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� TBR & current reads �
❄️ Christmas and Other Horrors: An Anthology of Solstice Horror (currently reading)
❄️ The Shadow of What Was Lost (currently reading)
❄️ Throne of the Fallen
❄️ Bewitched (currently reading)
❄️ Slaying the Vampire Conqueror (currently reading)
� Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror (currently reading)
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� completed reads �
❄️ I Found Christmas Lights Slithering Up My Street ⭐⭐�
❄️ Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries ⭐⭐💫
� Blurred Lines ⭐⭐⭐⭐
� My Roommate Is a Vampire ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
� Horror House of Perversion: An Extreme Horror novella ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
❄️ Clown in a Cornfield ⭐⭐⭐⭐
� The Vet ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
� The Shuddering ⭐⭐�
❄️ A Court of Silver Flames ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
❄️ Bookshops & Bonedust ⭐⭐
❄️ The Shining ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
� Waltzing with Witches ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
Avid's Jumpstart January 2024Currently Reading
🌠Heartstopper: Volume Five
The Search for the Green River Killer
TBR Reads
🌠Rabbit Hole
🌠A Likeable Woman
🌠Poison or Protect
🌠First Lie Wins
🌠One of the Good Guys
🌠A Court of Silver Flames (Part 1 of 2) Dramatized Adaptation
🌠The Fury
🌠The Heiress
Non-TBR Reads
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present
Betrayal In Blood
The Ghost Club
All That Remains: A Life in Death
The Resort
Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case
The Exception to the Rule
Counting the Cost
The Night of the Storm
🌠= fits theme
Currently reading:-
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
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My TBR:
- Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide
- Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
- Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
- The Bellwoods Game by Celia Krampien
- Beneath the Swirling Sky by Carolyn Leiloglou
- Big Bad by Lily Anderson
- Blood Like Fate by Liselle Sambury
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- The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- 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
- Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury
- Doctor Who Meets Scratchman by Tom Baker
- The Drift by CJ Tudor
- 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
- Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
- The Enchanted Hacienda by JC Cervantes
- The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer
- Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline
- The Ghost of Spruce Point by Nancy Tandon
- Grounded by Aisha Saeed
- Grumbones by Jenn Bennett
- The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel by Margaret Atwood & Renee Nault
- Harley Quinn: Reckoning by Rachael Allen
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- Hemlock Island by Kelley Armstrong
- Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks
- The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes
- I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
- I Only Read Murder by Ian Ferguson
- An Improbable Season by Rosalyn Eves
- Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
- Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix by Cherie Dimaline
- Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco
- The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst
- Lone Women by Victor LaValle
- Love & Luck 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
- 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
- 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
- The Night in Question by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson
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- Panic by Lauren Oliver
- Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Tehlor Kay Mejia
- Queen's Shadow by E.K. Johnston
- 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
- Still Life by Louise Penny
- The Stitchers by Lorien Lawrence
- A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
- The Tale of the Gravemother (Are You Afraid of the Dark #1) by Rin Chupeco
- This Coven Won't Break by Isabel Sterling
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- Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean
- Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone
- VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
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- What's Coming to Me by Francesca Padilla
- Winston Chu vs. the Whimsies by Stacey Lee
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- You Have a Match by Emma Lord
- Your Lonely Nights Are Over by Adam Sass
Audiobook Selections:
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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- House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Proposed January TBR:1. CITY OF LAST CHANCES in Progress
2. HOUSE OF OPEN WOUNDS
3. CITY UNDER ONE ROOF (reread from January 2024)
4. VILLAGE IN THE DARK
1. CITY OF LAST CHANCES SF
2. HOUSE OF OPEN WOUNDS SF
3. CITY UNDER ONE ROOF (reread from January 2024) DYSTOPIAN
4. VILLAGE IN THE DARK DYSTOPIAN
5. 6. 7. THE ICERIGGER TRILOGY. SF ADF. Now in Progress
5. THE TERROR (reread) January or February HF/HORROR
6. DYATLOV PASS HF/HORROR
7. DEAD MOUNTAIN HF/HORROR
8. RETURN TO DYATLOV PASS HF/HORROR �
9. THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE ALTERNATE HISTORY/HF
10. ASSASSIN OF GRINS AND SECRETS. F
(first two are from my personal 2024 TBR PILE Challenge). A fresh year of reading as much NetGalley, Women in SF, Current SF, and Classic SF, as possible.
Titles Read:
1. **** The Griffin's Egg. NG ARC Audio. Mount TBR
2. **** The Griffin's Egg. NG ARC Digital. Mount TBR
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4. ****
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6. Northwoods
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9. The Traveler's Door KU Virtual. Author Request
10. ***A Ruin of Mercies. Reread from November 2023, for Tour January 17
11. ***Return to Dyatlov Pass
12. ***Mountain of the Dead
13. Antarctica Station KU
14. ****Unholy
Gods
15. ***The Complete Annotated The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, ed. Bill Peschel
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17. ****
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Jumpstart JanuaryBooks/authors linked when read
TBR:
Murder at the Mansion Alison Golden 1/5/24
A Bean to Die For Tara Lush 1/9/24
A Crust to Die For T.C. LoTempio 1/2/24
Fatal Blooms Claire Harlow 1/1/24
Death by Dish Claire Harlow 1/2/24
Murder on a Snowy Evening Lynn Cahoon 1/11/24
Hammers and Homicide Paula Charles 1/15/24
I did not do all that great, but hey, I knocked off two, right? Current TBR:
In the House in the Dark of the Woods
The Frozen River
Bright Young Women
Two Hearts for Christmas
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Thistlefoot
A Flicker in the Dark
Black Cake
All the Dangerous Things
Dark Corners
The Only One Left
Hello Stranger
The Last Party
The Writing Retreat
She Started It
Montana Blaze
Backslide
Completed Reads:
Ten Count, Vol. 2
Ten Count, Vol. 3
Here's to a new attempt to tackle my ever growing TBR!owned prior to 2024:
other:
❄️ MY TBR ❄️� Top Books I want to read this month!
