Kendra's 2020 ATY

[Kendra]

My Stats:

Books read in 2020: 229/200
ATY Prompts: 107/104
♻️Rereads: 64
📚Library books: 158
📝Non-fiction: 61
🖍️Graphic Novels: 21
💻Ebooks: 103
🧺Books cleared from my book basket: 7
DNFs - 5
5⭐️ - 77
4⭐️ - 93
3⭐️ - 55
2⭐️ - 3
1⭐️ - 0
⭐️ (Unrated) - 1

January - 18 books
February - 14 books
March - 20 books
April - 14 books
May - 17 books
June - 18 books
July - 21 books
August - 19 books
September - 24 books
October - 19 books
November - 22 books
December - 23 books

[Kendra]

My ATY Challenge Round 1: 52/52

1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
Red Glove by Holly Black
2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia
4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
5. The first book in a series that you have not started
The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson
6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
Network Effect by Martha Wells
7. A book set in the southern hemisphere
Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus by David Quammen
8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
9. A book that can be read in a day
Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
10. A book that is between 400-600 pages
One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
432 pages.
11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard
Published in 2017.
12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
Deadly Class, Volume 3: The Snake Pit by Rick Remender
13. A book by an author who writes under more than one name
Imaginary Numbers by Seanan McGuire
a.k.a. Mira Grant
14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J.K. Rowling
15. A book set in a global city
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter
17. A book with a neurodiverse character
Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum by Michael McCreary
18. A book by an author you've only read once before
The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez
19. A fantasy book
The Queen's Bargain by Anne Bishop
20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
20th book I read in July.
21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720
Firefly: The Magnificent Nine by James Lovegrove
22. A book with the major theme of survival
Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
24. A book with an emotion in the title
Twenty-one Truths About Love by Matthew Dicks
25. A book related to the arts
Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda & Jeremy McCarter
26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards
The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez
27. A history or historical fiction
Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts by Kathryn Harkup
28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh
New Zealand
29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
Book Love by Debbie Tung
30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
31. A book inspired by a leading news story
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come by Richard Preston
32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World by Laura Spinney
33. A book about a non-traditional family
Firefly: Big Damn Hero by James Lovegrove
34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name
The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa
Rom-Com.
35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
Black Heart by Holly Black
36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Picked it on a whim.
37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1
Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby
YOU
38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2
Me by Elton John
Me
39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce
Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire
40. A book with a place name in the title
How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts by Ruth Goodman
41. A mystery
Alone in the Wild by Kelley Armstrong
42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Won a Hugo award.
43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
Goldenhand by Garth Nix
Death.
44. A book related to witches
Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs
45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
White Cat by Holly Black
46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright
Vaccines.
47. A classic book you've always meant to read
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
48. A book published in 2020
Well Played by Jen DeLuca
49. A book with a main character's name in the title
Victoria & Albert: A Royal Love Affair by Daisy Goodwin
50. A book with a silhouette on the cover
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title
Chaos Reigning by Jessie Mihalik
52. A book related to time
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon

[Kendra]

