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LitsyEvents
My Favorite Authors | Thomas Costley
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Have you been waiting for this announcement #AuthorAMonth readers? I've been excited since I started working on results and graphics yesterday. Here is our author lineup for 2026!

41 people voted this year. The author with the highest vote count was Amor Towles with 24. Then Martha Wells with 20.
Many of the rest each had 19.

Is there one author or book you're most excited to include in your 2026 reading plan?

From @Soubhville

Soubhiville Thank you for sharing! 42m
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Soubhiville
My Favorite Authors | Thomas Costley
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Have you been waiting for this announcement #AuthorAMonth readers? I‘ve been excited since I started working on results and graphics yesterday. Here is our author lineup for 2026!

41 people voted this year. The author with the highest vote count was Amor Towles with 24. Then Martha Wells with 20. Many of the rest each had 19.

Is there one author or book you‘re most excited to include in your 2026 reading plan? (I‘ll comment below my tag list.)

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Soubhiville I had mixed feelings about including poetry as a genre this year. I don‘t particularly enjoy reading poetry. But I am glad Mary Oliver was the winner (by a long shot!) and I am interested in giving her a try. 3h
BarkingMadRead Ohhhhhhh I can‘t wait to plan for this, I really hope to actually complete the challenge this year 🤣 3h
Soubhiville Others I was glad to see win: Martha Wells, Jane Goodall, Elif Shafak. And Tananarive Due, who I‘ve never read but have wanted to try! 3h
Amor4Libros This lineup looks good! I hope I can participate on most months next year 😊 3h
Soubhiville @VeganCleopatra would you like to join the tag list? 3h
Soubhiville @LitsyEvents would you mind reposting please? 3h
AmyG Huzzah! Thanks so much @soubhiville for organizing this. 3h
Bookwormjillk Woo hoo! Excited for them all but really excited for Jane Goodall and the Bronte sisters. 3h
AllDebooks Yay! Great list. Thank you. 😊 2h
TheBookHippie Oh yay!!!! What a nice list!!! Looking forward to Jane!!! 2h
BennettBookworm THIS IS SO EXCITING!! Sooo many that I voted for!! Thank you!! I‘d love to join the tag list 😄 (edited) 2h
Larkken Excellent! Thanks for doing this for another year! 1h
peanutnine Oh wow what a great selection! Looking forward to some favorites and trying out some new authors!! 1h
Jess What a great list! I spent time in Haworth (home of the Brontes) last month and told myself that I need to read more of the sisters‘ work so I am excited they made the list. So many good ones. Can‘t wait! 1h
Soubhiville @BennettBookworm you are added! 46m
Amiable This will nudge me towards the Brontë sisters when choosing my classics reads for 2026. ?? now
Deblovestoread What a fantastic list! I'm excited about every see single one of these authors. 2026 is going to be a great reading year! Thanks, Soubhi! now
tpixie @Soubhiville I love the Brontë sisters! My daughter & I saw Jane Goodall at the Wichita ( KS) Zoo & she signed a book for her, even though she said she wasn‘t supposed to! now
mom2bugnbee Yaaaaayyyyyyyy! Kinda fell off the wagon halfway through this year, but I'm excited to dive back in. Thank you for all of your hard work! now
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Texreader
Democracy | Joan Didion
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A new #wordoftheday

“Intermission at the ballet, one of those third-string touring companies that afford the women and children and dutiful providers of small cities an annual look at … “Nutcracker”; an occasion, a benefit, a reason to dress up after the general fretfulness of the season and the specific lassitude of the holiday and stand outside beneath an improvised canopy drinking champagne from paper cups.”

#authoramonth @Soubhiville

Soubhiville JD is giving you a bunch of great words isn‘t she? 🙂 4h
Suet624 I wish I remembered to use this word more frequently when I‘m speaking about how I‘m feeling 4h
Doll8455 My extreme lassitude made my face look more lugubrious. 2h
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Gissy
Hell Bent | Leigh Bardugo
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Pickpick

March 2025 Book #7 second book in Alex Stern series) I thought it would be a duology but not, third book is expected by September 2026. Well the ending suggests that a third book is coming. This book started very slow, I even thought if it was necessary a second book but then…the action starts. It has many twists and there is no way to describe it without spoilers. If you liked the first book, you will enjoy this one but ⬇️

Gissy (Cont.) stay with the story since it is a little slow at the beginning. This is the style I expect in this author. Never like Six of Cows but still good. 3.8⭐️
#Read2025 @DieAReader
#AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville
#LitsyAToX @Texreader
GR AroundTheYear prompt #14 fantasy written by a woman
#BookSpinBingo #DoubleSpin (#12) book from subscription@TheAromaOfBooks)
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TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 1d
DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 23h
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Gissy
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Mehso-so

