Hey guys! I am excited to share my March TBR with you. I already finished one book in March so far so I feel things are off to a great start. I know not too much reading will be getting done once Animal Crossing: New Horizons comes out so I need to push myself before the 20th. I also decided to get myself hyped for Animal Crossing I will be taking part in the Animal Crossing Readathon! I am super excited for this. I am not 100% sure what I’ll be reading for this. I will be putting the prompts under the books I think I’ll be reading. I have been making TBRs but haven’t been following them as strictly. So things are subject to change. So let’s dive in and see what books I hope to read for March!
The Magicians By Lev GrossmanGenre: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult
Pages: 402 pages
Publication Date: August 11th 2009
Publisher: Viking
Plot: A thrilling and original coming-of-age novel for adults about a young man practicing magic in the real world.
Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the craft of modern sorcery.
He also discovers all the other things people learn in college: friendship, love, sex, booze, and boredom. Something is missing, though. Magic doesn’t bring Quentin the happiness and adventure he dreamed it would. After graduation he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. But the land of Quentin’s fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he could have imagined. His childhood dream becomes a nightmare with a shocking truth at its heart.
At once psychologically piercing and magnificently absorbing, The Magicians boldly moves into uncharted literary territory, imagining magic as practiced by real people, with their capricious desires and volatile emotions. Lev Grossman creates an utterly original world in which good and evil aren’t black and white, love and sex aren’t simple or innocent, and power comes at a terrible price.
Tom Nook: Read a book that you have recently purchased or checked out of the library
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley By Hannah Tinti
Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Pages: 376 pages
Publication Date: March 28th 2017
Publisher: Dial Press
Plot: A father protects his daughter from the legacy of his past and the truth about her mother’s death in this thrilling new novel from the prize-winning author of The Good Thief.
After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley moves with his teenage daughter, Loo, to Olympus, Massachusetts. There, in his late wife’s hometown, Hawley finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at school and grows curious about her mother’s mysterious death. Haunting them both are twelve scars Hawley carries on his body, from twelve bullets in his criminal past; a past that eventually spills over into his daughter’s present, until together they must face a reckoning yet to come. This father-daughter epic weaves back and forth through time and across America, from Alaska to the Adirondacks.
Both a coming-of-age novel and a literary thriller, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley explores what it means to be a hero, and the cost we pay to protect the people we love most.
Resetti: Don’t forgot to save! Read a book of your choice while using a bookmark
Able Sisters: Read a book with strong family themes
Platform Seven By Louise Doughty
Genre: Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery
Pages: 448 pages
Publication Date: August 22nd 2019
Publisher: Faber Faber
Plot: Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November morning is confident he’s alone. As he sits on the metal bench at the far end of the platform it is clear his choice is strategic – he’s as far away from the night staff as he can get.
What the man doesn’t realize is that he has company. Lisa Evans knows what he has decided. She knows what he is about to do as she tries and fails to stop him walking to the platform edge.
Two deaths on Platform Seven. Two fatalities in eighteen months – surely they’re connected?
No one is more desperate to understand what connects them than Lisa Evans herself. After all, she was the first of the two to die.
K.K. Slider: Listen to an audiobook or read a book that has musical elements
With the Fire on High By Elizabeth Acevedo
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Family
Pages: 400 pages
Publication Date: May 7th 2019
Publisher: HarperTeen
Plot: With her daughter to care for and her abuela to help support, high school senior Emoni Santiago has to make the tough decisions, and do what must be done. The one place she can let her responsibilities go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. Still, she knows she doesn’t have enough time for her school’s new culinary arts class, doesn’t have the money for the class’s trip to Spain — and shouldn’t still be dreaming of someday working in a real kitchen. But even with all the rules she has for her life — and all the rules everyone expects her to play by — once Emoni starts cooking, her only real choice is to let her talent break free.
K.K. Slider: Listen to an audiobook or read a book that has musical elements
Able Sisters: Read a book with strong family themes
Rules for Vanishing By Kate Alice Marshall
Genre: Horror, Young Adult, Mystery, Fantasy, LGBT
Pages: 416 pages
Publication Date: September 24th 2019
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
Plot: In the faux-documentary style of The Blair Witch Project comes the campfire story of a missing girl, a vengeful ghost, and the girl who is determined to find her sister–at all costs.