My ATY Challenge Round 2: 52/52

1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
Wolf's Curse by Kelley Armstrong
2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
Third Grave Dead Ahead by Darynda Jones
4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies by Dawn Raffel
5. The first book in a series that you have not started
The Old Guard, Book One: Opening Fire by Greg Rucka
6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
Almost Just Friends by Jill Shalvis
7. A book set in the southern hemisphere
Pocket Apocalypse by Seanan McGuire
8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine
9. A book that can be read in a day
Wolf's Bane by Kelley Armstrong
10. A book that is between 400-600 pages
Up and Down by Terry Fallis
414 pages.
11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul
Published in 2017.
12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
Emerald Blaze by Ilona Andrews
13. A book by an author who writes under more than one name
A Killing Frost by Seanan McGuire
14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers
Fantastic Beasts - The Crimes of Grindelwald: The Original Screenplay by J.K. Rowling
15. A book set in a global city
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
17. A book with a neurodiverse character
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
18. A book by an author you've only read once before
The Lemon Sisters by Jill Shalvis
19. A fantasy book
Sweep with Me by Ilona Andrews
20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]
The Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty
21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720
The Archive of the Forgotten by A.J. Hackwith
22. A book with the major theme of survival
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann
23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
A Nation Worth Ranting About by Rick Mercer
24. A book with an emotion in the title
Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
25. A book related to the arts
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara
26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
27. A history or historical fiction
The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
Take Us To Your Chief And Other Stories by Drew Hayden Taylor
29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
31. A book inspired by a leading news story
The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are by Libby Copeland
32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
33. A book about a non-traditional family
The Summer Deal by Jill Shalvis
34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name
How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—and What It Says About You by Katherine D. Kinzler
Non-fiction.
35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli & Aisha Saeed
36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1
Nobody's Child: Poverty, Justice, and the Insanity Defense in America by Susan Nordin Vinocour
38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2
An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce
If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane
40. A book with a place name in the title
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
41. A mystery
The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas
42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Won a Hugo Award
43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet by Darynda Jones
44. A book related to witches
Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World by Fredrik Backman
46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
The Sound of Music Story: How A Beguiling Young Novice, A Handsome Austrian Captain, and Ten Singing von Trapp Children Inspired the Most Beloved Film of All Time by Tom Santopietro
47. A classic book you've always meant to read
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
48. A book published in 2020
Beach Read by Emily Henry
49. A book with a main character's name in the title
Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life by Lucy Worsley
50. A book with a silhouette on the cover
To Have and to Hoax by Martha Waters
51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title
Laughing All the Way to the Mosque by Zarqa Nawaz
52. A book related to time
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

[Kendra]

January


Total: 18

♻️Rereads: 2
📝Non-Fiction: 4
📚Library books: 12
💻Ebooks: 7
DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
Sweep with Me

Runners up:
Goldenhand
An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good
Come Tumbling Down

My least favourite book of the month:
Tea, Coffee Chocolate: How We Fell in Love with Caffeine

Ratings:
📚💻Immortal Craving - ⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Silent Blade - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Silver Shark - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🧺📝Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️Night and Silence - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Cold Dish - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️The Unkindest Tide - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️Deadly Class, Volume 2: Kids of the Black Hole - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Slave to Sensation - ⭐⭐⭐
📚📝How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts - ⭐⭐⭐
🧺Goldenhand - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Sweep with Me - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚White Cat - ⭐⭐⭐
📚📝Tea, Coffee Chocolate: How We Fell in Love with Caffeine - ⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Come Tumbling Down - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Kendra]

February


Total: 14

♻️Rereads: 5
📝Non-Fiction: 4
📚Library books: 8
💻Ebooks: 0
DNFs: 2


Best (new) book of the month:
The Night Circus

Runner up:
Firefly: Big Damn Hero

My least favourite book of the month:
Red Glove

Ratings:
📚🖍️Deadly Class, Volume 3: The Snake Pit - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️The Book of Life - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🧺The Night Circus - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚Firefly: Big Damn Hero - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Discount Armageddon - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝Movies - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Midnight Blue-Light Special - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️Deadly Class, Volume 4: Die for Me - ⭐⭐⭐
📚📝Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️Half-Off Ragnarok - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Pocket Apocalypse - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚Red Glove - ⭐⭐⭐
📚📝The Life and Times of Call the Midwife: The Official Companion to Season One and Two - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation - ⭐⭐⭐

[Kendra]

March


Total: 20

♻️Rereads: 6
📝Non-Fiction: 8
📚Library books: 13
💻Ebooks: 5
DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
The Queen's Bargain

Runners up:
Smoke Bitten
Twenty-one Truths About Love

My least favourite book of the month:
Here Comes a Chopper to Chop Off Your Head: The Dark Side of Childhood Rhymes and Stories

Ratings:
📚📝Here Comes a Chopper to Chop Off Your Head: The Dark Side of Childhood Rhymes and Stories - ⭐⭐⭐
📚📝Victoria & Albert: A Royal Love Affair - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Chaos Choreography - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Magic for Nothing - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Tricks for Free - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️That Ain’t Witchcraft - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️Deadly Class, Volume 5: Carousel - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
Imaginary Numbers - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝🖍️Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻The Queen's Bargain - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Smoke Bitten - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts - ⭐⭐⭐
📚Black Heart
📚📝💻Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Red-Headed Stepchild - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚The Ocean at the End of the Lane - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Twenty-one Truths About Love - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📝Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Kendra]

April


Total: 14

♻️Rereads: 2
📝Non-Fiction: 6
📚Library books: 12
💻Ebooks: 12
DNFs: 1


Best (new) book of the month:
Book Love

Runners up:
Me: Elton John Official Autobiography
The Huntress

My least favourite book of the month:
Wow, No Thank You.

