Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

My resolute challenge list:

1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y
📙 Crier's War by Nina Varela (Ayla)
2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021
📙 Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title
📙 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list
📙 Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman

5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name
📙 King's Dragon by Kate Elliott
6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover
📙 Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind
📙 The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1
📙 The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2
📙 The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3
📙 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
11. A book from historical fiction genre
📙 The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
12. A book related to glass
📙 The Shadowglass by Rin Chupeco
13. A book about a woman in STEM
📙 The Half-Life of Marie Curie by Lauren Gunderson

14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads
📙 The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste
15. A book without a person on the cover
📙 Still Life by Sarah Winman
16. A book related to Earth Day
📙 A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet
17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge
📙 Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author
📙 I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories by Bo-Young Kim
19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history
📙 Catch the Lightning by Catherine Asaro
20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951
📙 Ha'penny by Jo Walton
21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover
📙 The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles (tophat)
* The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson (tophat)
22. A book with a Jewish character or author
📙
* Naomi Novik * אקווריום *

23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship
📙 Witchmark by C.L. Polk
24. A book related to inclement weather
📙 The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages
📙 Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm
26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1
📙 Jade City by Fonda Lee

27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2
📙 The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards
📙 The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
29. A book set on or near a body of water
📙 The House of Discarded Dreams by Ekaterina Sedia
30. A book related to mythology
📙 A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

31. A book published at least 10 years ago
📙 The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer
📙 The Likeness by Tana French
33. The next book in a series
📙 The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role
📙 A Deadly Education or The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1
📙 Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (mycology)
36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2
📙 All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name
📙 The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy
38. A book by a Latin American author
*
39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time
📙 The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas

40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards
📙 The Bone Shard Emperor by Andrea Stewart
41. A book with a theme of food or drink
📙 Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
42. A book with a language or nationality in the title
📙 Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
43. A book set in a small town or rural area
📙 Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
44. A book with gothic elements
📙 Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings

45. A book related to a game
📙 Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (memory in title)
46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters
📙 Shadow World by A.C. Crispin
47. A book with handwriting on the cover
📙 Across the Spectrum
48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022
📙 The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune


49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons"
📙 The House of Always by Jenn Lyons
50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years
📙 The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt by Andrea Bobotis
51. A book published in 2022
📙 The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
52. A book with a time-related word in the title
📙 The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

20 Books by Black Women* Challenge
* and nonbinary persons

👩🏽‍🦱 The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
👩🏽‍🦱 Harlem On Lock by Karen P. Williams
👩🏽‍🦱 Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
👩🏽‍🦱 The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
👩🏽‍🦱 Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
👩🏽‍🦱 Popisho by Leone Ross
👩🏽‍🦱 Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
👩🏽‍🦱 Home by Nnedi Okorafor
👩🏽‍🦱 The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
👩🏽‍🦱 The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
👩🏽‍🦱 Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
👩🏽‍🦱 The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk
👩🏽‍🦱 Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm
👩🏽‍🦱 Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
👩🏽‍🦱 Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
👩🏽‍🦱 Unexpected Stories by Octavia E. Butler
👩🏽‍🦱 The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste
👩🏽‍🦱 The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
👩🏽‍🦱 Ayiti by Roxane Gay
👩🏽‍🦱 Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
👩🏽‍🦱 Witchmark by C.L. Polk
👩🏽‍🦱 Stormsong by C.L. Polk
👩🏽‍🦱 Soulstar by C.L. Polk
👩🏽‍🦱 When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
👩🏽‍🦱 Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
👩🏽‍🦱 The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

My Stats:

Books read in 2022:
✅ ATY Prompts:
📚 Library books:
💻 Ebooks:
📖 Print books:
🎧 Audio Books
🛸 Sci-Fi
🦠 Post apocalyptic/dystopian
🧚🏿 Fantasy
🗼 Contemporary fiction
📆 Alt history
🕰️ Historical fiction
🏛️ Classic
✍️ Bio/Memoir
📝 Non-fiction
💀 Horror
🌹 Romance
🔎 Detective
🎤 Poetry
👩🏽‍🦱 POC author
🌈 Queer
👩🏽‍🦽 Disabled
🐞 Under 200 pages
🐘 Over 600 pages
❌ DNFs
🌱 Short stories

