand

31. Cat's First Halloween: A Board Book NetGalley ARC new

32. 👄💞 Twisted Romance and Smut. The Haunting of Rookward House Libby

33. The Scravyn Everand Virtual.

34. 👄💋 Whiteout

35. Disney Growing Up Stories - Huey Helps Out with Donald Duck, A Story About Kindness - Stickers Included! - PI Kids Hoopla Bonus Borrow

36. Detective Duck: The Case of the Strange Splash Hoopla Bonus Borrow

37. Crocodile's Kill Hoopla Virtual

38. Sand Digger's Skull

39. The Coffin Makers Apprentice Hoopla Virtual

40. 💋Horror Smut, not Romance Hell House

41. 💋Horror Smut, not Romance Return To Hell House: A Prequel

42. No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson Libby Virtual and NG ARC Mount TBR

43. Woolly Dog Warms His Family Edelweiss ARC Children.

44.
Bat Planet: The Mysterious Life of the Creatures of the Night Edelweiss ARC Children.

45. One Ocean: 7 Ways to Save the Seas Edelweiss ARC Children.

46. 💋👄 The Atacama Incident: Hard Science Fiction KU.



message 3: by Chrissie (last edited Oct 16, 2025 11:43PM) (new)

Chrissie (haru_ran) | 73 comments romance and spice:
Crimson Spell Bd. 3 by Ayano Yamane Öffnet sich der Himmel by Seán Hewitt Twittering Birds Never Fly 01 by Kou Yoneda Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4) by L.M. Montgomery Maurice by E.M. Forster Ein Zeichen der Zuneigung 09 (German Edition) by Suu Morishita

other:
Deutscher Buchpreis 2025 Die Nominierten by Börsenblatt - Wochenmagazin für den Deutschen Buchhandel Der Donnerstagsmordclub oder Ein Teufel stirbt immer zuletzt (Die Mordclub-Serie, #4) by Richard Osman Die Holländerinnen by Dorothee Elmiger Tokyo Ghoul 1 by Sui Ishida Die Geschwister by Brigitte Reimann


message 4: by Miss (last edited Sep 30, 2025 07:17PM) (new)

Miss Kitten’s Corner (misskittenscorner) | 61 comments Finished:
Sweet Berries (Cambric Creek, #2) by C.M. Nascosta Jumping The Shark Matched with the Space Shark (First Date Abductions #1) by Ash Raven Better-Off Bunny (Hey There, Hop Stuff, #1) by Sedona Ashe The Bunny Blues (Hey There, Hop Stuff, #2) by Sedona Ashe Darius (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #0) by J.R. Ward The High Sheriff of Huntingdon by Anne Stuart

Others Finished
The Compound by Aisling Rawle Kill Creatures by Rory Power To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman, #1) by Olivia Waite Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) by T. Kingfisher What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2) by T. Kingfisher The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker The Troop by Nick Cutter Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2) by Martha Wells Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3) by Martha Wells My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner The Spellshop (Spellshop, #1) by Sarah Beth Durst Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson

ARCs Finished:
What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3) by T. Kingfisher What Fury Brings (Wrath and Fury #1) by Tricia Levenseller


message 5: by Karen (last edited Sep 27, 2025 12:55PM) (new)

Karen (readerkaren) | 69 comments 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!!


message 7: by Rachel (last edited Sep 27, 2025 11:40AM) (new)

Rachel | 93 comments Currently reading (the three starred ones being my main themed reads):
- The Dead Husband Cookbook
- Just for the Summer*
- Not Quite Dead Yet
- People We Meet on Vacation*
- The Spellshop *
- 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
- The Doorman
- 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
- Find Him Where You Left Him Dead
- 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
- Raining Cats and Dogs
- Rani Choudhury Must Die
- Rebel Robin
- A Resistance of Witches
- Rise and Divine
- The Rose Bargain
- Ship Shape
- 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
- DC Horror Presents... (2024-) #1 (DC Horror Presents...
- The Deep Dark
- Drama
- Gotham City Sirens: Trigger Happy
- Laura Kinney: Wolverine (2024-) #1
- Lore Olympus: Volume Eight
- The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien
- Occupy Avengers, Vol. 1: Taking Back Justice
- Oddity Woods
- Over The Garden Wall, Vol. 1
- Over the Garden Wall Vol. 2
- 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


message 9: by destiny ♡ (last edited Oct 01, 2025 09:01AM) (new)


message 10: by Ashly (last edited Oct 03, 2025 06:02PM) (new)

Ashly (ashlyh) | 19 comments ON THEME
Finding Finley (Finding, #1) by Riley Hart On Guard (New York Gods, #1) by J.R. Gray
Not on Theme
The Dead Husband Cookbook by Danielle Valentine Heaven Official's Blessing Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 7 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2) by Matt Dinniman
Currently Reading
READ
The Red Palace by June Hur Vicious (Villains, #1) by V.E. Schwab Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1) by Matt Dinniman Savage (Park Avenue Kings, #1) by Brooke Blaine
DNF
One Pucked Up Pack (Pucked Up Omegaverse, #1) by Sarah Blue


Liander (The Towering Pile) Lavoie (liannelavoie) | 10 comments 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:
Blue Bay Mystery (The Boxcar Children, #6) by Gertrude Chandler Warner The Amendment (The Arrangement, #2) by Kiersten Modglin The Other Significant Others Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center by Rhaina Cohen

Currently reading:
Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien If We Tell You by Nicola Dahlin The New Boy (Fear Street, #20) by R.L. Stine The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe


NAT.orious reads ☾ (thevoiceofthewolf) | 46 comments 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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