Ratings:
📚💻Jane Eyre - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻🖍️Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson: Moon Called Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻🖍️Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson: Moon Called Vol. 2 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life - ⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻Wow, No Thank You. - ⭐⭐
📚📝💻The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻The Friend Zone - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Alone in the Wild - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻Me - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻The Huntress - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻🖍️Book Love - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️The Mage in Black - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Green-Eyed Demon - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them - ⭐⭐⭐

[Kendra]

May


Total: 17

♻️Rereads: 5
📝Non-Fiction: 4
📚Library books: 13
💻Ebooks: 13
DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
Exit Strategy

Runners up:
All Systems Red
Artificial Condition
Rogue Protocol
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

My least favourite book of the month:
Nobody's Child: Poverty, Justice, and the Insanity Defense in America

Ratings:
📚💻All Systems Red - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Bellweather Rhapsody - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Silver-Tongued Devil - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Artificial Condition - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻The Happy Ever After Playlist - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻Nobody's Child: Poverty, Justice, and the Insanity Defense in America - ⭐⭐
📚💻Rogue Protocol - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️Blue-Blooded Vamp - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Exit Strategy - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻The Worst Best Man - ⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📝Scams, Scandals, and Skulduggery: a Selection of the World's Most Outrageous Frauds - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💻Silent Blade - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Kendra]

June


Total: 18

♻️Rereads: 3
📝Non-Fiction: 6
📚Library books: 13
💻Ebooks: 10
DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

Runners up:
Network Effect
Recipe for Persuasion
Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors
Chaos Reigning

My least favourite book of the month:
A Left-Handed History of the World

Ratings:
📚💻Leah on the Offbeat - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Chaos Reigning - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Recipe for Persuasion - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚Firefly: The Magnificent Nine - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World - ⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Network Effect - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Attachments - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️The Silver Linings Playbook - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📝A Left-Handed History of the World - ⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝🖍️Herding Cats - ⭐⭐⭐
🧺The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line - ⭐⭐⭐
📚💻The Jane Austen Society - ⭐⭐⭐
📚📝🖍️Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Persuasion - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Kendra]

July


Total: 21

♻️Rereads: 9
📝Non-Fiction: 2
📚Library books: 11
💻Ebooks: 10
DNFs: 1


Best (new) books of the month:
Wolf's Bane & Wolf's Curse

Runners up:
Middlegame
Take Us To Your Chief And Other Stories
One to Watch

My least favourite book of the month:
Son of a Trickster

Ratings:
📚💻Take Us To Your Chief And Other Stories - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🧺Fantastic Beasts - The Crimes of Grindelwald: The Original Screenplay - ⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Love, Creekwood - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚Up and Down - ⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Cilka's Journey - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Middlegame - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Wolf's Bane - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Wolf's Curse - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Otherland Volume Three: Mountain of Black Glass
♻️The Cruel Prince - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Son of a Trickster - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️The Wicked King - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️The Queen of Nothing - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️The Darkest Part of the Forest - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Tithe - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Valiant - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻One to Watch - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Ironside - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality - ⭐
♻️Spinning Silver - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Kendra]

August


Total: 19

♻️Rereads: 9
📝Non-Fiction: 7
📚Library books: 8
💻Ebooks: 7
DNFs: 1


Best (new) book of the month:
The Empire of Gold

Runner up:
Beach Read

My least favourite book of the month:
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World

Ratings:
📚📝💻Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️The Blue Castle - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻🖍️Happily Ever After & Everything In Between - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️On the Edge - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝🖍️They Called Us Enemy - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️Bayou Moon - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻The Empire of Gold - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Fate's Edge - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️Steel's Edge - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Beach Read - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻The Summer Deal - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—and What It Says About You - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🧺📝A Nation Worth Ranting About - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Burn for Me - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻🖍️Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️White Hot - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Wildfire - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Kendra]

September


Total: 24

♻️Rereads: 6
📝Non-Fiction: 7
📚Library books: 21
💻Ebooks: 11
DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
Anxious People

