Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.
August 2024 Wrap Up
I completed The 52 Book Club’s 2024 Reading Challenge! Yayy! So proud of myself.
I finished the challenge relatively early in the month, so I tried to make a dent in my other reading challenges and I managed to complete my Classics challenge as well! Technically, The Classics Club challenge is reading 50 classics in 5 years, so I just decided to read 10 classics a year (which I just completed), but if I wanted to do more, I could! We’ll see.
My August 2024 TBR Intentions
My TBR Intentions for August was to knock out the 52 Book Club 2024 Reading Challenge, and I did that! I had five more prompts to go, which were:
- 13. An academic thriller
- 17. Nominated for the Booker Prize
- 37. Palindrome on the cover
- 42. Author debut in the second half of 2024
- 48. The word “secret” in the title
And the books I planned for them were as listed below, but subject to change as long as they fit the prompts:
- If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- The Women by Kristin Hannah
- Four Weekends and a Funeral by Ellie Palmer
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu MandannaThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
I managed to finish the challenge, and the only book I switched out was The Secret Garden for The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. I still want to read it eventually but I was happy to read The Secret Garden too. I’m so happy the challenge is done!
Books Read in August 2024
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Women by Kristin Hannah
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- Four Weekends and a Funeral by Ellie Palmer
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
- Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
- If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King
- The Girl from the Other Side Vol. 1-7 by Nagabe
- Crime and Poetry by Amanda Flower
- Prose and Cons by Amanda Flower
- Murder and Metaphors by Amanda Flower
- Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
- Wordhunter by Stella Sands
- Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
- Anne’s House of Dreams of L.M. Montgomery
Notable Books This Month
I loved The Women, Oryx and Crake, and Children of Time, but the highlights for me this month were the rereads.
Daddy-Long-Legs, and the Anne of Green Gables series were some of my favorite childhood books and I just love all the memories and vibes they brought back.
11/22/63 is also a reread, even though it’s more recent, but it’s such a great story and I love it so much more this time around because I think I got more out of it.
Reading Challenges
- The 52 Book Club 2024 Reading Challenge – 52/52 – Started at 47/52 at the beginning of the month. Challenge completed!
- 2024 Nonfiction Reader Challenge – 12/12 – Challenge completed!
- 2024 Series Ender Reading Challenge – 2/5 – Started at 2/5 at the beginning of the month. Did not read a series ender this month.
- 2024 Finishing the Series Challenge – 3/4 – Started at 3/4 at the beginning of the month. Did not finish any series this month.
- 2024 Diversity Reading Challenge – 20/20 – Started at 14/20 at the beginning of the month. Read 7 diverse books this month. Challenge completed!
- 2024 Bookish Books Challenge – 8/10 – Started at 5/10 at the beginning of the month. Read 3 bookish books this month!
- 2024 Audiobook Challenge – 71/75 – Started at 58/75 at the beginning of the month. Listened to 13 audiobooks this month!
- 2024 Library Love Reading Challenge – 60/60 – Challenge completed!
- The Classics Club – 10/10 – Started at 4/10 at the beginning of the month. Read 6 classics this month! Challenge completed!
September 2024 TBR Intentions
Most of these are buddy reads I signed up for and bookclub books. The ones with end-of-September deadlines will take priority but I think I can finish most of them, even if I interperse them with other reads in between. I find I do a lot better sticking to my TBR intentions when I have buddy reads and deadlines, so let’s do this!
- Perfume by Patrick Suskind
- Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
- Cujo by Stephen King
- Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
How was your month in August? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful September with lots of great books!
Wow, it looks like you did an amazing job with your challenges in August, well done haha ✨
I enjoyed Oryx & Crake a lot when I read it too.
& oh my gosh I have such strong feelings about Perfume, I am curious to see what you’re gonna think of it! Happy September 🙂
I’ve read Perfume before and I loved it! It’s been a while though so it’s time for a reread. Happy September!
I was looking at your subtitles : do you mean Books Read in August 2024 not July, right? You had a stellar month! Whoa a lot of good ones and big ones too. I’ve read the Julia Armfield novel you have on your list — it’s a bit different but interesting … and a bit mysterious. Enjoy. And congrats on your challenges.
Oooh good catch, thank you! I’ll go edit now!
I thought I had already commented, but apparently I didn’t! Yay for completing the 52 challenge so early!! That is quite an accomplishment! Every year I sign up for too many challenges, so this year I didn’t sign up for any. I do too many and put too much pressure on myself, so I was trying to have a low pressure year.
Thank you! I had a low pressure year last year which prompted me to overcommit myself this year. Maybe I’ll find some balance next year!