Book Challenge 2024

speaking all this because I need to read giovanni’s room

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Feburary

Read:

  • Wildfire
  • Crank Palace (Maze Runner Novella)
  • The Maze Cutter

March

Read:

  • A Court Of Thorns And Roses
  • A Court Of Mist And Fury
  • A Court Of Wings And Ruin

April

Read:

  • A Court Of Frost And Starlight
  • A Court Of Silver Flames
  • The Duke & I
  • The Viscount Who Loved Me

May

Read:

  • An Offer From A Gentleman
  • Romancing Mr. Bridgerton
  • To Sir Phillip With Love
  • When He Was Wicked

June

Read:

  • Its In His Kiss

Currently Reading:

  • On The Way To The Wedding
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June:

read:
Looking for JJ- Anne Cassidy
Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers- Grant Naylor
Jujutsu Kaisen Volume 1- Gege Akutami
The Tombs of Atuan- Ursula K. Le Guin
Stone Butch Blues- Leslie Feinberg
Tuesdays with Morrie- Mitch Albom

currently reading:
The Silence of the Lambs- Thomas Harris
Parable of the Sower- Octavia E. Butler
Royal Assassin- Robin Hobb

bought [4/5 in person, 1/5 second hand]:
Stone Butch Blues- Leslie Feinberg
Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?- Philip K. Dick
Mortal Engines- Philip Reeve
Death Note Volume 1- Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata

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July:

read:
Parable of the Sower- Octavia E. Butler
The Silence of the Lambs- Thomas Harris
Jujutsu Kaisen Volume 2- Gege Akutami

currently reading:
Royal Assassin- Robin Hobb
Gideon the Ninth- Tamsyn Muir
Five Ways to Forgiveness- Ursula K. Le Guin

bought [7/11 gifts bc i delayed my birthday :], 2/4 purchased in person, 2/4 purchased second hand]:
Demian- Hermann Hess
Harlan Ellison’s Greatest Hits [short story anthology]
These Violent Delights- Micah Nemerever
Nightb/tch- Rachel Yoder

gifts :D

Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
The Left Hand of Darkness- Ursula K. Le Guin
Last Night at the Telegraph Club- Malinda Lo
Slaughterhouse-Five- Kurt Vonnegut
The War of the Worlds- H.G. Wells
Old Crone- Ursula K. Le Guin
1984- George Orwell

acquired via temporary swap w a friend :D

The Handmaid’s Tale- Margaret Atwood [w/ friends annotations]
The Confessions of St Augustine- the man himself
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit- Jeannette Winterson
Orlando- Virginia Woolf
Lolly Willows- Sylvia Townsend Warner

Also changed my reading goal to 48.

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July Reads~

Undercover Bromance - Lyssa Kay Adams

Funny Story - Emily Henry

When in Rome - Sarah Adams


Unfortunately didn’t finish any books in June :smiling_face_with_tear:
But I did buy four books (+ one from my bestie) from Barnes and nobles today for my birthday, so hopefully August is a good reading month for me :blush:

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June

Read:

  • Its In His Kiss
  • On The Way To The Wedding

July

Read:

  • Queen Charlotte
  • Violet In Bloom (Bridgerton novella)
  • Shatter Me
  • Because of Miss Bridgerton
  • The Girl With The Make-Believe Husband
  • A Thousand Heartbeats

August

Currently Reading:

  • The Other Miss Bridgerton
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Late mid year read check

Read: 16/40

Classics - no, Thrillers - yes, New worlds - yes, Not that popular - meh

1/10


May
Read:
Caraval (P)

June
Read:
none

July
Read:
Legendary (P)
Finale (P)
Misery (P)
Hex (P)
The House without memories (P)
A certain hunger (A)

August
Tbr:
The Handmaid’s Tale ✓ (P)
Never let me go • (P)
And then I woke up • (E)
One Day (P)

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omg wait I finally have some books I have read this year!