❄️ PROGRESS ❄️
� One Piece, Volume 13: It's All Right! ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
� One Piece, Volume 14: Instinct ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
� One Piece, Volume 15: Straight Ahead! ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
� One Piece, Volume 16: Carrying On His Will ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
� One Piece, Volume 17: Hiriluk's Cherry Blossoms ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
� One Piece, Volume 18: Ace Arrives ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
� Spy x Family: Family Portrait ⭐⭐⭐⭐
� Bookshops & Bonedust ⭐⭐⭐⭐
� The Getaway List ⭐⭐�.5
� In the Event of Love ⭐⭐�.5
� Time to Shine ⭐⭐�.5
� This Time It's Real ⭐⭐�
� Currently reading �↪︎ Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb
↪︎ Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror
↪︎ City of Vicious Night by Claire Winn
� TBR �
↪︎ Same Time Next Year by Tessa Bailey
↪︎ Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb
↪︎ The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz (re-read)
↪︎ the rest of my tbr will probably be mood reads 🤗
� Completed reads �
↪︎ Same Time Next Year by Tessa Bailey (2� ; my review)
↪︎ Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman (5� ; my review)
I'd like to see how many of these I can get finished in January. I'll update as I go.Owned TBR:
Renegades - FINISHED
The Last Cuentista - FINISHED
Knife of Dreams
Hope Was Here - FINISHED
By My Side: From This Day / Temptation - FINISHED
His Majesty's Dragon
Of Mice and Men - FINISHED
Downbelow Station
The Moon Is Down
The Last Mapmaker - FINISHED
Other books:
Gallant - FINISHED
The Right Swipe - FINISHED
Seafire
I want to read in January:- Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
=> secret santa gift that I haven't started yet
=> update 30th of January: couldn't get into it
Hope to finish:
- The Only Plane in the Sky (an oral history of 9/11) --> been reading this a long time, but I can only read so many pages until I have to process again
=> update 30th of January: made progress, but not finished
- Twisted Tale Anthology => *finished*
Also read: Why I killed Pluto and why it had it coming
Wrap-Up:
Re-read:
Didn't finish:
Prompt Reads- Elizabeth of York: The Last White Rose
- The Obsidian Tower (reread)
Non-Prompt Reads
Owned prior to 2024Prompt Reads
Non-Prompt Reads
DNF
Jumpstart January TBR (owned prior to 2024)Native Son, finished 1/12/24, 5 stars
Time Is a Mother, finished 1/19/2024, 5 stars
Mad Honey, finished 1/21/2024, 5 stars
Beloved (reread, banned book) - reading now
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World - reading now
Conversations with Mom: An Aging Baby Boomer, in Need of an Elder, Writes to Her Dead Mother
Proposed January TBR
The Silent Patient
Cress
Neon Gods
Hopefully Famine
Carry Over 2023 Reads to Finished
War
Every Gift a Curse
I've 193 unread books on my tbr so I'll be mood reading the entire month - and I'm so excited about it! But the books I buy in January I also want to prioritize so they don't end up unread for several years, so I'll try to pick from new books and old books. For now, I'm currently reading:
City of Last Chances (bought 2024)
Read books:
Alone With You in the Ether 5/5 stars
Song of Silver, Flame Like Night 4/5 stars
The Candy House 1.5/5 stars
We Begin at the End 2/5 stars
Part of Your World (bought 2024) 4/5 stars
The Sword of Kaigen (e-book, not on physical tbr) 3/5 stars
The Guest (library book) 2/5 stars
Faebound (bought 2024) 5/5 stars
The Vanishing Half 4/5 stars
Looking Glass Sound (bought 2024) 2/5 stars
A Thousand Pieces of You 4/5 stars
Trying to use this group's prompts to go through some of the Giveaway books that I have won. Crossbones Yard
I finished reading Native Son today. This book had been on my TBR for a little over eight years. I added it on 11/4/2015.
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That's awesome! It always feels good to read something that's been on your TBR a LONG time.
I Think I Might Be Autistic by Cynthia Kim -- 3.5 StarsTo Look A Nazi In The Eye by Jordana Lebowitz -- 4.25 Stars
A Shadow Crown by Melissa Blair -- 4.5 Stars
A Vicious Game by Melissa Blair -- 4.5 Stars
Cultish by Amanda Montell -- 4.25 Stars
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears -- 5 Stars
Slow Down by Kohei Saito -- 3.25 Stars
Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton -
Narcissus in Chains by Laurell K Hamilton
Update for msg 6, got everything read I intended to :)
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