Realistically, the Book of the Month has got to be Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario, but if you wanted something that wasn’t insanely, unbearably depressing we could go with S.A. Maclean’s The Phoenix Keeper instead.

I would not have guessed that I read this much in September, to be honest.

Book of the Month is Josh Malerman’s Incidents Around the House, with J.S. Dewes’ The Last Watch a close second.

This is not a joke. I did nothing, nothing but read in July. It was glorious.

Book of the Month is Mornings in Jenin, with This is Why They Hate Us, How to Say Babylon and Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography as real close runners-up.

I told you it was a big month.

Book of the Month is Godsgrave, by Jay Kristoff. But … damn, this was a good month.

Book of the Month is going to be Salman Rushdie’s Knife.

On one hand, this picture is slightly misleading, because I’m only about 50 pages into The Will of the Many and it’s a doorstop. On the other hand, I also read Laura Samotin’s The Sins on Their Bones and it’s not in the picture because it’s an ebook. So we’ll call it even.

Book of the Month is me having a stroke because I have no idea what the Book of the Month should be. This was a great set of books.

Book of the Month is Pierce Brown’s Dark Age, although I could probably just say “The second Red Rising trilogy” and be done with it. Also, this is clearly an entire shelf of books all by itself and how the hell are there still so many unread books.

This doesn’t look like much, by my standards, but I started a Sarah J. Maas book on January 31st that ate up the first week of February and I’m only about 70 pages from the end of The Sea Watch, so if a couple of things had shifted around the pile would look a lot bigger.

Book of the Month is a three-way tie between Against the Loveless World, Light from Uncommon Stars and Morning Star, because it’s my blog and I can do that.