October List

Ok, so remember when I said August was busy and stressful and September just about had to be better?  Turns out that was deeply and ironically wrong. Strangely I read tremendously more which just shows that reading is not actually impeded by my stress. Who knew. 

Anyway, let's cross our fingers for October. October's always been my favorite month anyway. The list has gotten quite large. On the one hand, I'm pretty excited about every one of these books. On the other, I'm probably not going to make much of a dent. Does that really matter? No idea. I might look at doing a complete shake up on the list for November though. 

My urgency list is a bit deep at the moment. Part of this is that we've been going to the library with Thomas so those books are on a clock, but it also includes my TBR.co books and books that have been lent to me. My students have started lending me books again which is both cool and kind of time sensitive. I might add to the urgency books to cover library visits or more lent books. The system needs to be flexible after all.

October List:

1. Shadow and Bone Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo (Series YA)
1. Siege and Storm (YA)
2. Ruin and Rising (YA)
2. The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (YA)
3. The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (YA)
4. The Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls by James Bird (YA)
5. How to Cook Everything Fast by Mark Bittman (NF)
6. The Bone Witch Series by Rin Chupeco
1. The Heart Forger
2. The Shadowglass
7. Abaddon's Gate by James S. A. Corey 
8. Circuit of Heaven by Dennis Danvers (Ryan Pick)
9. The Rope Maker by Peter Dickinson (YA)
10. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (YA)
11. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Duymas (Classic)
12. How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge by K. Eason (Book 2)
13. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
14. The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke (YA)
15. The Devil & Sherlock Holmes by David Grann (NF)
16. The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman (YA)
17. The Fireman by Joe Hill
18. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
19. Doctor Dolittle Vol 1 by Hugh Lofting
1. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
2. The Story of Doctor Dolittle
3. Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
20. The Casket of Time by Andri Snaer Magnason (YA)
21. The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
1. Dragonflight (Finished 10/23/2022)
2. Dragonquest (Finished 10/25/2022)
3. The White Dragon
22. Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire (YA)
23. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
24. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (YA?)
25. Dragonwatch by Brandon Mull (YA)
26. The Borrowers by Mary Norton (series YA)
1. The Borrowers
2. The Borrowers Afield
3. The Borrowers Afloat
4. The Borrowers Aloft
5. The Borrowers Avenged
27. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (YA)
28. The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
29. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez (YA) 
30. Vicious by V.E. Schwab 
31. The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti  (YA)
32. What Goes Around by Courtney Summers (Series YA)
1. Cracked Up to Be
2. Some Girls Are
33. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
34. Phantom Dream by Natsuki Takaya (Series YA)
1. Vol 4
2. Vol 5
35. Tsubasa by Natsuki Takaya Vol 3(Series YA)
36. Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci (NF)
37. The Science of Murder: The Forensics of Agatha Christie by Carla Valentine (NF)
38. The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson (YA)
39. Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventure's Guide by Cecily Wong and Dylan Thuras (NF)
40. Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon (YA)

The Urgent List:

1. The Carnival of Ash by Tom Beckerlegge (Library)
2. Kill All Happies by Rachel Cohn (YA, Library)
3. Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke (Finished 10/8/2022)
4. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (borrowed from Dad)
5. The Chef's Secret by Crystal King (TBR)
6. Monstrous Devices by Damien Love (borrowed from a student)
7. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna (TBR)
8. Ranger in Time in Kate Messner (Finished 10/10/2022)
9. From the Rooftops by Grant D Muller (Couldn't finish - not really appropriate for High School)
10. Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri (YA, Library)
11. Kingdom of Ink & Paper by Matthew Newman (Didn't finish - fine for school but not very well written)
12. Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (YA, Library)
13. The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade (old TBR)
14. No Gods, No Monster by Cadwell Turnbull (Finished 10/5/2022)
15. The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White (reread for fantasy Lit)