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winter is my least favorite season in life, but i love it in books. here are some of my favorites.

i am obsessed with reading lit fic about women ruining their lives.

so i made a list of my favorites.

not every classic is a classic for a reason.

i made a list of the ones i think are worth the read. which are your favorites?

i love this hopeful, optimistic, fresh-starts-and-new-beginnings time of year. here's what you should read to match that feeling; https://emmareadstoomuch.substack.com...

happy new year!

my new year's resolution is to spend more time doing what i love — reading, goodreads-ing, substack-ing.

what's yours?

(also, if you'd like to suggest what you'd want to see in weekly free substack posts, please do!)

as the new year starts...how did your reading year end?

(i wrapped up my december reading here.)

i read 250 books in 2025.

this is my ranking of all of them.

how was your reading year?

it's the most wonderful time of the year — when i get to share my favorite books of 2025: https://emmareadstoomuch.substack.com...

here's every 2026 release you should know about: https://emmareadstoomuch.substack.com...

i had a really good reading year this year.

there were also some duds.

here are my most disappointing books of 2025: https://emmareadstoomuch.substack.com...

how was your reading in november?

i wrapped up mine here: https://open.substack.com/pub/emmarea...

enjoying a library book so much that halfway through i got up and bought a copy

i have genres i don't like, and i have books in them i love anyway. these are the reads that transcend categorization: https://emmareadstoomuch.substack.com...

do you have any that fit this description?

it's reading challenge season, so i'm sharing 10 of my favorite books around 100 pages: https://open.substack.com/pub/emmarea...

in october i found two new favorite books, and also two of my most anticipated releases were straight up one stars.

high highs and low lows.

how was yours?

(read my free wrap-up here: https://emmareadstoomuch.substack.com...)

my most requested post...here is a list of all the high-rated books i hate: https://emmareadstoomuch.substack.com...

what are books it feels like everyone loves except you?

i read 25 new releases this fall, discovered 2 new favorites, and nearly had 1 mental breakdown. follow my journey here: https://open.substack.com/pub/emmarea...

it's so goodreads to say "everything is working now! coincidentally no one has shared an update in the last day"

today is my birthday, so i'm sharing my favorite book from every year of my life since i learned how to read! https://emmareadstoomuch.substack.com...

what's the best book you read in september?

i discovered a new favorite but all my other reading was...not my best. free wrap-up post here: https://emmareadstoomuch.substack.com...

autumn is the best reading season so i made a quiz to tell you how you should spend it: https://emmareadstoomuch.substack.com...

what books have changed your life?

i'm sharing my most transformative recommendations from my lifetime of reading here: https://emmareadstoomuch.substack.com...

autumn is made for reading and i won't be taking any questions

(these are my favorite fall books. what are yours?)

august was my best reading month in ages for quantity, and the worst i can remember for quality. read my suffering here.

how was your reading month?

i struggled through the 10 oldest books on my tbr and gave live updates (read: complained about it) here: https://open.substack.com/pub/emmarea...

everything is sad so i'm recommending happy books: https://emmareadstoomuch.substack.com...

if you're like me and pack 11 books for every trip, here are my recommendations for 10 of them: https://emmareadstoomuch.substack.com...

there is nothing worse than when you pack a book for vacation and it's not even good. that's why i pack 11 of them, just in case

my two favorite topics are books i love and books i hate. i'm writing about both today: https://emmareadstoomuch.substack.com...

i read 28 books in july.

this came at a cost (i didn't like many of them, for one thing, and also now i'm in a reading slump) but i'll take it. tbd on if my feelings remain that way.

my free wrap-up is here! https://emmareadstoomuch.substack.com...