Devour Your TBR discussion

March is all about celebrating diverse voices through reading books written by authors from marginalized groups. This includes BIPOC authors, queer authors, disabled authors, plus-sized authors, and authors who have mental illnesses.

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

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by marginalized auhors:


other:

I'll give this one a go!

Marginalized Authors:

Other:

Finished:
Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-up Years - 3/2, 4 stars

TBR on theme:
Kindred, Octavia Butler - finished, 3/31/24
Broken Horses, Brandi Carlile , currently reading
Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston - finished 3/10/24, 4 stars
Winter Counts, David Heska Wanbli Weiden
American Primitive, Mary Oliver - finished 3/15/24. 4 stars

Non theme TBR:
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf - finished 3/16/24, 5 stars
A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary, Virginia Woolf
Conversations with Mom: An Aging Baby Boomer, in Need of an Elder, Writes to Her Dead Mother
Fourteen Days - finished 3/25/24, 5 stars
Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day! (on hold list, library loan)
Emotional Intelligence 2.0, Dr. T. Bradberry - reading now

Been working on my TBR:
Devour: BIPOC.
YELLOWFACE. Libby 02/26
HOSPITAL, Han Song.
EXORCISM, Han Song.
Waubisheg Rice x2 NG ARC Mount TBR
ACE OF SPADES. Mount TBR
Sherman Alexie
Night of the Living Rez
Night of the Living Queers. NG ARC
Almost Surely Dead [Pakistani, Muslim]
She Is a Haunting. Mount TBR
ONE HUNDRED SHADOWS NG ARC.
SOUTH KOREAN. In.
Translation.
THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART. NG ARC. South.
Korean.
BUNNY; also NG ARC by Mona Awad.
Will look for Mental Disorders.

I am treating Chinese Authors as "Marginalized" in view of their exclusion (including R. F. Kuang!!) from the 2023 Hugo Awards.

TITLES READ:
Lovers at the Museum: A Short Story . Kindle First Reads March.
In Progress: Hannah Edwards Secrets of Riverway. Edelweiss. Neurodiversity Theme for March.
Almost Surely Dead. March Marginalization Theme.
Friends in Napa. Kindle First Reads March. March Marginalization Theme.

Titles Read:
** Lovers at the Museum: A Short Story
**** Her Lost Soul 1) Marginalization and Neurodiversity 2) Mental Issues
*** F.U.B.B.: Hardcore Horror Novellas Mental Issues
**** The Rule of Threes VERY Mental Issues!
**** Goth Moth
**** Worm's Lost & Found
**** Wacky Witches and Their Peculiar Familiars
**** Wish You Were Here: Postcards from Franz Kafka
**** The Kamogawa Food Detectives March Marginalization Theme.
****Haunted Secrets: Tales of Leo Moreland March Marginalization [Ghost Believers]
*** The Forever World March Mental Issues
*** The Invisible Colony March Mental Issues
**** Those Empty Eyes: Sneak Peek March Marginalization and Neurodiversity. March Mental Issues.
**** The New Couple in 5B March Marginalization Theme and March Mental Issues.
**** The God Engines March Marginalization Theme and March Mental Issues.
**** Lemming's First Christmas Edelweiss ARC, Children March Marginalization: Inuit Author.
**** Empire of the Damned March Marginalization. March Mental Issues.
**** Five Survive
**** The Transall Saga
**** The Bad Ones
**** Midwestern Gothic
**** The Siege of Burning Grass
**** The Curse of Eelgrass Bog
**** Frank Herbert's Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1 Libby
****. Blood of the Four Hoopla, Everand
**** Mind the Gap: A Novel of the Hidden Cities
**** Specimen
One of the Dead
**** Floating Hotel
****** The Dredge
**** The World's Other Side
**** Godkiller
****Haunted Secrets: Tales of Jimmy Hsu (Autistic Chinese-American Adolescent) Scare Street ARC
**** Sneak Peek for Service Model Robot's Psychological Decompensation!
**** A Graveyard of Stars: Sci-fi Horror Novellas
**Moon Bear
**** Everyone Is Watching
** The Pharaoh vs. the Felines Edelweiss ARC Children
** One Wild Christmas Edelweiss ARC Children
**** Puffin and Penguin Edelweiss ARC Children

Currently reading:
- The Bellwoods Game by Celia Krampien
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
- Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix (reread)
- The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes
- Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch
- Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror by Jordan Peele et. al

My themed reads will be:
- Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide
- Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
- Blood Like Fate by Liselle Sambury
- By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
- Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- The Changeling by Victor LaValle
- Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury
- The Enchanted Hacienda by JC Cervantes
- Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline
- Grounded by Aisha Saeed
- I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
- Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix by Cherie Dimaline
- Luck of the Titanic by Stacey Lee
- Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang
- The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton
- Never Whistle at Night by Shane Hawk et. al
- Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy by Angie Thomas
- Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman
- Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi
- The Nigerwife by Vanessa Walters
- Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Tehlor Kay Mejia
- Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball by Jason June
- Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
- Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- The Spirit Glass by Roshani Chokshi
- The Tale of the Gravemother (Are You Afraid of the Dark #1) by Rin Chupeco
- This Coven Won't Break by Isabel Sterling
- Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean
- VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
- What's Coming to Me by Francesca Padilla
- Winston Chu vs. the Whimsies by Stacey Lee
- You Have a Match by Emma Lord
- Your Lonely Nights Are Over by Adam Sass

