Devour Your TBR discussion

Mysterious May is an easy one: it's all about reading mysteries and thrillers! (Cozy mysteries count too, and so do books from other genres that happen to feature a mystery as part of the plot)

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crime, mystery, thriller:


other:

My favourite prompt :D

Mysterious May
Hoping to get these read this month
Books/authors linked when read

File M for Murder Miranda James 5/28/24
Magicians and Murder Lucinda Race 5/3/24
Easier Dead Than Drawn Bailee Abbott 5/7/24
A Pose Before Dying Alex Erickson 5/23/24
Bloodshed at the Owl Blind Bellamy Beck 5/9/24
Death by Art L.C. Richards 5/17/24
Once Upon a Clue Kathi Daley 5/5/24
Murder at the Spelling Bee Lee Hollis 5/25/24
Stiletto to the Pedal Karen C. Whalen 5/15/24

Currently reading:
- The Appeal by Janice Hallett
- Beneath the Swirling Sky by Carolyn Leiloglou
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
- Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury
- The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
- Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley
- My Imaginary Mary by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

My themed reads will be:
- The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett
- The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict
- Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
- Doctor Who Meets Scratchman by Tom Baker
- Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
- The Gathering by CJ Tudor
- The Ghost of Spruce Point by Nancy Tandon
- Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee
- The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst
- Missing Clarissa by Ripley Jones
- Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon
- Murder at Mallowan Hall by Colleen Cambridge
- Murder on a School Night by Kate Weston
- The Nigerwife by Vanessa Walters
- The Night in Question by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson
- The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
- The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
- Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone
- The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
- Your Lonely Nights Are Over by Adam Sass

The rest will be:
- Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide
- Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
- Angel Catbird, Volume 2: To Castle Catula by Margaret Atwood
- Angel Catbird, Volume 3: The Catbird Roars by Margaret Atwood
- Argylle by Elly Conway
- Big Bad by Lily Anderson
- Blood Like Fate by Liselle Sambury
- Book Lovers by Emily Henry
- By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
- Cake Eater by Allyson Dahlin
- Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- The Changeling by Victor LaValle
- Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Eat Your Heart Out by Kelly deVos
- The Enchanted Hacienda by JC Cervantes
- The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer
- From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi by Saladin Ahmed et. al
- Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline
- Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes
- Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler
- Grounded by Aisha Saeed
- Grumbones by Jenn Bennett
- Harley Quinn: Reckoning by Rachael Allen
- Hemlock Island by Kelley Armstrong
- 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
- Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco
- The Living Force by John Jackson Miller
- Love & Olives by Jenna Evans Welch
- Love & War by Melissa de la Cruz
- Luck of the Titanic by Stacey Lee
- The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton
- The Midnight Club by Christopher Pike
- The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
- Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass & Purveyor of Fine Footwear by Heidi LM Jacobs
- Never Whistle at Night by Shane Hawk et. al
- Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy by Angie Thomas
- Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi
- Panic by Lauren Oliver
- Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Tehlor Kay Mejia
- Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory
- Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
- Queen Charlotte by Julia Quinn
- Queen's Shadow by E.K. Johnston
- Ride or Die by Gail-Agnes Musikavanhu
- 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
- Solitaire by Alice Oseman
- The Spirit Glass by Roshani Chokshi
- The Stitchers by Lorien Lawrence
- A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
- A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal
- Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury
- This Coven Won't Break by Isabel Sterling
- Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean
- An Unlikely Proposition by Rosalyn Eves
- Under This Red Rock by Mindy McGinnis
- 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

Audiobook options:
- End of Watch by Stephen King
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
- Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Prompt
- Last Seen Alive
- Murder on the Moorland
- Burning Crowns
- The Ballad of Never After
- Pages & Co: The Last Bookwanderer
- Cream Buns and Crime
- Top Marks for Murder
- Mysteries At Sea: The Royal Jewel Plot

Non-Prompt
- At the Paddock Gate: Horse Stories for Grownups
- Squire (reread)
- Lady Knight (reread)

I'm going on a kind of Twisted Mother's Day theme! I'm sure all of this set counts as Mysteries (or at least Mysterious).
TBR: Mothered NG ARC Mount TBR
Motherthing own Mount TBR
Just Like Mother
Baby Teeth Reread from 2018. Mount TBR
Getaway own Mount TBR
AAPI: The School for Good Mothers NG ARC Mount TBR
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch KU Virtual
American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World NG ARC Mount TBR
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family. LIBRARY Virtual. (Mother Focus) .

Klara and the Sun Own Mount TBR. AAPI.
Annie Bot Libby Virtual

(Other)Prompt TBR: Sunshine

Titles Read:
1. AAPI.** Tiger Chair: A Short Story Kindle First Reads Bonus May. Near-Future SF but contains some Mysteries
2. **Haunted Secrets: Tales of Eloise Volume 2. Scarestreet.com ARC. Release May 3.
3. **** Home Is Where the Bodies Are NG ARC. Release April 30.
4. **** Under the Storm .
5. **** The Wicker Witch . Publisher ARC. Supernatural Horror/Mysteries.
6. ** The Frozen Outpost SF, Future, multiple mysteries
7. **** The Instruments of Darkness fully Mystery/Suspense/Supernatural.
8. **** The Darkness Over Arkham: An Arkham Horror Investigators Gamebook
9. ****Horror/Mystery/Historical/Police Procedural. The
Hanging Tree
10. **** No Road Home
11. **** American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World
12. ** The Golem
13. **** Mothered
14. ** Starfire
15. **** Think Twice
16. **** Baby Teeth Reread, from 2018.
17. **** Dear Hanna Sequel to Baby Teeth.
18. **** Haunted Secrets: Tales of Carl Hesselschwerdt volume 3. Publisher ARC Release May 20.
19. **** All Our Lies are True
20. **** The Last Murder at the End of the World
21. ** Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
22. **** Lost Birds
23. **** One Perfect Couple
24. Daughter of Mine
25. The Sunshine Princess and the Stinky Dog
26. ** Fear & Sunshine: Prelude
27. **** Murder on a School Night
28. **** You Like It Darker
29. ****Bad Men
30. ** Somnium
31. ** In the Land of the Pigs: A Western Horror Novella

🥀 Currently reading 🥀
↪︎ The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz (re-read)
↪︎ The Summer that Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel

🥀 TBR 🥀
↪︎ My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
↪︎ The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
↪︎ The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
↪︎ The Summer that Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel

One of my favorite genres. I'm in.