July:
The Summer I Turned Pretty (Jenny Han)
It’s Not Summer Without You (Jenny Han)
We’ll Always Have Summer (Jenny Han)
The Reappearance of Rachel Price (Holly Jackson)

Currently: One Of Us Is Lying

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August:

read:
Royal Assassin- Robin Hobb
Gideon the Ninth- Tamsyn Muir
Five Ways to Forgiveness- Ursula K. Le Guin

currently reading
Harlan Ellison’s Greatest Hits
All That Remains: A Life in Death- Sue Black
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson
The Foxhole Court- Nora Sakavic

bought [1/2 second hand, 2/2 in person]:
Annihilation- Jeff VanderMeer
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson

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UMM

march to August (except I forgot some of the books I read so bear with me)

Crush by Richard Silek (poem)

Frankenstein by Mary shelly

Giovanni’s room

Wuthering Heights

Thee metamorphosis

Babel by R.F Kuang

Fool’s assassin by robin hobb

The goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The time Machine by H.G Wells

Ninth house by leigh bargudo

Our twisted Heero

Never let me go

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh bardago

Six of crows

The Duke and I

September-novement plans:

The priority of the orange tree (starting online)

Gideon the Ninth

The Vampire Lestat

If Beale Street Could Talk

Fool’s Quest

A certain hunger

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August
Read:
The Handmaid’s Tale ✓ (P)

September
Tbr:
Never let me go ✓ (P)
And then I woke up • (E)
The Raven Boys • (P)
The Dream Thieves (P)

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August:
One of Us Is Lying Series: Karen McManus (3/3) ✓
Yours Truly: Abby Jimenez ✓
Funny Story: Emily Henry ✓
Love and Other Words: Christina Lauren ✓

September:
Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: Suzanne Collins ✓
The Hunger Games: Suzanne Collins (41%)

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August

Read:

  • The Other Miss Bridgerton
  • First Comes Scandal
  • Destroy Me (Shatter Me novella)
  • Unravel Me
  • Fracture Me (Shatter Me novella)

September

Read:

  • Ignite Me

Currently Reading:

  • Restore Me
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September
Tbr:

Interview with the Vampire ✓ (P)
The Vampire Lestat ✓ (P)
Night Sky With Exit Wounds

if beale street could talk

Queen of the damned (reading)/The Vampire Armand (maybe)

Lapvona ✓ (e/P)

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Doing it now because I know I won’t read

September
Read:
Never let me go ✓ (P)
The Raven Boys ✓ (P)

October
Tbr:
My dark Vanessa ✓ (P) <3
And then I woke up ✓ (E)
Helpmeet ✓ (E)
Through the woods ✓ (E)
A Dark and Drowning Tide ✓ (E)
My Darling Dreadful Thing • (E)
The Dream Thieves (P)

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September:

read:
All That Remains: A Life in Death- Sue Black
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson
The Foxhole Court- Nora Sakavic

currently reading:
Harlan Ellison’s Greatest Hits
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Brontë

bought [2/3 second hand, 3/3 in person]:
Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoevsky
One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel García Márquez
Ain’t I a Woman?- Sojourner Truth

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September
Tbr:

Interview with the Vampire ✓ (P)
The Vampire Lestat ✓ (P)
Queen of the damned (began but still reading)
Lapvona ✓ (e/P)

October

Tbr:
Queen of the damned

Cursed Bunny

Macabeth

A Certain Hunger

Night Sky with Exist wounds

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I’m currently reading Crime and Punishment! Loving it so far! Let me know when you start it!

I’ve also been reading Frank’s biography on Dostoevsky titled: Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859

It’s the second volume of I think three in total. It’s about Dostoevsky’s period of imprisonment and afterwards, the effects it had on him, etc. Pretty insightful! I got 100 pages in and stopped reading because it was starting to give Crime and Punishment spoilers. I saw a few earlier but they were pretty small so I could just skim over them. But I felt like it’d just be better to read the rest of the book after I’ve finished Crime and Punishment. I feel like I have the necessary background (for the most part) in order to read it.

I haven’t read the first volume because I got the book second hand, and either they didn’t have the first volume, or I could only afford to get one lol. I’m planning on getting it and reading it later though.

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Read:
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Kindred by Octavia Butler

CR:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 by Joseph Frank
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

TBR:
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Mieville
A Shakespearian Grammar by Edwin A. Abbott
The Bolsheviks by Adam B. Ulam
The Death of Ivan Ilych & Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

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Will do! I’m on limited space in my uni accom so I left it at home, but I’ll have to get on that asap! I’ve been meaning on getting into more non-fiction, so if I’m enjoying [or struggling with] Crime and Punishment, that biography sounds really interesting!

Also noticed that Kindred is on your recently read; I’ve been planning on reading that super soon! I loved the Parable of the Sower, and I’ve wanted to read more of Octavia Bulter’s work. I think she might be my next author obsession </3

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