June List

Hello June! I have, as is inevitable, fallen behind on my goals. In all honesty, it was a crazy busy year. Teaching is always a challenge, but some years it feels like we never have a breath. This was one of those years and as a result, a lot of my personal goals had to take a back seat. June is an opportunity to start pulling things back on track. So, this month there is a reset list of 15 fiction and 10 nonfiction titles. I'm also planning to produce a post a day until I'm caught up with the backlog. Some of the books I'm reviewing have been waiting long enough for a post that the review is likely to be a bit weak, but bear with me. 

June List

1. The Most by Jessica Anthony (Library - Newly Added)
2. The Last Windwitch by Jennifer Adam (Library)
3. Boy 2.0 by Tracey Baptiste (Finished 6/28/2025)
4. The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo (Finished 6/12/2025)
5. Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson
6. The Wild Robot Series by Peter Brown
1. The Wild Robot (Finished 6/9/2025)
2. The Wild Robot Escapes (Finished 6/18/2025)
3. The Wild Robot Protects (Finished 6/18/2025)
7. My Life in France by Julia Child (Finished 6/23/2025)
8. Dead Girls Don't Dream by Nino Cipri (Library)
9. The Chinese Cookbook by Craig Claiborne and Virginia Lee (NF)
10. The Expanse Series by James S.A. Corey
1. Leviathan Wakes (Finished 1/9/2025)
2. Caliban's War (Finished 1/25/2025)
3. Abaddon's Gate (Finished 3/31/2025)
4. Cibola Burn (Finished 6/28/2025)
5. Nemesis Games 
6. Babylon's Ashes
7. Tiamat's Wrath
8. Persepolis Rising
9. Leviathan Falls
11. Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford (NF)
12. Stone and Steel by Eboni Dunbar (Finished 6/10/2025)
13. Studio Ghibli Cookbook (Finished 6/21/2025)
14. The Girl From Everywhere Heidi Heilig
15. J.W. Wells & Co. Series by Tom Holt
1. The Portable Door
2. In Your Dreams
3. Earth, Air, Fire and Custard
4. You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But it Helps
5. The Better Mousetrap
6. May Contain Traces of Magic
7. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sausages
8. The Eight Reindeer of the Apocalypse
16. YouSpace Series by Tom Holt (Fantasy)
1. Doughnut (Finished 3/5/2024)
2. When It's A Jar (Finished 7/6/2024)
3. The Outsorcerer's Apprentice (Finished 1/15/2024)
4. The Good, the Bad and the Smug (Finished 1/1/2024)
5. An Orc on the Wild Side (Finished 6/9/2025)
17. Direct Descendant by Tanya Huff (Library - Newly Added)
18. When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller (Finished 6/2/2025)
19. A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher (Library - Newly Added)
20. A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher (Library - Newly Added)
21. Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher (Finished 6/17/2025)
22. Smithsonian American Table by Lisa Kingsley (NF)
23. Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding edited by Jan H.F. Meyer and Ray Land (NF)
24. I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming (Finished 6/24/2025)
25. The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery (NF)
26. You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego (Finished 6/15/2025)
27. Project-Based Writing by Liz Prather (NF)
28. The Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab
29. The Writing Rope by Joan Sedita (NF)
30. All Better Now by Neal Shusterman
31. A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (Finished 6/13/2025)
32. Africa Risen edited by Shree Renee Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight (Library - Newly Added)
33. Strange Pictures by Uketsu (Finished 6/16/2025)
34. John Cleaver Series by Dan Wells
1. I Am Not a Serial Killer (Finished 5/15/2025)
2. Mr. Monster - (Finished 6/3/2025)
3. I Don't Want to Kill You (Finished 6/24/2025)
4. The Devil's Only Friend  (Finished 2/17/20250 )
5. Over Your Dead Body
6. Nothing Left to Lose