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📚Ten Before the End📚

At the beginning of the year, I made a post for 26 books for 2026, and I’ve read all but Babel! So Babel is now on this 10 before the end list. 🤭

I am planning to read more than 10 books by the end of the year, but here are the 10 books I am most determined to read.

Thanks @chrissysnextchapter and @jessies.integral.reads for the tag! I tagged a few friends but like always, no pressure.

❓What’s one book you are determined to read before the year ends?

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📚Scavenger Hunt📚

Thank you for tagging me the @thebookgoblin13
for this super fun scavenger hunt!

Here are my choices 📚

A book that…

💖I bought because it is pretty
The Midnight House
🌟🌟🌟🌟
Historical Fiction

🌟I wasn’t sure if I’d like it but I did
By Myself
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Autobiography

🏫has an academic setting and/or teacher and/or student character
My Dark Vanessa
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Literary

🤩has a unique feature (signed, special edition etc)
The Boleyn Traitor (TBR)

8️⃣has an eight letter or eight word title
I Bet You’d Look Good In A Coffin
🌟🌟🌟🌟
Thriller

🙏 I want to read soon
The Last Love Letter (TBR)

You’ll find full reviews for most of these in my Insta grid🥰 The rest will be posted soon!

Tagging some friends to join in the fun but everyone feel free to join in if you wish to do so!
If anyone seeing this wants to be tagged on future challenges let me know😃😃

#books #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booksbooksbooks

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If Liz Tomforde writes it, we will read it. The three of us may agree that the Windy City series is the best sports romance series of all time, but we clearly have different favorite books and characters. Apparently agreeing on every aspect of this series was too much to ask 😂

On the plus side, we never need to fight over our Windy City book boyfriends!

Swipe to see our preferences and let us know in the comments who you agree with more! 🤩

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P. S. - all the amazing character art by:
@fjordwind
@brunagarretart
@itswibell_art
@chesreadsromance
@margana_mgn

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💚One Color, Three Books Tag💚

This shade of green/blue is so hard to replicate, but we are just going to believe they’re all the same color 😂.

Thanks for the tag @chrissysnextchapter. This was a fun and simple post to put together for a Thursday.

😍The Last Letter is one of my favorite RY books. Read if you want to ugly cry and have a book consume your thoughts for days. It’s a military romance with a brother’s best friend trope and a single mom and her two kids.

👍Comeback is the third book in a sports romance series but you can read it as a standalone. It’s a sweet romance between a football player and a dancer. The MMC is partly deaf, so there’s ASL representation.

📚Bonfire & Bliss Bookstore is on my TBR for this month! I am very excited for this one because it’s a new-to-me-author and I’ve heard great things. It follows a romance bookstore owner and a struggling writer. There’s fake dating, reunited childhood best friends, and cozy fall vibes.

🏷️If you’re tagged, your turn! No pressure, but this is a fun future “Three for Thursday” post (or really any day of the week lol)

#bookstacks #romancebooks #romancereader #bookish #bookcommunity

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Thank you @virginia.l.evans for writing such an amazing book! Highly recommend!

@crownpublishing
@wearthedamnboots
@pockets.of.reading
@oprahpodcast
@never.enough.novels

#bookrecommendations #bookrecs #books #aging #inspiration

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🎨My Pantone Birth Chart Book Recs🎨

Once upon a time ya girl was really into horoscopes and astrology. I still am to some degree so when I saw this challenge floating around I knew I wanted to play along!

Thanks to @reaganjane.reads for the tag and @hayleydrewwho.reads for the initial inspiration!

Do we share any signs?? Let me know below!! Tagging a few friends to play along and if you’re seeing this and want to play along consider yourself tagged!!

#pantonebirthchart #birthchartrecs #bookchallenge #bookrecs #booksbooksbooks

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🦑🪻Squids & Lavender Challenge🪻🦑

Thank you for tagging me @littleleaf_books
for this super cute challenge created by @bookstarreviews_ & @mynextreads

#benandsusanscrazystacks #squidsandlavender

Here are my choices 📚

🪻The Legacy of Halesham Hall (TBR)

🦑The Silent Patient
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Thriller

🪻Powerless
🌟🌟🌟🌟
Contemporary Romance

🦑The Housemaid’s Secret
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Thriller

🪻Fly Away (TBR)

🦑You Love Me
🌟🌟🌟🌟
Thriller

🪻Saving The Day (TBR)

🪻Mrs Dalloway (TBR)

🦑Elizabeth of York
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Historical Fiction

🪻Daydream (TBR)

🦑Our Evenings
🌟🌟🌟🌟.5
Literary

You’ll find full reviews for most of these in my Insta grid🥰 The rest will be posted soon!

