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Monthly Wrap-Ups

September Reading Wrap-Up

Michelle

Here are my wrap-up collages for September 2026. I read a ton and leaned into audio a bit also! I am all over the map but read a lot of queer romance, easy nonfiction/history type books (because I’m in my go-back-to-school era), novels in verse, autumnal books and kids’ graphic novels mixed in. I had so much fun reading all of this stuff this past month!

What I Read In September:

📖 Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q. Sutanto
📖 The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers
📱 The Straight Girl’s Guide To Sleeping With Chicks by Jen Sincero
📖 Fishbone Cinderella by Elizabeth Lim
📖 Uncharted by Adriana Anders
📖 Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
📖 Many Stones by Carolyn Coman
📖 How They Croaked by Georgia Bragg
📖 Linguaphile: A Life Of Language Love by Julie Sedivy
📱 What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings by John Lorinc
📖 Run Away With Me by Brian Selznick
🎧 Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
🎧 The Love Haters by Katherine Center
📖 Bad Guys & Gals of the Wild West by Dona Herweck Rice
📖 How They Choked by Georgia Bragg
📖 A First Time For Everything by Dan Santat
📖 Tales From Beyond the Rainbow: Ten LGBTQ+ Fairytales Proudly Reclaimed by Pete Jordi Wood
🎧 When We Were Monsters by Jennifer Niven
📖 Chasing Brooklyn by Lisa Schroeder
📖 Entirely Emmie by Terri Libenson
📖 Forbidden Words: Taboo& the Censoring of Language by Keith Allan
🎧 Get Over It, April Evans by Ashley Herring Blake
📖 Moving Words About A Flower by K.C. Hayes
📖 Falling Like Leaves by Misty Wilson
📖 Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
📖 The Day Before by Lisa Schroeder
📖 Road Home by Rex Ogle
📖 Absent by Rex Ogle
🎧 Something To Talk About by Meryl Wilsner
📖 Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc



Monthly Wrap-Ups

June, July & August Reading Wrap-Ups

Michelle

I’m a bit late to the party, but better late than never, right? Here are my wrap-up collages for June, July and August 2026. I can’t believe we’re more than half-way through September! I’ve been having a great reading month. But…here’s the summer!

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Monthly Wrap-Up: October 2025

Michelle

I read 14 books in October. I’m looking forward to another great reading month in November!

My favorite books read in October were Cackle by Rachel Harrison, Inheritance by Nora Roberts and Every Step She Takes by Alison Cochrun.

Books Read In October:
📖 Cackle by Rachel Harrison
📖 Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
📖 George’s Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl
📖 The Witches by Roald Dahl
🎧 Bad Dolls by Rachel Harrison
📖/🎧 Inheritance by Nora Roberts
📖 Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison
📖 How To Survive A Horror Story by Mallory Arnold
📖 Re-Coupling by Harriet Shenkman
📖 Every Step She Takes by Alison Cochrun
📖 Play Nice by Rachel Harrison
📖 Forget Me Not by Stacy Willingham
📖 Say A Little Prayer by Jenna Voris
📖 This Foreign Affair by Harper Bliss

What did you read in October? Which was your favorite?

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Monthly Wrap-Up: September 2025

Michelle

I read 7 books in September. I’m looking forward to a spooky reading month in October! 🧙🎃👻

My favorite books read in September were The Unraveling of Julia by Lisa Scottoline and What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown.

Books Read In September:
📖 Feel Better, No Matter What by Michael James
📖 We’ll Prescribe You A Cat by Syou Ishida
📖 Burn After Reading by Catherine Ryan Howard
📖 What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown
📖 She Didn’t See It Coming by Shari LaPena
📖 You Belong Here by Megan Miranda
📖 The Unraveling of Julia by Lisa Scottoline

What did you read in September? Which was your favorite?

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Monthly Wrap-Up: August 2025

Michelle

I read 9 books in August. I’m looking forward to another great reading month in September!

My favorite book read in August was All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert (out 9/9/25).

What did you read in August? Which was your favorite?

These are all the books I read in August:

📖 Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
📖 The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware
📱All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert
📖 Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
📖 Too Old For This by Samantha Downing
📖 Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson
📖 This Is Who I Am by Harper Bliss
📱 The Sublet by Greer Hendricks
📱 The Housemaid’s Wedding by Freida McFadden

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Monthly Wrap-Up: July 2025

Michelle

I read 10 books in July. I’m looking forward to another great reading month in August.

My favorite books read in July were: Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko, When We Go Missing by April Henry and The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff.

