september tbr

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about all the books i want to read in september. it is honestly so crazy that i this i’m writing this for september since i feel like it is still january, which i crazy that we are in the last half for 2021.

malibu rising by taylor jenkins reid. malibu: august, 1983. it’s the day of nina riva’s annual end of the summer party, and the anticipation is at a fever pitch. everyone wants to be around the famous rivas: nina, the talented surfer and supermodel, brothers jay and hud, one a championship surfer and the other a photographer, and their little sister, kit. together, the siblings are a source of fascination in malibu and the world over, especially as the offspring of the legendary singer, mick riva. the only person not looking forward to the party of the year is nina herself, who never really wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. and maybe hud, because it is long past time to confess something to the brother from whom he’s been inseparable since birth. jay, who is counting the minutes until nightfall when the girl he can’t stop thinking about, will be there. and kit, with many secrets of her own, including a guest she invited without consulting anyone. and by midnight, the party will be completely out of control. by morning, the riva mansion will have gone up in flames. but, before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family’s generations will all come bubbling to the surface.

people we meet on vacation by emily henry. poppy and alex, alex and poppy. they have nothing in common. she’s a wild child; he wears khakis. she has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. and somehow, ever since a fateful car chare home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. for most of year they lived far apart, she’s in new york and he’s in their small hometown, but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. until, two years ago, when they ruined everything. they haven’t spoken since. poppy has everything she could ever want, but she’s stuck in a rut. when someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with alex. and so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together, lay everything on the table, make it all right, and miraculously, he agrees. now, she has a week to fix everything. if only she can get around one big truth has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship.

the atlas six by olivie blake.  the alexandrian society, caretakers of the lost knowledge from the greatest civilization of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. those who earn a place among the alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the sex most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation. enter the latest round of six: libby rhodes and nico de varona, unwilling halves of an unfathomable whole, who exert uncanny control over every element of physicality. reina mori, a naturalist, who can intuit the language of life itself. parisa kamali, a telepath who can traverse the depths of the subconscious, navigating worlds inside the human mind. callum nova, an empath easily mistaken for a manipulative illusionist, who can influence the intimate workings of a person’s inner self. finally, there is tristan caine, who can see through illusions to new structure of reality, which is so rare that neither he nor his peers can fully grasp its implications.

loveless by alice oseman. georgia has neve been in love, never kissed anyone, never even had a crush, but as a fanfic obsessed romantic she’s sure she’ll find her person one day. as she starts university with her best friends, pip and jason, in a whole new town far from home, georgia’s ready to find romance, and with her outgoing roommate on her side and a place in the Shakespeare society, her ‘teenage dream’ is in sight. but, when her roommate plan wrecks havoc amongst her friends, georgia ends up in her own comedy of errors, and she starts to question why love seems so easy for other people but not for her. with new terms thrown at her, asexual, aromantic, georgia is more uncertain about her feelings than ever.

the deal by elle kennedy. hannah wells has finally found someone who turns her on. but while she might be confident in every other area of her life, she’s carting around a full set of baggage when it comes to sex and seduction. if she wants to get her crush’s attention, she’ll have to step out of her comfort zone and make him take notice, even if it means tutoring the annoying and childish and cocky captain of the hockey team in exchange for a pretend date. all garrett graham has ever wanted is to play professional hockey after graduation, but his plummeting GPA is threatening everything he’s worked so hard for. if helping a sarcastic brunette make another guy jealous will help him secure his position on the team, he’s all for it. but, when one unexpected kiss leads on the wildest sex of both of their lives, it doesn’t take long for garrett to realize that pretend isn’t going to cut it. now, he just has to convince hannah that the man she wants looks a lot like him.

the spanish love deception by elena armas. catalina martian, finally, not single. her family is happy to announce that she will bring her american boyfriend to her sister’s wedding. everyone is invited to come and witness that most magical event of the year. which, would certainly be tomorrow’s headline in the local newspaper of the small spanish town i came from. or the epitaph on my tombstone, seeing the turn my life had taken in the span of a phone call. four weeks wasn’t a lot of time to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic, from new york all the way to spain, for a wedding. let alone, someone eager to play along my charade. but that didn’t mean i was desperate enough to bring the 6’4 blue eyed pain in the ass. aaron blackford, the man whose main occupation was making my blood boil had just offered himself to be my date. right after inserting his nose in my business, calling me delusional, and calling himself my best option. and much to total despair, which left me with a surly and extra large dilemma.

desperate measures by katee robert. one night, and my entire life went up in flames. all because of him, jafar. as my world burned down around me, he offered me a choice. walk away with nothing by my freedom, or rise to his challenge and win my fortune back. i bargained, i lost. now, jafar owns me, and even as my mind rails against his rules, my body loves the punishments he deals out when i break them. but a gilded cage is still a prison, i’ll do anything to obtain my freedom. even betray the man i’m falling for.

heart bones by colleen hoover. life and a dismal last name are the only two things beyah grim’s parents ever gave her. after carving her path at all on her own, beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. with only two short months separating her from the future she’s built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves beyah with no place to go during the interim. focused to reach out to her last resort, beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in texas with a father she barely knows. beyah’s plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seeminglessly, but her new neighbor samson throws a wrench in that plan. samson and beyah have nothing in common on the surface. she comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilaged. but one thing they do have in common is that they’re both drawn to sad thing. which means, they’re drawn to each other. with an almost immediate connection to intense for them to continue denying, beyah and samson agrees to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling.

