Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Goals
❌ I want to try and get at least 10 books out of my book basket, and hopefully I won't add more books to the pile than I read.😋
✅ I want to keep my rereads at 30% or less.
✅ I want my nonfiction to be at least 20%.
❌ Keep my page average above 300 pages.
❌ Read at least 70% of the books I have planned.
〽️ Maybe see if I can do the ATY challenge using just rereads as well.
✅ Read at least 30 books that were nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards that I haven't read before.

Challenges:
📕Books read in 2022: 271/250 Finished Dec. 4th
🅰ATY: 53/53 Link Finished Sept. 12th
🍧Popsugar: 50/50 Link Finished Dec. 18th
🎴Tarot Card Challenge: 22/22 Link Finished Aug. 27th
♻️Reread challenge: 52/52 Link I had to use a couple of new reads
🪄Harry Potter Reading Challenge: 52/52 Link Finished Dec. 29th
🏅Goodreads Choice Nominees: 41/30 Link Finished Sept. 10th
🧺Books cleared from my book basket: 9/10

Goal Tracking:
♻️Rereads: 22%
📝Non-fiction: 20%
🎓YA: 18%
📊Page Avg.: 299
💭My Plan: 65%
🧺Books in my book basket on Dec. 31st, 2021: 74
🧺Books in my book basket on Dec. 31st, 2022: 78

Monthly Summary:
January - 25 books read.
February - 19 books read.
March - 22 books read.
April - 17 books read.
May - 23 books read.
June - 21 books read.
July - 21 books read.
August - 27 books read.
September - 23 books read.
October - 21 books read.
November - 27 books read.
December - 25 books read.

🎨Cover Collage:🎨 Link
🏆Best/Worst🏆 Link
📈Other Statistics📉 Link
Current Week in Progress

💭Books I plan to read in 2022:💭

⬜ Unread (32)
🟩 In progress (3)
✅ Read (62)
🛑 DNF (3)
🕑Pushed to next year. (2)
❓No publication day yet (2)
❌Published after 2022 (1)

62/96 = 65%

Published in 2022
✅Spelunking Through Hell (ATY: Here there be dragons)
✅Seasonal Fears
✅Ruby Fever (ATY: Female detective)
✅Where the Drowned Girls Go (ATY: Portal Fantasy)
✅House of Sky and Breath (PS: Published in 2021)
🛑The Deepest of Secrets (Tarot: Justice)
✅Soul Taken (ATY: Published in 2022)
✅Fevered Star
✅Book of Night (PS; 2021 Author)
✅Be the Serpent (ATY: Next book in series)
⬜The Winners
✅The Final Gambit (ATY: Double letters author)
✅The Family You Make
🕐A Rip Through Time
✅Crowbones
✅To Marry and to Meddle
✅Book Lovers (Tarot: The Lovers)
🕐A Turn of the Tide
✅Well Traveled
✅The Diamond Eye (ATY: Historical Fiction)
⬜Mad About You
✅The Emma Project: A Novel (PS: BIPoC Romance)
✅Love on the Brain (ATY: Neuroscience)
✅Firefly: Return to Earth That Was Vol 2
⬜Firefly: Return to Earth That Was Vol. 3 HC
✅Sweep of the Heart
✅The Friendship Pact
✅Hunt the Stars
✅Eclipse the Moon
❌Hell Bent(Alex Stern 2) 2023 pub.
❓Untitled(Murderbot 7)
❓The Winds of Winter

Erica recommends
⬜A Court of Thorns and Roses
✅Cinder (Tarot: The Moon)
⬜A Darker Shade of Magic (ATY: Connected to 2021 read)
⬜The Song of Achilles (ATY: Mythology)
⬜Crave (ATY: A Touch of Gothic)
✅A Deadly Education (ATY: Involves a teacher/school)
✅Long Way Down
⬜The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (PS: Book Tok)
⬜Accidentally Engaged (PS: Recipe)

Read for challenges
✅Frankly in Love (ATY: Top 100 YA) not used
✅The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England (ATY: Nationality in title) used for (PS: Set in Victorian times)
✅18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics (ATY: Women in stem) used for (ATY: Female detective)
⬜Firekeeper's Daughter (ATY: A book about a game)
✅Obit (PS: Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards)
✅The Night Tiger (PS: Tiger in the title)
✅Seveneves (PS: Palindromic title)
✅Lore Olympus: Volume One (ATY: NPR list)
✅Mãn (ATY: Food theme) used for (PS: Cutlery on cover)
🛑The Titanic Sisters (PS: On A Boat)
✅Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing and Light (ATY: Light source on cover)

Book basket empty
⬜A Fine Balance (ATY: Powells list - Giller Prize)
🛑Lock In
⬜The Odyssey
⬜Longbourn
⬜The Witchwood Crown
⬜Midnight's Daughter (PS: Quote from Patricia Briggs)
⬜City of Fallen Angels
⬜The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (ATY: Old character)
✅The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami (ATY: Set on the coast)
⬜The Swan Maiden
⬜Serpent & Dove
⬜Shakespeare: Sonnets
⬜The Gathering Storm (PS: Nonpatriarchal society)
⬜Towers of Midnight
⬜A Memory of Light
✅Cheats, Charlatans, and Chicanery: More Outrageous Tales of Skulduggery
⬜Cocktails for Three

Other new reads
✅Fated Blades
✅Simply Irresistible
⬜Artemis
✅The Scarlet Pimpernel
✅Piranesi
✅Clap When You Land (PS: Onomatopoeia)
✅There There
✅Tales from the Café
✅The Trouble with Twelfth Grave (PS: Boardgame in title)
✅Summoned to Thirteenth Grave
✅Motorcycles & Sweetgrass (PS: A book read in one sitting) (Used for PS: Own Voices SFF)
✅A Christmas Carol (PS: A book set in Victorian times)
✅The Lives of Saints (ATY: 5 vowels in authors name)
⬜Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir (PS: A book about a musical group)
✅Deadly Class, Volume 10: Save Your Generation (PS: Set in the 80's) used for (Tarot: Death)
✅Here's to Us
🛑Dirty Magic
✅High Jinx
⬜The Ghost Machine
⬜Life Signs
🟩Firefly - Carnival
✅Holiday Wishes
✅Then Came You
✅Still the One
✅All I Want
✅The Housekeeper and the Professor

Jane Austen reread
✅Pride and Prejudice

Other rereads
🟩The Eye of the World and series (3/12)
✅Fakes, Frauds, and Flimflammery: Even More of the World's Most Outrageous Scams
⬜The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
✅Six of Crows
✅Crooked Kingdom
✅Moon Called and series (19/19)
🟩Rosemary and Rue and series (11/15)
⬜Bitten and series
⬜The Library of the Unwritten and series

🅰2022 ATY🅰

53/53

✅1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y.
Forbidden Wife: The Life and Trials of Lady Augusta Murray - Jan. 8th
✅2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021.
Then Came You - Feb. 26th
✅3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title.
From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy - Mar. 13th
✅4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list:
A nonfiction book by a BIPOC author.
That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story - May 31st
✅5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name.
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty - Jan. 21st
✅6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover.
Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing and Light - Jan. 19th
✅7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind.
The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain - July 4th
✅8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1.
Memoirs of a Geisha - Feb. 7th
✅9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2.
Huda F Are You? - Mar. 28th
✅10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3.
I Must Betray You - June 11th
✅11. A book from historical fiction genre.
The Diamond Eye - Apr. 19th
✅12. A book related to glass.
The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 5 - June 23rd
✅13. A book about a woman in STEM.
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race - Apr. 9th
✅14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads.
Just Pretending - Feb. 28th
✅15. A book without a person on the cover.
The Final Gambit - Sept. 5th
✅16. A book related to Earth Day.
Skin & Earth, Vol. 1 - Jan. 23rd
✅17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge.
Lore Olympus: Volume One - Jan. 1st
✅18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author.
Em - Aug. 13th
✅19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history.
D: A Tale of Two Worlds - Apr. 11th
✅20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951.
Three Sisters - July 28th
✅21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover.
The Friendship Pact - June 18th
✅22. A book with a Jewish character or author.
Mr. Perfect on Paper - Oct. 6th
✅23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship.
Winter's Orbit - Mar. 6th
✅24. A book related to inclement weather.
Holiday Wishes - Jan. 1st
✅25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages.
Some Things I Still Can't Tell You: Poems by Misha Collins - May 5th
✅26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1.
The True Story of the Great Escape: Stalag Luft III, March 1944 - Mar. 7th
✅27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2.
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany - Mar. 8th
✅28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards.
The Poet X - Feb. 27th
✅29. A book set on or near a body of water.
The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami - Sept. 8th
✅30. A book related to mythology.
High Jinx - Feb. 4th
✅31. A book published at least 10 years ago.
Cheats, Charlatans, and Chicanery: More Outrageous Tales of Skulduggery - Mar. 17th
✅32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer.
18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics - Mar. 26th
✅33. The next book in a series.
Crowbones - Mar. 11th
✅34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role.
A Deadly Education - Apr. 23rd
✅35. A book related to flora and fauna - Flora.
There There - Aug. 2nd
✅36. A book related to flora and fauna - Fauna.
Still the One - July 5th
✅37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name.
The Lives of Saints - Apr. 3rd
✅38. A book by a Latin American author.
With the Fire on High - Mar. 24th
✅39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time.
Long Way Down - Jan. 22nd
40. A book related to each one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards.
See next post.
✅41. A book with a theme of food or drink.
Tales from the Café - Feb. 24th
✅42. A book with a language or nationality in the title.
Talking to Canadians - May 26th
✅43. A book set in a small town or rural area.
Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1 - Jan. 25th
✅44. A book with a touch of gothic.
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories - Apr. 17th
✅45. A book related to a game.
The Hating Game - Aug. 14th
✅46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters.
Sass & Sorcery - July 13th
✅47. A book with handwriting on the cover.
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Apr. 18th
✅48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022.
Lore Olympus: Volume Two - July 24th
✅49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons".
Spelunking Through Hell Mar. 15th
✅50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years.
The Housekeeper and the Professor - Feb. 20th
✅51. A book published in 2022.
Soul Taken - Aug. 30th
✅52. A book with a time-related word in the title.
Nightflyers - May 28th
Bonus Prompts
✅53. A book that was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards.
A Spindle Splintered - May 23rd
✅54. A book by an indigenous author.
Probably Ruby - Jan. 17th

