Good evening,
Instead of actually tackling my August TBR, I spent this afternoon thinking of the books that I really believe I can finish this time!
If you follow me for another month or two, you’ll start to see a pattern. I never really complete my reading goals until June and July when I read books back to back. But I started this blog in August, so get ready to either hold me accountable, find my results amusing, or feel understood.
I’ve also mentioned in the past that I like to mix up my TBR with an array of genres, but I also broke that promise this month.
September’s lineup has a definite theme, though.
Guess the theme of September’s picks!
BIOGRAPHICAL FICTION
Black Swans: Stories
by Eve Babitz

LITERARY FICTION
Writers & Lovers
by Lily King

LITERARY/ DYSTOPIAN FICTION
I Who Have Never Known Men
by Jaqueline Harpman

DYSTOPIAN/ POLITICAL FICTION
1984
by George Orwell

EXISTENTIAL FICTION
The Fall
by Albert Camus

And of course:
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL LITERARY ESSAYS
The White Album
by Joan Didion

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- Book Club: Help us Pick June’s Book!

- Eating Ashes and the Private Cost of Migration

- May’s Online Book Club!

- Poll: Pick the Book of the Month

- Choose the Book of the Month

- Online Book Club: The Correspondent

- Poll: Choose this Month’s Book!

- Choose the Book of the Month!

- Sat at Gate 9
- The Dignity of Comparison in The Old Man and the Sea

- January TBR

- Online Book Club: January 2026

- Living Through Narratives and Stories

- January Book Club Selection (Poll)

- Join our online Book Club in 2026



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