a night like this by julia quinn. anne wynter might not be who she says she is, but she’s managing quite well as a governess to three highborn young ladies. her job can be a challenge, in a single week she finds herself hiding in a closet full of tubas, playing an evil queen in a play that might be a tragedy, or might not be a comedy, no one is sure, and is tending to the wounds of the oh so dashing earl of winstead. after years of dodging unwanted advances, he’s the first man who has truly tempted her, and it’s getting harder and harder to remind herself that a governess has no business flirting with a nobleman. daniel smythe smith might be in mortal danger, but that’s not going to stop the young earl from falling in love and when he spies a mysterious woman at his family’s annual musicale, he vows to pursue her, even if that means spending his days with a ten year old who thinks she’s a unicorn. but daniel has an enemy, one who has vowed to see him dead. and when anne is thrown into peril, he will stop at nothing to ensure their happy ending.

the sum of all kisses by julia quinn. hugh prentice has never had patience for dramatic females, and if lady sarah pleinsworth has ever been acquainted with the words shy or retiring, she’s long since tossed them out the window. besides, a reckless duel has left this brilliant mathematician with a ruined leg, and now he could never court a woman like sarah, much less dream of marrying her. sarah had never forgiven hugh for the duel he fought that nearly destroyed her family. but even if she could find a way to forgive him, it wouldn’t matter. she doesn’t care that his leg is less than perfect, it’s his personality she can’t abide. but, forced to spend a week in close company they discover that first impressions are not always reliable. and when one kiss leads to two, three, and four, the mathematician may lose count, and the lady may, for the first time, find herself speechless.

the secrets of richard kenworthy by julia quinn. sir richard kenworthy has less than a month to find a bride. he knows he can’t be too picky, but when he sees iris smythe smith hiding behind her cello at her family’s infamous musicale, he think he might have struck gold. she’s the type of girl you don’t notice until the second, or third, look, but there’s something about her, something simmering under the surface, and he knows she’s the one. iris smythe smith, is used to being underestimated. with her pale hair and quiet, sly wit she tends to blend into the background, and she likes it that way. so, when richard kenworthy demands an introduction, she is suspicious. he flirts, he charms, he gives every impression, she is suspicious. and when his proposal of marriage turns into a compromising position that forces the issue, she can’t help thinking that he’s hiding something, even as her heart tells her to say yes.

the maidens by alex michaelides. edward fosca is a murderer. of this mariana is certain. but fosca is untouchable. a handsome and charismatic greek tragedy professor at cambridge university, fosca is adored by the staff and students alike, particularly by the members of a secret society of female students know as the maidens. mariana andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on the maidens when one member, a friend of mariana’s niece zoe, is found murdered in cambridge. mariana, who was once herself a student at the university, quickly suspects that behind the idyllic beauty of the spires and turrets, and beneath the ancient traditions, lies something sinsiter. and she becomes convinced that, despites his alibi edward fosca is guilty of the murder. but why would the professor targets one of his students? and why does he keep returning to the rites of persephone, the maiden, and her journey to teh underworld? when another body is found, mariana’s obsession with proving fosca’s guilt spirals out of control, threatening to destroy her credibility as well as her closest relationships.

never saw me coming by vera kurian. meet chloe serve. she’s a freshman honor student, a leggings wearing hit girl next door, who also happens to be a psychopath. her hobbies include yogalates, frat parties, and plotting to kill will bachman, a childhood friend who grievously wronged her. chloe is one of seven students in her dc based college who are part of an unusual clinical study for psychopaths, students like herself who lack empathy and can’t comprehend emotions like fear or guilt. the study, led by a renowned psychologist, requires them to wear smart watches that track their moods and movements. when one of the students in the study is found murdered in the psychology building, a dangerous game of cat and mouse begins, and chloe goes from hunter to prey. as she races to identify the killer and put her own plan into action, she’ll be forced to decide if she can trust any of her fellow psychopaths, and everybody knows you should never trust a psychopath.

the light in the hidden places by sharon cameron. one knock at the door, and stefania has a choice to make. it is 1943, and for four years, sixteen year old stefania has been working for the diamant family in their grocery store in przemsyl, poland, singing her way into their lives and hearts. she has even made a promise to one of their sons, izio, a betrothal they must keep secret since she is catholic and he is jewish. but everything changes when the german army invades przemsyl. the diamant’s are forced into the ghetto, and stefania is alone in an occupied city, the only one lest to care for helena, her six year old sister. and then comes the knock at the door. izio’s brother, max, has jumped from the train headed to a death camo. stefania and helena make the decision to hide max, and eventually 12 more jews. then they must wait, everyday, for the next knock at the door, the one that will mean death. when the knock finally comes, it is two nazi officers, requisitioning stefania’s house for the german army.

the downstairs girl by stacey lee. by day, 17 year old jo kuan works as a lady’s maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in atlanta. but, by night, jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper column for the genteel southern lady, dear miss sweetie. when her column gets wildly popular, she uses the power of the pen to address some of society’s ills, but she’s not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges fixed ideas about race and gender. while her opponents clamor to uncover the secret identity of miss sweetie, a mysterious letter sets jo off on a search for her own past and parents who abandoned her as a baby. but, when her efforts put her in a crosshairs of atlanta’s most notorious criminal, jo must decide whether she, a girl used to living in the shadow, is ready to step into the light.

the push by ashley audrain. blythe connor is determined that she will still be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby, violet, that she herself never had. but, in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, blythe becomes convinced something is wrong with her daughter, she doesn’t behave like most children do. or is it all in blythe’s head? her husband, fox, says she’s imagining things. the more fox dismisses her fears, the more blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what blythe is telling us about her life as well. then, their son, sam is born, and with him, blythe has the blissful connection she’d always imagined with her child. even violet seems to love her little brother. but, when life as they know is changed in an instant, the devastating fall out forces blythe to face the truth.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly have so many books i want to read this month, and i do have some arcs i need to get to this month. but, i do honestly hope to read most of these books, since they honestly sound so good, and i probably should be able to get threw the romance books quickly, knock on wood.