Happy (almost) February! Now, I don’t always make TBR posts, but honestly they’re kind of fun to make, and now that I have a TBR prompt jar, I wanted to make one and talk a little bit about my hopeful reads for the month!
As a general rule of thumb, I’m aiming for four books to be read per month. Whether or not I hit that goal is another question entirely. Last year, for instance, I read NINE books in February, the shortest month of the year! It was the most I had read in a month ever, and I’ve been chasing that high ever since lol
I already had one book I was planning on reading this month regardless of a prompt, and that is A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas. I’ll also be finishing the fourth book in the This Woven Kingdom series by Tahereh Mafi, Every Spiral of Fate, though I’ll finish this either today or tomorrow, so it’s technically not a TBR book, but I’m including it here anyway.
I started reading it last year for the first time and I never finished it, so I want to finish it off this month. I just wasn’t in the mood at the time, but I’m ready to be finished with the original trilogy. It’s time lol
TBR Prompt Jar Picks
I have to say, now that I actually put in prompts and not book titles, it’s actually fun using the jar to pick some reads. That being said, I am still very much a mood reader, so I may not even pick these books up this month, but I’m going to try!
Prompt One: A 2026 release
My first prompt was tricky because I was going to pick the book by Ilona Andrews off of my most anticipated reads list, but that doesn’t come out until March! So, I picked another one off of the list: Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan
This comes out at the end of the month, so I’ll have plenty of time beforehand to read the other books on my list before this one!
Prompt Two: Special Edition/Book subscription book
This was a tough one because I wasn’t entirely sure what I was going to pick. I almost picked a reread of The Air Awakens series by Elise Kova as I got the Bookish Box special edition box from a PangoBooks seller recently and they’re simply gorgeous, BUT then I remembered one book that is both a special edition book AND a book subscription book!
I got this book from Book of the Month, and it was their version of a special edition book, sooo it fits the prompt perfectly! I also could’ve knocked out two prompts with one stone by including this to cover the 2026 release as it came out at the beginning of January, but then I’d still have to pick another book regardless!
Prompt Three: A book cover that matches your shirt color
At the time of picking this prompt, I was wearing a black hoodie, so I stared around at my shelves wondering what I could pick, and then BAM! It was practically staring me right in the face!
Not only is it a predominantly black cover, but the word “black” is in the title. A perfect fit, if you ask me! I’ve been wanting to read this for a very long time, anyway, so it’s quite perfect if you ask me.
But wait! There’s more!
This hopefuls list is severely lacking in the romance category, and the Black author category! Now I’m not going to hold out hope that I’m going to be reading nine books this month again like I did last year, but I’m going to do my best to lessen my doom scrolling and replace that screen time with reading (so far, so good!). Here’s some other books I’d like to get to this month:
I read the Skyland series by Kennedy Ryan last year and absolutely adored her writing style and storytelling, so I have to read Reel! It’s also been recommended to me a few times by various people, so I don’t want to put it off any longer!
I also read the first book in the Deathless series, The Gilded Ones, last year and enjoyed it, so I want to continue the series this year and complete it! Maybe not in February, but definitely this year.
As for Sula, I know Toni Morrison is widely revered, and as I’ve never read any of her works, and it’s a short book, I wanted to give it a go.
That’s it! Those are the hopefuls I have planned for the month, but like I said at the beginning, all of this can change at any moment and I might not pick up any of these, or even finish them. I’m at the point in my reading journey where if a book isn’t bringing me joy, I’m not going to force myself to read it. It’s okay to put it down for a time and come back to it; the world will still spin!
Reader Rayna 
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