2023 Challenge Updates

Here is where you can find an updated view of all of my 2023 reading goals and TBRs!

 

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Goodreads Goal: 206/120 🥳

(last updated: December 31st; goal met: August 5th)


TBR Jar Goal: 4+ per month (2 owned, 2 KU)

  • January ✅
    • Freaky Briefs: 75 Short Absurdities by Jeff Strand → KU → ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
    • Ark by Veronica Roth → KU → ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    • The Dismembered by Jonathan Janz → owned → ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    • In Darkness, Delight: Creatures of the night edited by Andrew Lennon & Evans Light → owned → ⭐⭐
  • February ❌ (2/4 completed)
    • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson → owned → DNF
    • Scream and Scream Again! edited by R.L. Stine → owned → ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  • March ❌ (0/4 completed)
  • April ✅
    • Viral Lives by Felix I.D. Dimaro → KU → ⭐⭐⭐💫
    • The Wehrwolf by Alma Katsu → KU → ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    • Silent Dawn by C.L. Raven → DNF
    • The Raven by Jonathan Janz → ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  • May ✅ (4/4 completed)
    • Hannah-Beast by Jennifer McMahon → KU → ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    • Our Own Unique Affliction by Scott J. Moses → ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
    • The Asylum Confessions by Jack Steen → KU → DNF
    • Don’t Kiss the Bride by Carian Cole → KU → ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
  • June ✅ (4/4 completed)
    • The Sleep Tight Motel by Lisa Unger → KU → ⭐⭐⭐⭐
    • There’s a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your Bed by Edgar Cantero → KU → ⭐⭐
    • Summer Frost by Blake Crouch → KU → ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    • Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby → ⭐⭐⭐
  • July ❌ (2/4 completed)
    • Chained by Matt Shaw → KU → DNF
    • Mr. Goodnight by Kealan Patrick Burke → ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
  • August ❌ (1/4 completed)
    • Party Games by Jon Athan → KU → DNF
  • September ❌ (2/4 completed)
    • We Need to Do Something by Max Booth III → ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
    • Asylum of Shadows by Stephanie Ellis → KU → ⭐⭐⭐💫
  • October ❌ (1/4 completed)
    • Off Season by Jack Ketchum → KU → DNF

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Seasonal TBRs:

 

Winter:

  1. Tell Me I’m Worthless
  2. What Lies in the Woods ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  3. How to Sell a Haunted House ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  4. Do I Have to Wear Black? (set aside for another time)
  5. Nettle & Bone
  6. Annihilation ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Spring:

  1. Paradise-1 ❌ DNF ❌
  2. The Salt Grows Heavy ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  3. Everything the Darkness Eats ⭐⭐
  4. Briardark ⭐⭐⭐💫
  5. Unbreakable
  6. Pretty Girls (set aside for another time)

SUMMER:

  1. Night’s Edge
  2. The Jasad Heir
  3. Maeve Fly ⭐💫
  4. Off Season ❌ DNF ❌
  5. FantasticLand ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  6. The Long Walk ⭐⭐⭐⭐

AUTUMN:

  1. Bloom
  2. In These Hallowed Halls
  3. Horror Library, Vol. 8
  4. Our Last Echoes
  5. Linghun ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  6. A Dowry of Blood ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

2023 TBR:

  1. Breakable Things ❌ DNF ❌
  2. Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  3. Radiance ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  4. How to Sell a Haunted House ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  5. The Shadow of What Was Lost
  6. The Kaiju Preservation Society
  7. Marla ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  8. The Dismembered ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  9. Exquisite Corpse
  10. Pet Sematary ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  11. A House With Good Bones ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  12. Legends & Lattes ⭐⭐⭐💫

2023 Series Completion Goals:

  1. Throne of Glass (8/8 read)
  2. Small Spaces (4/4 read)
  3. The Folk of the Air (4/4 read)
  4. Fallen Empire (1/3 read)
  5. The Aurora Cycle (1/3 read)
  6. Nevernight Chronicle (2/3 read)
  7. Stalking Jack the Ripper (4.5/4.5 read)
  8. Kingdom of the Wicked (3/3 read)
  9. The Lunar Chronicles (4/5 read)
  10. Cassidy Blake (3/3 read)

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