October TBR
My PhD starts on Monday but I also upped my Goodreads and Storygraph challenges to 200 books, so I still have to find a way to read 11 books a month from now until the end of the year. I guess it's probably a good thing that I've been asked to take sick leave from work to manage my stress and anxiety. You know what helps manage stress and anxiety? Escaping into fictional worlds! Cheesy romances where everyone ends up happy!
Anyway, it's October, it's officially autumn, so I've folded some spooky and witchy reads in with the rest of my usual fare of romance, cozy historical mysteries for some light escapism, historical fiction, pretentiously introspective novels, and Booker-longlisted books this month. I've also decided to pick up a nonfiction on murder in Ancient Rome because I am nothing if not relentlessly on-brand.
Because I have such a sky-high stack of books on my nightstand I've also separated it into two different piles for your reading convenience. Let no one say I am not a generous, benevolent blog dictator. As usual I have highlighted the ones I think I might want to review, so you can ask me for more details on those if I don't.
Proper TBR:
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, by Rhys Bowen
Well Matched, by Jen Deluca
Something Fatal Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome, by Emma Southon
A Passage North, by Anuk Arudpragasam
Au service secret de Marie-Antoinette: Le Coiffeur frise toujours deux fois, by Frédéric Lenormand
The Wolf Den, by Elodie Harper
Intimacies, by Katie Kitamura
Bewilderment, by Richard Powers
The Ex Hex, by Erin Starling
Practical Magic, by Alice Hoffman
A Discovery of Witches, by Deborah Harkness
How to Kill Your Family, by Bella Mackie
A Quiet Life in the Country, by T.E. Kinsey
The Turnout, by Megan Abbott
Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Brexit Romance, by Clémentine Beauvais
Rollovers:
Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr
Light Perpetual, by Francis Spufford
War: How Conflict Shaped Us, by Margaret MacMillan
Bunny, by Mona Awad
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, by Balli Kaur Jaswal
She Would Be King, by Wayetú Moore
The Madwoman Upstairs, by Catherine Lowell
The Mistress of Rome, by Kate Quinn
The Interestings, by Meg Wolitzer
The Midnight Bargain, by C.L. Polk
The Butchers, by Ruth Gilligan
Le train d'Erlinghen, by Boualem Sansal
Le suspendu de Conarky: Les énigmes d'Aurel le Consul, by Jean-Christophe Rufin
Le Cœur cousu, by Carole Martinez
There you have it, folks - all 30 books I want to read and probably will not in the month of October. As ever, hit me up with any questions or book suggestions!
Happy reading,
Amélie xx
