Month in Review: November 2019

It’s hard to believe that we are heading into the last month of the year! I don’t know about you, but I have read so many amazing books this year and I already have some exciting books that I am looking forward to for next year…but there is still one month left and I am hoping to still get in a few more good reads to round out this year!

 
Reading Stats: 

• Read this month: 16
• Year to date: 199
  

Books Read: 

1. The Family Upstairs — Lisa Jewell
2. Woman on the Edge — Samantha M. Bailey
3. November Road — Lou Berney
4. The Other Windsor Girl — Georgie Blalock
5. Broken Souls — Patricia Gibney (e-book)
6. Saint X — Alexis Schaitkin
7. The Liar’s House — Carla Kovach (e-book)
8. Deadly Secrets –Robert Bryndza (audio book)
9. Regretting You — Colleen Hoover (e-book)
10. Cross My Heart — James Patterson
11. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark — Michelle McNamara (print/audio book)
12. Dark Tribute — Iris Johansen
13. Nine Elms — Robert Bryndza
14. Hope to Die — James Patterson
15. The Giver of Stars — Jojo Moyes (print/audio book)
16. Thin Ice — Paige Shelton

  
Favorite Books of November:  

• Woman on the Edge by Samantha M. Bailey
• Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin

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 November: 178
• Books read in November (that count): 3
• Books bought/received as gift in November: 3
• Books cleaned off shelf/donated: 0
• Total unread books on shelf at end of November: 178

 YTD Stats: 

• Total # unread books on shelf at beginning of January: 186
• Total Books read from shelves (that count): 31
• Total Books bought/received as gift: 42
• Total Books cleaned off shelf/donated: 19
• Total unread books on shelf at end of November: 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
• Book read: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (did not finish yet)
• December’s challenge: a thriller with “Murder” “Kill” “Killing” or “Death” in the title 
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