This was a weird reading month for me. I read several books I liked, but nothing that I can say I loved. I also had a few books that just didn’t work for me. The biggest goal this month was I tried to get through as many of my BOTM and Aardvark backlog for my 2026 Reading Challenge as I could. I managed to check seven of the remaining ten off my list. Three to go!

Here’s how everything stacked up.

Loved It:

• Nothing hit this section this month

Really Liked It:

• Carry Me to My Grave by Christopher Golden

• Destination Funeral by Paige Harbison

• Lady X by Molly Fader

• Lonesome Dove by Larry MacMurtry

• Make Nice by Ryan Effgen

• Pretty Dead Things by Kelsey Cox

• Ready or Not by Cara Bastone

• Swamp Story by Dave Barry

• The Great Wherever by Shannon Sanders

Liked It:

• Lovers XXX by Allie Rowbottom

• Once & Future Me by Melissa Pace

• The Circus Train by Amita Parikh

• The Summer We Ran by Audrey Ingram

• Who Wants to Live Forever? by Hanna Thomas Uose

It Was OK:

• Summer’s Never Over by Darby Bozeman

• The Bombshell by Darrow Farr

Not For Me:

• Tenderness by Beaird

• Heart of Glass by Jennifer Hillier

I’m going to go full-on mood reader this month. Aside from the five books I posted here, I haven’t planned anything else this month. Just gonna fly by the seat of my pants and let my mood drive me. We’ll see how that goes.