These are all the books I read in July:

📖 Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko
📖 When We Go Missing by April Henry
📖 25 Alive by James Patterson
📖 With A Vengeance by Riley Sager
📖 The Murder Game by Carrie Doyle
📖 The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk
📖 Show Me Where the Hurt Is by Hayden Casey
📖 The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff
📖 Easy Crafts For the Insane: A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness & Making Things by Kelly Williams Brown
📖 Don’t Open Your Eyes by Liv Constantine

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Monthly Wrap-Up: June 2025

Michelle

I read 8 books in June. I’m looking forward to another great reading month in July!

My favorite books read in June were: Act Cool by Tobly McSmith and What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo.

These are all the books I read in June:

📖 Beneath the Surface by Harper Bliss
📖 Everything Between Us by Harper Bliss
🎧 Act Cool by Tobly McSmith
📖 Infinity Net by Yayoi Kusama
📖/🎧 The Revenge List by Hannah Mary McKinnon
📖 Love Letter To A Garden by Debbie Millman
📖/🎧 Amelia, If Only by Becky Albertalli
📖/🎧 What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo




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Monthly Wrap-Up: May 2025

Michelle

I read 19 books in May. I’m looking forward to another great reading month in June, and especially focusing on LGBTQ+ books for Pride Month! 😍📚🏳️‍🌈

The best book I read in May, hands down, was Everything We Thought Was True by Lisa Montanaro. This book was incredible!! I urge you to read it! Honorable mentions for May were: The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose and Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry.

These are all the books I read in May. As always, you can click on the linked ones to see my thoughts on the ones I reviewed.

📖 Gay Haiku by Joel Derfner
📖 Flower, Moon, Snow: A Book of Haiku by Kazue Mizumura
📖 Yayoi Kusama: All About My Love by Akira Shibutami &. Yayoi Kusama
📖 Everything We Thought Was True by Lisa Montanaro
📖 The Crying Book by Heather Christle
📖 Yayoi Kusama by Frances Morris
📖 Biographic Monet by Richard Wiles
📖 I Can’t Even Think Straight by Dean Atta
📖 Shopgirls by Jessica Anya Blau
📖 The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose
📖 Haikus for New York City: Seventeen Syllables for Nine Million People? This’ll Never Work. by Peter C. Goldmark, Jr.
📖 The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers
📖 Parents Weekend by Alex Finlay
📖 Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
📖 No Strings Attached by Harper Bliss
📱 This Could Be Forever by Ebony LaDelle
📖 Songs of Gaia: Devotional Poems to Nourish the Heart by Julie Tara
📖 Poems of Sappho by Sappho/John Maxwell Edmonds
📖 Earth & Spirit: Gaia by Irisanya Moon


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Monthly Wrap-Up: April 2025

Michelle

I read 16 books in April. I’m looking forward to another great reading month in May!

My favorite books read in April were: I Might Be In Trouble by Daniel Aleman, Claire, Darling by Callie Kazumi and How Georgia Became O’Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living by Karen Karbo.

These are all the books I read in April. As always, you can click on the linked ones to see my thoughts on the ones I reviewed for Netgalley.

📖 Kate & Frida: A Novel of Friendship, Food & Books by Kim Fay
📖 The Twenty-Something Treatment: A Revolutionary Remedy for An Uncertain Age by Dr. Meg Jay
📖 Claire, Darling by Callie Kazumi
📖 The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood
📖 I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang
📖 I Might Be In Trouble by Daniel Aleman
📖 The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker
📖 Huda F. Wants To Know? by Huda Fahmy
📖 The Friendship Club by Robyn Carr
📖/🎧 Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon
📱 Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa
📖 How Georgia Became O’Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living by Karen Karbo
📖 Let Us Dream: The Path To A Better Future by Pope Francis
📖 Georgia O’Keeffe: Works On Paper by Barbara Haskell
📖 The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum by Harry N. Abrams
📖 Georgia O’Keeffe: Art & Letters by Sarah Greenough




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Monthly Wrap-Up: March 2025

Michelle

I read 14 books in March. I’m looking forward to more great reading in April!

My favorite books read in March are: The Love We Found by Jill Santopolo, Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory, Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez and The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark.

These are all the books I read in March. As always, you can click on the linked ones to see my thoughts on the ones I reviewed for Netgalley.

📱 Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave by Elle Cosimano
📖 DBT For Dummies by Gillian Galen
📱 And They Had A Great Fall by Shelby Saville
📱 The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark
📱 The Love We Found by Jill Santopolo


📖 Atomic Habits by James Clear
📖 The Crash by Freida McFadden
📱 If Tomorrow Never Comes by Allison Ashley
📱 Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
📖 Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister
📱 The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner
📱Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory
📖 Love & Saffron by Kim Fay
📖 Get Me Out Of Here by Rachel Reiland