🎴Tarot Card Challenge:🎴
Link to Group List
22/22

✅0-The Fool
You Can’t Be Serious - Jan. 30th
✅1-The Magician
The Glass Magician - June 20th
✅2-The High Priestess
Blackbird - Apr. 3rd
✅3-The Empress
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman - May 18th
✅4-The Emperor
Jameela Green Ruins Everything - July 23rd
✅5-The Hierophant (aka The Pope)
Book of Night - May 23rd
✅6-The Lovers
Book Lovers - May 7th
✅7-The Chariot
Ruby Fever - Aug. 27th
✅8- Strength
The Last Graduate - Apr. 28th
✅9-The Hermit
Piranesi - Mar. 14th
✅10-Wheel of Fortune
Bingo Love - July 13th
✅11-Justice
The Case of the Girl Who Took Her Shampoo (But Left her Mini) - Aug. 9th
✅12-The Hanged Man
The Old Guard: Tales Through Time, Vol. 1 - July 29th
✅13-Death
Summoned to Thirteenth Grave - Apr. 2nd
✅14-Temperance
Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood - Apr. 15th
✅15-The Devil
Angels' Blood - Mar. 31st
✅16-The (Falling) Tower
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel - Feb. 20th
✅17-The Star
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction - May 8th
✅18-The Moon
Cinder - May 3rd
✅19-The Sun
All I Want - Aug. 24th
✅20-Judgement
Deadly Class, Volume 10: Save Your Generation - Jan. 2nd
✅21-The World
Patient Zero: A Brief History of the Science Stories Behind the World's Worst Diseases - Feb. 15th

♻️Reread challenge♻️

52/52

✅1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y.
Hunting Ground - May 28th
✅2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021.
Shifting Shadows - July 11th
✅3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title.
Under the Whispering Door - Aug. 8th
✅4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list:
A book that was nominated for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards.
Winter's Orbit - Dec. 24th
☑️5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name.
My Wedding Dress: True-Life Tales of Lace, Laughter, Tears and Tulle - Sept. 11th
✅6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover.
Hopcross Jilly #1-6 - July 25th
✅7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind.
Smoke Bitten - Aug. 25th
✅8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1.
Fire Touched - July 28th
✅9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2.
Silence Fallen - Aug. 17th
✅10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3.
Tales from the Café - Dec. 8th
☑️11. A book from historical fiction genre.
Miss Bingley Requests: A Pride and Prejudice Regency Variation - Aug. 31st
✅12. A book related to glass.
Ashes of Honor - Oct. 11th
✅13. A book about a woman in STEM.
A Local Habitation - Sept. 17th
✅14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads.
Fakes, Frauds, and Flimflammery: Even More of the World's Most Outrageous Scams - Jan. 18th
✅15. A book without a person on the cover.
Beneath the Sugar Sky - May 31st
☑️16. A book related to Earth Day.
Firefly: Return to Earth That Was Vol 2 - Nov. 21st
✅17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge.
Apple: Skin to the Core - Oct. 29th
✅18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Nov. 14th
✅19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history.
The Great Hunt - Feb. 16th
☑️20. A fiction/nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951.
Storm of the Century : the Regina Tornado of 1912 - Sept 20th
✅21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover.
The Eye of the World - Jan. 31st
☑️22. A book with a Jewish character or author.
The Golden Enclaves - Nov. 5th
✅23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship.
Come Tumbling Down - June 1st
✅24. A book related to inclement weather.
Storm Cursed - Aug. 23rd
✅25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages.
Homecoming - May 28th
✅26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1.
Blood Bound - May 29th
✅27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2.
Fire & Blood - Sept. 6th
☑️28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards.
Tainna: The Unseen Ones, Short Stories - Nov. 5th
✅29. A book set on or near a body of water.
River Marked - June 27th
✅30. A book related to mythology.
Night Broken - July 3rd
✅31. A book published at least 10 years ago.
Mr. Popper's Penguins - Mar. 8th
✅32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer.
Rosemary and Rue - Sept. 16th
✅33. The next book in a series.
Frost Burned - July 2nd
✅34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role.
Every Heart a Doorway - May 30th
✅35. A book related to flora.
Burn Bright - Aug. 20th
✅36. A book related to fauna.
Wild Sign - Aug. 28th
✅37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name.
Crooked Kingdom - Apr. 8th
✅38. A book by a Latin American author.
Life's Too Short - Feb. 19th
✅39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time.
Six of Crows - Feb. 10th
✅40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards. (The Lovers)
If I Never Met You - Apr. 16th
✅41. A book with a theme of food or drink.
Chimes at Midnight - Oct. 14th
☑️42. A book with a language or nationality in the title.
Canadian Pie - Dec. 15th
✅43. A book set in a small town or rural area.
Cry Wolf - May 24th
✅44. A book with a touch of gothic.
Bone Crossed - June 5th
✅45. A book related to a game.
The Westing Game - Apr. 14th
✅46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters.
Moon Called - May 20th
✅47. A book with handwriting on the cover.
Book Love - Nov. 23rd
✅48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022.
Book Lovers - Dec. 12th
✅49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons".
The Dragon Reborn - Mar. 28th
✅50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years.
Dead Heat - July 23rd
✅51. A book published in 2022.
Where the Drowned Girls Go - June 4th
✅52. A book with a time-related word in the title.
An Artificial Night - Sept. 21st

🍧Popsugar Challenge🍧

50/50

✅1. A book published in 2022.
House of Sky and Breath - Feb. 18th
✅2. A book set on a plane, train, or cruise ship.
Spy x Family, Vol. 8 - Nov. 29th
✅3. A book about or set in a nonpatriarchal society.
Fevered Star - June 15th
✅4. A book with a tiger on the cover or "tiger" in the title.
The Night Tiger - Dec. 18th
✅5. A sapphic book.
The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture - June 13th
✅6. A book by a Latinx author.
Cemetery Boys - Sept. 10th
✅7. A book with an onomatopoeia in its title.
Clap When You Land - May 21st
✅8. A book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid.
An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed - Mar. 3rd
✅9. A book about a "found family".
Spy x Family, Vol. 1 - May 22nd
✅10. An Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner.
Obit - Jan. 10th
✅11. A #BookTok recommendation.
Neon Gods - June 19th
✅12. A book about the afterlife.
The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel Single Volume - Mar. 2nd
✅13. A book set in the 1980s.
Red, White, and Whole - Feb. 19th
✅14. A book with cutlery on the cover or in the title.
Mãn - Jan. 12th
✅15. A book by a Pacific Islander author.
This Is Paradise: Stories - Mar. 9th
✅16. A book about witches.
The Ex Hex - Oct. 22nd
✅17. A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2022.
The Absolute Sandman, Volume One - Aug. 22nd
✅18. A romance novel by a BIPOC author.
The Emma Project - June 7th
✅19. A book that takes place during your favorite season.
Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas - Aug. 11th
✅20. A book whose title begins with the last letter of your previous read.
Eclipse the Moon - Aug. 5th
✅21. A book about a band or musical group.
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music - Feb. 23rd
✅22. A book with a character on the ace spectrum.
Sufferance: A Novel - Oct. 3rd
✅23. A book with a recipe in it.
Only in Saskatchewan: Recipes and Stories from the Province’s Best-Loved Eateries - May 27th
✅24. A book you can read in one sitting.
Cyclopedia Exotica - Feb. 23rd
✅25. A book about a secret.
Not My Father's Son - Mar. 21st
✅26. A book with a misleading title.
Twenty-One Ways to Die in Saskatchewan - Aug. 6th
✅27. A Hugo Award winner.
Where the Drowned Girls Go - Jan. 4th
✅28. A book set during a holiday. (Christmas)
Someday - 16th
✅29. A different book by an author you read in 2021.
Fated Blades - Mar. 18th
✅30. A book with the name of a board game in the title.
The Trouble with Twelfth Grave - Jan. 25th
✅31. A book featuring a man-made disaster.
The Cellist of Sarajevo - May 26th
✅32. A book with a quote from your favorite author on the cover or Amazon page.
Servant Mage - Sept. 11th
✅33. A social-horror book.
Cackle - Jan. 23rd
✅34. A book set in Victorian times.
The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England - Jan. 29th
✅35. A book with a constellation on the cover or in the title.
Hunt the Stars - Feb. 21st
✅36. A book you know nothing about.
What We Lose - Feb. 25th
✅37. A book about gender identity.
This Is Not a Book about Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends on It - June 22nd
✅38. A book featuring a party.
The Family You Make - Jan. 15th
✅39. An #OwnVoices SFF (science fiction and fantasy) book.
Motorcycles & Sweetgrass - May 11th
✅40. A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge. A book of poetry.
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems - Mar. 30th
✅41. A book with a reflected image on the cover or "mirror" in the title.
A Mirror Mended - July 6th
✅42. A book that features two languages.
Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language - Apr. 24th
✅43. A book with a palindromic title.
Seveneves - June 30th
✅44. A duology. (1)
Vicious - Aug. 20th
✅45. A duology. (2)
Seasonal Fears - May 15th
✅46. A book about someone leading a double life.
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Feb. 10th
✅47. A book featuring a parallel reality.
How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey's Anatomy - Mar. 29th
✅48. A book with two POVs.
Here's to Us - Jan. 17th
✅49. Two books set in twin towns, aka "sister cities". (1) (London)
To Marry and to Meddle - Apr. 20th
✅50. Two books set in twin towns, aka "sister cities". (2) (New York)
Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers - July 18th

🏅Goodreads Choice Nominees🏅

(Title - Category - Year nominated)

1. Lore Olympus: Volume One - Graphic Novels - 2021 (Winner)
2. Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing and Light - Poetry - 2021
3. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty - History & Biography - 2021 (Winner)
4. Long Way Down - Poetry - 2017
5. Cackle - Horror - 2021
6. Red, White, and Whole - Middle Grade - 2021
7. What We Lose - Debut Author - 2017
8. The Poet X - Poetry - 2018
9. Winter's Orbit - Scifi & Debut Author - 2021
10. Piranesi - Fantasy - 2020
11. Not My Father's Son - Memoir - 2014
12. With the Fire on High - YA General - 2019
13. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race - History & Biography - 2021
14. A Deadly Education - Fantasy - 2020
15. The Last Graduate - Fantasy - 2021
16. Cinder - YA Fantasy & Scifi - 2012
17. The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction - Nonfiction - 2016
18. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman - History & Biography - 2011
19. Clap When You Land - YA General - 2020 (Winner)
20. A Spindle Splintered - Fantasy - 2021
21. Neon Gods - Romance - 2021
22. Seveneves - Scifi - 2015
23. Sass & Sorcery - Graphic Novel - 2014
24. Bingo Love - Graphic Novel - 2018
25. The Far Reaching Tentacles of N'rygoth - Graphic Novel - 2015
26. There There - Fiction & Debut Author - 2018
27. Demons - Graphic Novel - 2016
28. The Hating Game - Romance - 2016
29. Vicious - Fantasy - 2013
30. Cemetery Boys - YA Fantasy - 2020
31. Heartstopper: Volume Two - Graphic Novel - 2019
32. The Ex Hex - Romance - 2021
33. Frankly in Love - YA - 2019
34. In on the Joke: The Original Queens of Standup Comedy - Humor - 2022
35. Everything Is OK - Graphic Novel - 2022
36. Heartstopper: Volume Three - Graphic Novel - 2020 (Winner)
37. Heartstopper: Volume Four - Graphic Novel - 2022 (Winner)
38. Ocean's Echo - Scifi - 2022
39. Norse Mythology - Fantasy - 2017
40. Love on the Brain - Romance - 2022
41. The Night Tiger - Historical Fiction - 2019

