A Mid-Year Reading Update

Anyone who follows my blog knows I read a lot. The past 2 years, I’ve done an end-of-year recap on my reading, but this year, I’m adding a mid-year post too.

Things that happened since my 2022 reading recap post:

I joined the team at Escapist Book Co as a book reviewer! Now, all of my scifi, fantasy, and horror reviews are also posted there.

I’ve read…more than 30 books.

I’m doing a couple challenges this year for fun.

• An A-Z challenge (same as last year)
• A scifi/fantasy specific challenge focused on an array of themes/topics

The Reading Challenges

Here are the score cards for each challenge. The goal is to fill up both cards completely, but a book can only be used once per card.

And here is my progress in 2023 so far!

(If you have any suggestions for the missing ones, feel free to comment or send me an email. I’m open to recommendations!)

The full list of titles I’ve read so far include (broken down by genre):

Contemporary Fiction:

Waiting for Saturday by Catherine Morrison

Horror:

A Song for the Void by Andrew C. Piazza

Banished by Lou Yardley

Pretty/Ugly by Jennifer Anne Gordon

Fantasy:

Autopsy of a Fairytale by Nicole R. Scarano

Baking Bad by Kim M. Watts

Bared Magic by Sara R. Cleveland

Fear and Fury by Jamie Jackson

Light My Pyre by Kat Kinney

Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

Of Shade and Shadow by Niamh and Rebecca Schmid

Platinum Tinted Darkness by Timothy Wolff

Sordaneon by L.L. Stephens

Talia: Heir to the Fairy Realm by Joel C. Flanagan-Grannemann

The Game of War by Glen Dahlgren

The Kheld King by L.L. Stephens

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

The Second Stone by L.L. Stephens

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Transcendence of Marcianna by Isabelle Markus

Non-fiction:

H.H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil by Adam Selzer

Paranormal Fiction:

Ladybirds by R. Raeta

Science Fiction:

Bloodlines by Peter Hartog

Cynosura 99 by Sam Weiss

Derelict by Mark All

Echoes of Another Earth by J. Daniel Layfield

Rim City Blues by Elliott Scott

Stargun Messenger by Darby Harn

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

The Last Gifts of the Universe by Rory August

The Mortality Experiment by Halo Scot

Upgrade by Blake Crouch

When We Come Back by D.H. Schleicher

I still plan to do a full year recap in December, and will list some of my favorites then.