Additional symbols:

⚧️ ♂️

5 ⭐️ 4 ⭐️

3 ⭐️ 2 ⭐️

1 ⭐️ Unrated

January - 18/4
February - 9
March -
April -
May -
June -
July -
August -
September -
October -
November -
December -

Reminder list of books I should have finished last year

* The City We Became
* Transcendent Kingdom

January

🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri ⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🧚🏿 🐞 The Dawn Chorus by Samantha Shannon
🎧🗼📚 👩🏽‍🦽אקווריום by Yaara Shehori ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 🌈 ♂️A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 💀 📚 👩🏽‍🦱 Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧🗼📚 An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten ⭐️⭐️
🎧🗼 🌈 Olive Oil and White Bread by Georgia Beers ⭐️⭐️
💻 🧚🏿 The Mask Falling by Samantha Shannon
🎧 ✍️ 👩🏽‍🦱 🌈♂️Unprotected: A Memoir by Billy Porter
🎧 💀 📚🐞The Grownup by Gillian Flynn ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 🐞The Prynne Viper by Bianca Marais ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿👩🏽‍🦱The Heart Forger by Rin Chupeco
🎧🗼👩🏽‍🦱Harlem On Lock by Karen P. Williams ⭐️
🎧🗼🐞 Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas by Jane Smiley
🎧🏛️🐞 A Lost Lady by Willa Cather ⭐️
🎧 🕰️🐞 Wild Swan: A Story of Florence Nightingale by Patti Callahan ⭐️⭐️
🎧🗼🌈Backcast by Ann McMan ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🦠 A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌱 🎧🧚🏿👩🏽‍🦱♂️We Are the Water People by Troy Onyango
🌱 🎧 🗼 👩🏽‍🦱 Nadine by Vimi Bajaj
🌱 🎧 🗼 👩🏽‍🦱 Star Child by Camille Acker
🌱 🎧 🗼 👩🏽‍🦱 ♂️A Love Like This: A Short Story by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim

Favorite January read: A tie between Mexican Gothic and A Children's Bible
Least favorite: Oh, how to choose. Willa Cather is so blatantly racist, it isn't even about the quality of the book. Audible freebies were meh to traumatizing. This month was a shit show with a few points of light.

February

💻 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 🌈 Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📖 📆 🌈 Ha'penny by Jo Walton ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧🗼📚👩🏽‍🦱 🐞The White Book by Han Kang
🎧 🛸 👩🏽‍🦱 Primary Inversion by Catherine Asaro ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 🌈 Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen ⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🧚🏿 💀👩🏽‍🦱 🐞♂️Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🕰️ 📚 🌈 Matrix by Lauren Groff ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🌈 ⚧️ Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🌈 🕰️🧚🏿👩🏽‍🦱 The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Favorite February read: Can't choose. All my 4-star books had something I loved and something that I had trouble with.
Least favorite: Both the White Book and Wake of Vultures were letdowns in their own way.

March

🎧🧚🏿💀👩🏽‍🦱 🌈 ⚧️ Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🕰️ 👩🏽‍🦱 The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 👩🏽‍🦱 🐘 Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang
🎧 🕰️ 📚 👩🏽‍🦱 Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 🐘 Jade City by Fonda Lee ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🗼 👩🏽‍🦱 Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🦠 📚 The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🔎 📚 Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie ⭐️⭐️
💻 🧚🏿 Magical Makeover by Brenda Trim ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧🧚🏿🌈 Crier's War by Nina Varela ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🧚🏿🌈 ⚧️ 🐞 The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📖 🛸 🐞 Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🌈 The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles
🎧 🛸 Amatka by Karin Tidbeck ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 📝 👩🏽‍🦱 🐞 UNeducation, Vol 1: A Residential School Graphic Novel by Jason Eaglespeaker
🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 Popisho by Leone Ross ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 Black Water Sister by Zen Cho ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🕰️ The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt by Andrea Bobotis ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🗼 Charming Deformities by Michelle Tea ⭐️
🎧 🛸 👩🏽‍🦱 Catch the Lightning by Catherine Asaro ⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🌈 A Case of Possession by K.J. Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🌈 Flight of Magpies by K.J. Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 🌈 The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🕰️ 👩🏽‍🦱 Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim ⭐️⭐️

🌱 💻 🌈 The Smuggler and the Warlord by K.J. Charles
🌱 💻 👩🏽‍🦱 The Tiger Came to the Mountains by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Favorite March read: I can't believe I had 5 5-star books this month!!! For different reasons, there are three:
❣️ The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion is the queer anarchist novel I've been waiting for and didn't even know!
❣️ Jade City was just a terrific and refreshing Asian epic fantasy.
❣️ The Unspoken Name was my most enjoyable listen. It made me truly happy.
Least favorite: Hands down, Michelle Tea is on my shit list.

