Heat wave and new job and books, oh my. It’s been a long and mostly uneventful month.

Reading Challenges Check-In

Goodreads Reading Challenge

• Read this month: 31
• Current total: 163 / 200

Beat the Backlist Bingo

• Read this month: 3
• Current total: 51 / 52

Popsugar Reading Challenge

• Read this month: 4
• Current total: 45 / 50

Books and Tea Reading Challenge

• Read this month: 3
• Total: 12 / 12 🎉

Cross-Country Reading Challenge

• Read this month: 6
• Current total: 6 / 51

State of the ARC

State of the ARC is a monthly meme created by Evelina @ Avalinah’s Books.

Acquired – 3

The Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker	Netgalley	TBR
War of Swallowed Stars by Sangu Mandanna	Netgalley	Read
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao	Netgalley	TBR

Read – 1

War of Swallowed Stars by Sangu Mandanna

★★★★✯

DNF – 2

I Am Margaret Moore by Hannah Capin	[ review ]
The Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker	[ review ]

Currently Reading

• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Remaining ARCs

• Cazadora by Romina Garber

Read This Month

Clicking on the titles below will take you to my review, either on Goodreads or the blog.
[ARC] indicates an advance review copy; [RC] indicates a post-release review copy.

5 Star Reads

• Mister Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater

4.5 Star Reads

• Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
• The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
• A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna [reread]
• A House of Rage and Sorrow by Sangu Mandanna [reread]
• A War of Swallowed Stars by Sangu Mandanna [ARC]
• Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore
• Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater [reread]

4 Star Reads

• Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff
• Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
• You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour & David Levithan

★

Monthly Total:

31 read + 16 DNF
3.45 average rating

Currently Reading

• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

• 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?