May TBR - including TWO readathons!

Hiya!

I want to share my TBR for May, which includes my OWLs TBR (yes I know it's late, but I do what I want), and my Believathon TBR. Plus I'm trying to fit in as many PopSugar Reading Challenge book as I can, since I only have 8 months to do the whole list.

We'll start with my OWLs books:

1. Ancient Runes - soo... already cheating lol. The prompt is "Heart rune - heart on the cover or in the title", but I've instead picked a book about runes, and with runes on the cover: City of Ashes
2. Arithmancy - Magical qualities of number 2 - balance/opposites; read something outside your favorite genre: Duke's Refuge (Christian romance is definitely outside my comfort zone, but I love the woman that wrote it, so I'm excited to read it)
3. Astronomy - Night classes - read majority of this book when it's dark outside: City of Bones
4. Care of Magical Creatures - Hippogriffs - creature with a beak on the cover: Hunger Games
5. Charms - Lumos Maxima - white cover: Vox
6. Defence Against the Dark Arts - Grindylows - book set at the sea/coast: Assassin's Apprentice
7. Divination - Third eye - Assign numbers to your TBR and use a random number generator to pick your read: Wundersmith (number 27)
8. Herbology - Mimbulus Mimbletonia - Title starts with an M: Mockingjay
9. History of Magic - Witch hunts - Book featuring witches/wizards: The Light Fantastic
10. Muggle Studies - Book from a perspective of a muggle - contemporary: Prison Book Club
11. Potions - Shrinking solution - book under 150 pages: A Long Walk to Water
12. Transfiguration - Animagus lecture - book/series that include shapeshifting: Dead Until Dark

My plan originally was to go for the Curse Breaker career, but then I liked a whole lot of others of course. Now I'm going to try for those ones first, and then try for all the rest. That way, I'll have more choice and leeway during the NEWTs.

Now for my Believathon TBR. I bought Gavin's amazing compendium on Amazon, cause I thought that was the coolest idea. I've gone through it and tweaked my TBR a bit, because there are so many good ideas in there! This is what I landed on:

1. The Poacher's Pocket Inn - the first book in a series: A Pinch of Magic

2. Baba Yaga's House - a book featuring a family relationship: The House with Chicken Legs

3. 100 Acre Wood - a book with yellow on the cover: The First Rule of Punk

4. The Brolly Rail - a book featuring transportation, or with transportation on the cover: Nevermoor

5. The Book-Keeper's Stronghold - the next book in a series: Wundersmith

Luckily, most if not all of these books are also on my Popsugar list, so I don't have to read like 75 books by the end of the year plus anything else I pick up on a whim. So here's that list, in case anybody wanted to stop reading at this point ;)

1. A book that's published in 2020: Duke's Refuge
2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author: Felix YZ
3. A book with a great first line: 1984
4. A book about a book club: Prison Book Club
5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics: Eleven Minutes
6. A bildungroman: A Long Walk to Water
7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed: Wilder Girls
8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover: Release
9. A book with a map: City of Bones
10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club: Vox
11. An anthology: The Hero Next Door
12. A book that passes the Bechdel test: The Handmaid's Tale
13. A book with the same title as a movie or TV show, but is unrelated to it: Vicious
14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name: Cruel Prince
15. A book published the month of your birthday: Dress Codes for Small Towns
16. A book about or by a woman in STEM: Where the Crawdads Sing
17. A book that won an award in 2019: The Wicked King
18. A book on a subject you know nothing about: The Andromeda Strain
19. A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics: Dark Matter
20. A book with a pun in the title: Equal Rites
21. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins: Pride and Prejudice
22. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character: Orion Lost
23. A book with a bird on the cover: Hunger Games
24. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader: 11/22/63
25. A book with gold, silver, or bronze in the title: The Bronze Horseman
26. A book by a WOC: The First Rule of Punk
27. A book with at least a 4 star rating on Goodreads: The House with Chicken Legs
28. A book you meant to read in 2019: Assassin's Apprentice
29. A book about or involving social media: The Circle
30. A book that has a book on the cover: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
31. A medical thriller: The Farm
32. A book with a made-up language: Dreams of Gods and Monsters
33. A book set in a country beginning with C: Daughter of Smoke and Bone
34. A book you picked because the title caught your attention: Fortuna Sworn
35. A book with a 3-word title: The Graveyard Book
36. A book with a pink cover: The Dreamers
37. A western: The Gunslinger
38. A book by or about a journalist: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week: Dead Until Dark
40. Your favorite from a past Popsugar Reading Challenge (More than 500 pages - 2015): Dune

Advanced Prompts

1. A book written by an author in their 20s: Children of Blood and Bone
2. A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
3. A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision): Nevermoor
4. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics: Wildcard
5. A book set in the 1920s: The Diviners
6. A book by an author who has written more than 20 books: The Light Fantastic
7. A book with more than 20 letters in its title: Days of Blood and Starlight
8. A book published in the 20th century: The Color of Magic
9. A book from a series with more than 20 books: Mort
10. A book with a main character in their 20s: Warcross

Wow that's a lot of books! I'm currently reading City of Bones, and I'm about 40% through, but I anticipate finishing that tonight or tomorrow. I have the physical copy, the ebook, and the audiobook, so I never have to be without it until I finish it! I'll update in a few day with what I've read, and let you know how I'm doing on my readathons.

Currently reading: City of Bones

Keep reading!

Katy