Runners up:
The House in the Cerulean Sea
To Have and to Hoax
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
Emerald Blaze

My least favourite book of the month:
The Grammarians

Ratings:
♻️Diamond Fire - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Sapphire Flames - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Emerald Blaze - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚Third Grave Dead Ahead - ⭐⭐⭐
📚💻To Have and to Hoax - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝The Sound of Music Story: How A Beguiling Young Novice, A Handsome Austrian Captain, and Ten Singing von Trapp Children Inspired the Most Beloved Film of All Time - ⭐⭐⭐
📚📝One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter - ⭐⭐⭐
📚The Grammarians - ⭐⭐
📚🖍️Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Vol. 1: The Crucible - ⭐⭐⭐
📚💻The House in the Cerulean Sea - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝Things My Son Needs to Know about the World - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💻Clean Sweep - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies - ⭐⭐⭐
📚Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💻Sweep in Peace - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚The Lemon Sisters - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Anxious People - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💻One Fell Sweep - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Well Played - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💻Sweep of the Blade - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Neverwhere - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved - ⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻In Cold Blood - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Kendra]

October


Total: 19

♻️Rereads: 5
📝Non-Fiction: 4
📚Library books: 14
💻Ebooks: 10
DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
Hamilton: The Revolution

Runners up:
The Archive of the Forgotten
Almost Just Friends
If I Never Met You
Midnight Sun
A Killing Frost
Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon: Game of Thrones and the Official Untold Story of the Epic Series

My least favourite book of the month:
The Unofficial Guide to Game of Thrones

Ratings:
📚Lost and Found Sisters - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻A Killing Frost - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚The Good Luck Sister - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝Hamilton: The Revolution - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻🖍️The Old Guard, Book One: Opening Fire - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚💻Sweep with Me - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon: Game of Thrones and the Official Untold Story of the Epic Series - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻The Archive of the Forgotten - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Midnight Sun - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🧺American Gods - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️Twilight - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️New Moon - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚Almost Just Friends - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻The Unofficial Guide to Game of Thrones - ⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Yes No Maybe So - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Eclipse - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻If I Never Met You - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Kendra]

November


Total: 22

♻️Rereads: 7
📝Non-Fiction: 8
📚Library books: 15
💻Ebooks: 9
DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
Haunted Nights

Runners up:
The Starless Sea
In Flanders Fields: And Other Poems of the First World War

My least favourite books of the month:
Fifth Grave Past the Light
Sixth Grave on the Edge

Ratings:
📚📝💻When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️Breaking Dawn - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚📝🖍️The Far Side Gallery - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻The Starless Sea - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝Laughing All the Way to the Mosque - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚Fifth Grave Past the Light - ⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Haunted Nights - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚Rainy Day Friends - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🧺📝In Flanders Fields: And Other Poems of the First World War - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻The Upside of Unrequited - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻The Story of English in 100 Words - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️📝🖍️Book Love - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚Sixth Grave on the Edge - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️Moon Called - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are - ⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Hot Winter Nights - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️Blood Bound - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚Binti - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Bone Crossed - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Second Chance Summer - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️The Silver Chair - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century - ⭐⭐⭐

[Kendra]

December


Total: 23

♻️Rereads: 7
📝Non-Fiction: 6
📚Library books: 18
💻Ebooks: 8
DNFs: 0

Best (new) book of the month:
Fangs

Runner up:
Grave War

My least favourite book of the month:
Calling on Quinn

Ratings:
📚Home - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻About That Kiss - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️Silver Borne - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️Fangs - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻World's Dumbest Criminals, The - ⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Calling on Quinn - ⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Mistletoe in Paradise - ⭐⭐⭐
📚💻One Snowy Night - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📝💻The Marriage Bureau: True Stories of 1940s London Match-Makers - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️River Marked - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚📝🖍️The Far Side Gallery 3 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚💻The Trouble with Mistletoe - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚Seventh Grave and No Body - ⭐⭐⭐
📚📝Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚Eighth Grave After Dark - ⭐⭐⭐
📚💻Playing for Keeps - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚🖍️Deadly Class, Volume 6: This is Not the End - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚📝🖍️The Far Side Gallery 2 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Frost Burned - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚The Dirt on Ninth Grave - ⭐⭐⭐
Grave War - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️Shifting Shadows - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️📚📝🖍️The Far Side Gallery 5 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