Tagging some friends to join in the fun but everyone feel free to join in if you wish to do so!
If anyone seeing this wants to be tagged on future challenges let me know😃😃

#books #bookstagram #bookstagrammer

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🌛 ℳℴℴ𝓃 𝒫𝒽𝒶𝓈ℯ𝓈 ℬℴℴ𝓀 𝒯𝒶ℊ 🌜

Thank you so much to the lovely @julias_books_and_bites for tagging me in this fun challenge! I always love these, they’re so fun to go on a little scavenger hunt for books!

🌑 𝒹𝒶𝓇𝓀 𝓂ℴℴ𝓃: a dark or emotional read
Innamorata by @avasreid
This book had me feeling so many things, but especially just feeling emotional and sad for Agnes and Liuprand. This is such a good book, but definitely check the tws.

🌘 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝒾𝓃ℊ 𝒸𝓇ℯ𝓈𝒸ℯ𝓃𝓉: a book I didn’t expect to love
Quicksilver by @calliehartauthor
I was still kind of new to Romantasy when I read this and I didn’t really know what I was expecting but I had so much fun and now they’re some of my favorites!

🌕 𝒻𝓊𝓁𝓁 𝓂ℴℴ𝓃: an all time favorite
The Knight and the Moth by @rmgillig
When I finished this last year I knew it was an all time favorite. The writing, world building and prose is all so beautiful and I love the characters so much. Can’t wait for Knave!!

🌓 𝒻𝒾𝓇𝓈𝓉 𝓆𝓊𝒶𝓇𝓉ℯ𝓇: a book that changed me
Blood Over Bright Haven by @mlwangbooksnews
This book challenged me, and had me thinking about so many things. These characters go through so much and they tackle a lot of complicated themes throughout. Especially how societal progress is often built on privilege of one group with putting another down.

🌚 𝓃ℯ𝓌 𝓂ℴℴ𝓃: a new book on my tbr
The Wicked Sea by @jordanstephaniegray
I’m so excited about this one!! It’s beautiful, and mermaids?! I’m ready.

🔵 𝒷𝓁𝓊ℯ 𝓂ℴℴ𝓃: a sad or heartbreaking read
The Rites of the Starling by @devneyperry
This book wrecked me, and I still think about it often…. I am so ready for book 3!

🔴 𝒷𝓁ℴℴ𝒹 𝓂ℴℴ𝓃: a book filled with rage
The Book of Azrael by @amber.v.nicole
Dianna is the epitome of female rage and I love her so much. She is fierce and she will stand up to anyone who defies her and goes against what she believes or wants.

Tagged some friends, if you see this and want to do this, consider yourself tagged! 🖤

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𝕊𝕙𝕠𝕖 𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕔𝕜: 𝕊𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕝𝕖 𝔻𝕒𝕕

In honor of Father’s Day and seeing this shoe trend circulating, I made a stack of my top three favorite dads that fit the single dad trope:

Liam Harley (One More Wish by @readwithli)
Kai Rhodes (Caught Up by @liztomforde.author)
West Belmont (Wild Eyes by @authorelsiesilver)

𝓦𝓱𝓸’𝓼 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓯𝓪𝓿𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮 𝓯𝓲𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓵 𝓯𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻?

If you’re tagged and haven’t already made a shoe stack of your own, I encourage you to make one with books showing your favorite trope!

Happy Father’s Day 😊

#singledadtrope #singledadromance #romancereader #smalltownromance #shoestack

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In honor of “Audiobook Appreciation Month” 🎧

Check these slides out for some tips, trips, and some recommendations from my friends! ❤️

QOTD: What is your favorite audiobook?

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𝟏𝟐𝟑𝟒𝟓 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞

Thanks @bookslamour for tagging me in this book challenge. The most difficult number for me to complete was actually the first one!

Swipe to see my book recs ➡️

I tagged a few friends but as always no pressure.

❓What is one activity you plan to do this weekend? ☀️

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Match the books to the outfit! 💜🩷

I tagged some friends but feel free to join in! This is the last week of the school year (minus summer school) and it’s crunch time!! Goal reports, planning summer school, packing up, the whole nine yards.

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