OcTBR Challenge
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An entire month dedicated to tackling everything you want to read but haven’t been able to get to yet. Can you topple your TBR towers?
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After this week's #OcTBRChat, we've compiled a list of all the kid lit books that were recommended. Enjoy!
Finding the Fox by Ali Sparkes
The End by Mats Strandberg
Skellig by David Almond
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
Finding the Fox by Ali Sparkes
The End by Mats Strandberg
Skellig by David Almond
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
Only a few hours left of this year's OcTBR Challenge! *sigh* We hope you had fun, fell even more in love with reading, and put a dent in your TBR. Maybe you even got to the bottom of it?
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Post some pics of TBRs or fave reads, and we'll see you next OcTBR! 😍
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PaHaHaHahahaha
Post some pics of TBRs or fave reads, and we'll see you next OcTBR! 😍
🎃📚🍁
/Team OcTBRchallenge
October 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Only a few hours left of this year's OcTBR Challenge! *sigh* We hope you had fun, fell even more in love with reading, and put a dent in your TBR. Maybe you even got to the bottom of it?
PaHaHaHahahaha
Post some pics of TBRs or fave reads, and we'll see you next OcTBR! 😍
🎃📚🍁
/Team OcTBRchallenge
PaHaHaHahahaha
Post some pics of TBRs or fave reads, and we'll see you next OcTBR! 😍
🎃📚🍁
/Team OcTBRchallenge
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#10, my favorite read of the YEAR so far! Perfectly suited for an autumnal read: a haunting, rougarou lore ... read by the author, and timed during the early pandemic. I was so delighted by how much I enjoyed this book. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #OcTBRChallenge
October 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
#10, my favorite read of the YEAR so far! Perfectly suited for an autumnal read: a haunting, rougarou lore ... read by the author, and timed during the early pandemic. I was so delighted by how much I enjoyed this book. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #OcTBRChallenge
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich!
October 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
At the very beginning of October, I read The Salvage Crew by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne. It would make a spectacular limited series! A motley crew being led into an 'easy' salvage job on an unknown planet by an AI that used to be a person and has to manage their complex personalities to get the job done.
October 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Well, that's it for tonight, we hope to be a little bit more present next year than we've been now (*life* came in the way...). As always, you've all been brilliant, thank you so much for participating!! 🥰😍🎃📚🍁🍂💕
#OcTBRchat #OcTBRchallenge
#OcTBRchat #OcTBRchallenge
October 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Well, that's it for tonight, we hope to be a little bit more present next year than we've been now (*life* came in the way...). As always, you've all been brilliant, thank you so much for participating!! 🥰😍🎃📚🍁🍂💕
#OcTBRchat #OcTBRchallenge
#OcTBRchat #OcTBRchallenge
you're evil. choose one? seriously? ugh. lemme think. Vital Signs by L Eveland hit me hard. I haven't stopped thinking about it. Ash on the Tongue by Lee McCormick, too (part of the zombie series I can't seem to shut up about).
October 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Just finished (as in 30 mins ago), The Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud. Very gothic (and very science-fantasy)! Mad surgeries, a cult, an asylum on the moon, giant (and small) spiders, lots of murder! Maybe don't try it if you're arachnophobic, though...
October 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I'm just gonna scrooge on you and tell you that I generally dislike xmas/winter-holiday books. I just.. I dunno. I don't care for them. that said, there are quite a few books coming out soon that I'm super excited for, most notably Deviant by Cora Rose and Lark Taylor.
October 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I’m still reading The Talisman, but I am a third of the way through The Life Of Chuck as well and it’s gorgeously heartbreaking so far!
And now for the final question of the year:
Question nr.4: What's been your very favourite read during the #OcTBRchallenge 2025? Still a few days to go! 📚 🎃 📚 #OcTBRchat
Question nr.4: What's been your very favourite read during the #OcTBRchallenge 2025? Still a few days to go! 📚 🎃 📚 #OcTBRchat
October 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
interestingly, also the previously mentioned zombie books. with the way The Last of Us was a craze, I could see mainstream folks getting behind these (y'know, excepting they'd likely freak about them being queer romances...)
October 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
ack! I'm late!
I've been reading some zombie books that are a little freaky. scary? dunno. but interesting in a "yeah, I could see this happening" sort of way.
(the series is a multi-author shared world called Mayhem Manuscripts Season One: 1nf3ction)
#OcTBRchat (should I be tagging comments?)
I've been reading some zombie books that are a little freaky. scary? dunno. but interesting in a "yeah, I could see this happening" sort of way.
(the series is a multi-author shared world called Mayhem Manuscripts Season One: 1nf3ction)
#OcTBRchat (should I be tagging comments?)