April

🎧 🗼📚 👩🏽‍🦱 Intimacies by Katie Kitamura ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🗼📚 👩🏽‍🦱 The Sentence by Louise Erdrich ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 📚 📝 🐞 Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 🌈 The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 📚 A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🕰️ 📚 🌈 The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 📚 The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🧚🏿 Jade War by Fonda Lee ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 The House of Discarded Dreams by Ekaterina Sedia ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🗼 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🧚🏿 Baby by J.K. Accinni ⭐️
🎧 🗼📚 Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 📚 🐞 Home by Nnedi Okorafor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 📚 The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 📚 👩🏽‍🦱 Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
🎧 🕰️ 🔎 📚 👩🏽‍🦱 The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 🐘 The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🗼Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📖 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 🌈 The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Favorite April read: The Stars Are Legion and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. But then, also Naomi Novik. It was a good month!
Least favorite: Baby 🤮

May

🎧 🗼📚 👩🏽‍🦱 Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 Shadow World by A.C. Crispin ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 📚 👩🏽‍🦱 The Midnight Bargain ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 🐘 Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 📚 🌈 🐞 Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 📚 ⚧️ The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🛸 👩🏽‍🦱 🌈 ⚧️ Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki ⭐️⭐️
🎧 🕰️ 📚 Still Life by Sarah Winman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📖 ✍️ 👩🏽‍🦱 🐞 Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🧚🏿🐞 Hearts of Stone by Emma Newman ⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🔎 The Likeness by Tana French ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🦠 📚 The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

🌱 💻 🧚🏿 The Long View by Susan Palwick
🌱 💻 🛸 👩🏽‍🦱 Hush by Mary Anne Mohanraj


Favorite May read: Still Life is nearly perfect, and was just so beautiful.
Least favorite: Light from Uncommon Stars, wish I could delete it from my memory.

June

🎧 🕰️ 📚🐘 The Rose Code by Kate Quinn ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🕰️ The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 📚 👩🏽‍🦱 Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 🐘 The Name of All Things by Jenn Lyons ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🗼 👩🏽‍🦱 Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 ✍️ 📚 👩🏽‍🦱 We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 The Bone Shard Emperor by Andrea Stewart ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🌱 💻 🛸 👩🏽‍🦱 Synthetic Perennial by Vivianni Glass
🌱 💻 🛸 👩🏽‍🦱 Girl Oil by Grace P. Fong

Favorite June read: I guess The Girl in the Tower, though others were good each in a different way so hard to compare.
Least favorite: Evelyn Hugo.

July

🎧 🧚🏿 📚 🐘 King's Dragon by Kate Elliott ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 📚 👩🏽‍🦱 🐞 Unexpected Stories by Octavia E. Butler ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🗼📚 👩🏽‍🦱 Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 📚 Valor's Choice by Tanya Huff ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 📚 ⚧️ All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📖 🧚🏿 This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 🦠 📚 🌈 Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿📚 Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 📚 The Little Shop of Found Things by Paula Brackston ⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🧚🏿 🐞 mulberry down!! by Nicole Kornher-Stace ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 📚 👩🏽‍🦱 🌈 The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🦠 📚 MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 📚 The Memory of Souls by Jenn Lyons ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🗼📚 Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Narine Abgaryan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🗼📚 👩🏽‍🦱 The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Favorite July read: There isn't one clear favorite, this was a very 3.5 to 4-star month. But I guess This Savage Song and A Memory of Souls will stay with me in the most positive way, and also Firebreaker was a bit of a revelation. So, three of 16.5 (Split Tooth not listed) is as decisive as I'm gonna get.
Least favorite: My only clear 3-star was The Little Shop of Found Things, so this one.

