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Currently reading:-
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- Iron Flame
- Looking for a Sign
My themed reads will basically be my complete shortlist because they were already on my TBR before January:
- Acceptance
- Ace of Spades
- After Oz
- Akata Witch
- Argylle
- Authority
- The Babysitters Coven
- Back in a Spell
- The Ballad of Darcy and Russell
- The Bang-Bang Sisters
- Batgirl: Possession
- Beach Read
- Begin Again
- Better Must Come
- The Bewitching Hour: A Tara Prequel
- Bless Your Heart
- The Boo Hag Flex
- The Book of Elsewhere
- Butcher & Blackbird
- By the Book
- Cake Eater
- Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
- The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands
- Chain-Gang All-Stars
- Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop
- Cinema Speculation
- The Cinnamon Bun Bookstore
- Clap When You Land
- The Crash
- Cuckoo
- The Dallergut Dream Department Store
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
- Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
- The Dead Romantics
- Dead Silence
- The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
- Earls Trip
- Eat Your Heart Out
- The Enchanted Hacienda
- An Enchanting Case of Spirits
- Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche
- Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
- The Ex Hex
- The Expectant Detectives
- Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
- Four Eids and a Funeral
- The Frame-Up
- From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi
- From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back
- From Bad to Cursed
- Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
- Funny Story
- Gamora & Nebula: Sisters in Arms
- The Ghost of Spruce Point
- Ghost Station
- The Ghosts of Nameless Island: Vol. 1
- The Girl in Question
- Going Bicoastal
- Grounded
- Grumbones
- Guillotine
- Happy Medium
- Happy Place
- Heiress Takes All
- Hemlock Island
- Her Majesty's Royal Coven
- Hide
- Home Is Where the Bodies Are
- Horror Movie
- The House of Last Resort
- The Housekeepers
- How to Survive Your Murder
- I Curse You With Joy
- I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
- I Need You to Read This
- I Was a Teenage Slasher
- If the Shoe Fits
- In Charm's Way
- Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix
- It Came from the Trees
- Killer House Party
- Kingdom of the Wicked
- Kiss the Girl
- The Lake House
- The Last One at the Wedding
- The Last Room on the Left
- Leia: Princess of Alderaan
- The Living Force
- The Lost Story
- Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
- Love & Olives
- Love & War
- Love in Winter Wonderland
- Luck of the Titanic
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- Margo's Got Money Troubles
- The Marvellers
- Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass & Purveyor of Fine Footwear
- Mother-Daughter Murder Night
- Moon Madness
- Mr. Lemoncello's Fantabulous Finale
- Murder at Mallowan Hall
- Murder on a School Night
- My Roommate Is a Vampire
- My Salty Mary
- Never Whistle at Night
- Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy
- Nigeria Jones
- The Nigerwife
- The Night in Question
- A Novel Love Story
- Once Bitten, Twice Dead
- One of Us Knows
- The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life
- Paola Santiago and the River of Tears
- Party of Two
- People We Meet on Vacation
- The Plus One
- Poor Things
- The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night
- The Pumpkin Spice Café
- Queen Charlotte
- A Queen's Game
- Queen's Shadow
- Rani Choudhury Must Die
- The Reappearance of Rachel Price
- Rebel Robin
- Ride or Die
- Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball
- Rise and Divine
- The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
- Shock Induction
- Silver Nitrate
- So Thirsty
- A Sorceress Comes to Call
- The Spellshop
- Spider-Man: Stories from the Spider-Verse
- The Spirit Glass
- The Sun Down Motel
- Tangled Up in You
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- A Tempest of Tea
- Tender Beasts
- This Coven Won't Break
- Tokyo Ever After
- The Treasure Hunters Club
- Two Nights in Lisbon
- Two Sides to Every Murder
- An Unlikely Proposition
- VenCo
- The Villa
- The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society
- We Kept Her in the Cellar
- We Solve Murders
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- Welcome to Night Vale
- Whalefall
- What the River Knows
- What's Coming to Me
- Winston Chu vs. the Whimsies
- Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
- Witchlings
- Women Living Deliciously
- You Have a Match
- Young Blood (An Umbrella Academy YA Novel)
- Your Lonely Nights Are Over
- Zodiac Rising
Audiobook options:
- Absolution
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- Big Bad
- The Case of the Missing Marquess
- The Changeling
- Dracula
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- End of Watch
- The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
- The Grandest Game
- The Great Gatsby
- Iris Kelly Doesn't Date
- Jane Eyre
- Lies and Weddings
- Natural Beauty
- Onyx Storm
- The Perfect Couple
- The Secret Garden
- The Tainted Cup
- This Ravenous Fate
- Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
- The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
- Wuthering Heights
Ebook options:
- American Rapture
- As Good As Dead
- Black Sheep
- Harley Quinn: Ravenous
- Harley Quinn: Redemption
- Heavenly Tyrant
- My Throat an Open Grave
- The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh
- Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View
- Stranger Things: Flight of Icarus
- Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets
- Terrifier 2
Graphic novel options:
- Bad Dreams in the Night
- The Ghostkeeper: A Graphic Novel
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- Lore Olympus: Volume Seven
- Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant Vol. 2 (Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant
- The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien
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Jumpstarting my January with Love Redesigned by Lauren Asher and The Bright Side of Disaster by Katherine Center.