The rest will be:
- Beneath the Swirling Sky by Carolyn Leiloglou
- Big Bad by Lily Anderson
- Cake Eater by Allyson Dahlin
- Doctor Who Meets Scratchman by Tom Baker
- Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
- Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll by Priscilla Presley
- The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer
- Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
- The Ghost of Spruce Point by Nancy Tandon
- Grumbones by Jenn Bennett
- The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel by Margaret Atwood & Renee Nault
- Harley Quinn: Reckoning by Rachael Allen
- Hemlock Island by Kelley Armstrong
- I Only Read Murder by Ian Ferguson
- Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco
- The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst
- Love & War by Melissa de la Cruz
- The Midnight Club by Christopher Pike
- Missing Clarissa by Ripley Jones
- Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass & Purveyor of Fine Footwear by Heidi LM Jacobs
- Murder at Mallowan Hall by Colleen Cambridge
- Murder on a School Night by Kate Weston
- My Imaginary Mary by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
- The Night in Question by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson
- Panic by Lauren Oliver
- The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black
- Queen's Shadow by E.K. Johnston
- Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Stitchers by Lorien Lawrence
- A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
- The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
- Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone

Audiobook options:
- Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
- Finders Keepers by Stephen King
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Avid's March on the Margins

TBR
ARCS
How to Dance

Owned Books
Blackout
Hello Stranger
Where You See Yourself

Series to Start/Finish
Love & Other Disasters
How You Get the Girl

Monster
Never a Hero

There’s Something About Marysburg
Sweetest in the Gale

Library Books
Love and Hot Chicken
Say You'll Be Mine
Tender Beasts
The Friendship Study
This Day Changes Everything

Currently Reading
🧕The Mystery Guest

TBR Reads
Rosie and the Dreamboat
Twenty-Seven Minutes
End of Story
The Bad Ones
Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice
The Frame-Up
🧕Wander in the Dark
🧕The Mystery Writer
One Last Breath

Non-TBR Reads
Butcher & Blackbird
Seven Bones: Two Wives, Two Violent Murders, a Fight for Justice...
A Killing in Amish Country: Sex, Betrayal, and a Cold-Blooded Murder
🧕Murder at the Royal Ruby
A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
Mountain of the Dead: The Dyatlov Pass Incident
10 Hours to Go
The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring

🧕= fits theme

🌻 MY TBR 🌻
➽ Top Books I want to read this month!



🌻 PROGRESS 🌻


➽ One Piece, Volume 23: Vivi's Adventure ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ One Piece, Volume 24: People's Dreams ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ One Piece, Volume 25: The 100 Million Berry Man ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ One Piece, Volume 26: Adventure on Kami's Island ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ I Hope This Doesn't Find You ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
➽ Himawari House ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
➽ ASAP ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ Concrete Rose ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ Bloodmarked ⭐⭐⭐
➽ No One Can Know ⭐⭐⭐

Its been a while since I participated, but I do have some books that fit this prompt:

-Kaikeyi by Aishnavi Patel
-As Long As the Lemon Tree Grows by Zoulfa Katoul

Other Books (including minority authors that might not be considered 'BIPOC' by some
-Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
-Age of Vice by Depti Kapoor
-Goodbye, Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto
-Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes
-Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
-The Stolen Heir by Holly Black [reread]
-The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black
-Beirut Station by Paul Vidich

Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maud Woolf -- 3 Stars
This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us by Edgar Cantero -- 5 Stars
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson -- 3.25 Stars
Ultra Processed People by Chris Tulleken -- 5 Stars
The Science Delusion by Rupert Sheldrake --
Love Pamela by Pamela Anderson --
Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee -- 4 Stars
Broken Web by Lori M. Lee -- 4.25 Stars
Mr. Unavailable by B L Wilde -- 4 Stars
Mr. Rockstar by B L Wilde -- 3.5 Stars
Horror Hotel by Victoria Fulton -- 4.5 Stars
Cursed Cruise by Victoria Fulton -- 4.75 Stars
Voyage of the Basilisk by Marie Brennan - 3.75 Stars
A Calling of Light by Lori M. Lee --

READ


UNREAD

Here's my March reading list. I'll update along the way.

On theme:
How Long 'til Black Future Month? - FINISHED

All else:
Downbelow Station - FINISHED
Knife of Dreams
The Pearl - FINISHED
Angels & Demons - FINISHED
Vita Nostra
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - FINISHED
Al Capone Does My Shirts - FINISHED

🌷 Currently reading 🌷
↪︎ Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb
↪︎ Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
↪︎ Le pays des autres by Leïla Slimani

🌷 TBR 🌷
↪︎ One Last Midnight by Claire Winn
↪︎ Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
↪︎ Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
↪︎ Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

🌷 Completed reads 🌷

I never made my TBR post 🤦‍♀️

As usual, I'm using an emoji for the books that fit the theme! 🍀

✨ TBR & current reads ✨
• The Shadow of What Was Lost (currently reading)
• Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror (currently reading)
• Slaying the Vampire Conqueror (currently reading)
• Bewitched (currently reading)
🍀 That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon (currently reading)
• This Cursed Light (currently reading)
• Empire of the Vampire (currently reading)
🍀 An Education in Malice
• The Invocations
🍀 No One Can Know
• Children of the Dark
• Broken Bonds (currently reading)

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✨ completed reads ✨
• Bride ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• It Waits in the Woods ⭐⭐⭐
• In Bloom ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Starling House ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Playground ⭐💫
🍀 Cinema Viscera: An Anthology of Movie Theater Horror ❌ DNF ❌
🍀 The Only Safe Place Left is the Dark ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Belladonna ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

In the Margins:
The Last Cuentista
A Court of Mist and Fury
Godkiller