March 2025 Book #5
I own like three special editions of this book because they are beautiful and I thought I would love this book. This book has mixed reviews. I‘m in the side of very disappointed team. The writing style is so different of what I use to read by this author, it was like someone else wrote it. The premise is so interesting but I found it extremely boring. Maybe because I was expecting action, intrigue, I don‘t know something else⬇️

Gissy (Cont.) It didn‘t work for me, sorry for the fans☺️2 ⭐️ What I am going to do with all these editions? Don‘t know yet, they are so beautiful and I really like this author but this one was not for me😬For now they still live in my shelf😊
#Read2025 @DieAReader
#AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville
#UltimateReadingChallenge prompt #29 something dangerous
#BookSpinBingo #BookSpin (1) (AuthorAMonth)
#ISpyBingo (cover love) @TheAromaOfBooks
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Karisa Agreed. I ended up bailing on it and it had been one of my most anticipated books… Just didn‘t come to life for me. At least the books are pretty! 2d
Gissy @Karisa Yes! I was asking myself if she used a ghostwriter 🤔 2d
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Karisa @Gissy ooh, maybe? I see what you mean. It didn‘t feel like her other work 2d
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 1d
DieAReader #Next 👋🏻👋🏻 23h
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DebinHawaii
October's End | Horrified Press
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I never got to my October recap nor have I finished all my October reviews but I wanted to get this posted finally. Finished 16 books & a short story, started one more & got further in Women Who Run With the Wolves (I‘m still way behind).

I finished books for #SundayBuddyRead #ChildrensClasdicRead2025 #NancyDrewBR #BobWhiteBuddies #EBBR
#SheSaid #MonthlyNonFiction #ThematicCozies #FictionalTraveler #Roll100 (3) #AuthorAMonth & SeriesLove2025 ⬇️

DebinHawaii … Favorites were Caroline Bingley, Private Investigator, The Impossible Fortune, Kindred (re-listen), The Witchcraft of Salem Village & Kill Her Twice. 3d
Librarybelle Yay!! 3d
TheBookHippie 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼♥️ 2d
Ruthiella Looking good! 👀👍 2d
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic month!! 2d
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Texreader
Democracy | Joan Didion
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Soubhiville That‘s a great word! 3d
Doll8455 The poem was very hard to grasp due to the abstruse use of rhythm. 3d
Texreader @Doll8455 Well played! 3d
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Soubhiville
My Favorite Authors | Thomas Costley
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Last call for voting for the upcoming year‘s authors for #AuthorAMonth!

I‘ll close the poll and start compiling my announcement post on Tuesday evening. Results will be announced on Wednesday!

https://forms.gle/rhjGCu4rosz1j9Qc8

I‘m really excited by the poll leaders so far!

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Bklover Thank you Soubhi for all the work you do for AAM. It is very much appreciated! I don‘t always read every month‘s author but over the years I have found so many authors that I love! 4d
JenReadsAlot Oh thanks for the reminder! 4d
Soubhiville @Bklover ☺️ me too! I‘ve read so many books I might never have picked up otherwise. 4d
TheBookHippie Thx so much!!! You stretch my reading! ♥️ 4d
Larkken Looking forward to this challenge again :) 4d
dabbe @TheBookHippie @Soubhiville Ditto what she said! 🧡🍁♥️ 4d
VeganCleopatra How does one join this challenge? Thanks! 3d
Bookwormjillk Thank you! Excited for Wednesday! 3d
Soubhiville @VeganCleopatra just jump in whenever you‘d like to! There is a StoryGraph challenge to go along with it and a Google Form to keep track. A couple of prizes at the end of the year. See other posts on this same book title. Our current author is Joan Didion, and December will be Nora Roberts. 3d
Gissy I voted already. I checked some authors that appeared in the pst, some unknown to me and some authors where I have books by them but they are still in my tbr..unread🙄story of my life☺️ 3d
Zuhkeeyah Voted! 3d
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Texreader
Democracy | Joan Didion
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Women: imagine needing to supply a husband‘s information or worse needing his permission for such things!!

#authoramonth @Soubhiville

lil1inblue I would not have fit in well in any historical era. 4d
Karisa Blech 🤢 4d
Lcsmcat My mother had to get a note from my father to skip physical education (which her college required) when she was pregnant. It boggles the mind. 3d
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