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.