Once a year, the path appears in the forest and Lucy Gallows beckons. Who is brave enough to find her–and who won’t make it out of the woods?
It’s been exactly one year since Sara’s sister, Becca, disappeared, and high school life has far from settled back to normal. With her sister gone, Sara doesn’t know whether her former friends no longer like her…or are scared of her, and the days of eating alone at lunch have started to blend together. When a mysterious text message invites Sara and her estranged friends to “play the game” and find local ghost legend Lucy Gallows, Sara is sure this is the only way to find Becca–before she’s lost forever. And even though she’s hardly spoken with them for a year, Sara finds herself deep in the darkness of the forest, her friends–and their cameras–following her down the path. Together, they will have to draw on all of their strengths to survive. The road is rarely forgiving, and no one will be the same on the other side.
Resetti: Don’t forgot to save! Read a book of your choice while using a bookmark
Tom Nook: Read a book that you have recently purchased or checked out of the library
Eight Perfect Murders By Peter Swanson
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Adult
Pages: 288 pages
Publication Date: March 3rd 2020
Publisher: William Morrow
Plot: A chilling tale of psychological suspense and an homage to the thriller genre tailor-made for fans: the story of a bookseller who finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation because a very clever killer has started using his list of fiction’s most ingenious murders.
Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre’s most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack—which he titled “Eight Perfect Murders”—chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie’s A. B. C. Murders, Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin’s Death Trap, A. A. Milne’s Red House Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Cox’s Malice Aforethought, James M. Cain’s Double Indemnity, John D. Macdonald’s The Drowner, and Donna Tartt’s A Secret History.
But no one is more surprised than Mal, now the owner of the Old Devils Bookshop in Boston, when an FBI agent comes knocking on his door one snowy day in February. She’s looking for information about a series of unsolved murders that look eerily similar to the killings on Mal’s old list. And the FBI agent isn’t the only one interested in this bookseller who spends almost every night at home reading. The killer is out there, watching his every move—a diabolical threat who knows way too much about Mal’s personal history, especially the secrets he’s never told anyone, even his recently deceased wife.
To protect himself, Mal begins looking into possible suspects—and sees a killer in everyone around him. But Mal doesn’t count on the investigation leaving a trail of death in its wake. Suddenly, a series of shocking twists leaves more victims dead—and the noose around Mal’s neck grows so tight he might never escape.
Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 1: Cosmic Avengers (Guardians of the Galaxy (2013 (Collected Editions) #1) Genre: Science Fiction, Graphic Novel
Pages: 136 pages
Publication Date: August 28th 2013
Publisher: Marvel
Plot: There’s a new rule in the galaxy: No one touches Earth!
But why has Earth suddenly become the most important planet in the galaxy? That’s what the Guardians of the Galaxy are going to find out!
Join Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket Raccoon, Groot and–wait for it–the Invincible Iron Man as they embark upon one of the most explosive and eye-opening chapters of Marvel NOW! The secrets these galactic Avengers discover will rattle Marvel readers for years to come! But while London deals with a brutal invasion by the Badoon, the fate of the Guardians may have already been decided millions of miles away! Why wait for the movie? It all starts here!
Collecting: Guardians of the Galaxy 0.1, 1-3; & Guardians of the Galaxy Infinite Comic
Animal Crossing Gamecube: Read a book that has been on your TBR the longest or re-read an old favorite
Here are the books I plan to read for March/Animal Crossing Readathon. If I finish these by the time the Animal Crossing Readathon ends I’ll probably pick up some other books. For now my main focus is these books.
What books are you planning to read in March? Are you partipating in the Animal Crossing readathon?
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There are some really good choices here! I’ve read With the Fire on High and can verify that it’s really good. I read it as an ARC and then listen to the audio book, so either way you’re going to be enjoying it. 🙂
I’ve got to check out some of your other choices because they sound super intriguing, very mysterious.
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