What did you read in October?

[litskispeciality]

Ratings/reviews/recommendations etc. Also if you're doing a reading challenge or reaching a goal how's that going?

[litskispeciality]

Good reading month for me:

Finished:
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne 4*'s
My Lovely Wife by Samantha Dowling 4*'s

Read about 50% of Last Summer by Kerry Lonsdale, so far so good, but it's a Kindle Free book so take it for what it's worth.

I'm finally at 18/24, have some catch up to do, but 2 books in progress and hope to start a 3rd tonight to catch back up.

[Vespasia]

Full Length Books:
The Address by Fiona Davis
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
On a Cold Dark Sea by Elizabeth Blackwell
My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

These were all pretty good but I definitely enjoyed the Hendrix books the most. Lots of fun and perfect for Halloween season. 


I also read the Forward Collection (Individual Short Stories):
Ark - Veronica Roth
Emergency Skin - N.K. Jemisin
Randomize - Andy Weir
Summer Frost - Blake Crouch (this was my favorite of the collection)
The Last Conversation - Paul Tremblay
You Have Arrived At Your Destination - Amor Towles



According to Goodreads I am 3 books ahead for my goal of 50 books. 

[meowmaps]

Force of Nature by Jane Harper 4*
Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin 5*
The Lost City of Z by David Grann 3*
The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger 4*
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 5*
The Huntress by Kate Quinn 2*
When You Read This by Mary Adkins 4*
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout 4*
Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo 5*

I'd recommend Ayesha at Last, The Gifted School, Olive Kitteridge, When You Read This, and Stay with Me.

I'm at 64/60. My newish goal is 75 but I'm not putting any pressure on myself.

[travella]

5*
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (4.5*)

4*
The Witches by Road Dahl (read this with my daughter, her rating)

3*
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
The Fact of A Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Before She was Found by Heather Gudenkauf

2*
The River by Peter Heller. This book was too detailed at times, but I was really enjoying the book until the ending. It was a huge disappointment.

52/45

[mie]

Love, Hate, and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed 3*
Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins 3*
Frankly in Love by David Yoon 4*
Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory 3*
Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren 3* (probably the worst Christina Lauren I've read)
Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern 2*
Beauy and the Mustache by Penny Reid 4*

[Gato]

I read:

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman - best read of the month
The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
Reader Come Home by Maryann Wolf

I am now at 51/50 books for the year. Woohoo! I’ve never completed my challenge so early.

[tacokick]

I read a lot in October! Not sure how or why!


I’m at 185 for the year (including two books in November already) I don’t have a goal but I am a bit behind last year.

In the Shadow of Power by Viveca Sten ****

The Arrangement by Robyn Harding **

Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory **

Indian-ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family by Priya Krishna ****

How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together by Dan Kois **

One Night Gone by Tara Laskowski ***

Said Through Glass by Jona Colson ***

March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women by Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley ***

Come and Find Me by Hallie Ephron ****

Stumptown Vol. 1 by Greg Rucka ***

My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education by Jennine Capó Crucet *****

Last Couple Standing by Matthew Norman **

Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha ***

Catch and Kill : Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow ****

Inside Out by Demi Moore ****

Little Voices by Vanessa Lillie negative 1 billion

Made from Scratch by Sandra Lee ***

The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth ****

Call Me Evie by JP Pomare ***

Permanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi ****

Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, And Me by Adrienne Brodeur ***

Me by Elton John ****

The Beautiful Ones by Prince ***

Stumptown Vol. 3: The Case of the King of Clubs by Greg Rucka ***

Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was A Girl by Jeannie Vanasco ***

[mrspez07]

Audio Books:
Dearie: The remarkable life of Julia child ****
(I listened to this off and on since July, long but interesting)
The Keeper of Lost Things ****

Physical Books:
The Huntress *****
Behold the Dreamers ***
Walk: Master Machine Quilting with your walking foot ****
Shakespeare’s Landlord ***
Elizabeth is Missing ***

[rainbowchip]

Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick 4*
Finale by Stephanie Garber 3*
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer 3*
Beneath the Surface by John Hargrove 5*
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo 3*
Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey 3*
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? By Mindy Kaling 2*
I'm Just a Person by Tig Notaro 4*
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish 2*
Yes Please by Amy Poehler 4*
The Witch Elm by Tana French 2.5*

In at 56/52 for the year. My discovery of listening to non-fiction/memoirs/ biographies while working has really bumped up my reading numbers!

[wesleycrusher]

I've been kinda MIA over here- my co-worker quit and it's easier for me to post from the desktop computer at work. But as of last week (3 months later!) they have hired her replacement so I will no longer be doing 2 jobs at once and can take breaks again. Yay!

I read a lot of really good books this month and learned about a few new subjects (x-post from ML). As of today 11/5 I am 191 for the year.

-Birds of the Photo Ark by Joel Sartore and Noah Strycker
-Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World by Noah Strycker
-The Birds of Pandemonium by Michele Raffin
-Wolf-Speaker & Lioness Rampant & The Woman Who Rides Like a Man by Tamora Pierce (all audio)
-Because of Miss Bridgerton (Rokesbys, #1) by Julia Quinn
-Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (audio)
-After the Flood by Kassandra Montag (Cli-fi)
-Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2) by Rainbow Rowell (good, but not nearly as good as the first)
-What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics by Rachael Denhollander (5 stars)
-Hero & Fight or Flight by Samantha Young
-The Witch Elm by Tana French
-The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
-I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai (audio)
-Let Her Fly: A Father's Journey by Ziauddin Yousafzai
-The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner
-Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
-Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections by Sheena Macrae
-Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel L. Everett
-Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright (boring)

[ufcasey]

I'm at 118 books for the year, so I should hit my goal of 125 by the end of the year.

Archangel's War (Guild Hunter, #12) by Nalini Singh - 2 stars
Dark Arts and a Daiquiri (The Guild Codex: Spellbound, #2) by Annette Marie - 3 stars
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood - 3 stars

Three Mages and a Margarita (The Guild Codex: Spellbound, #1) by Annette Marie - 3.5 stars

If You Only Knew by Kristan Higgins - 3.5 stars

Bringing Down the Duke (A League of Extraordinary Women, #1) by Evie Dunmore - 4 stars
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett - 4 stars
Know My Name by Chanel Miller - 4 stars

[travella]

Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane 3.5*
Girls Like Us by Cristina Alger 3*
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty 1.5*

It was a pretty disappointing month of reading. I didn't care for any of the books. I'm at 55/45 for my reading goal for the year.