Rereads
1. Awkward Family Photos - Humor - 2010
2. Six of Crows - YA Fantasy - 2015
3. Life's Too Short - Romance - 2021
4. Crooked Kingdom - YA Fantasy - 2016
5. Homecoming - Graphic Novel - 2009
6. Every Heart a Doorway - Fantasy - 2016
7. Beneath the Sugar Sky - Fantasy - 2018
8. Bone Crossed - Fantasy - 2009
9. Silver Borne - Fantasy - 2010
10. River Marked - Fantasy - 2011
11. Frost Burned - Fantasy - 2013
12. Night Broken - Fantasy - 2014
13. Dead Heat - Fantasy - 2015
14. Fire Touched - Fantasy - 2016
15. Under the Whispering Door - Fantasy - 2021
16. Silence Fallen - Fantasy - 2017
17. Burn Bright - Fantasy - 2018
18. Storm Cursed - Fantasy - 2019
19. Smoke Bitten - Fantasy - 2020
20. Fire & Blood - Fantasy - 2019
21. One Salt Sea - Fantasy - 2011
22. Ashes of Honor - Fantasy - 2012
23. Chimes at Midnight - Fantasy - 2013
24. Book Love - Graphic Novel - 2019

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Book of the Month Picks:


Best new stand alone fiction:


Best new series:


Best new books in old series:


Best new nonfiction:


My Goodreads Choice Awards Votes:


Best new-to-me authors:
Jason Reynolds - 2
Rajani LaRocca
Yōko Ogawa
Dave Grohl
Elizabeth Acevedo - 3
Everina Maxwell - 3
Tatsuya Endo - 8
Alix E. Harrow - 2
Neal Stephenson
Kurtis J. Wiebe - 6
Tommy Orange
Aiden Thomas
Alice Oseman - 5
Jean Meltzer
David Yoon

Books that disappointed me:


Books I didn't enjoy:


DNFs:

📈Other Statistics📉

General Stats
👶Published in 2022: 59
📚Library books: 213
💻Ebooks: 75
🖍️Graphic Novels/Comics: 70
💬Poetry/Free Verse: 13
🎭Play: 1

Ratings:
5⭐️ - 78
4⭐️ - 112
3⭐️ - 71
2⭐️ - 9
1⭐️ - 0
⭐️ (Unrated) - 0
🛑DNFs - 7

Page Count
🐞Under 200 pages: 76
🐘Over 600 pages: 11

Genre:
🐲Fantasy: 88
👽Scifi: 20
💋Romance: 29
🦄YA Fantasy: 29
🧸YA General Fiction: 20
🏰Historical Fiction: 8
🔎Mystery: 5
🟪General Fiction: 15
💎Classics: 2
🤡Humour: 11
✍Memoir/Autobiography: 19
👑Royalty Related Nonfiction: 2
👁‍🗨Other Nonfiction: 22

🧮Most Read Authors: (5 book minimum)
Seanan McGuire - 21
Patricia Briggs - 20
Jill Shalvis - 10
Neil Gaiman - 9
Tatsuya Endo - 8
Kurtis J. Wiebe - 6
Naoko Takeuchi - 6
Greg Rucka - 5
Alice Oseman - 5

❓New-to me Authors:
🟣Fiction
Rachel Smythe
Jason Reynolds
Rachel Harrison
Lights
James Tynion IV
Arthur Golden
Emmuska Orczy
Rajani LaRocca
Yōko Ogawa
Aminder Dhaliwal
Zinzi Clemmons
Elizabeth Acevedo
P. Craig Russell
Everina Maxwell
Kristiana Kahakauwila
Susanna Clarke
Huda Fahmy
Sam Humphries
Michel Faber
Angela Carter
Charlie Mackesy
Marissa Meyer
Tatsuya Endo
Alix E. Harrow
Steven Galloway
Thomas King
Brian Rea
Katee Robert
Caroline Stevermer
Neal Stephenson
Kurtis J. Wiebe
Tee Franklin
Tommy Orange
R.E. Stansfield
Shea Ernshaw
Judy McCrosky
Aiden Thomas
Kate Elliott
Nick Tapalansky
Alice Oseman
Jean Meltzer
Nathan Hale
Erin Sterling
David M. Booher
David Yoon
Ryan Ferrier
Caroline Peckham
Susanne Valenti
Francine Cunningham
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
The Night Tiger
Charles Dickens

📝Nonfiction
Julia Abel Smith
Victoria Chang
Nikita Gill
Julie Kavanagh
Kal Penn
Lydia Kang
Dave Grohl
Jonathan F. Vance
Gwen Strauss
Scott Meslow
Marina Luz
Alan Cumming
Bruce Goldfarb
Rita Dove
Walter Isaacson
Gavin Edwards
Robert K. Massie
Naomi Hansen
Misha Collins
Grace Perry
Tabitha Carvan
James Fallon
James Andrew Miller
Liz Howard
Sandra Bingaman
Duncan Mercredi
Norma Dunning
Constance Wu
Maureen Johnson
Jesse Thistle
Shawn Levy
Kindra Neely
Will Ferguson

January


📕Total: 25

♻️Rereads: 3
📚Library books: 23
💻Ebooks: 10
📝Non-Fiction: 11
🎓YA: 4
👶Published in 2022: 2
🏅Goodreads Choice Nominee: 6
🖍️Graphic Novels: 4
🐞Under 200 pages: 10
🐘Over 600 pages: 1
🧺Book Basket: 0
🛑DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
Long Way Down

Runners up:
Lore Olympus: Volume One
Where the Drowned Girls Go
You Can’t Be Serious

My least favourite book of the month:
Cackle

Ratings:
🅰📚🖍️🐲🏅Lore Olympus: Volume One - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚💻💋🐞Holiday Wishes - ⭐⭐⭐
🎴📚🖍️🧸🐞Deadly Class, Volume 10: Save Your Generation - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚💻👶🦄🐞Where the Drowned Girls Go - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚📝👑Forbidden Wife: The Life and Trials of Lady Augusta Murray - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻📝💬✍🐞Obit - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚🟪🐞Mãn - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🤡📝🐞Born to Be Awkward: Celebrating Those Imperfect Moments of Babyhood - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🤡📝Awkward Family Holiday Photos - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻💋👶The Family You Make - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🤡📝🐞Awkward Family Pet Photos - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚🟪Probably Ruby - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻🧸Here's to Us - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📝👁‍🗨Fakes, Frauds, and Flimflammery: Even More of the World's Most Outrageous Scams - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚💻📝💬✍🐞🏅Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing and Light - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚👁‍🗨🏅Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻🧸💬🏅Long Way Down - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻🐲🏅Cackle - ⭐⭐
🅰📚🖍️🐲Skin & Earth, Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚🐲The Trouble with Twelfth Grave - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚🖍️🐲🐞Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐
🅰📚💻📝👁‍🗨The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England - ⭐⭐⭐
🎴📚💻✍📝You Can’t Be Serious - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚🤡📝🐞🏅Awkward Family Photos - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲🐘The Eye of the World - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

🔹Week 1 - 4
🔹Week 2 - 5
🔹Week 3 - 7
🔹Week 4 - 5
🔹Week 5 - 4

February


📕Total: 19

♻️Rereads: 3
📚Library books: 17
💻Ebooks: 8
📝Non-Fiction: 2
🎓YA: 4
👶Published in 2022: 2
🏅Goodreads Choice Nominee: 5
🖍️Graphic Novels: 2
🐞Under 200 pages: 1
🐘Over 600 pages: 2
🧺Book Basket: 0
🛑DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
Tales from the Café
The Poet X

Runners up:
House of Sky and Breath
Red, White, and Whole
Hunt the Stars
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

My least favourite book of the month:
Memoirs of a Geisha

Ratings:
🅰📚💻🐲High Jinx - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚🏰Memoirs of a Geisha - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻💎The Scarlet Pimpernel - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🦄🏅Six of Crows - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎴📚💻📝👁‍🗨Patient Zero: A Brief History of the Science Stories Behind the World's Worst Diseases - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲🐘The Great Hunt - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻🐲👶🐘House of Sky and Breath - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💬🧸🏅Red, White, and Whole - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💋🏅Life's Too Short - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎴📚🧸🖍️Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚🏰🐞The Housekeeper and the Professor - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻👽👶Hunt the Stars - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚✍📝The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚🐲🖍️Cyclopedia Exotica - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚💻🐲Tales from the Café - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻🟪🏅What We Lose - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚💋Then Came You - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚💻🧸💬🏅The Poet X - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚🟪Just Pretending - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

🔹Week 5 - 1
🔹Week 6 - 3
🔹Week 7 - 3
🔹Week 8 - 9
🔹Week 9 - 3

March


📕Total: 22

♻️Rereads: 2
📚Library books: 17
💻Ebooks: 10
📝Non-Fiction: 8
🎓YA: 4
👶Published in 2022: 3
🏅Goodreads Choice Nominee: 4
🖍️Graphic Novels: 3
🐞Under 200 pages: 4
🐘Over 600 pages: 1
🧺Book Basket: 1
🛑DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
Winter's Orbit

Runners up:
Spelunking Through Hell
Crowbones
An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed

My least favourite book of the month:
How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey's Anatomy

Ratings:
🍧📚🦄🖍️The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel Single Volume - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻🔎An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📚👽🏅Winter's Orbit - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚👁‍🗨📝The True Story of the Great Escape: Stalag Luft III, March 1944 - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🧸🐞Mr. Popper's Penguins - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚💻👁‍🗨📝The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚🟪This Is Paradise: Stories - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚💻🐲👶Crowbones - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚💻👁‍🗨📝👶From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy - ⭐⭐⭐
🎴📚🐲🏅Piranesi - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰🐲👶Spelunking Through Hell - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰👁‍🗨📝🧺Cheats, Charlatans, and Chicanery: More Outrageous Tales of Skulduggery - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧👽Fated Blades - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻🤡🖍️🐞A Library of Misremembered Books: When We're Searching for a Book but Have Forgotten the Title - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻✍📝🏅Not My Father's Son - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚🧸🏅With the Fire on High - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚💻👁‍🗨📝18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics - ⭐⭐
🅰📚🧸🖍️🐞Huda F Are You? - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲🐘The Dragon Reborn - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻👁‍🗨📝How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey's Anatomy - ⭐⭐
🍧📚💻💬👁‍🗨📝🐞Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎴📚💻💋Angels' Blood - ⭐⭐⭐

