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Thriller, romance, historical & contemporary fiction reviews with a side of book club recommendations!

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🍂📚Sweater Weather📚🍂⁣
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I approached this challenge in a combined way thanks to tags from Vicky @its.a.hardback.life.x and Beth @adaliareads 🥰 Vicky’s tag entailed matching books to sweaters by colour and with reading categories, whereas Beth’s sweater colours just matched her books. I matched my sweaters to book colours and put them into some of Vicky’s categories. ⁣
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Here are my picks:⁣

🧡Orange (surprisingly good read): The Crossing by Manjeet Mann⁣
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💙Blue (fast-paced page turner): The Housemaid by Freida McFadden ⁣
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🩷Pink (sweet fluffy romance): Reckless by Elsie Silver ⁣
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💛Yellow (comfort read): Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata⁣
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I love autumn and cosying up into a warm sweater, but I’m definitely not for the chills!
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Have tagged some of you to give this one a go, however you want to do it🥰🩷📚⭐️🌸⁣
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#thursdayflatlay #sweatersandbooks #matchingbooks #colourfulbooks #flatlay #bookflatlay #bookcovers #bookaholic #bookstagramchallenge #flatlay #bookworm #bookstagrammer #booknerd #booklove

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💫🍂 NOVEMBER Stack 🍂💫

Thank you @momsreadingera and @bookslamour for tagging me! 💖

Quick reading update - I just finished reading Atmosphere today and my heart is still healing. ❤️‍🩹😭 Currently still feeling several emotions at once but my god, that was a beautiful love story. 🥹 I will post my review in a few days when my thoughts are coherent enough. 😅

Anyway, here goes my NOVEMBER stack!

N - None of this is True by Lisa Jewell (5⭐️)
O - One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune (whoops I used this for Oct too, 5⭐️)
V - The Vulnerable by Sigrid Nunez
E - Evenings and Weekends by Oisin Mckenna
M - Mean Moms by Emma Rosenblum
B - Beach Read by Emily Henry
E - Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
R - the Romcommers by Katherine Center

Tagged a couple of friends but no pressure to do the same as usual. ☺️

💭We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving here but what do you guys usually do on that day aside from eating turkey? 🦃 Any tips on what to buy during the Black Friday sales? 👀
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✨ 6 authors, 12 books ✨

I was looking through my tagged posts and realized I haven’t done this yet! Thank you @momsreadingera and @lindasbooklist for tagging me last month 😁

🍂 Emily Henry
✅ Book Lovers - 5⭐️
TBR: People We Meet on Vacation (and Beach Read!)

🍂 Catherine Newman
✅ Sandwich - 4⭐️
TBR: We All Want Impossible Things (and Wreck!)

🍂 Agustina Basterrica
✅ The Unworthy - 3⭐️
TBR: Tender Is the Flesh

🍂 Taylor Jenkins Reid
✅ The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - 5⭐️
TBR: Atmosphere

🍂 Fredrik Backman
✅ My Friends - 5⭐️
TBR: Beartown series

🍂 VE Schwab
✅ Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil - 3.5⭐️
TBR: The Invisible Life of Addie Larue

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I have 2 or more books for some of these authors on my TBR but I chose the books that I want to read first (before the year ends!). 😅

I tagged a few friends but no pressure to do the same! 💖 If you already did the challenge, let me know. 🙈

💭Do you have an auto-buy author/s? What book is at the top of your book wishlist right now? 👀
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#books #booksta #readersgonnaread #reader #booksbooksbooks #bookstagrammer #taylorjenkinsreid #emilyhenry #booksph #bookish

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Pick my next book based on the first sentence! 📖👓

This should be fun!

I’ll show a reveal soon!

#poll #booksta #bookstagram #reading #currentlyreading #tbr #mystery

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🎃HAPPY HALLOWEEN🎃⁣
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I can’t believe it is the last day of the month and another year of Halloween again. I’m not that bothered by it. ⁣
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I was tagged by Georgia @pekoesbooknook to showcase my Halloween stack! Here are my orange books🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻⁣
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𝐐𝐎𝐓𝐃: 𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧? ⁣
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#halloweenstack #happyhalloween #orangestack #orangespines #orangebooks #halloweenbooks #booksofinstagram #booksta #autumnstack #autumnal #paperbacks

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🤍🩷❤️Colour Hearts Challenge🤍🩷❤️⁣
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My lovely booksta bestie Vicky @its.a.hardback.life.x tagged me in this cute one!⁣
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The colours she gave me were white, pink and red. ⁣
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🤍The Boyfriend⁣
🩷The Tenant⁣
❤️The Housemaid’s Secret⁣
🤍Blue Sisters⁣
🩷Reckless⁣
❤️The Trial⁣
🤍Believe Me⁣
🩷Flawless⁣
❤️The Boy at the Back of the Class⁣
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I’ve tagged some of you to take part. I hope you do! Your colours are 💚🤍💙⁣
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𝐐𝐎𝐓𝐃: 𝗪𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲?⁣
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#stackchallenge #colourheartschallenge #tagchallenge #bookstack #pinkbooks #redbooks #whitebooks #bookspines #bookish #bookpost #library #bookshelf #booksofinstagram #reader⁣
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✨Six Before 2026/Six Books Soon✨⁣
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I was tagged by Beth @adaliareads and Becky @bookaholicbecky to do this one! What a coincidence I was tagged by two women whose names both start with B🥰 ⁣
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A couple of these are desired buddy reads without any dates set, but hopefully they’ll be before the end of the year🤞🏻⁣
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I’m looking forward to all of them! It was hard to narrow this down though, as there are so many in my now 17 pile TBR list I want to get to! So many of them recently gifted or bought too! ⁣
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𝗪𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭?⁣
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#flatlay #bookflatlay #sixbookssoon #sixbooksbefore2026 #newbooks #tbrbooks #futurebuddyreads #thrillerbooks #contemporaryfiction #excitedtoread #booksimkeentoread #avidreader #abookaweek #sixbooksinsixweeks #lovebooks #mylittlelibrary #bankofbooks #booklover⁣

