October Books

[babbling_bookends]

Read in October

• Lick by Kylie Scott
• Play by Kylie Scott
• Lead by Kylie Scott
• Bridging the Silence by Amy Kaybach
• Deep by Kylie Scott
• Nightwing: Old Friends, New Enemies by Marv Wolfman
• Blending Chords by Amy Kaybach
• Chaser by Kylie Scott
• Twist by Kylie Scott
• Dirty by Kylie Scott
• Dear Enemy by Kristen Callihan
• Astro City Metrobook, Vol. 1 by Kurt Busiek
• Alias, Vol. 1 by Brian Michael Bendis
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells
• Beasts of Carnaval by Rosália Rodrigo

Currently Reading

• Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly (audiobook read by the author)
• The Fox: Freak Magnet by Mark Waid and Dean Haspiel
• Isola Volume 2 by Brenden Fletcher and Karl Kerschl
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (audiobook read by the author)
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe
• The New Warriors Omnibus, Vol. 1

 

Goodreads Fall Challenge

2025's final achievement season!

• Community Picks: 141 Dark Academia Books for Fall Reading
• Beasts of Carnaval by Rosália Rodrigo for Hispanic Heritage: 108 Books to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
• Spine Tinglers: Ten Years of Horror Hits to Read This October
• Heart-Warmers: 117 Cozy Books for Fall Reading
• Fiction Faves: Read 80 of the Past Decade's Very Popular Fiction
• (Reading Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates for) Memorable Memoirs: Readers' 99 Most Popular Memoirs of the Past 10 Years
• Native Voices: Fiction and Nonfiction Reads for Native American Heritage Month
• Bite-Size Books: 100 Very Short Books to Help You Finish Your 2025 Reading Challenge
• Mystery Category: To be revealed 11/11/2025

The Storygraph Genre Challenge 2025

• Super Visible: The Story of the Women of Marvel Comics by Margaret Stohl with Jeanine Schaeffer and Judith Stephens for Nonfiction about visual art or an artist
• Historical fiction set outside of the UK, US, or Canada
• An essay collection by a disabled author
• Home in a Lunchbox by Cherry Mo for A children's book published after 2020 by an author of colour
• A nonfiction book by or about a sports personality
• A graphic novel by a woman or nonbinary person
• Bee Journal by Sean Borodale for A poetry collection centred around nature
• A literary or contemporary novel in translation
• A book about video games
• (Hold on Black Flame by Gretchen Felker Martin for) Queer horror