I actually only had one five-star read in August, which was Tana French’s The Keeper, Book of the Month by default, although Daggermouth has grown in my estimation since I read it.
Tag: monthly reads
Monthly Reads: July 2026
Book of the Month is … damn. There is no Antimemetics Division? Sublimation? Challenger? The Empire of the Vampire series as a whole? Angel Down? Seriously, throw a dart. July was ridiculous.
Monthly Reads: June 2026
Two things about June’s books:
- Book of the Month is She Knows All the Names, by Michelle Jabès Corpora, with Radiant Dark and The Lion Women of Tehran in close runners-up; and
- One book is not a book I read in June! I read a Secret Project of comparable length to that book by the same author. I’m not sure the author even wants confirmation that the Secret Project exists, so you’re just going to have to either wonder or do research to figure out which one.
Monthly Reads: May 2026
What I’m learning, looking at this, is that I should have written more book reviews this month. Because Canticle, We Burned So Bright and Sailing to Sarantium could all be Book of the Month and I only reviewed one of them.
Monthly Reads: April 2026
If this looks super light, well, that’s because by my standards it obviously is, but also I started Tom’s Crossing on the last day of March and it was twelve hundred freaking pages long.
Book of the Month is Cursed Daughters, with The Door on the Sea and The Reanimator’s Fate very close behind. I’m enjoying For Whom The Belle Tolls way, way, way more than I thought I would, but I’m not done with it yet so it isn’t eligible.
Monthly Reads: March 2026
Book of the Month is the most excellent The Black Hunger, by Nicholas Pullen. This was kind of a bleh month overall, but Slewfoot and Trad Wife were pretty good too.
Monthly Reads: February 2026
Book of the Month is Shen Tao’s The Poet Empress. The John Lewis and Malcolm X books were really solid as well.
Monthly Reads: December 2025
Honestly, this wasn’t a great month, with more DNFs than usual. We’re going to call Shadows upon Time the Book of the Month, and The Blackfire Blade, The Scour, and His Majesty’s Dragon were standouts among the rest.