Month in Review: October 2019

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Posting this a slight bit early as I’m off to Bouchercon this morning…and I am so excited!!! It was another great month of reading. I don’t know about you, but this year has been filled with amazing reads 🙂

 
Reading Stats: 

• Read this month: 21
• Year to date: 183
  

Books Read: 

1. 29 Seconds — T.M. Logan
2. The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs — Katherine Howe
3. What Happens in Paradise — Elin Hilderbrand (audio book)
4. One Night Gone — Tara Laskowski
5. The Patient — Steena Holmes (audio book)
6. The Chestnut Man — Soren Sveistrup
7. Ribbons of Scarlet — Kate Quinn
8. Christmas Shopaholic –Sophie Kinsella (e-book)
9. Before We Were Yours — Lisa Wingate
10. Beautiful on the Outside — Adam Rippon (print/audio book)
11. The Poison Garden — A.J. Banner (audio book)
12. Strangers at the Gate — Catriona McPherson
13. If I Could Only Tell You — Hannah Beckerman
14. The Sleepover — Carol Wyer (e-book)
15. Double Blind — Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen
16. A Cosmology of Monsters — Shaun Hamill
17. It Takes One — Kate Kessler
18. The Rabbit Hunter — Lars Kepler
19. Vendetta — Iris Johansen
20. Cilka’s Journey – Heather Morris (print/audio book)
21. The Vanishing Season — Joanna Schaffhausen (e-book)

  
Favorite Books of October:  

• The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup
• A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill
• The Rabbit Hunter by Lars Kepler

Challenges:

I am participating in 2 challenges/projects this year and I will be keeping be giving updates in these posts.

#UnReadShelfProject2019:

*These
numbers only refer to books that have been sitting on my shelf for a
while or that I have recently purchased. It does not include any review
books.

• Total # unread books on shelf at beginning of October: 180
• Books read in October (that count): 2
• Books bought/received as gift in October: 0
• Books cleaned off shelf/donated: 0
• Total unread books on shelf at end of October: 178

 YTD Stats: 

• Total # unread books on shelf at beginning of January: 186
• Total Books read from shelves (that count): 28
• Total Books bought/received as gift: 39
• Total Books cleaned off shelf/donated: 19
• Total unread books on shelf at end of October: 178

 

#ThrillerThursdayChallenge:

• January’s challenge: a thriller from a debut author
•  Book read: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• February’s challenge: a thriller with a one word title
• Book read: Unwanted by Kristina Ohlsson
• March’s challenge: a thriller with the word “Woman” in the title
• Book read: The Woman in the Dark by Vanessa Savage
• April’s challenge: a thriller written in a language other than English
• Book read: The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson (Icelandic)
• May’s challenge: a historical thriller
• Book read: The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry 
• June’s challenge: a thriller that’s been made into a movie
• Book read: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• July’s challenge: a new-release thriller/released in 2019
• Book read: The Chain by Adrian McKinty
• August’s challenge: a thriller with the word “Girl” in the title
• Book read: The Birthday Girl by Melissa de la Cruz
• September’s challenge: a thriller published before the year you were born
• Book read: The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
• October’s challenge: a thriller from a series that’s new to you
• Book read: It Takes One by Kate Kessler (series: Audrey Hart, book 1)
  
• November’s challenge: a thriller with more than 10k reviews on Goodreads
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• December’s challenge: a thriller with “Murder” “Kill” “Killing” or “Death” in the title