owned prior to 2025:
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A couple of books I plan to read in January, we'll see about everything else:- The Red Scrolls of Magic
- The Lost Book of the White
- Alanna: The First Adventure
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (reread)
- Tongues of Serpents (Temeraire)
To finish:
- Golden Enclaves
- Motheater
- Murder Your Employer
❄️ MY TBR ❄️� Top Books I want to read this month!
❄️ PROGRESS ❄️
It's true that I have been plotting my January reading goals while working very hard to finish my December goals. Here are the books that I plan to read in January. Note: One of my goals for the year is to try not to set unreachable goals. January TBR on theme:
- Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf
- Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love by Brit Barron (library loan)
Currently reading (not on TBR before January):
The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy by James Crews (unplanned bookstore purchase)
Currently reading (on theme):
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
Our Strangers: Stories by Lydia Davis
A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary by Virginia Woolf
Finished reading (on theme)
- The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman (library loan), finished 1/12/25, 4 stars
- Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises by Rebecca Solnit, finished on 1/20/25, 5 stars
Finished reading (not on TBR before January):
One Word That Will Change Your Life by Jon Gordon (book club read), finished 1/20/25, 2*
I prepared my 2025 GR Challenge goal and my personal Mount TBR and Virtual Mount TBR and NetGalley goals, on Christmas Day. So: 13/month Mount TBR, including 4/month NetGalley ARC Mount TBR; 13/month Virtual; 4 NetGalley Current/month.To start off with:
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2. City Under One Roof. NetGalley ARC July 2022, reread before Sequel;
3. Village in the Dark NetGalley ARC, October 2023;
4. City Under Ice, own November 2021, my January Winter Cold Challenge �;
5. Cold People, NetGalley ARC October 2022, Winter Cold Challenge;
6. The Dyatlov Pass Mystery: NOT A Cold Case, KU January 2024. Winter Cold Challenge;
7. Ice, own, reread before sequels (Trilogy) December 2015. Winter Cold Challenge;
8. Ice revelation, own January 2022, Winter Cold Challenge;
9. Ice Genesis own December 2024, Winter Cold Challenge;
10. Ripe, KU December 2024 SF;
11. Carpathians, KU January 2024, Winter Cold Challenge;
12. Night Plague, NetGalley ARC December 2024;
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14. A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay, NetGalley ARC November 2023 SF;
15. The Battle of Space Fort Jefferson and Other Stories, SF own December 2024;
16. Fortress of Ice Fantasy own December 2024.
17. Harrow Lake, own August 2020
18. The Mary Shelley Club, own July 2022.
19. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, own December 31, 2019😊
20. Daughter Of Earth And Water: A Biography Of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley own September 2015.
21. Seven Graves One Winter, own December 2023. Arctic, Winter Cold Challenge.
22. The Adventure of The Subtle Captain: A new Sherlock Holmes short story, own December 2024. Arctic. Winter Cold Challenge.