🔹Week 9 - 2
🔹Week 10 - 6
🔹Week 11 - 5
🔹Week 12 - 3
🔹Week 13 - 6

April


📕Total: 17

♻️Rereads: 3
📚Library books: 16
💻Ebooks: 6
📝Non-Fiction: 3
🎓YA: 7
👶Published in 2022: 2
🏅Goodreads Choice Nominee: 3
🖍️Graphic Novels: 2
🐞Under 200 pages: 5
🐘Over 600 pages: 0
🧺Book Basket: 0
🛑DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
A Deadly Education

Runners up:
The Last Graduate
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
To Marry and to Meddle
Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood

My least favourite book of the month:
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Ratings:
🎴📚🐲Summoned to Thirteenth Grave - ⭐⭐⭐
🎴📚🐲🖍️🐞Blackbird - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚🦄🐞The Lives of Saints - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🦄🏅Crooked Kingdom - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚💻👁‍🗨📝🏅The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚🦄D: A Tale of Two Worlds - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💻🧸🐞The Westing Game - ⭐⭐⭐
🎴📚👁‍🗨📝Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💋If I Never Met You - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻🎭🟪🐞Someday - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚🐲🐞The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories - ⭐⭐
🅰📚🦄🖍️🐞The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚💻🏰👶The Diamond Eye - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻💋👶To Marry and to Meddle - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚🦄🏅A Deadly Education - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻✍📝Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language - ⭐⭐⭐
🎴📚🦄🏅The Last Graduate - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🔹Week 14 - 4
🔹Week 15 - 4
🔹Week 16 - 6
🔹Week 17 - 3

May


📕Total: 23

♻️Rereads: 7
📚Library books: 15
💻Ebooks: 5
📝Non-Fiction: 5
🎓YA: 5
👶Published in 2022: 4
🏅Goodreads Choice Nominee: 8
🖍️Graphic Novels: 4
🐞Under 200 pages: 7
🐘Over 600 pages: 1
🧺Book Basket: 1
🛑DNFs: 1


Best (new) book of the month:
Book Lovers

Runners up:
Clap When You Land
A Spindle Splintered

My least favourite book of the month:
Cinder

Ratings:
🎴📚🦄🏅Cinder - ⭐⭐
🎴📚💻💋👶Book Lovers - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎴📚💻✍📝🏅The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚🐲Motorcycles & Sweetgrass - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻🐲👶Seasonal Fears - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎴📚👑📝🏅🐘Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲Moon Called - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚🧸💬🏅Clap When You Land - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚👽🖍️Spy x Family, Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚🐲🐞🏅A Spindle Splintered - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎴📚💻🐲👶Book of Night - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲Cry Wolf - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚💻✍📝Talking to Canadians - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🏰🧺The Cellist of Sarajevo - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚👁‍🗨📝👶Only in Saskatchewan: Recipes and Stories from the Province’s Best-Loved Eateries - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲Hunting Ground - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🧸🖍️🐞Borders - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚👽🐞Nightflyers - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲🖍️🐞🏅Homecoming - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲Blood Bound - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🦄🐞🏅Every Heart a Doorway - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🦄🐞🏅Beneath the Sugar Sky - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚✍📝🖍️🐞That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

🔹Week 18 - 1
🔹Week 19 - 3
🔹Week 20 - 3
🔹Week 21 - 8
🔹Week 22 - 8

June


📕Total: 21

♻️Rereads: 5
📚Library books: 16
💻Ebooks: 9
📝Non-Fiction: 4
🎓YA: 4
👶Published in 2022: 7
🏅Goodreads Choice Nominee: 5
🖍️Graphic Novels: 4
🐞Under 200 pages: 5
🐘Over 600 pages: 1
🧺Book Basket: 0
🛑DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
Seveneves

Runners up:
Neon Gods
Spy x Family, Vol. 2
Spy x Family, Vol. 3
Some Things I Still Can't Tell You: Poems

My least favourite book of the month:
The Glass Magician

Ratings:
♻️🦄Come Tumbling Down - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚👽🖍️Spy x Family, Vol. 2 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💻🦄🐞👶Where the Drowned Girls Go - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲🏅Bone Crossed - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚💻💬✍📝🐞Some Things I Still Can't Tell You: Poems - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🤡🖍️🐞Death Wins a Goldfish: Reflections from a Grim Reaper's Yearlong Sabbatical - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻💋👶The Emma Project - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻💋🐞👶Under One Roof - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚💻🧸👶I Must Betray You - ⭐⭐⭐
📚💬👁‍🗨📝🐞Blue Marrow - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻✍📝The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚🐲👶Fevered Star - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚👽🖍️Spy×Family 3 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚💻💋👶The Friendship Pact - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻💋🏅Neon Gods - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎴📚🐲The Glass Magician - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻✍📝👶This Is Not a Book about Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends on It - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲🏅Silver Borne - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚🦄🖍️👶The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 5 - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲🏅River Marked - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚👽🐘🏅Seveneves - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

🔹Week 22 - 2
🔹Week 23 - 6
🔹Week 24 - 5
🔹Week 25 - 6
🔹Week 26 - 2

July


📕Total: 21

♻️Rereads: 7
📚Library books: 14
💻Ebooks: 4
📝Non-Fiction: 2
🎓YA: 0
👶Published in 2022: 4
🏅Goodreads Choice Nominee: 7
🖍️Graphic Novels: 8
🐞Under 200 pages: 8
🐘Over 600 pages: 1
🧺Book Basket: 0
🛑DNFs: 6


Best (new) book of the month:
Sass & Sorcery

Runners up:
The Old Guard: Tales Through Time, Vol. 1
Lore Olympus: Volume Two
The Far Reaching Tentacles of N'rygoth
Spy x Family, Vol. 5
Spy x Family, Vol. 4
Below Zero

My least favourite book of the month:
The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain

Ratings:
♻️🐲🏅Frost Burned - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲🏅Night Broken - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚💻✍📝The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰📚💻💋Still the One - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻🐲🐞👶A Mirror Mended - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚👽🖍️🐞Spy x Family, Vol. 4 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻💋🐞👶Below Zero - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲Shifting Shadows - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📚🐲🖍️🐞🏅Sass & Sorcery - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎴📚💋🖍️🐞🏅Bingo Love - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🐲🖍️🐞🏅The Far Reaching Tentacles of N'rygoth - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚👁️‍🗨️📝🐘Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚👽🖍️Spy x Family, Vol. 5 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲🏅Dead Heat - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎴📚🟪👶Jameela Green Ruins Everything - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📚🐲🖍️👶Lore Olympus: Volume Two - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲🖍️🐞Hopcross Jilly #1-6 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲🏅Fire Touched - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📚🏰Three Sisters - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎴📚🐲🖍️🐞The Old Guard: Tales Through Time, Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️💋Pride and Prejudice - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🔹Week 27 - 7
🔹Week 28 - 4
🔹Week 29 - 2
🔹Week 30 - 7
🔹Week 31 - 1

August


📕Total: 27

♻️Rereads: 6
📚Library books: 20
💻Ebooks: 5
📝Non-Fiction: 1
🎓YA: 1
👶Published in 2022: 6
🏅Goodreads Choice Nominee: 9
🖍️Graphic Novels: 9
🐞Under 200 pages: 10
🐘Over 600 pages: 1
🧺Book Basket: 1
🛑DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
Soul Taken

Runners up:
Ruby Fever
There There
Eclipse the Moon
Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Absolute Sandman, Volume One
Em

My least favourite book of the month:
Vicious

Ratings:
🅰️📚🟪🏅There There - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻👽👶Eclipse the Moon - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚🟪Twenty-One Ways to Die in Saskatchewan - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚🐲🏅Under the Whispering Door -⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎴📚🔎🖍️🐞The Case of the Girl Who Took Her Shampoo (But Left her Mini) - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🤡📝🖍️🐞Yes, I'm Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚🦄👶Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻💋🐞👶Stuck with You - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🟪🖍️🐞👶Deadly Class, Volume 11: A Fond Farewell, Part One - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📚🏰🐞Em - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🐲🖍️🐞🏅Demons - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️💋🧺🏅The Hating Game - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🐲🖍️🐞High Fantasies - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲🏅Silence Fallen - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲🏅Burn Bright - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻🐲🏅Vicious - ⭐⭐
🍧📚🐲🖍️🐘The Absolute Sandman, Volume One - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🔎🖍️🐞The Case of the Baby in the Velvet Case - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🔎🖍️🐞The Case of the King of Clubs - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🔎🖍️🐞The Case of a Cup of Joe - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲🏅Storm Cursed - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎴📚💻💋All I Want - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲🏅Smoke Bitten - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎴📚💻💋👶Ruby Fever - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲Wild Sign - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🐲👶Soul Taken - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🏰Miss Bingley Requests: A Pride and Prejudice Regency Variation - ⭐⭐⭐

🔹Week 31 - 2
🔹Week 32 - 7
🔹Week 33 - 5
🔹Week 34 - 9
🔹Week 35 - 4

September


📕Total: 23

♻️Rereads: 5
📚Library books: 16
💻Ebooks: 2
📝Non-Fiction: 4
🎓YA: 6
👶Published in 2022: 2
🏅Goodreads Choice Nominee: 2
🖍️Graphic Novels: 10
🐞Under 200 pages: 6
🐘Over 600 pages: 1
🧺Book Basket: 3
🛑DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
Cemetery Boys

Runners up:
Heartstopper: Volume One
The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists

My least favourite book of the month:
Letters in a Bruised Cosmos

Ratings:
📚👽🖍️Spy x Family, Vol. 6 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📚💻🧸👶The Final Gambit - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚🐲🏅🐘Fire & Blood - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝🧺The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻🦄🏅Cemetery Boys - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚👽🖍️Spy x Family, Vol. 7 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📝🧺My Wedding Dress: True-Life Tales of Lace, Laughter, Tears and Tulle - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚🐲🐞👶Servant Mage - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🐲🖍️🐞The Colossal Magic Nothing - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🦄🖍️Cast No Shadow - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻📝💬🐞Letters in a Bruised Cosmos - ⭐⭐
📚🐲🖍️🐞The Infernal Path - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲Rosemary and Rue - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲A Local Habitation - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚🦄🖍️Sailor Moon Eternal Edition 5 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🦄🖍️Sailor Moon Eternal Edition 6 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚👁️‍🗨️📝🐞Storm of the Century : the Regina Tornado of 1912 - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🧸🖍️Heartstopper: Volume One - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲An Artificial Night - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🐲🖍️The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟪🧺Lone Wolf - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🐲🖍️🐞A Game of You - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲Late Eclipses - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🔹Week 35 - 1
🔹Week 36 - 3
🔹Week 37 - 9
🔹Week 38 - 6
🔹Week 39 - 4

