October 2023 is my month of advanced reading copies, carryover reads, readathons, book clubs, and buddy reads. However ambitious, I’m determined to participate. Check out my Booktube and Instagram for details and visuals. On Twitter and Threads, I’ll post my thoughts and comments about each book I read. Consider following me on each platform to keep up with how I participate in these readathons in October 2023. I may or may not create a TikTok to wrap up each readathon, so too stay updated, follow me there as well. 🙂
Below is my TBR for October 2023 with a key for each advanced reading copy, carryover read, readathon, book club, and buddy read. Note: The readathons are linked to their respective Booktube/YouTube video.
| ✍🏾 = Advanced Reading Copy (ARC) | 🧻 = Carryover Reads |
| 🧙🏾♀️ = Blackoweenathon Readathon | 🩸 = For the Culture Readathon – Vampire Round |
| 📚 = Book Club | 🧛🏾♀️ = Gothtober Readathon – Creature Feature Round |
| 🤗 = Buddy Read | 🍁 = Middle Grade Magic – Seasonal Edition |
🧻 Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
📚 Eating While Black by Psyche A. Williams-Forson
🍁 Felice and the Wailing Woman by Diana López
🤗 🩸 Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
📚 🩸 House of Cotton by Monica Brashears
🧛🏾♀️ Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
🩸 Jackal by Erin E. Adams
✍🏾 Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies by E. M. Roy
🤗 Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
✍🏾 📚 Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror by Various Authors (Edited by Jordan Peele)
✍🏾 Scream for the Camera (Graveyard Girls #2) by Lisi Harrison, Daniel Kraus
🩸 Sign of the Slayer by Sharina Harris
🧛🏾♀️ That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming
🧙🏾♀️ 🩸 🍁 The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack (Author), Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)
🧙🏾♀️ The Finch House by Ciera Burch
🧛🏾♀️ The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
🧙🏾♀️ The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
🧙🏾♀️ The Taking of Jake Living by Ryan Douglass
🧙🏾♀️ 🍁 The Vanquishers by Kalynn Bayron
🍁 Three Keys (Front Desk #2) by Kelly Yang
🧻 Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
🍁 Witchlings (Witchlings #1) by Claribel A. Ortega
✍🏾 With A Blighted Touch by J. Todd Kingrea
Let me know if you’ll be participating in any readathons this month. What books do you have on your October TBR?
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See you in the next post.
Blackoweenathon Readathon 2023
For the Culture Readathon – Vampire Round
Gothtober Readathon – Creature Feature Round