23. The House. In Progress. Paranormal Horror, own February 2020.
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Jumpstart January 20253/6
Books/authors linked when read
Masquerade Murder at the Castle Avery Kent 1/26/25
Murder on the Fairgrounds-Avery Kent (will shift to the Feb.
Challenge since this is a fave author)
Ghouls and Paws Penny Brooke 1/16/25
Schooled in Murder Victoria Gilbert 1/2/25
Dead Men Wag No Tails Sarah Fox 1/5/25
The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime Vicki Delany 1/14/25
Avid's Jumpstart January 2025TBR
1. Bodies to Die For
2. How to Dance
3. Secrets of Rose Briar Hall
4. The Royal Game
5. The Wayside
6. Canadian Boyfriend
7. Gone Tonight
8. Make the Season Bright
9. No One Can Know
10. The Debutantes
11. Where You See Yourself
12. Butter
13. Calypso
14. Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
15. Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
16. Happy-Go-Lucky
17. The Best of Me
18. The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie
19. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
20. Tender Beasts
21. Where There’s Smoke
22. Stealing Home
23. Wicked Serve
24. America’s Geekheart
25. Liar, Liar, Hearts on Fire
26. The Hot Mess and the Heartthrob
27. Ambush or Adore
28. Betrayal at Blackthorn Park
29. Rockaway Bride
30. The Hero and the Hacktivist
31. Murder in Season
32. All's Fair in Love and Treachery
33. Meat Cute
34. Romancing the Inventor
35. Romancing the Werewolf
36. Prudence
37. Imprudence
38. With Any Luck
39. Royal Valentine
40. Games Untold
And many many more, LOL
Currently Reading
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TBR List
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TBR & current reads:
� Iron Flame (re-read)
� The Winter People
� Our Love Will Devour Us
� The Reformatory (current read)
� Summer of the Monsters (current read)
� Crypt of the Moon Spider
� Fourth Wing (re-read, current read)
� Fuck Them Kids: A Collection of Horror Stories (current read)
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completed reads:
� How to Flirt with a Hellhound ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
� This Cursed House � DNF �
� Seven Rabbits ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
� Rest Stop ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
� The Christmas Tree Farm ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
� Icebreaker � DNF �
� Grave Intentions ⭐⭐�
� Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Currently reading:
This is a good challenge for me to start with, because I'm always failing the Mount TBR challenge, so it's good to get a strong start on it! However, I do also have a stack of library books out right now. The struggle is real.
Alright, going to try this. � The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 3: The Finest Hour
� The Moon on a Rainy Night 5
� JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 4—Diamond Is Unbreakable, Vol. 1
� Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody, (Light Novel) Vol. 1
� Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense., Vol. 5
� Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear (Light Novel) Vol. 4
� Dandadan, Vol. 1
� Silver Spoon, Vol. 1
� Busted
� The Elfstones of Shannara
These are all things I either have from the library already or items I requested before January.
Additional add on
The Vanishing Type
The Mummy Case
The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash (Light Novel) Vol. 3
Yowamushi Pedal Omnibus, Vol. 1
One Piece, Volume 5: For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Pirate's Life for Tea
January TBR
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•Kaikeyi - Vaishnavi Patel
•The Sunlit Man - Brandon Sanderson
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•Intermezzo - Sally Rooney📚
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•Out Cold - Philip Jaekl
January TBR:I'll mark the books that fit the challenge in bold. I have a few that don't as I'm wanting to reread the first 4 books in the Tomorrow series by John Marsden so I can finally read the last 3 books after them being on my TBR for close to 10 years!
Burning For Revenge
The Night Is for Hunting
The Other Side of Dawn
Traitor's Gate by Ridpath. Michael ( 2013 ) Hardcover (Reread)
Shadows of War (Traitors) by Michael Ridpath
Bloodguard
I've only committed to one book because the ones I wanted to read this month didn't fit the challenge but I'm SOOOO grateful for the challenge because it finally made me Finnish romeo and juliet
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Kick off the year with books already on your TBR! If you've never read it and you owned it (or had it on your TBR) prior to January 1, 2025, it counts for this challenge.
* If you don't own unread books, you can use library borrows for this one, as long as you'd been thinking about reading it sometime prior to this year 💜
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