October


📕Total: 21

♻️Rereads: 5
📚Library books: 17
💻Ebooks: 3
📝Non-Fiction: 3
🎓YA: 6
👶Published in 2022: 4
🏅Goodreads Choice Nominee: 6
🖍️Graphic Novels: 10
🐞Under 200 pages: 4
🐘Over 600 pages: 1
🧺Book Basket: 0
🛑DNFs: 1


Best (new) book of the month:
Mr. Perfect on Paper

Runners up:
Frankly in Love
The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections
The Absolute Sandman, Volume Three
Lore Olympus: Volume Three

My least favourite book of the month:
Sufferance: A Novel

Ratings:
🍧📚🟪Sufferance: A Novel - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🦄🖍️Sailor Moon Eternal Edition 7 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚✍📝Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life - ⭐⭐⭐
📚👁️‍🗨️💭📝🐞215 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📚💻💋👶Mr. Perfect on Paper - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🦄🖍️🐞Apocalypse Taco - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲🏅One Salt Sea - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🐲🖍️The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲🏅Ashes of Honor - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲🏅Chimes at Midnight - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🧸🖍️🏅Heartstopper: Volume Two - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🦄🖍️Sailor Moon Eternal Edition 8 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲The Winter Long - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🦄🖍️👶Demon in the Wood - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚💻💋🏅The Ex Hex - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🐲🖍️🐘The Absolute Sandman, Volume Three - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚👽🖍️🐞👶Firefly: River Run - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🧸🏅Frankly in Love - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💻✍️📝Apple: Skin to the Core - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🐲🖍️👶Lore Olympus: Volume Three - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🐲🖍️🐞The Once and Future King - ⭐⭐⭐

🔹Week 40 - 7
🔹Week 41 - 3
🔹Week 42 - 4
🔹Week 43 - 4
🔹Week 44 - 3

November


📕Total: 27

♻️Rereads: 3
📚Library books: 24
💻Ebooks: 6
📝Non-Fiction: 9
🎓YA: 6
👶Published in 2022: 12
🏅Goodreads Choice Nominee: 4
🖍️Graphic Novels: 11
🐞Under 200 pages: 7
🐘Over 600 pages: 1
🧺Book Basket: 1
🛑DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
Be the Serpent

Runners up:
The Absolute Sandman 4
The Golden Enclaves

My least favourite book of the month:
The Awakening

Ratings:
📚💻👁️‍🗨️📝🐞👶Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🟪🐞Tainna: The Unseen Ones, Short Stories - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻🦄👶The Golden Enclaves - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻👽🐞👶Honor and Shadows - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚✍️📝👶Making a Scene - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🤡📝🐞Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻💋Simply Irresistible - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🦄The Awakening - ⭐⭐
🧺🐲👶Be the Serpent - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💻🐲Before the Coffee Gets Cold - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚👽🖍️🐞👶 DUNE: Muad’Dib, Book 2 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🐲🖍️🐘The Absolute Sandman - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚✍️💭📝🐞👶Scars and Stars: Poems - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🐲👶The River of Silver: Tales from the Daevabad Trilogy - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚👁️‍🗨️📝👶🏅In on the Joke: The Original Queens of Standup Comedy - ⭐⭐⭐
📚👽🖍️🐞👶Firefly: Return to Earth That Was Vol 2 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚✍️📝🖍️🏅👶Everything Is OK - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🤡📝🖍️Book Love - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻🤡📝👶The World Record Book of Racist Stories - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲A Red-Rose Chain - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🧸🖍️🏅Heartstopper: Volume Three - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🧸🖍️🏅Heartstopper: Volume Four - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚✍️📝🖍️👶Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💋The Sweetest Thing - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📚👽🖍️Spy x Family, Vol. 8 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🦄🖍️Sailor Moon Eternal Edition 9 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🦄🖍️Sailor Moon Eternal Edition 10 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

🔹Week 44 - 1
🔹Week 45 - 5
🔹Week 46 - 8
🔹Week 47 - 8
🔹Week 48 - 5

December


📕Total: 25

♻️Rereads: 10
📚Library books: 15
💻Ebooks: 6
📝Non-Fiction: 1
🎓YA: 1
👶Published in 2022: 9
🏅Goodreads Choice Nominee: 5
🖍️Graphic Novels: 3
🐞Under 200 pages: 6
🐘Over 600 pages: 0
🧺Book Basket: 2
🛑DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
Sweep of the Heart

Runners up:
Monstress, Vol. 7: Devourer
Ocean's Echo
Before Your Memory Fades
Well Traveled

My least favourite book of the month:
The Stone Collection
God Isn't Here Today

Ratings:
📚🐲🖍️🐞👶Monstress, Vol. 7: Devourer - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻👽👶🏅Ocean's Echo - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🟪👶God Isn't Here Today - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲Once Broken Faith - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🐲🏅Norse Mythology - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💋The Summer Deal - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💻🐲Tales from the Café - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🧺💋🏅👶Love on the Brain - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🐲🖍️👶The Night Eaters, Vol. 1: She Eats the Night - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️💋👶🏅Book Lovers - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🐲Before Your Memory Fades - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻💋👶Well Traveled - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🤡📝Canadian Pie - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🟪🐞The Stone Collection - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧🧺🏰🏅The Night Tiger - ⭐⭐⭐
📚💻🐲👶Sweep of the Heart - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💻🐲🐞Sweep with Me - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💋Head Over Heels - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚👽Winter's Orbit - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🧸🖍️🐞👶The Heartstopper Yearbook - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲The Brightest Fell - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🦄🐞The Tales of Beedle the Bard - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻💎🐞A Christmas Carol - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲Night and Silence - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🐲The Unkindest Tide - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🔹Week 48 - 2
🔹Week 49 - 6
🔹Week 50 - 6
🔹Week 51 - 4
🔹Week 52 - 7

Books I didn't Finish by the end of 2022

Shakespeare: Sonnets

Mad About You

Carnival

The Shadow Rising

Week 1 (Jan. 1st to Jan. 7th)


Title: Lore Olympus: Volume One
Author: Rachel Smythe
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 1st
Comments: This was a nice way to start out the year. The artwork was wonderful and I always love a good Greek mythology retelling.
Prompt: 🅰17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge.


Title: Holiday Wishes
Author: Jill Shalvis
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 2nd
Comments: I have now read all the stories in this series. Shalvis has better series, so I probably wont reread these, but they are fun for what they are.
Prompt: 🅰24. A book related to inclement weather.


Title: Deadly Class, Volume 10: Save Your Generation
Author: Rick Remender
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ (2.75 really. I rounded up)
Date read: Jan. 2nd
Comments: The last book ended on a cliffhanger and yet this book jumped ahead and didn't tell what happened until almost the end of the book, and then it told what happened in passing. Plus I was going to use this for my set in the 80's prompt, and yet it turned out it was mostly set in the 90's and even 2001. All in all, very disappointing.
Prompt: 🎴13-Death 🎴20-Judgement (consequences, self-reflection)


Title: Where the Drowned Girls Go
Author: Seanan McGuire
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 4th
Comments: I was a little disappointed by the last book in the series, but this was back to being top notch. Thanks to Overdrive, I was able to read it the same day it was published.
Prompt: 🅰19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history.
🍧27. A Hugo Award winner.

Week 2 (Jan. 8th to Jan. 14th):


Title: Forbidden Wife: The Life and Trials of Lady Augusta Murray
Author: Julia Abel Smith
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 8th
Comments: I do have a weakness for books about British royalty. This spent too much time (aka ANY time) listing what was spent. Just because the main source of information was a basically a checkbook, doesn't mean I need to know how much someone paid for a hat.
Prompt: 🅰1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y.


Title: Obit
Author: Victoria Chang
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 10th
Comments: 3 out of 4 of the sections were amazing. They had me in tears and just were so moving. Section 2 on the other hand was not my thing.
Prompt: 🍧10. An Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner.


Title: Mãn
Author: Kim Thúy
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 12th
Comments: I was underwhelmed by VI so I debated even reading this one, but I'm so glad I did. It was everything I wished Vi had been.
Prompt: 🍧14. A book with cutlery on the cover or in the title.


Title: Born to Be Awkward: Celebrating Those Imperfect Moments of Babyhood
Author: Mike Bender
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 12th
Comments: It was funny but forgettable.
Prompt: NA


Title: Awkward Family Holiday Photos
Author: Mike Bender
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 13th
Comments: Funny but forgettable.
Prompt: NA

Week 3 (Jan. 15th to Jan. 21st):


Title: The Family You Make
Author: Jill Shalvis
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 15th
Comments: I like the new series.
Prompt: 🍧38. A book featuring a party.


Title: Awkward Family Pet Photos
Author: Mike Bender & Doug Chernack
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 15th
Comments: The cat in the frying pan might be my fav.
Prompt: NA


Title: Probably Ruby
Author: Lisa Bird-Wilson
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 17th
Comments: I liked the The Red Files and when I realized she had a regular book, I added it to my maybe list and then it was sitting in a display at he library when I went so I ended up reading it right away. It was hard to get into a first, but eventually the way the stories all wove together really worked.
Prompt: 🅰54. A book by an indigenous author. (I added 2 extra prompts)


Title: Here's to Us
Author: Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 17th
Comments: I struggled with the first half where they were introducing wonderful characters that you just knew were going to get hurt, but he last half went by like a breeze and was so cute and fun.
Prompt: 🍧48. A book with two POVs.


Title: Fakes, Frauds, and Flimflammery: Even More of the World's Most Outrageous Scams
Author: Andreas Schroeder
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 18th
Comments: So picked up 2 of these books at a garage sale, read hem and loved them, then went looking for the third. Bu when I finally found it, I never got around to reading it. Last year I decide to fix that, but I couldn't remember which one was the one I hadn't read. So now after 2 (wrong) guesses, I now know which one I haven't read yet.😋
Prompt: ♻️14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads. (There are only 17.)


Title: Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing and Light
Author: Nikita Gill
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 19th
Comments: This kinda wrecked me. It was so good, but still it was a little too emotional for me to give it a 5.
Prompt: 🅰6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover.


Title: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Author: Patrick Radden Keefe
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 21st
Comments: I liked Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland which was by the same author. This was definitely maddening given the subject matter. It was well written and I enjoyed it, but it wasn't anything super special. Edit: The writing has suck with me and I realize the subject matter might have put me off a bit which was why I only gave it a 3 originally.
Prompt: 🅰5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name.

Week 4 (Jan. 22nd to Jan. 28th)


Title: Long Way Down
Author: Jason Reynolds
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 22nd
Comments: This was amazing!! I knew I was probably going to love it, but it was just sooooooo good.
Prompt: 🍧41. A book with a reflected image on the cover or "mirror" in the title.
🅰39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time.


Title: Cackle
Author: Rachel Harrison
Rating: ⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 23rd
Comments: I voted for this for last years Goodreads Choice awards just because I liked the cover, so I figured I should read it. It was just so boring. I kept waiting for something to happen, but nope. At the end, the Annie yells at Sophie, then apologizes and then Happy Ending *Jazz Hands* 🙄🥱😴
Prompt: 🍧7. A book with an onomatopoeia in its title.
🍧33. A social-horror book.


