Welcome to February! Finally. January always feels about 524 days long. I hear several people say that every year, but it lollygagged especially hard this year.
Here’s my reading plan for this month. Or, rather, my start reading and then get distracted and read something else (that may or not be on the list at all) or just binge-watch a TV show I’ve already seen 14 times while holding the book open on my lap instead of reading plan.
Anyway…enjoy!
Book Clubs
- The Flight Girls by Noelle Salazar
- The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
- The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
- One To Watch by Kate Stayman-London
Reading Challenges
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
- A book that came out in a year that ends with “24” (POPSUGAR)
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
- Listen to an audiobook over 20 hours long (libro.fm)
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
- Listen to an audiobook by a Black author (libro.fm)
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
- Has futuristic technology (52 Book Club)
Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
- Told in non-chronological order (52 Book Club)
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
- An author “everyone” has read but you (52 Book Club)
- A book published more than 10 years ago (OWC)
Broughtupsy by Christina Cooke
- Published in 2024 (52 Book Club)
- A bildungsroman (POPSUGAR)
- Book with a BIPOC author and main character (Nowhere)
Murder in the Dark and Murder on a Midsummer Night by Kerry Greenwood
- Listen to an audiobook adapted for TV or film (libro.fm)
- A book set outside of North America (OWC)
Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie N. Holmberg
- A cozy fantasy (POPSUGAR)
Feral Self-Care by Mandi Em
- Read a book based solely on the title (Book Riot)
Books of the Season
God For Us edited by Greg Pennoyer and Gregory Wolfe – because Lent devotional/supplemental reading.
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde – because…reasons.
Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey – I learn a lot from Hersey’s Instagram, so I’m looking forward to the book as well.
Record of a Spaceborn Few and The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers – the next two (final two?) of the Wayfarer series.
And I’m still working on a few from January, so the list is pretty ambitious. We’ll see how it goes!
M. Suzanne Terry 
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