October 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
And now for the final question of the year:
Question nr.4: What's been your very favourite read during the #OcTBRchallenge 2025? Still a few days to go! 📚 🎃 📚 #OcTBRchat
Question nr.4: What's been your very favourite read during the #OcTBRchallenge 2025? Still a few days to go! 📚 🎃 📚 #OcTBRchat
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October 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
And now for the final question of the year:
Question nr.4: What's been your very favourite read during the #OcTBRchallenge 2025? Still a few days to go! 📚 🎃 📚 #OcTBRchat
Question nr.4: What's been your very favourite read during the #OcTBRchallenge 2025? Still a few days to go! 📚 🎃 📚 #OcTBRchat
I do think that book I recommended in my last post - Fractured Echoes - would make a great limited series. Spooky stuff in Blackpool? That could be done so well!
Question nr.2: Which (spooky or other) book have your read this year, that would make a great movie or series? 🎦 #OcTBRchat
October 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I have too many on my TBR to read already, so not sure I’m going to wish for more (lol I absolutely will) but I’m excited to get to Shitshow by Chris Panatier!
Question nr.3: Since we're in holiday mood: What book is on your wishlist for the upcoming holidays? (Christmassy or other)! 🎅 #OcTBRchat
October 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
These two books are on my list, it's a bonus they're really pretty looking too 😍 #OcTBRchat
October 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
My answer to this one is YES I have read a couple of fab spooky reads from clients, one of which is now out. Highly recommend this awesome story set in Blackpool called Fractured Echoes by JJ Noad: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FGY7RZ9...
October 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Question nr.3: Since we're in holiday mood: What book is on your wishlist for the upcoming holidays? (Christmassy or other)! 🎅 #OcTBRchat
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October 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Question nr.3: Since we're in holiday mood: What book is on your wishlist for the upcoming holidays? (Christmassy or other)! 🎅 #OcTBRchat
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Okay I’m late, but let’s get into this!
Welcome to the last #OcTBRchat of the year! 📚 😍 🍂 🍁 🎃 Halloween is just around the corner, which leads us to the first question:
Q. No.1: Have you read anything that's been unexpectedly spooky or scary this year? Give us your best 👻 tips!!
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Q. No.1: Have you read anything that's been unexpectedly spooky or scary this year? Give us your best 👻 tips!!
🎃👽🎃🧟🎃🧛🎃
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October 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Okay I’m late, but let’s get into this!
One of my favourite vampire books just became a series! 😍🧛 But I'd love to see The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by @StephenKing as a movie!! #OcTBRchat
October 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Question nr.2: Which (spooky or other) book have your read this year, that would make a great movie or series? 🎦 #OcTBRchat
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October 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Question nr.2: Which (spooky or other) book have your read this year, that would make a great movie or series? 🎦 #OcTBRchat
Well, I read loads of spooky stuff since it's one of my favourite genres. But I was reading what I thought was a "normal" thriller, that turned out to be a horror movie kind of book 👀. Starting to think that goes for all books from this writer, as I'm reading nr.3 and it's also 😱 #OcTBRchat
October 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Welcome to the last #OcTBRchat of the year! 📚 😍 🍂 🍁 🎃 Halloween is just around the corner, which leads us to the first question:
Q. No.1: Have you read anything that's been unexpectedly spooky or scary this year? Give us your best 👻 tips!!
🎃👽🎃🧟🎃🧛🎃
Q. No.1: Have you read anything that's been unexpectedly spooky or scary this year? Give us your best 👻 tips!!
🎃👽🎃🧟🎃🧛🎃
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October 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Welcome to the last #OcTBRchat of the year! 📚 😍 🍂 🍁 🎃 Halloween is just around the corner, which leads us to the first question:
Q. No.1: Have you read anything that's been unexpectedly spooky or scary this year? Give us your best 👻 tips!!
🎃👽🎃🧟🎃🧛🎃
Q. No.1: Have you read anything that's been unexpectedly spooky or scary this year? Give us your best 👻 tips!!
🎃👽🎃🧟🎃🧛🎃
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Alas, I didn’t manage to finish the Ronald Hutton, but I read every other book on my #OcTBR pile, and I’m very proud of that 📚
On the subject of spooky books, here’s my current #OcTBR pile: leaning heavily into the folklore and witchy history this year. I’m currently reading the one on the top left: it’s fun, but I think the Ronald Hutton is really going to hit the spot, in historical terms.
November 3, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Alas, I didn’t manage to finish the Ronald Hutton, but I read every other book on my #OcTBR pile, and I’m very proud of that 📚
So, how are we all doing? 😄📚 🎃 #OcTBRchallenge
October 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
So, how are we all doing? 😄📚 🎃 #OcTBRchallenge
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#8 - Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart by GennaRose Nethercott. Beautiful prose, and I love the Blue-Bellied Ib. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #OcTBRChallenge
October 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
#8 - Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart by GennaRose Nethercott. Beautiful prose, and I love the Blue-Bellied Ib. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #OcTBRChallenge