686/700 💙📚🖋️📚 🎧📖: Colored Television by Danzy Senna (2nd read) Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: Interesting discussion on whose stories get told and making a living as a creative

685/700 💙📚 📖: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Fuck capitalism

684/700 💙📚🪐📚 📖: The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig Genre: Fantasy Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: I DNFed this earlier this year, but was encouraged to pick it back up because of the deconstruction theme.

683/700 💙📚🪐📚 📖: Girl One by Sara Flannery Murphy Genre: Science Fiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75/5 Thoughts: I really enjoyed the concept

682/700 💙📚💡📚 📖: The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask Genre: Nonfiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: what a seemingly mundane thing that reveals so much

681/700 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Landslide by Susan Conley Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: The effects of climate change on the fishing industry was an interesting basis for this literary family drama

680/700 💙📚🪐📚 📖: The Devils by Joe Abercrombie Genre: Fantasy Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: Fun journey and loved the strong women.

679/700 💙📚⚡️📚 📖: The Last Flight by Julie Clark Genre: Thriller Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: The premise was more interesting than the twists

Evidence I do more than read (though sometimes I’m listening and reading).

November Storygraph reading wrapup. #booksky

678/700 💙📚💡📚 🎧📖: Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li Genre: Memoir Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: This book is beautiful, but a difficult read

677/700 💙📚 📖: One Piece, vol 1-3 by Eiichiro Oda Genre: Manga Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: The look on my weeb husband’s face when he saw what I was reading was worth it 😂

676/700 💙📚🌶️ 🎧📖: Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes Genre: Romance Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75/5 Thoughts: Is this the second romance book I’ve read AND enjoyed in a week? 😱

675/700 💙📚⚡️📚 📖: Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter (2nd read) Genre: Thriller Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Feels too long

674/700 💙📚🪐📚 📖: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz Genre: Science Fiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: Super fun!

673/700 💙📚🩸📚 📖: What Stalks the Deep by T Kingfisher Genre: Horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: I think this might be my favorite so far in the series

672/700 💙📚 📖: Shiner by Amy Jo Burns Genre: contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: I appreciated learning more about Appalachia and a different experience with high control religion

671/700 💙📚 📖: Paper Girls, vol 1 by Brian Vaughan Genre: Comic Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: I’m glad I stepped outside my comfort zone, but I will not be continuing

670/700 💙📚🩸📚 📖: Spread Me by Sarah Gailey Genre: Horror, Weird Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: I loved the weirdness

669/700 💙📚 📖: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill Genre: Mystery Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: I’m glad I finally got around to this one!

668/700 💙📚 🎧📖: The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (2nd read) Genre: YA Mystery Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Still enjoying my reread of this series

667/700 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Deep Breath by Rita Halasz Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: I think this is the first book I’ve read translated from Hungarian, and I’m glad it was. A literary look at a woman processing through a low point in her life

666/700 💙📚🪐📚 📖: Magica Riot: Full Bloom by Kara Buchanan Genre: Fantasy Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: I love spending more time with these magical girls and the expanded universe #booksky

665/700 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Heart the Lover by Lily King Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Lily does nostalgia for your youth and the relationships you had then so well

664/700 💙📚🪐📚 📖: Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse Genre: Dystopian, Fantasy Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: I’m glad I finally tried this author!

I have picked out my top 2025 reads by category. Book gods, go ahead and make me have to completely redo these lists by sending more delightful reads my way. #booksky

663/700 💙📚 📖: Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (3rd read) Genre: Speculative, Dystopian, Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Still one of my favorite literary dystopian books

662/700 💙📚💡📚 📖: Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming Genre: Nonfiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Books like this are important to show how easily it is to be in a cult

661/700 💙📚🪐📚 📖: Katabasis by RF Kuang (2nd read) Genre: Fantasy, Dark Academia Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: I’m glad I read it on paper first

660/700 💙📚 📖: Permanence by Sophie Mackintosh Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Sophie’s writing is gorgeous and sucks you in to world you learn little about. Through a “city of impermanence” our couple having an affair explores what everyday life would be like if they could live openly 1/2

659/700 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Murder Bimbo by Rebecca Novack Genre: Weird Girl Lit Fic Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Feminist rage, an unhinged woman, & story told in layers: this has everything I love. Took me deceptively long to read because I didn’t want it to end. Thank you Avid Reader press for the review copy

658/700 💙📚🪐📚 📖: Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders Genre: Fantasy Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: I wanted to like this more #booksky

657/700 💙📚🪐📚 📖: Cry, Voidbringer by Elaine Ho (2nd read) Genre: Fantasy Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: The audiobook takes this story I already enjoyed to the next level #booksky

656/700 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: What a Time to Be Alive and Jade Chang Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: This wasn’t a great choice to read when I had a fever #booksky

655/700 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Dominion by Addie E. Citchens Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: This was a quiet but powerful damnation of misogyny in Christianity #booksky

654/700 💙📚 🎧📖: The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (2nd read) Genre: YA Mystery Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Such a fun reread

653/700 💙📚⚡️📚 📖: The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark Genre: Thriller Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: I had higher hopes for this one. I needed it either go deeper into the characters or be more twisty #booksky

652/700 💙📚⚡️📚 📖: The Plans I Have for You by Lai Sanders Genre: Thriller Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: The beginning is messy. I struggled to track even what was happening on the surface. But by the end with the reveals, I got it. Fans of unhinged women will love this. Thank you Simon for the ARC.

651/700 💙📚 🎧📖: Love is a War Song by Danica Nava Genre: Romance Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: I enjoyed a romance (and a heterosexual one at that)? Oh boy, I need to expand my horizons

650/700 💙📚🩸📚 🌈📚 📖: Herculine by Grace Byron Genre: Horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: I love when trans people get to be as messy as us cis people.

649/700 💙📚⚡️📚 🎧📖: Who is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews (3rd read) Genre: Thriller Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: I just love the twist in this one…and messy authors

648/700 💙📚🖋️📚 🧡🦄📚🌈📚 🎧📖: To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage (2nd read) Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Still the better book about sapphic astronauts that came out this year

647/700 💙📚💡📚 🎧📖: Told You So by Mayci Neeley Genre: Memoir Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: I learned a lot I didn’t know, but I have a feeling that she would have written this differently (with more analysis) if she did so later in life.

646/700 💙📚🩸📚 📖: Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Keifer Genre: Horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75/5 Thoughts: interesting premise. Fast paced.

645/700 💙📚💡📚 📖: Yurugu by Marimba Ani Genre: Nonfiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Meaty and necessary

644/700 💙📚🩸📚 🎧📖: The Between by Tananarive Due (2nd read) Genre: Horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: ridiculously good for a debut

643/700 💙📚💡📚 🎧📖: Waste Wars by Alexander Clapp Genre: Nonfiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: The real trash is capitalism

642/700 💙📚⚡️📚 📖: Her One Regret by Donna Freitas Genre: Thriller Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: Centering on the taboo of motherhood regret was refreshing. However, it seemed odd that racism/xenophobia never came up given the fact our missing woman was Chilean born.

641/700 💙📚🖋️📚🧡🦄📚🌈📚 📖: Thirst Trap by Grainne O’Hare Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: I think I’d have enjoyed it more if we stuck with 1 friend’s perspective and dug deeper #booksky

640/700 💙📚🩸📚🧡🦄📚🌈📚 📖: Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake Genre: Feminist Horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: This was a little too much tell rather than show, but I appreciated the themes explored #booksky