October Reading Possibilities

October is here!  It's time for all things fallish!  Including curling up with some good reads.  Fall, cool weather, cozy throws, warm drinks and books just all fit together.  This month's possibility pile is a doozy.  Last month was a so-so reading month.  I did finish a couple of books:  one a hold at the library and the other a non-fiction.  But the Read Your Shelf Challenge book I am still working on!  Should be done this week. Lucky enough for me it fits last month's challenge and this month's challenge also.  

Speaking of the Read Your Shelf Challenge this month's prompt is "A Book set in a Country Other Than Your Own".  I'm going to broaden that a bit and add and other than the U.S.  Being that most books I read are set in the neighboring U.S. and rarely do I find one set in Canada, I think this is a good thing.  So the book I'm finishing up and adding to this month is Anxious People by Fredrik Bachman set in Sweden. It's also a translated book which fit lasts month's prompt.

Here are all the books pulled out from my To Be Read Piles that fit this month's prompt.  LOTS to choose from!

READ YOUR SHELF CHALLENGE

~ Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (Sweden, carryover from Sept) (finished)

~ Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly ( France, Germany and Poland)

~ The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley (England)

~ A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan)

~ The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato (London, Venice)

~ Sarai by Jill Eileen Smith (Egypt, Ancient Middle East)

~ Daughter of Jerusalem by Joan Wolf (Isreal)

~ Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Japan)

~ The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (Poland)

~ Monsoon Summer by Julia Gregson (England, India)

~ Early One Morning by Virginia Baily (Italy)

~ Take This Cup by Brock & Brodie Thoene (Isreal)

~ The Room on Rue Amelie by Kristen Harmel (France)

~ The Distant Hours by Kate Morton (England)

~ The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff (Europe)

~ The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff (France)

~ The Book of Lost Names by Kristen Harmel (France)

~ People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (Spain?, Australia?)

~ Day After Night by Anita Diamont (Mediterranean Coast)  (finished)

~ The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah (France)

~ The Pearl That Broke It's Shell by Nadia Hashimi (Afghanistan)

~ The Little Old Lady Behaving Badly by Catharina Ingleman-Sundberg (St. Tropez, France)

~ The Girl From the Train by Irma Joubert (Poland)

~ Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey (England)

BOOKS PURCHASED FROM 2019 - 2021

~ The Golden Son by Shilpi Somaya Gowda (India)   (finished)

~ Meet Me in Monaco by Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb (Monaco, France)

~ Code Name Helene by Ariel Lawhon (France)

~ No Place For a Lady by Gil Paul (Crimea)

LIBRARY HOLDS

~ Our Italian Summer by Jennifer Probst (Italy)

~ Dreams of Joy by Lisa See (China)

Well apparently I have a whole passel of WWII books set in France to read!  Yikes.

What are you reading in October?  Do you read seasonally?  Do you read "scary" books or mysteries in October?