Title: Skin & Earth, Vol. 1
Author: Lights
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 23rd
Comments: My sister insisted I read this. It was fine. The artwork was nice and the story was interesting but it wasn't quite my thing. Maybe once I listen to the album I'll like it more.🤷‍♀️ Edit: I've now listened to he album (which I love) and the story has stuck with me (in a good way) so I bumped it up a star.
Prompt: 🅰16. A book related to Earth Day.


Title: The Trouble with Twelfth Grave
Author: Darynda Jones
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 25th
Comments: The last book in this series was so bad I almost gave up on this series. I'm glad I didn't because his was actually good.
Prompt: 🍧30. A book with the name of a board game in the title.


Title: Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1
Author: James Tynion IV
Rating: ⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 25th
Comments: My sister recommended these, and the cover looked nice so I tried it. It just wasn't for me. There wasn't enough humour and it took too long to explain anything - I know it was supposed to hook me, but it just left me frustrated.
Prompt: 🅰43. A book set in a small town or rural area.

Week 5 (Jan. 29th to Feb. 4th)


Title: The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England
Author: Julie Kavanagh
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 29th
Comments: The subject mater was interesting, but I didn't like the writing style.
Prompt: 🅰42. A book with a language or nationality in the title.
🍧34. A book set in Victorian times.


Title: You Can’t Be Serious
Author: Kal Penn
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 30th
Comments: I have so many books I'm currently reading, but this came in and I dropped them all... It was funny and interesting.
Prompt: 🎴0 - The Fool


Title: Awkward Family Photos
Author: Mike Bender & Doug Chernack
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 31st
Comments: I read this when it came out, but it was there and I needed a laugh.
Prompt: NA


Title: The Eye of the World
Author: Robert Jordan
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Jan. 31st
Comments: I remembered more than I thought I did, and now I remember how much I enjoyed he series to begin with.
Prompt: ♻️21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover.


Title: High Jinx
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Feb. 4th
Comments: I like this series. And I got into this one quicker than the first.
Prompt: 🅰30. A book related to mythology.

Week 6 (Feb. 5th to Feb. 11th)


Title: Memoirs of a Geisha
Author: Arthur Golden
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Feb. 7th
Comments: It hooked me, but by about the middle I was ready for it to be over.
Prompt: 🅰8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1. (Asia)


Title: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Author: Emmuska Orczy
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Feb. 10th
Comments: I've wanted to read this ever since I watched the adaptation with Richard E. Grant.
Prompt: 🍧46. A book about someone leading a double life.


Title: Six of Crows
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Feb. 10th
Comments: I loved it even more the second time around.
Prompt: ♻️39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time.

Week 7 (Feb. 12th to Feb. 18th)


Title: Patient Zero: A Brief History of the Science Stories Behind the World's Worst Diseases
Author: Lydia Kang
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Feb. 15th
Comments: The format worked better for some chapters than others. The writing was engaging, but a little lacking in detail.
Prompt: 🎴21-The World


Title: The Great Hunt
Author: Robert Jordan
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Feb. 16th
Comments: I'm on track to read the whole series this year. And it's amazing me what I've forgotten and what is still clear as a bell in my mind. Still not enough Perrin.😉
Prompt: ♻️19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history.


Title: House of Sky and Breath
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Feb. 18th
Comments: I loved the first book and this one didn't disappoint. But now I'm probably going to have to wait for 2 years for the cliff-hanger to be resolved. 🤬 (view spoiler)[At least no one died in this one. Well, no one I cared about. (hide spoiler)]
Prompt: 🍧1. A book published in 2022.

Week 8 (Feb. 19th to Feb. 25th)
(ATY Read-a-thon)


Title: Red, White, and Whole
Author: Rajani LaRocca
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Feb. 19th
Comments: My sister reccomended this one and I'm so glad she did. It left me sobbing.
Prompt: 🍧13. A book set in the 1980s.


Title: Life's Too Short
Author: Abby Jimenez
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Feb. 19th
Comments: This looked at me when I was in the library. It was an ultimate comfort read.
Prompt: ♻️52. A book with a time-related word in the title.


Title: Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel
Author: Jason Reynolds
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Feb. 20th
Comments: I loved the original soooooo much and the artwork looked good so I went in with high hopes. And the artwork was gorgeous, but the whole thing lost some of its impact in the translation.
Prompt: 🎴16-The (Falling) Tower (unforeseen and traumatic events)


Title: The Housekeeper and the Professor
Author: Yōko Ogawa
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Feb. 20th
Comments: After my experience with Convenience Store Woman last year, I was a little worried that this would be the same - something everyone else loved that I hated, but I'm so glad that wasn't the case. This book was lovely and sweet.
Prompt: 🅰50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years.


Title: Hunt the Stars
Author: Jessie Mihalik
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Feb. 21st
Comments: This is a scifi-romance that gives serious Firefly vibes, so of course I loved it.
Prompt: 🍧35. A book with a constellation on the cover or in the title. (It's a stretch, but close enough for me. Nothing says it has to be a real constellation😉)


Title: The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Author: Dave Grohl
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Feb. 23rd
Comments: Another case of 'it looked at me' I've heard good things about this one, and then it was just there at the library.
Prompt: 🍧20. A book whose title begins with the last letter of your previous read. (Hunt the Stars)
🍧21. A book about a band or musical group.


Title: Cyclopedia Exotica
Author: Aminder Dhaliwal
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Feb. 23rd
Comments: My sister had this, so I decided why not. It was fine. the artwork was good, it had good things to say but I was just left feeling unsatisfied, I don't know why. I wanted more.
Prompt: 🍧24. A book you can read in one sitting.


Title: Tales from the Café
Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Feb. 24th
Comments: I loved the first book so when I found out there was a sequel, I immediately added it to my list. And it seemed perfect for a read-a-thon read. I didn't sob like the first, but it was close. (And yes, a book making me cry is a good thing)😉
Prompt: 🅰41. A book with a theme of food or drink.


Title: What We Lose
Author: Zinzi Clemmons
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Feb. 25th
Comments: I saw this on a library display for Black History Month and it was short, so I picked it up for the read-a-thon, but by the time it came to read it, I couldn't even remember anything about it.
Prompt: 🍧36. A book you know nothing about.

Week 9 (Feb. 26th to Mar. 4th)


Title: Then Came You
Author: Jill Shalvis
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Feb. 26th
Comments: After my last few depressing reads, I wanted a nice light read. These aren't top of the line but they make me laugh.
Prompt: 🅰2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021.


Title: The Poet X
Author: Elizabeth Acevedo
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Feb. 27th
Comments: My sister recommended this. She was right. I'm really getting into books in free verse right now.
Prompt: 🅰28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards. (Printz Award)


Title: Just Pretending
Author: Lisa Bird-Wilson
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Feb. 28th
Comments: I got this for the read-a-thon, but I didn't get to it in time. I ended up enjoying it, even though none of the stories really had a plot - they were just snippets out of someone's life. I normally can't stand that, but Lisa Bird-Wilson writing just hooks me in. Even the one told in second person wasn't that bad.
Prompt: 🅰14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads. (95)


Title: The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel Single Volume
Author: P. Craig Russell
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 2nd
Comments: I love the original book and this was a really good adaptation. The artwork was good, although it didn't quite match what I had envisioned.😉
Prompt: 🍧12. A book about the afterlife.


Title: An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed
Author: Helene Tursten
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 3rd
Comments: When I found out there was a sequel, I immediately borrowed it. Just as much fun as the first.
Prompt: 🍧8. A book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid.

Week 10 (Mar. 5th to Mar. 11th)


Title: Winter's Orbit
Author: Everina Maxwell
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 6th
Comments: I saw this on the best books of the month thread and added it to my list. Then the book started following me and popping up in my feeds and all over the place. So when I went to the library and it was just sitting there, I couldn't resist. And then I couldn't wait to finish my other books before I started it. It was so good. There's a good chance that it'll be my pick for best book of March. But it's too early in the year to complete the best book of the month prompt.
Prompt: 🍧32. A book with a quote from your favorite author on the cover or Amazon page. (Martha Wells)
🅰️23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship.


Title: The True Story of the Great Escape: Stalag Luft III, March 1944
Author: Jonathan F. Vance
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 7th
Comments: 76 POWs managed to escape and there were another 20 or so that played a major role in the plan, but stayed behind, and the author thought they were all important, which is good, but it meant the first 2/3 of the book was a series of mini biographies concluding with the mission that resulted in the guys capture. It was spaced out and woven through the story, but it still made it a bit of a slog and the names started to run together. But once it got to the actual escape and aftermath, I couldn't put the book down.
Prompt: 🅰20. A nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951.
🅰26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1. (I realized I was reading 2 books back to back that both had 'True Story' in the title)


Title: Mr. Popper's Penguins
Author: Richard Atwater & Florence Atwater
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 8th
Comments: I had this out because my Mom wanted to borrow it, and then my Dad had a major health crisis and I needed a comfort read that didn't require much concentration. Sweet, but very dated.
Prompt: ♻️31. A book published at least 10 years ago.


Title: The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
Author: Gwen Strauss
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 8th
Comments: It was a accident of library holds that led me to read this almost back to back with The True Story of the Great Escape: Stalag Luft III, March 1944. It was interesting to pair them. This one had a cheat sheet with all the names (with only 9 it was easier) which helped keep things straight, and it was a more even read, but it didn't have the tension of the other one.
Prompt: 🅰27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2.


Title: This Is Paradise: Stories
Author: Kristiana Kahakauwila
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 9th
Comments: I voted for this for the popsugar monthly read, and even though it didn't make it in, I decided to read it. think I may have to revise my opinion on slice of life short stories, because this is the second one in less than a month that I've loved.
Prompt: 🍧15. A book by a Pacific Islander author.


Title: Crowbones
Author: Anne Bishop
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 11th
Comments: I know I shouldn't love these as much as I do, but I can't help it.
Prompt: 🅰33. The next book in a series.

Week 11 (Mar. 12th to Mar. 18th)


Title: From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy
Author: Scott Meslow
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 13th
Comments: I was trying to make myself read one of my library books or The Dragon Reborn and instead I went looking through the recently added library ebooks on Overdrive.... I was fun and entertaining, but I didn't really learn anything new and I don't think it will stick with me hence the 3 star rating.
Prompt: 🅰3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title.


Title: Piranesi
Author: Susanna Clarke
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 14th
Comments: It was a cool world/idea but the plot was bare bones and while the prose was nice, it ended up being boring.
Prompt: 🎴9-The Hermit


Title: Spelunking Through Hell
Author: Seanan McGuire
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 15th
Comments: I thought of thought of this book when I saw this prompt. As much as the series is about dealing with various creatures (including dragons) this one is about searching through uncharted worlds, and as it turns out, the plot kicks off with the MC finding a map so it fits even better than I thought.
Prompt: 🅰49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons".


