Hooked on Books discussion

Welcome to the September edition of our beloved “What Are You Currently Reading?” thread — your monthly excuse to gush, gripe, and geek out over your current reads!

Whether you’re:
🍂 Leaning into cozy fall reads and dark academia vibes
☀️ Still holding on to the last rays of summer with beachy books
📚 Staring down your September TBR like it’s a boss battle
🎃 Or already planning spooky season reads way too early (no judgment)…

This is your space to shout out what’s on your nightstand, your Kindle, or playing in your ears right now!

💬 Jump in with:
• What you just picked up / just finished
• A quote that floored you (or made you snort-laugh in public)
• A one-sentence review, or a wildly unhinged rant — we love both
• How your September TBR is shaping up (or already derailing 👀)

✨ This thread will be open all month, and we’ll start fresh in October to keep things tidy.

🆕 Bonus Fun: Don’t miss our other bookish convos:
→ Weekly Author Appreciation: A new author to spotlight (or side-eye) each week
→ Monthly Theme Chat: September’s theme is Dark Academia 🏫📖 — perfect for the season of sharpened pencils, candlelight, and questionable life choices.

So tell us — what’s your September read-along companion? Sound off below! 👇📖

I read a lot of horror and dark thrillers generally in October, but that's starting in September.

Not much dark academia but I am planning to re-read a trilogy of short novels from Tamara Thorne - Sorority Trilogy. I won these in my 20's from a live chat with the author and received the trilogy autographed with personalized messages for each as well as a bookmark, so this series will always be dear to me just as a keeper on my shelf. Eve | Merilynn | Samantha

Due to The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand FINALLY being released - I've known about it two years from Brian Keene's X Post years back, and have had it pre-ordered since last year as a Hardcover, I am re-reading The Stand before starting the anthology to do it right. While I've read it before in paperback and e-book, this time I am listening to it with the audiobook narrated by Grover Gardner. The anthology is based on The Stand, and meanwhile I need to finish You Like It Darker since I don't like reading two anthologies at the same time. I'm so slow reading them, although I enjoy them. The Stand anthology will take a long time as I don't want to rush through it and it is 800 pages.

Also of course many random series and oddball books - hope all have a good September reading month.

I’m reading a book called The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day

If dark academia is your jam, this is a great book one so far. I'm only halfway through Immortal Consequences: The Souls of Blackwood Academy, Book 1 and in the land in between, the ether, such immortal adventures six overachieving students undergo to compete in a dangerous race to graduate.