So I’m doing things a little differently from henceforth. The books that I’ve read the month before are being published (so a month’s delay from reading to publishing). Which means that there will be two Junes in the lists for this year, and then everything will even out in a weird way.

June was a month of very little reading (for me). I started a new job, I got flooded with things I want to do for my PhD, and I mostly just felt cold and lethargic. But here are the few reads that I did get around to…

Non-fiction

• The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper by Maxim Jakubowski & Nathan Braund

Standalone stories

• Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown
• Cat of the World by Michael Cadnum
• Iphigenia in Aulis by Mike Carey
• Spellhorn by Berlie Doherty
• The Fairy Enterprise by Jeffrey Ford
• In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
• The Murder King’s Woman by Jamie Leigh Hansen
• An Introduction to Jewish Myth and Mysticism by Steve Hockensmith
• The Secret Science of Magic by Melissa Keil
• Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis
• Flowers of the Chapel by Sarah Morrison
• Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington
• Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells by Delia Sherman
• Uncle Tompa by Midori Snyder
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Series

• Callie Meet Happy by Amber Benson (Calliope Reaper-Jones #3.5)
• Dragon Bones by Patricia Briggs (Hurog Duology #1)
• Wrecked by Meljean Brook (The Iron Seas #3.4)
• Curses by Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files #10.7)
• Conjuring Max by Carolyn Crane (Code of Shadows #0.5)
• Dead Girls Don’t Dance by Mary Janice Davidson (Undead #1.5)
• Blood Upon My Lips by Laurell K. Hamilton (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #12.5)
• Blood Crime by Kim Harrison (The Hollows #0.3)
• Undead in the Garden of Good and Evil by Kim Harrison (The Hollows #2.5)
• Golden Delicious by Faith Hunter (Jane Yellowrock #4.2)
• Percy Jackson: The Ultimate Guide by Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson & the Olympians Companion)
• The Titan’s Curse – The Graphic Novel by Rick Riordan & Robert Venditti (Percy Jackson and the Olympians – the Graphic Novels #3)
• Speed Mating by Jessica Sims (Midnight Liasons #2.3)

Short story collections

• Novellas and Stories by Meljean Brook, Carolyn Crane & Jessica Sims

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Now that winter is starting to set in, I’m becoming very… nesty. It’s becoming more and more difficult to actually get anything productive done in the mean time. After all, it is disgustingly cold. Rainy. And just generally annoying…

Standalone stories

• Low School by Rhys Bowen
• Oh Have You Seen the Devil? by Stephen Dedman
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
• A Natural History of Autumn by Jeffrey Ford
• Love Bites by Angie Fox
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• In Lieu of a Thank You by Gwynne Garfinkle
• Only Joseph by Sophie Hannah
• Academy Field Trip by Donald Harstad
• Thief of Hearts by Trent Hergenrader
• Boiling Point by Alex Howard
• How Things Disappear by Anna James
• Flotsam by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• The Wildflowers by Dorothy Koomson
• Words Like Pale Stones by Nancy Kress
• The Rite Stuff by Michael Kurland
• Sympathy for the Bones by Marjorie M. Liu
• Spellcaster 2.0 by Jonathan Maberry
• Sexual Healing by Margo Maguire
• Two Lines by Melissa Marr
• The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
• Timekeeper by John Morressy
• Laughing All the Way to the Mosque by Zarqa Nawaz
• The Wild Card by Sandra Newgent
• Broke Heart Blues by Joyce Carol Oates
• Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
• The Double Shadow by Clark Ashton Smith
• Uncle Bob Visits by Caroline Stevermer
• Heathcliff Is Not My Name by Michael Stewart
• The Chamber Music of Animals by Katherine Vaz
• Stronger Than Time by Patricia C. Wrede

Series

• Foundation by Ann Aguirre (Razorland #0.5)
• Endurance by Ann Aguirre (Razorland #1.5)
• The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook (The Iron Seas #1)
• Mina Wentworth and the Invisible City by Meljean Brook (The Iron Seas #1.5)
• Kitten-Tiger and the Monk by Carolyn Crane (The Disillusionists #2.5)
• The Dead, the Damned, and the Forgotten by Jocelynn Drake (Dark Days #0.6)
• Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost (Night Huntress #1)
• Bit the Jackpot by Erin McCarthy (Vegas Vampires #2)
• Dark Matters by Vicki Pettersson (Signs of the Zodiac #4.5)
• The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #2)
• Hotel Valhalla: Guide to the Norse Worlds by Rick Riordan (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Companion)
• Vixen by Jessica Sims (Midnight Liasons #2.1)

Short story collections

• Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales edited by Ellen Datlow
• Unbound by Kim Harrison, Melissa Marr, Jeaniene Frost, Vicki Pettersson & Jocelyn Drake
• I Am Heathcliff curated by Kate Mosse

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This month I have been writing my first paper / literature review for my PhD. I have written my research proposal (somehow scarier than anything I’ve ever done before) and just in general felt overwhelmed and stressed. Which tends to mean I read a little more than usual… so it was kind of good, and kind of not so good…

• Shutter by Courtney Alameda
• The Cypress Project by Gennifer Albin
• Hans Christian Andersen Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
• The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
• Adventures of a Young Naturalist: The Zoo Quest Expeditions by David Attenborough
• The Too-Clever Fox by Leigh Bardugo
• Kangaroo Dundee by Chris ‘Brolga’ Barns
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Broken Hearts, Fences and Other Things to Mend Deleted Scenes by Katie Finn
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman
• Blue Moon by Nikki Kelly
• Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
• Dynamite Junior by Jennifer Mathieu
• Tortured by Caragh M. O’Brien
• Tough Mothers by Jason Porath
• First Bones by Kathy Reichs
• Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs
• Cavern of the Fear by Emily Rodda
• The Isle of Illusion by Emily Rodda
• The Shadowlands by Emily Rodda
• Bridge of Snow by Marie Rutkoski
• Typecast by Jeff Ryan
• Angels’ Blood by Nalini Singh
• Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed

• Kisses and Curses edited by Lauren Burniac

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