March First Reads

 This month's choices:

1. Mystery - I'll Stop the world

2. Historical fiction - A girl called Samson

3 Thriller - All He Has Left

4.  Book club fiction - The rise and Fall of Ava Arcana 

5. Police procedural - Hollow Beasts

6. Women's Ficiton - Half Way to You

7. Domestic suspense - The forgetting

8. Science Fiction - House of Gold

After looking at the descriptions, it's down to #1 (a time travel romance mystery) or #8 (science fiction). The library owns copies of #1 already, so #8 it is.

February First Reads

 Short on details for this one, but since all the books except two were suspense/thrillers, and there wasn't a picture book, I ended up with a YA romance about teens on a temple tour in India. 

January 2023 First Reads

 January is again a  2-book month, with 10 to choose from, and this month there's no picture book.

• Thriller - No Home For Killers
• Gothic Historical - Witch of Tin Mountain
• Romance - the Chemistry of Love
• Domestic suspense - Someone Else's Life
• Memoir - Movie Star (Jessica Simpson)
• Historical fiction - Night Angels
• Sci fi - Meru
• Memoir - Feral
• Book club fiction - The Direction of the Wind
• Disaster drama - The Fires

The thriller, romanse, suspense, and memoir are probably No right off the bat. Went through the others, and ended up with Night Angels and Meru.  Might suggest the library get Direction of the Wind and Feral.

December First Reads

 Hmm.  No picture book this month. 

• Police procedural - Hide
• Women's fiction - Five Winters
• Historical fiction - A Castle in Brooklyn
• Thriller - The Blue Bar
• Book club fiction - The Fireballer
• Domestic Suspense - No One Knows Us HEre
• Gothic historical fiction - Through a Darkening Glass
• Memoir - Local (Jessica Machado)

No thanks on police procedurals, thrillers, or suspense. Five Winters doesn't sound like my thing either, or the baseball book. I ended up with A Castle in Brooklyn; Local was my other choice, but the library owns a copy. 

November First Reads

 This month's choices: 

• Book Club Fiction - The Vibrant Years
• Suspense - The Widow
• Historical FIction - Light to the Hills
• Psychological Suspense - One of those Faces
• Science Fiction - The Union
• Police Procedural - Hidden in Snow
• Literary Fiction - An Impossible Return 
• Picture book - Bright Winter Night 

 

Not interested in psychological thrillers, suspense, or dystopian sci fi. Light to the Hills has packhorse librarians, but the library owns a copy, and The Vibrant Years sounds entertaining. 

 

October first Reads

 October is another two-book month, and 11 to choose from instead of the usual 8 or 9.

• Thriller - The Quarry girls
• Gothic fiction - The Stroke of Winter
• Historical fiction - Well Behaved Wives
• Domestic suspense - The Break
• Short Story (new category) - The Bookstore Sisters
• Historical Fantasy - Keeper of Enchanted Rooms 
• Memoir - Excuse Me While I Disappear
• Suspense - Over Her Dead Body
• True crime - Pesos: the rise and fall of a border family
• New adult romance - June, Reimagined (new term for YA??)
• Picture book - It's Not The Three LIttle Pigs

Nope on the Gothic fiction, thriller, and domestic suspense (which the library owns anyway).  Not in the mood for true crime or the historical fiction. Of the three I'm most interested in, the library owns all three.  So I think I'll get June Reimagined and Excuse Me, and check out Keeper of Enchanted Rooms from the library. And recommend It's Not the 3 Little Pigs to the library.

 

August First Reads

 August's choices:

• Legal thriller - Rich Blood
• Women's Fiction - Big Chicas Don't Cry
• Suspense - Real Bad Things
• Historical fiction - A Harvest of Secrets
• Dystopian Fiction - Exiles
• Memoir - No One Crosses the Wolf
• Lit Thriller (listed on Amazon as a memoir) - Broken Summer 
• Children's - Anni Dreams of Biryani

I'm not in the mood for dystopian anything, or thrillers/suspense.  After reading the summaries, it's down to Big Chicas, Harvest, or Anni, and the library already has Big Chicas and Harvest on order.  So Anni it is.