State of the ARC is a monthly meme temporarily hosted by Sarah at All The Book Blog Names Are Taken meant to motivate you to finish up your long overdue ARCs (Advanced or Early Reader Copies). This is its original intention, while some bloggers have tweaked it a bit for their own purposes, such as just keeping ARCs in order by due dates. Or you can just be a hot mess like me who sometimes misses publishing dates (or ignores them altogether) and needs a way to stay organized on what has been read, reviewed, or is still begging for attention. Thank you to Evelina @ Avalinah’s Books for coming up with this super helpful monthly meme.

I finished May with 17 ARCs left to be read. 

I was originally planning to make some serious progress on my ARCs in June, but things got super busy in June. I ended up going to two fairs with friends, went to my nephew’s high school graduation, and didn’t spend nearly as much time reading ebooks as I would have liked. I am still struggling with difficulty focusing on my ebooks and printed books, so I’m still relying on audiobooks, and don’t have nearly enough audiobook ARCs. Also, I’ve completely failed at slowing down/stopping my new requests, but I can’t take responsibility for that since some of my favorite authors are coming out with new books and I couldn’t resist requesting them. I even got approved for some! Now I’ll have to seriously work on reading my NG ARCs next month. Because of all the approvals racking up, my current ratio has gone down to 92%, which still isn’t bad, but I’d like to see it go up next month.

I got approved for 10 new books in June:

• The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
• The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle by T.L. Huchu
• Bye, Baby by Carola Lovering
• The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
• The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
• After That Night by Karin Slaughter
• The Kitchen Witch Handbook by Aurora Kane
• Spoon to be Dead by Dana Mentink
• Where the Dead Sleep by Joshua Moehling
• Since She’s Been Gone by Sagit Schwartz

These are the ARCs that I read and reviewed, with links to my reviews:

• Someone Just Like You by Meredith Schorr — see my review here.
• Don’t Want to Be Your Monster by Deke Moulton — see my review here.

Here are the ARCs I still have to read:

1. The Déjà Glitch by Holly James
2. The Book of Witches by Jonathan Strahan
3. Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen
4. The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
5. Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
6. Pestilence by Laura Thalassa
7. War by Laura Thalassa
8. Famine by Laura Thalassa
9. Death by Laura Thalassa
10. Where the Dead Sleep by Joshua Moehling
11. After That Night by Karin Slaughter
12. The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle by T.L. Huchu
13. The Witching Tide by Margaret Meyer
14. Hex and the City by Kate Johnson
15. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
16. The Kitchen Witch Handbook by Aurora Kane
17. A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
18. The Pomegranate Gate by Ariel Kaplan
19. A Box of Magick by Jamie Della
20. Spoon to be Dead by Dana Mentink
21. The Reformatory by Tananarive Due 
22. The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
23. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
24. Since She’s Been Gone by Sagit Schwartz
25. Bye, Baby by Carola Lovering

Which ARCs are you excited about this month? Do we have any in common? Have you already read any of the ones on my list?