Fall is finally here! I’m one of those people who love fall, so I’ve been reveling in pumpkin spice coffee and enjoying the cooler weather. September was a really busy month with a lot of Jewish holidays, and that meant a lot of downtime with the family and some good times, even though it always makes me miss my dad. However, the month went by surprisingly quickly, and I made it through a TON of books, including quite a few NetGalley ARCs, which I’m really happy about. 

This year I vowed to focus on my goals for the year. So here we go:

• I gained some more followers, going from 410 to 426. I’m hoping to reach 450 by the end of the year!
• Scheduling posts is now a regular habit, and it makes life so much easier. I can’t imagine scrambling last minute to throw together a post anymore.
• I finally finished a first draft of my WIP! I let it sit for a while, but I think it’s time to self-edit a bit now. Plus, I have a new idea percolating, and I’m thinking of doing NaNo.
• I’m still dragging my feet on reading the books I own, but I’m getting a lot closer to getting through the pile of books that I have checked out from the library and my ARCs. I’m determined to read some of my owned books this year!

Here’s my breakdown of monthly/cumulative totals for September:

September Totals:

• Books read: 30
• Books DNF’d: 0
• Pages read: 6,117
• Hours listened: 149 hours, 6 minutes, 46 seconds
• Average pages: 359.8
• Average hours listened: 11 hours, 28 minutes, 13 seconds

Cumulative Averages:

• Days per book: 2.96
• Pages read per day: 187.81
• Books read per month: 25.13
• DNF’d books per month: 0.67

Genres Read in September:

• Fantasy: 10
• Folklore/Fairy Tales: 1
• General Fiction: 2
• Historical Fiction: 5
• Mystery/Suspense: 8
• Romance/Erotica: 4

Backlist vs. New Releases:

• Backlist books: 12
• 2021 releases: 18

Fiction Vs. Non-Fiction:

• Fiction: 30
• Nonfiction: 0

Format Read:

• Print: 8
• Digital: 9 
• Audio: 13

Age Range:

• Adult: 17
• YA: 12
• MG: 1

My favorite books of the month were The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina and Love, Chai, and Other Four-Letter Words.

Here’s what I read in September:

• The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova (ALC)
• People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
• Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter (Grant County #1)
• Love, Chai, and Other Four-Letter Words by Annika Sharma (Chai Masala Club #1) (ARC)
• The Women of Troy by Pat Barker (Women of Troy #2)
• Murder at the Christmas Cookie Bake-Off by Darci Hannah (Beacon Bakeshop #2) (ARC)  

• Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Cycle #3) 
• Seven Up by Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum #7)
• A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow (Fractured Fables #1) (ALC)
• The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance #2) (ARC)
• Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong (These Violent Delights #2) (ARC)

• The Split by Sharon Bolton
• Before We Were Blue by E.J. Schwartz (ARC)
• The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang (The Kiss Quotient #3) (ALC)
• The Archer by Shruti Swamy (ALC)
• The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Cycle #4)
• The Bookbinder’s Daughter by Jessica Thorne (ARC)
• The Silence of Bones by June Hur
• Sisters of the Wolf by Patricia Miller-Schroeder (ARC)
• Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa (Shadow of the Fox #1)
• Kisscut by Karin Slaughter (Grant County #2)
• How to Find What You’re Not Looking For by Veera Hiranandani (ARC)
• A Faint Cold Fear by Karin Slaughter (Grant County #3)
• Indelible by Karin Slaughter (Grant County #4)
• Faithless by Karin Slaughter (Grant County #5)

• When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky by Margaret Verble (ARC)

• Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer (ARC) (Defy the Night #1)

• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (ALC)

• These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong (These Violent Delights #1)
• Missing the Beat by Cait Marie (Bennu Firebirds #3)

How did your September go?