TBR on theme:
The Verifiers by Jane Pek, finished 5/10/24, 4 stars
Gone for Good by Harlan Coben

Non theme - currently reading:
In the Form of a Question, Amy Schneider
A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary, Virginia Woolf

Non theme - finished
The Hours, Michael Cunningham (April theme) - finished 5/5/24, 5 stars
Emotional Intelligence 2.0, Dr. T. Bradberry (book club read) - finished 5/12/24, 4 stars
Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee - finished 5/12/24, 4 stars
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison, finished 5/19, 4 stars
Glitter Every Day: 365 Quotes from Women I Love, Andy Cohen, finished 5/25/24, 4 stars
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Books, by James Patterson and Matt Everson, finished 5/25/24. 4 stars
Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano, finished 6/2/24, 4 stars

Non theme TBR:
The Personal Librarian, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray (April theme)
Winter Counts, David Heska Wanbli Weiden (March theme)
Conversations with Mom: An Aging Baby Boomer, in Need of an Elder, Writes to Her Dead Mother
The Philosopher's Flight, Tom Miller (April theme)
The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan (on hold list, library loan)

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



🔎 PROGRESS 🔍


➽ How to Find a Missing Girl ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
➽ Even If We Break ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ The Night in Question ⭐⭐⭐.5
➽ The Reappearance of Rachel Price ⭐⭐⭐.5

Avid's Mysterious May 2024
ARCs
The Royal Game

Owned Books
56 Days
Not a Happy Family
The Intern
The Writing Retreat

Series to Start/Finish
The Castle Knoll Files
How to Solve Your Own Murder

The Housemaid
The Housemaid
The Housemaid’s Secret
The Housemaid is Watching

The Vacation Mysteries
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies

The Widows
Young Rich Widows
Desperate Deadly Widows

Library Books
Murder Road
Nightwatching
Out of Body
The Gathering
The Surrogate
The Truth about the Devlins
The Wife Upstairs
Victim F
Where There’s Smoke

Hoopla/Everand
#CrimeTime
Do Not Disturb
Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead
One by One
Peril in Pink
She's Not Sorry
Suicide Med
The Locked Door
The Perfect Son
Ward D

To Buy
Brain Damage
Do You Remember?
The Ex

Pre-orders
Lost to Dune Road
Rabbit Heart
The Guest
The Reappearance of Rachel Price


Currently Reading
🕵️‍♀️ Midnight Is the Darkest Hour
🕵️‍♀️Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper

TBR Reads
🕵️‍♀️A Grave Robbery
🕵️‍♀️Just Another Missing Person
🕵️‍♀️The Fixer: Moguls, Mobsters, Movie Stars, and Marilyn

Non-TBR Reads
🕵️‍♀️Anthrax to Zodiac: A Snarky PI Delves into the Most Notorious Unsolved Mysteries of the Past 150 Years
🕵️‍♀️Nowhere Like Home
🕵️‍♀️Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
🕵️‍♀️Home Is Where the Bodies Are
RedHanded: An Exploration of Criminals, Cannibals, Cults, and What Makes a Killer Tick
🕵️‍♀️Keep Your Friends Close
🕵️‍♀️The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster
Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
🕵️‍♀️Missing White Woman


🕵️‍♀️= fits theme

Here's my May reading list. I'll update as I go.

The mysterious...
Just Stay Away - FINISHED
The Spy Coast

and the mundane...
Knife of Dreams - FINISHED
Shiver - FINISHED
The Rules of Dating My Best Friend's Sister - FINISHED
The Gathering Storm
Out of the Silent Planet - FINISHED

Currently reading the final girls support group by Grady Hendrix.

Just finished with we sold our souls by the same author.

We’ll see what else I can fit this month 🤪

Valeria wrote: "Currently reading the final girls support group by Grady Hendrix.

Just finished with we sold our souls by the same author.

We’ll see what else I can fit this month 🤪"

I love Grady Hendrix!

I'm marking my themed reads with a 💀 skull emoji!

🕵️ TBR + current reads 🕵️
• The Shadow of What Was Lost (currently reading)
• Slaying the Vampire Conqueror (currently reading)
• That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon (currently reading)
💀 The Invocations (currently reading)
• Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places (currently reading)
• Gather Round: The Internet's Scariest Campfire Stories (currently reading)
• Empire of the Damned
• Blood Bonds
• Lore of the Wilds
• Why Didn't You Just Leave
• The Honey Witch

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🕵️ completed reads 🕵️
💀 Foxglove ❌ DNF ❌
• Reading the Stars: Astrology for Book Lovers ⭐⭐⭐
• Gemina ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (re-read)
• Devil Inside ⭐⭐
💀 Deceived ⭐⭐
• Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image ⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 Murder Road ❌ DNF ❌
• Bluejay ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Savage Bonds ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Winter ❌ DNF ❌
• Funny Story ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Finished what I listed, msg. 4 :)