September Preorders!

Oh, do I have preorders this month! I actually have several physical books for September, which is quite a change from the rest of the year. Usually I have trouble telling myself to get ebooks instead of physical books, but I’ve been pretty good at buying ebooks this year. I think I have a good mix this month, and I’m excited.

Here are my September picks!

Sadie by Courtney Summers

Image of book cover from Goodreads

Release date: 9/4/2018
Format: Kindle
Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1250105714

I have heard so many amazing things about this book! (Check out my friend Taylor’s review here!) Several people I trust have been squealing about this one, and so I’m excited for it as well.

Soft on Soft by Em Ali

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Release date: 9/10/2018
Format: Kindle
Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Soft-Em-Ali-ebook/dp/B07GL135XS/

Cats? Anxiety? Queer fluffy romance? Yes, please! I love Em, and I’m really excited to read zir new book!

Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman

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Release date: 9/11/2018
Format: Hardcover
Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Summer-Bird-Blue-Akemi-Bowman/dp/1481487752/

My birthday book for this year. 🙂 I loved Bowman’s first book, so this one was an easy choice for me. (Also, how gorgeous is that cover?)

You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P! by Alex Gino

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Release date: 9/25/2018
Format: Hardcover
Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/You-Dont-Know-Everything-Jilly-ebook/dp/B078TJPKYN/

After GEORGE, I am super excited for Gino’s next release! Deaf rep in books, especially middle grade, is also a big draw for me.

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

Image of book cover from Goodreads

Release date: 9/25/2018
Format: Hardcover
Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Absolutely-Remarkable-Thing-Novel-ebook/dp/B0796DR2XV/

Hank Green’s debut strikes me as odd and quirky, and I’m intrigued. I’ve heard good things about this one so far, so I hope it lives up to expectations!

A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney

Image of book cover from Goodreads

Release date: 9/25/2018
Format: Hardcover
Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Blade-So-Black-L-L-McKinney/dp/1250153905/

I’m a sucker for Alice in Wonderland stories, and this urban fantasy retelling sounds amazing. And that cover is perfect.

What September releases are you excited for?

September To-Read List!

Remember how I said that I usually don’t do TBRs? I found last month’s TBR so helpful that I’m going to try to keep doing them for a while! I don’t know if I’ll keep this up indefinitely, but I have a LOT of books to read and this has at least been helping me stay organized.

I’m looking at my TBR not as a to-do list but as a menu of options I can choose from to read. I think that’s taking the pressure off of me quite a bit — and it allows me to not feel quite so guilty for not finishing every single book I have on my list.

August TBR Stats

Pile 1: #SummerOfPLL Reads
Amount completed: 6/9
Carrying over: 0

Pile 2: Library Books
Amount completed: 8/8
Carrying over: 0

Pile 3: ARC August!
Amount completed: 5/18
Carrying over: 12

Non-TBR Books Read: 1 (not including the ARC I read before I made my TBR)

I finished all of my library books! I also finished all of the main Pretty Little Liars books, but did not get to the companion ones and I’ve made my peace with that. The ARCs did not get the attention they needed in August, so they’re getting bumped forward to September!

September’s TBR

Pile 1: New Books

I have a lot of books that I’ve preordered or purchased while they were discounted on Amazon and haven’t read this year, and I feel really bad because I really want to read them. So, my first target area for September is filled with them!

• Pride Must Be A Place by Kevin Craig
• Down and Across by Arvin Ahmadi
• Never Always Sometimes by Adi Alsaid
• The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotic by David Arnold
• The Summer of Us by Cecilia Vinesse
• Learning to Breathe by Janice Lynn Mather
• Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
• #murdertrending by Gretchen McNeil
• If Only by Jennifer Gilmore
• To Be Honest by Maggie Ann Martin
• The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson
• Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley
• Life Inside My Mind anthology
• We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
• Not the Girls You’re Looking For by Aminah Mae Safi
• The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
• Fawkes by Nadine Brandes
• Lovely, Dark, and Deep by Justina Chen
• Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
• That’s Not What Happened by Kody Keplinger
• Sadie by Courtney Summers
• Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman
• You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P! by Alex Gino
• A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
• Soft on Soft by Em Ali

Pile 2: ARCs

This pile has two parts: the ARCs that I’m carrying over from August, and the ARCs that are new to the September pile.

Sub-pile: Carryover ARCs

• Disbanded Kingdom by Polis Loizou
• Rules of the Ruff by Heidi Lang
• Love Letters to Jane’s World by Paige Braddock
• The Adventures of Wilhelm: A Rat’s Tale by Maria Ritter
• The Lost Art of Reading by David L. Ulin
• The Splintered Light by Ginger Johnson
• Big Words Small Stories: The Missing Donut by Judith Henderson
• The Ghost Road by Charis Cotter
• Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground by T.R. Simon
• Unbroken Anthology
• Black Diamond Fall by Joseph Olshan
• Trans Teen Survival Guide by Owl Fisher and Fox Fisher

Sub-pile: New ARCs

• Sleep, Sheep! by Kerry Sparrow
• I am Small by Qin Leng
• How to Read Donald Duck by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart
• Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith
• Unwritten by Tara Gilboy
• Histories of the Transgender Child by Julian Gill-Peterson
• The Spy With The Red Balloon by Katherine Locke
• Salt by Hannah Moskowitz
• The Chaos of Now by Erin Jade Lange

Pile 3: Library Books

You know that thing where you finish all of your library books and go to the library to return them and then somehow walk out carrying more library books? Yep, I did that. It’s okay, though — libraries are GOOD!

• One True Way by Shannon Hitchcock
• Book Scavenger: The Unbreakable Code by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
• The Skeleton Tree by Kim Ventrella
• Black Panther: The Young Prince by Ronald L. Smith
• The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
• Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America by Nathaniel Frank

Do I think there’s any possible way I’m going to finish all of these in September? Pfft, no… There are 53 books on this list! My goal is to try to give myself options while still reading the books I actually need to read, and I think this does that, right?

What are you hoping to read in September?