Another month, another set of books read and DNF’d … but never enough, never, never. 🎶
Books and Tea July Readathon
✓ Read a book featuring the French Revolution – Enchantée by Gita Trelease
✓ Read your latest book you’ve bought/borrowed – A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green
✓ Read that book you’ve been putting off – Uprooted by Naomi Novik
✓ Read a previous BnT readalong book – Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
✓ Finish a book – Sorry I Missed You by Suzy Krause
Reading Challenges Check-In
Beat the Backlist
- Read this month: 28 books
- Total so far: 179 / 200 (89.5%)
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#StartOnYourShelfathon
- Read this month: 14 Read + 1 DNF
- Current total: 115 Read + 22 DNF
- Remaining owned-TBR: 78
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Year of the Asian 2020
- Read this month: 6
- Current total: 43 / 51
- Current badge: Asian elephant
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Books and Tea Reading Challenge – COMPLETED
- Read this month: 2
- Total: 12 / 12
State of the ARC
State of the ARC is a monthly meme created by Evelina @ Avalinah’s Books.

Acquired
- You Have a Match by Emma Lord | Publisher via Netgalley | TBR
- The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk | Publisher via Edelweiss | TBR
Read
DNF
- How to Break an Evil Curse by Laura Morrison | [review]
Read This Month
Clicking on the titles below will take you to the book’s Goodreads page.
[ARC] indicates an advance review copy; [RC] indicates a post-release review copy.
5 Star Reads
- Faithful Place by Tana French
4.5 Star Reads
- Nesting Beasts by Naiche Lizzette Parker
- The Likeness by Tana French
- The Trespasser by Tana French
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle
- Stranger Planet by Nathan W. Pyle
4 Star Reads
- Book Love by Debbie Tung
- The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco [reread]
- The Heart Forger by Rin Chupeco [reread]
- The Shadow Glass by Rin Chupeco
- When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele
- A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green
- The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll [reread]
- Camp Half-Blood Confidential by Rick Riordan
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Monthly Total:
33 read + 9 DNF
3.50 average rating
Currently Reading
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing by Allison Winn Scotch
- War Storm by Victoria Aveyard [series buddy read]

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- What are the best/worst books you read this month?
- Which books, if any, are you hoping/planning to read next month?
- Did you participate in any reading challenges and/or readathons this month? Are you signed up for any next month?