Title: Cheats, Charlatans, and Chicanery: More Outrageous Tales of Skulduggery
Author: Andreas Schroeder
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 17th
Comments: Third times the charm. I have now read all 3 of these for sure.😉 I can still remember my Grandpa telling the one story after he heard it on the radio, so it made me extra nostalgic. The best story is still the 2 thieves who robbed a gas station, then got lost and stopped for directions at the gas station they had just robbed. Twice!😂
Prompt: 🅰31. A book published at least 10 years ago.


Title: Fated Blades
Author: Ilona Andrews
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 18th
Comments: It only took me 5 months to track down a copy of this....Worth it.
Prompt: 🍧29. A different book by an author you read in 2021.

Week 12 (Mar. 19th to Mar. 25th)


Title: A Library of Misremembered Books: When We're Searching for a Book but Have Forgotten the Title
Author: Marina Luz
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 20th
Comments: This caught my eye when I was going through overdrive. It was fun and hilarious, but it was too short.
Prompt: 🅰47. A book with handwriting on the cover. NA


Title: Not My Father's Son
Author: Alan Cumming
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 21st
Comments: I needed an N for a spell-out challenge and this was available on OverDrive. It was engrossing and well done, but the subject matter was tough and it ended up being a bit disjointed.
Prompt: 🍧25. A book about a secret.


Title: With the Fire on High
Author: Elizabeth Acevedo
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 24th
Comments: It wasn't quite as good as The Poet X and I got stalled on it a little, I'm not sure why.
Prompt: 🅰39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time.
🅰38. A book by a Latin American author.

Week 13 (Mar. 26th to Apr. 1st)


Title: 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics
Author: Bruce Goldfarb
Rating: ⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 26th
Comments: The subject matter was interesting, but the author managed to suck all the life out of the story. He spent more time writing about the men in Frances' life than in her.
Prompt: 🅰32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer.


Title: Huda F Are You?
Author: Huda Fahmy
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 28th
Comments: My sister recommended this. I enjoyed it. And now I've got a theme for the 3 continents prompts: Fictional memoirs.
Prompt: 🅰9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2. (North America)


Title: The Dragon Reborn
Author: Robert Jordan
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 28th
Comments: I've fallen a bit behind with the reread of the reread of this series - I was supposed to have finished this by Mar. 11th😬 But I am really enjoying them, especially now that Faile has shown up.
Prompt: ♻️49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons".


Title: How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey's Anatomy
Author: Lynette Rice
Rating: ⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 29th
Comments: This ended up being just a repackaging of previous interviews and press releases, and it couldn't even get the details right. Making a mistake about which season a certain plot happened once is forgivable. When you lose count of the times it happens... 👎
Prompt: 🍧47. A book featuring a parallel reality.


Title: Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
Author: Rita Dove
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 30th
Comments: My sister loved one of the poems in this so much, she read it out loud to me, and I added it to my list. Like any collection, I liked some poems better than others.
Prompt: 🍧40. A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge: A book of poetry.


Title: Angels' Blood
Author: Nalini Singh
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Mar. 31st
Comments: I had read the short novella prequel to this series and it seemed like a cool world. The first third of the book was pretty rough - I came so close to DNFing it! But it got better and ended well. And now I'm actually debating reading on in the series..... But the beginning was really bad..... 🤷‍♀️
Prompt: 🎴15-The Devil

Week 14 (Apr. 2nd to Apr. 8th)


Title: Summoned to Thirteenth Grave
Author: Darynda Jones
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Apr. 2nd
Comments: It was fine, but given it was the last book in the series, it kinda went out on a whimper.... It was a quick read that didn't drag (not all books in the series could say that) but in the end, I just didn't like how the author chose to wrap everything up.
Prompt: 🎴13-Death


Title: Blackbird
Author: Sam Humphries
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Apr. 3rd
Comments: I liked the artwork, but the story was all beginning, and it doesn't look like there is going to be anymore.😒
Prompt: 🎴2-The High Priestess


Title: The Lives of Saints
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Apr. 3rd
Comments: And with that, I have now read everything Bardugo has published. As a fun little extra for the grishaverse series, this was gorgeous but not as awesome as her The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic.
Prompt: 🅰37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name.


Title: Crooked Kingdom
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Apr. 8th
Comments: I love this book. Even though (view spoiler)[Matthias dies (hide spoiler)]😭
Prompt: ♻️37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name.

Week 15 (Apr. 9th to Apr. 15th)


Title: The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Author: Walter Isaacson
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Apr. 9th
Comments: This was interesting and well written, but I had to read it in bits because there was just SO much information to take in.
Prompt: 🅰13. A book about a woman in STEM.


Title: D: A Tale of Two Worlds
Author: Michel Faber
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Apr. 11th
Comments: I loved the cover and so I added it to my list, but by the time I got around to reading it, I had forgotten the plot synopsis, so I was just not expecting a middle grade read. It was lovely, shades of Narnia or Oz, but without the problematic gender role issues.
Prompt: 🅰15. A book without a person on the cover.
19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history.


Title: The Westing Game
Author: Ellen Raskin
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Apr. 14th
Comments: I haven't read this since high school and it was there in the library and so I decided to reread it, because there was a lot I didn't remember.
Prompt: ♻️45. A book related to a game.


Title: Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood
Author: Gavin Edwards
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Apr. 15th
Comments: I picked this up and could not put it down. It wove interviews, history and a filmography all together and was just fun, even if it denigrated some of my favorite movies. 😋 I used it for the temperance card because Jackson's success didn't come until after he got clean and sober.
Prompt: 🎴14-Temperance (Art, time, patience, self-control)

Week 16 (Apr. 16th to Apr. 22nd)


Title: If I Never Met You
Author: Mhairi McFarlane
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Apr. 16th
Comments: It looked at me when I was in the library, and who was I to resist?😋
Prompt: ♻️40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards. (The Lovers)


Title: Someday
Author: Drew Hayden Taylor
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Apr. 16th
Comments: Normally, Drew Hayden Taylor's stuff leaves me in stitches. This ripped my heart out.
Prompt: 🍧28. A book set during a holiday. (Christmas)


Title: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Author: Angela Carter
Rating: ⭐⭐
Date read: Apr. 17th
Comments: A couple of the short stories in this weren't that bad but overall I just did not like them. I'll stick with the originals.
Prompt: 🅰44. A book with a touch of gothic.


Title: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Author: Charlie Mackesy
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Apr. 18th
Comments: This was sweet and just really lovely
Prompt: 🅰47. A book with handwriting on the cover.


Title: The Diamond Eye
Author: Kate Quinn
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Apr. 19th
Comments: This was so close to being a 4 star, but there wasn't as much tension in the American section until the end, which made the flash forwards fall flat a little.
Prompt: 🅰11. A book from historical fiction genre.


Title: To Marry and to Meddle
Author: Martha Waters
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Apr. 20th
Comments: I was a disappointed by book 2 in this series, but this one was back to being as good as the first book in the series.
Prompt: 🍧49. Two books set in twin towns, aka "sister cities". (1) (London)

Week 17 (Apr. 23rd to Apr. 29th)


Title: A Deadly Education
Author: Naomi Novik
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Apr. 23rd
Comments: I was ambivalent about reading this but I shouldn't have been. I loved every moment of it. The opening line alone - "I decided Orion Lake needed to die the second time he saved my life"🤣
Prompt: 🅰34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role.


Title: Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language
Author: Ayelet Tsabari
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Apr. 24th
Comments: It was interesting, but nothing special.
Prompt: 🍧42. A book that features two languages.


Title: The Last Graduate
Author: Naomi Novik
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: Apr. 28th
Comments: Orion was a little annoying in this one, but otherwise I loved it as much as the first book. But I still can't believe that ending!
Prompt: 🅰22. A book with a Jewish character or author.
🎴8- Strength (courage, confidence, passion, good over evil)

Week 18 (Apr. 30th to May 6th)


Title: Cinder
Author: Marissa Meyer
Rating: ⭐⭐
Date read: May 3rd
Comments: I feel bad because my sister loves this book but it just wasn't for me. And I can't really point out what it was I didn't like, I just didn't connect the story or characters.
Prompt: 🎴19. The Moon


(This is an anthology of short stories, but I'm only reading the stories from my favorite authors.)
Title: Dating Terrors
Author: Patricia Briggs
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 2nd
Comments: I love Asil and always want more. If only this had been a full book....... but I'll take what I can get.
Prompt: NA
Title: Comfort Zone
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 3rd
Comments: It was nice to be back in the Otherworld verse, but there was barely any story here.
Prompt: NA
Title: The Dark Ship
Author: Anne Bishop
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 4th
Comments: I love the world of the Others and this was a nice little journey back, but to a part of the world that hasn't been shown before.
Prompt:NA

Week 19 (May 7th to May 13th)


Title: Book Lovers
Author: Emily Henry
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 7th
Comments: I love Hallmark romance movies, and this is basically a love letter to them, with a bit of love for Gilmore Girls too. So basically perfect.
Prompt: 🎴6-The Lovers


Title: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
Author: Neil Gaiman
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 8th
Comments: I wasn't expecting much from this, and while some bits were completely useless, some were just so on point, and I kept finding weird connections with real life.
Prompt: 🎴17-The Star (creativity, art)


Title: Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
Author: Drew Hayden Taylor
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 11th
Comments: I thought this was one of Taylor's plays, so I'd had it picked for the read in one sitting prompt, but this was a full novel. I loved it anyways.
Prompt: 🍧39. An #OwnVoices SFF (science fiction and fantasy) book.

Week 20 (May 14th to May 20th)


Title: Seasonal Fears
Author: Seanan McGuire
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 15th
Comments: I liked the first book better, but it was still awesome. I just wish it had had more of an epilogue. And nothing abut the popsugar prompt says that the books have to be from the same duology, so I'm using it.😋
Prompt: 🍧45. A duology. (2)


Title: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Author: Robert K. Massie
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 18th
Comments: I wasn't that familiar with the history, so this was mostly new info. It was well written and I enjoyed it.
Prompt: 🎴3-The Empress


Title: Moon Called
Author: Patricia Briggs
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 20th
Comments: I love this series and I reread it about once a year. I was trying to hold off until I'd finished at least book 4 in the Wheel of Time, but I broke.
Prompt: ♻️46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters.

Week 21 (May 21st to May 27th)


Title: Clap When You Land
Author: Elizabeth Acevedo
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 21st
Comments: I loved this every bit as much as I thought I would.
Prompt: 🅰38. A book by a Latin American author.
🍧7. A book with an onomatopoeia in its title.


Title: Spy x Family, Vol. 1
Author: Tatsuya Endo
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 22nd
Comments: My sister laughed her way through this and told me I had to read it too. She was right. Now I have to wait for book 2.
Prompt: 🍧9. A book about a "found family".


