Monthly To Be Read List: December 2017

This is my first blog To Be Read (TBR) post, so here’s the deal:

Bookstagram members are, once again, likely pretty familiar with these. For those of you who aren’t, on the first day of each month, many of us share a post detailing all the books we plan to read in the coming month!

Without further ado, here’s my December TBR, which I’m really excited about!

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J. K. Rowling, illustrated by Jim Kay
Turtles All the Way Down – John Green
Warcross – Marie Lu
Renegades – Marissa Meyer
I’ll Give You the Sun – Jandy Nelson
The Graduate – Charles Webb
Columbine – Dave Cullen
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
Les fous de Bassan – Anne Hébert
The Silver Chair – C. S. Lewis
The Last Battle – C. S. Lewis
A Dance With Dragons – George R. R. Martin

The first book I’ll be reading (in fact, I’ve already started) is Renegades! I think my most highly anticipated reads of this month are Turtles All the Way Down and the illustrated Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. John Green always writes such wonderfully unique books, and Jim Kay’s illustrations are absolutely gobsmacking.

Now, you might be thinking, this TBR list is bananas, how is she going to read all that in a month?!

Here’s a little history to explain why I think this is possible. I almost always try to make my TBR lists achievable and realistic, because it the feeling of accomplishment when you read everything is so nice. And this is achievable because…

Last year, I set myself a goal of reading one book per day of my Christmas holiday break from work (I’m a teacher). I came very close to achieving it, so I’ve decided to try it again! This year, our holiday spans the end of December and first week of January. 9 days of it are in December, so I chose 9 books plus some others that I will read until the holidays start.

Now that I’ve shared this with you, I’m off to continue reading Renegades!

– Paperback Patronus