#readathons

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I’m hosting an urban fantasy readathon for the month of April and I thought I’d share some recs and match them up with the prompts!

YA:

The Percy Jackson series & it’s spin-offs by Rick Riordan (gods from multiple pantheons, familiars/animal companions, ghosts, lgbtq+ rep, unique magic system)

Any of the books under the Rick Riordan Presents imprint (bipoc authors, gods, unique magic systems)

The Witch King by H. E. Edgmon (witches, the fae, lgbtq+, bipoc author)

The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke (witches, lgbtq+, unique magic system)

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater (unique magic system, witches, ghosts, lgbtq+)

The Black Blade series by Jennifer Estep (unique magic system, the fae)

Seven Deadly Shadows by Courtney Alameda & Valynne E. Maetani (gods, ghosts/hauntings)

The Chronicles of Nick by Sherrilyn Kenyon (vampires, shifters, gods, witches, unique magic system, ghosts)

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (lgbtq+, vampires, witches)

The Vampire Academy series by Richelle Meade (vampires, unique magic system)

The Price Guide to the Occult by Leslye Walton (unique magic system, lgbtq+)

Any of the Shadowhunter books by Cassandra Clare (unique magic system, vampires, werewolves, the fae, ghosts, lgbtq+, animal companion)

Adult:

The Adam Binder series by David R. Slayton (unique magic system, the fae, lgbtq+, animal companion, gods)

Wolf Gone Wild by Juliette Cross (paranormal romance, werewolf, vampires, witches)

Girls Weekend by C. M. Nascosta (paranormal romance, the fae, cozy)

Morning Glory Milking Farm by C. M. Nascosta (paranormal romance, cozy)

The Witches Wolves by Ellie Mae MacGregor (lgbtq+, witches, werewolves)

Spooky Smutty Stories 1 & 2 by Claire Cray (lgbtq+, paranormal romance, witches, vampires, werewolves, ghosts/hauntings)

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (cozy, lgbtq+, paranormal romance, unique magic system)

The October Daye series, the InCyptids Series, the Wayward Children series, and pretty much everything else by Seanan McGuire (the fae, shifters, unique magic systems, paranormal romances, ghosts/hauntings, lgbtq+)

The Jane Yellowrock Series and the Soulwood series by Faith Hunter (vampires, shifters, witches, ghosts, the gods, animal companions, paranormal romances)

The Mercy Thompson series and the Alpha & Omega series by Patricia Briggs (shifters, vampires, witches, ghosts/hauntings, paranormal romance)

The Green Creek Series by TJ Klune (lgbtq+, werewolves, witches)

Lana Harvey, Reapers Inc. by Angela Roquet (the afterlife, gods, ghosts, unique magic system, paranormal romance, animal companion)

The Chicagoland Vampires series and the Heirs of Chicagoland series by Chloe Neill (vampires, shifters, paranormal romances, witches, the fae)

The Elemental Assassin series (unique magic system, paranormal romance)

The Whisper Hollow series by Yasmin Galenorn (shifters, witches, vampires, ghosts/hauntings, the afterlife, the fae, paranormal romance)

The Otherworld Series and the Fly By Night series by Yasmin Galenorn (paranormal romance, lgbtq+, polyamory, witches, vampires, shifters, the gods, the fae)

Black Blade Blues by J.A. Pitts (lgbtq+, shifters, witches, the gods, paranormal romance, unique magic system)

Norse Code by Greg Van Eekhout (bipoc author, the gods, ghosts/hauntings, the afterlife, unique magic system)

WebMage by Kelly McCullough (the gods, the fae(?), unique magic system, familiars)

Graphic Novels/Comics/Manga:

Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (lgbtq+, werewolves)

The Tea Dragon Society by Kay O’Neill (unique magic system, lgbtq+, cozy, animal companion)

NORA: The Last Chronicle of Devildom by Kazunari Kakei (ghosts/hauntings, unique magic system)

Fangs by Sarah Anderson (vampires, werewolves, cozy)

Fangs by Billy Balibally (vampires, lgbtq+, animal companion, bipoc author) {please note this one is explicit and 18+}

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker (lgbtq+, witches, werewolves)

Taproot by Keezy Young (lgbtq+, ghosts/hauntings, the afterlife)

Moonstruck by Grace Ellis (lgbtq+, shifters, vampires, witches, cozy)

*as always, please check content and trigger warnings before diving into any of these*

I've decided I'm going to skip this one. I'm doing this for several reasons, but the main one is that the whole process of reading plus counting the pages + posting about it feels too stressful for me atm.

Which would kind of defeat the purpose of doing it - the point, as @books-and-cookies says, is to have fun.

To everyone else who is participating, I wish you all the best of luck - I'll be cheering you on.

Read So Far:

American Drifter

Page 125- 182 (57 Pages)

Orange The Complete Collection: Volume One

Page 191- 524 (334 Pages) [Completed]

The Call of the Wild

Page 1- 163 (163 Pages)

Books Completed:

Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein

Orange The Complete Collection: Volume One

Day Three Total: 554 Pages

Overall Total Pages: 1,192 Pages

Some books I am planning on reading slash rereading

- I am not expecting to finish rereading HoN I am just giving the first book a chance because I remember loving it

- i have already started PJO so yay I found an audiobook on YouTube which i have been enjoying

- with the morganvill vamps I read the first three in 2014 so the rest will be new

- I already reread Inkheart I just want to read the story other two as well

There is some books not in the picture

Heroes of Olympus

Pegasus by Kate O Hearn

Outlander by Diana Gabledon

Bonus I took a picture of Hoo to showcase my tissue paper flowers that I made yesterday

Currently at 15 books read for October with still many more that I want to squeeze into the month. With three readathons overlaping, everything is starting to run together so here are some of my priorities (with challenges below). 

Spookathon (YouTube, booksandlala, Oct 14-20)

Read a thriller (The Perfect Nanny) - Currently reading

Red on the cover (City of Ghosts) - 4 stars

Spooky word in the title (My Best Friend’s Exorcism) - 5 stars

Spooky setting (In a Dark, Dark Wood) - 4 stars

Don’t normally read (We Have Always Lived in the Castle) - 4 stars

Spooptober Readathon (Tumblr, @bookofmirth​, Oct 18-31)

Read a book with a dead character (Tunnel of Bones) - 4 stars

Read a book with red on the cover (Strange Grace)

Read a horror classic (We Have Always Lived in the Castle) - 4 stars

Read a book only at night (Serpent & Dove)

Read a book by an author of color (The Perfect Nanny)

Nightmareathon (YouTube, We Be Book’n & more, Oct 25-31)

Purple on the Cover - TBD

About murder (Chasing the Devil)

Something you’re afraid of - TBD

Paranormal (Sawkill Girls)

2019 Thriller or Horror (Monster, She Wrote or Chasing the Devil)

Recommended by hosts - TBD

NEW POST: SapphicAThon Announcement and Recommendations

When the SapphicAThon was announced, I was stoked. A two-week readathon focused on reading female/female romance books? I’m in, mostly because I love readathons. Hey, it fuels the book nerd in me. The SapphicAThon goes from 12 am your time on December 14 through 11:59 your time on December 28. You can read as many books as you like, but the main focus is to have fun. There is an optional bingo…