Title: A Spindle Splintered
Author: Alix E. Harrow
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 23rd
Comments: I love a good fairy tale retelling and I've always loved Sleeping Beauty, even with its problems.
Prompt: 🅰53. A book that was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards.


Title: Book of Night
Author: Holly Black
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 23rd
Comments: This took forever to get going and I almost DNFd it, but I kept going and the last 4 or 5 chapters almost made me bump it up to a 4 star rating. And it works for The Hierophant but it's hard to explain why without giving major spoilers.
Prompt: 🎴5-The Hierophant (aka The Pope)


Title: Cry Wolf
Author: Patricia Briggs
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 24th
Comments: Continuing my reread of the series.
Prompt: ♻️43. A book set in a small town or rural area.


Title: Talking to Canadians
Author: Rick Mercer
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 26th
Comments: I miss The Mercer Report so much! It was great to read his stories about his life.
Prompt: 🅰23. A book that features a loving LGBTQIA+ relationship.
🅰42. A book with a language or nationality in the title.


Title: The Cellist of Sarajevo
Author: Steven Galloway
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 26th
Comments: This has sat on my nightstand for years and years. My sister decided to borrow it, she returned it and so it was sitting out, and being read-a-thon time, the fact that it was short called to me.😁 But I've finally made my physical TBR go down instead of up!🥳
Prompt: 🍧31. A book featuring a man-made disaster.


Title: Only in Saskatchewan: Recipes and Stories from the Province’s Best-Loved Eateries
Author: Naomi Hansen
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 27th
Comments: I've eaten in a lot of these places, but it did give me a list of places I have yet to try. And there are a couple of recipes I want to try out.
Prompt: 🍧23. A book with a recipe in it.

Week 22 (May 28th to June 3rd)


Title: Hunting Ground
Author: Patricia Briggs
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 28th
Comments: Continuing my reread of the series.
Prompt: ♻️1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y. (Anna)


Title: Borders
Author: Thomas King
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 28th
Comments: I've been meaning to try a Thomas King book for a while, but I wasn't expecting my first to be a middle grade graphic novel. It was short and simple, and yet there was so much there beyond the story.
Prompt: NA


Title: Nightflyers
Author: George R.R. Martin
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 28th
Comments: I wasn't expecting much from this. I picked it up for the read-a-thon, but I thought I was going to pass on it, then I picked it up and next thing I know I was half done.😋 It was a cool little scifi-horror book.
Prompt: 🅰52. A book with a time-related word in the title. (Night)


Title: Homecoming
Author: Patricia Briggs
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 28th
Comments: Continuing my reread of the series. Normally I try to start with this one, but I forgot.🙃
Prompt: ♻️25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages. (112 pages)


Title: Blood Bound
Author: Patricia Briggs
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 29th
Comments: Continuing my reread. I am going to skip the next book in the series though.
Prompt: ♻️33. The next book in a series.
♻️27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2. (Blood)


Title: Every Heart a Doorway
Author: Seanan McGuire
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 30th
Comments: I decided to do a reread of this series, but just the odd numbered books (Which is the through line story) mostly because I needed book 3 for 2 different challenges that end tomorrow.
Prompt:♻️34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role.


Title: Beneath the Sugar Sky
Author: Seanan McGuire
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 31st
Comments: Continuing my reread of the series.
Prompt: ♻️15. A book without a person on the cover.


Title: That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story
Author: Huda Fahmy
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 31st
Comments: I read one of Huda Fahmy's other books this year and enjoyed it, so when I saw this I couldn't resist.
Prompt: 🅰4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list. (A nonfiction book by a BIPOC author.)


Title: Come Tumbling Down
Author: Seanan McGuire
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: June 1st
Comments: Continuing my reread of the series.
Prompt: ♻️23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship.


Title: Spy x Family, Vol. 2
Author: Tatsuya Endo
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: June 2nd
Comments: This series is just fun.
Prompt: N/A. I only allow myself to use 1 prompt per series for graphic novel/manga series.

Week 23 (June 4th to June 10th)


Title: Where the Drowned Girls Go
Author: Seanan McGuire
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: June 4th
Comments: So this is the second time I've read this book this year. I loved it just as much. I really do prefer the main story line books best, although I already can't wait for the next book in the series.😁
Prompt: ♻️51. A book published in 2022.


Title: Bone Crossed
Author: Patricia Briggs
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: June 5th
Comments: Continuing my reread of the series. I like this one more and more every time I read it.
Prompt: ♻️44. A book with a touch of gothic.


Title: Some Things I Still Can't Tell You: Poems
Author: Misha Collins
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: May 5th
Comments: I've been meaning to read this since it came out last October (and not just because I was a fan of Supernatural). Some of the poems hit me so hard.
Prompt: 🅰25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages. (144 pages)


Title: Death Wins a Goldfish: Reflections from a Grim Reaper's Yearlong Sabbatical
Author: Brian Rea
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: June 7th
Comments: I read this because the title and cover art made me smile. And the whole thing made me smile. The artwork was pretty basic, so it lost a point for that, but otherwise it was pretty perfect.
Prompt: N/A


Title: The Emma Project
Author: Sonali Dev
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: June 7th
Comments: I've been waiting for this since I read the last one, but it still took me a while to get through. For contemporary romances, these books tackle some pretty tough subjects which makes them slower reads for me. I also was a little disappointed that this one wasn't a closed door romance. (I don't object to sex scenes, but sometimes authors use them to cover up deficiencies in the story. Or as a lazy way to show the characters falling in love) And while this was still good enough to rate a 4, I do feel like it was a bit lazy in the middle. The way it translated Emma to a modern setting were brilliant though.
Prompt: 🍧18. A romance novel by a BIPOC author.


Title: Under One Roof
Author: Ali Hazelwood
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: June 10th
Comments: The Love Hypothesis was so good, I had to put in a request for her next books. And when this came in, despite everything else I'm reading, I had to stop and read it first. It was just soo cute.
Prompt: 🅰51. A book published in 2022. N/A

Week 24 (June 11th to June 17th)


Title: I Must Betray You
Author: Ruta Sepetys
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: June 11th
Comments: This wasn't as good as Salt to the Sea, but I still enjoyed it.. sort of. It was very dark. I didn't know much about the subject matter (I was only 7 when it happened) so it was interesting. But then it just ended.
Prompt: 🅰10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3. (Europe)


Title: Blue Marrow
Author: Louise Bernice Halfe
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: June 12th
Comments: It was a bit too dream like for my tastes, but I'm glad I read it.
Prompt: N/A


Title: The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture
Author: Grace Perry
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: June 13th
Comments: This was fine.
Prompt: 🍧5. A sapphic book.


Title: Fevered Star
Author: Rebecca Roanhorse
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: June 15th
Comments: Not much actually happened in this book - it was just a lot of set up for where the story is going. That being said, I still enjoyed it.
Prompt: 🍧3. A book about or set in a nonpatriarchal society.


Title: Spy×Family 3
Author: Tatsuya Endo
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: June 15th
Comments: Anya's imagination kills me. I'm loving this series so much. Even with the creep factor that the brother brings.
Prompt: N/A

Week 25 (June 18th to June 24th)


Title: The Friendship Pact
Author: Jill Shalvis
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: June 18th
Comments: Great literature, these are not. But they always make me laugh.
Prompt: 🅰21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover. (A dog)


Title: Neon Gods
Author: Katee Robert
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: June 19th
Comments: I don't normally like erotica, but I'm a sucker for a good Greek myth retelling. And this was good.
Prompt: 🍧11. A #BookTok recommendation.


Title: The Glass Magician
Author: Caroline Stevermer
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: June 20th
Comments: This was perfectly pleasant.... but not much happened, and then it just sort of ended without much resolution. The magic system wasn't that fleshed out or interesting enough to want more.
Prompt: 🎴1-The Magician


Title: This Is Not a Book about Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends on It
Author: Tabitha Carvan
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: June 22nd
Comments: The title caught my eye and made me laugh, so I borrowed it. It was not what I was expecting - more a look at how gender affects how we view passion/obsession.
Prompt: 🍧37. A book about gender identity.


Title: Silver Borne
Author: Patricia Briggs
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: June 23rd
Comments: Continuing my reread of the series.
Prompt:♻️12. A book related to glass. (Window on cover) N/A


Title: The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 5
Author: Cassandra Clare
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: June 23rd
Comments: This series is easier to take in graphic novel form. It is still a bit to overwrought.
Prompt: 🅰12. A book related to glass. (Graphic novelisation of City of Glass)

Week 26 (June 25th to July 1st)


Title: River Marked
Author: Patricia Briggs
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: June 27th
Comments: Continuing my reread of the series.
Prompt: ♻️29. A book set on or near a body of water.


Title: Seveneves
Author: Neal Stephenson
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: June 30th
Comments: I loved this. Even though it was over 800 pages, I finished it in 3 days because I couldn't put it down.
Prompt: 🍧43. A book with a palindromic title.

Week 27 (July 2nd to July 8th)


Title: Frost Burned
Author: Patricia Briggs
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: July 2nd
Comments: Continuing my reread of the series.
Prompt: ♻️8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1. (North America)
♻️26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1.
♻️33. The next book in a series.


Title: Night Broken
Author: Patricia Briggs
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: July 3rd
Comments: Continuing my reread of the series.
Prompt: ♻️30. A book related to mythology.


Title: The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain
Author: James Fallon
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: July 4th
Comments: I wanted more science, less memoir. Because the science was fascinating but the personal stories were mostly boring, or vaguely unsettling.
Prompt: 🅰7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind.


Title: Still the One
Author: Jill Shalvis
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Date read: July 5th
Comments: I know what I'm going to get when I read a Jill Shalvis book - something fun and light that takes no brain power. This was nothing more than what I wanted and expected.
Prompt: 🅰36. A book related to flora and fauna - Fauna. (Book 6 in the Animal Magnetism series)


Title: A Mirror Mended
Author: Alix E. Harrow
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: July 6th
Comments: I loved the meta commentary on fairy tales and the way it reworked them, but this one felt a bit more 'preachy' and I wasn't as happy with the ending.
Prompt: 🍧41. A book with a reflected image on the cover or "mirror" in the title.


Title: Spy x Family, Vol. 4
Author: Tatsuya Endo
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: July 7th
Comments: It keeps making me laugh. And the edition of a clairvoyant polar bear abominable snow dog just made it even better.
Prompt: N/A


Title: Unappreciated Gifts
Author: Patricia Briggs
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: July 8th
Comments: I love a good Asil story. But I have no intrest in any of the other stories in this collection.
Prompt: N/A


Title: Below Zero
Author: Ali Hazelwood
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date read: July 8th
Comments: My hold for book 3 came in first, so I read out of order. I liked this better than book 1 because it felt complete and it worked.
Prompt: N/A I couldn't find one to fit.