August

🎧 🧚🏿 📚 🐘 The House of Always by Jenn Lyons ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 📚 Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 📚 🌈 The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis ⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🛸 👩🏽‍🦱 Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🕰️🐞 The Half-Life of Marie Curie by Lauren Gunderson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 🌈 Ammonite by Nicola Griffith ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 📚 🌈 🐞 Ayiti by Roxane Gay ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🕰️ 🌈 Think of England by K.J. Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🔎 📚 Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 📚 Medusa Uploaded by Emily Devenport ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🕰️ 🧚🏿 📚 Sistersong by Lucy Holland ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸👩🏽‍🦽📚 The Fallen by Ada Hoffmann ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 📚 👩🏽‍🦱 The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 📚 Arrow's Flight by Mercedes Lackey ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 📚 The Thousand Eyes by A.K. Larkwood ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🦠 📚 Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 📚 🌈 🐞 Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 📚 🌈 ♂️The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🕰️ 📚 👩🏽‍🦱 The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Favorite August read: Another 3-4 star month of a lot of sequels and no clear "blew my mind" books. I guess this month should be dedicated to T. Kingfisher who provided much joy and is a wonderful discovery. I also really liked Hollow Kingdom.
Least favorite: Terra Nullius, by far.

September

🎧 🧚🏿🐘 The Discord of Gods by Jenn Lyons ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🧚🏿👩🏽‍🦱 Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 👩🏽‍🦱 I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories by Bo-Young Kim ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 ✍️ 👩🏽‍🦱 Redefining Realness by Janet Mock ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🕰️ 👩🏽‍🦱 The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿🐘 Prince of Dogs by Kate Elliott ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 🐞 Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 🐞 Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📖 🧚🏿 🐘 Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 Beholder's Eye by Julie E. Czerneda ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 Unnatural Magic by C.M. Waggoner ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 Witchmark by C.L. Polk ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 Stormsong by C.L. Polk ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 Soulstar by C.L. Polk ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 🐞 In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🗼 👩🏽‍🦱 The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Favorite September read: Ugh. Everything is 4 stars. Which isn't a bad thing, but it's like: I can't really focus and nothing is giving me that extra wow factor. Lot's of really good books, so I'll point out Bo-Young Kim for the new factor, and Seanan McGuire and C. L. Polk for keeping me interested.

Least favorite: None. All were good, all had something I could critique.

October

🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 The Shadowglass by Rin Chupeco ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 🐞 ♂️The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 👩🏽‍🦱 🐞 Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes ❌
🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 ♂️Watership Down by Richard Adams ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🗼🌈 Radio Silence by Alice Oseman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🕰️ 🌈 An Unseen Attraction by K.J. Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 🌈 Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🕰️ 🌈 An Unnatural Vice by K.J. Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️
📖 🗼🌈 ⚧️ 👩🏽‍🦱 Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🕰️ 🌈 An Unsuitable Heir by K.J. Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🗼Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 🐞 Rika Mechanized by M.D. Cooper ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 Rika Outcast by M.D. Cooper ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📖 📆 Half a Crown by Jo Walton ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 Swordheart by T. Kingfisher ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️


Favorite October read: I don't usually reread books anymore, but somehow this month I reread TWO: One a classic favorite (Watership Down) and one a new favorite (Gideon the Ninth). Is it fair to count them? Barring those, my next favorite was Swordheart, and I'd definitely count T. Kingfisher as the discovery of the year.

Least favorite: I DNFed Chilling Effect, so that one.

November

🎧 🧚🏿 🌈 Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 🌈 A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🕰️ A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 🌈 The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 🌈 👩🏽‍🦱 The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 A Snake Falls to Earth by A Snake Falls to Earth ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🗼The Door by Magda Szabó ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 🌈 Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️


Favorite November read: Nona!! But it was such a good month, how unfair to the rest of the books.

Least favorite: No such thing.

December

🎧 🧚🏿 🌈 👩🏽‍🦱 Siren Queen by Nghi Vo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 🌈 The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🗼🌈 👩🏽‍🦱 The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🗼 👩🏽‍🦱 The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🕰️ 🌈 A Thief in the Night by K.J. Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Favorite December read:
Golden, Golem, X.

Least favorite
Blue Sword has all the usual issues of 1980s fantasy. Not bad, but I guess this one.