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Supporting Sunday

I haven’t done one of these in a while, and with school and sports starting, it’s been a slow reading month.
So here is a shout out to some of the pages I have been loving lately. Go and give some of these great bookstagramars a follow and some love! 🍁

@amreadsall
@bite.sizedbookreviews
@chasingchapters11
@feelingbookishwithmal
@kristenreads79
@lauraslistofbooks
@leslee_reads
@sarcasticstephaniereadswrites
@audiobookjen
@pageswithpalmer

Oh, and I tried to get some fall colors in there as tomorrow is the first day of autumn!

QOD: What’s your favorite thing about the fall season?
We went apple picking yesterday and that’s one of my favorite things to do in September! 🍎 🍏

#booksta #supportingsunday #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #read #bookish #bookishlove #bookishlife #bookishpost #readersgonnaread #readallthebooks #readingissexy #booksaremyhappyplace #booksbooksbooks #bookishfriends

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🐝All Creatures Great and Small Challenge🐠⁣
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Thank you Georgia @lilblogofbooks for tagging me in this cute one.⁣
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I had a couple of books with bees on them, otherwise, they’re all different.⁣
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🐒The Chimp Paradox⁣
🐝Milk and Honey⁣
🐉The Illustrated Man⁣
🦜Songbirds⁣
🐈The Cat and the City⁣
🐝The Beekeeper of Aleppo⁣
🦎Holes⁣
🐠Convenience Store Woman (I know it’s a fish-shaped soy sauce bottle, but I hope it still counts?)⁣
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𝗪𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐥?⁣
I’ve always loved dolphins!🐬⁣
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Have tagged some of you in this one. How can you not?

Have a lovely Sunday🩷🥰✨⁣
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#sundayflatlay #sundaybookpost #bookpost #creaturechallenge #bookchallenge #flatlaychallenge #booksofinstagram #booknerd #bookpost #booklove #books #booksgalore #bookcollection #mybooks #mybookshelf #booktime #booktock #booksforthewin

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🔪Thriller Thursday🔪⁣⁣
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I saw Rachel’s @rachel_loves_to_read #thrillerthursday post and was inspired to do it too.⁣⁣
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Here is a selection of books with woods or water on the cover:⁣⁣
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🪾Famous Last Words⁣⁣
🌊That Night (TBR)⁣⁣
🪾The Hike⁣⁣
🌊One of the Girls⁣⁣
🪾The Crash⁣⁣
🌊Dead of Night⁣⁣
🌊The Catch⁣⁣
🪾The Night She Disappeared⁣⁣
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Have tagged some of you to give this a go!⁣⁣
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#thrillerthursday #thrillerflatlay #thrillerbooks #thrillergenre #bookchallenge #flatlaychallenge #booksofinstagram #booknerd #bookpost #booklove #books #booksgalore #bookcollection #mybooks #mybookshelf

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📚Wonky Wednesday📚⁣⁣
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Happy Hump Day everyone! Hope you’ve all had an amazing day. ⁣⁣
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Thanks @ohmy_shelf for tagging me in this one! My Wonky Wednesday features my TBR books - new and borrowed.⁣⁣
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I’m most excited to read That Night - an upcoming buddy read with Ben @bookstarreviews_ I cannot wait!⁣⁣
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What are you getting up this evening?⁣⁣
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Sending lots of book love🥰🌈📚🌸🌻⁣⁣
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#wonkywednesday #bookchallenge #stackchallenge #taggedchallenge #bookstack #tbrbooks #newbooks #borrowedbooks #bookstoread #lovebooks #bookstagram #booklover #bookaholic #booksofinstagram

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🕵🏼Cluedo Challenge🕵🏼⁣
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I was tagged by @its.a.hardback.life.x to do this creative one. @scilly_geek also tagged me but with “what” instead of “with” so I’ve taken a mix of them both. ⁣⁣

🔍𝗪𝐡𝐨?⁣
-One of the Girls ⁣
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🔍𝗪𝐢𝐭𝐡?⁣
-The Maid⁣
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🔍𝗪𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞?⁣
-The Paper Palace⁣
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🔍𝗪𝐡𝐞𝐧? ⁣
-The Night She Disappeared⁣
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🔍𝗪𝐡𝐲?⁣
-This is Going to Hurt⁣
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Whether you’re tagged or not, would love to see you give this one a go🔍🕵🏼⁣
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Happy Friday!🙌🏻🥰🌈🩷📚⁣
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#flatlay #fridayflatlay #cluedochallenge #whowithwherewhenwhy #bookchallenge #bookstory #bookstagram #bookaholic #booknerd #bookphoto #booklove #bookfridays #bookish #mybooks ⁣
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