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.
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Unread Shelf: August 31, 2026
About the same as last month, and I’m going to take a serious beating in September, because there are a ton of new releases this month that are already pre-ordered. I need an extra three or four hours a day if I want to keep up.
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.
Unread Shelf: July 31, 2026
Y’all! Look! Progress! Actual progress!
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.
Unread Shelf: June 30, 2026
This represents genuine progress from last month, believe it or not. Everything I bought in January has been read! February I bought a whole damn lot of books.
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.
Unread Shelf: May 31, 2026
Yeah, yeah, yeah, shelves, whatever. The good news is I’ve cleared out everything I bought in 2025! Let’s pretend that’s an achievement.