November seemed extra long but to go by so quickly, too. I found myself stuck with tons of end-of-semester assignments, but I got through four books, with two of them being extra long. I've got less than 10 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge prompts to go for 2018, then the 2019 challenge will start up. I'm confident this could be the first year I actually complete the challenge, and I've already started planning for 2019. Keep reading to learn more about my November reads!






Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them: the Original Screenplay by JK Rowling ★★★★★
POPSUGAR Reading Challenge Prompt: A past Goodreads Choice awards winner
Brief synopsis:  When Newt Scamander arrived to New York in 1926 with a suitcase full of magical creatures, an accidental suitcase swap causes many of the creatures to escape into the city. Simultaneously, there's a force wreaking havoc about the city. Is it one of Newt's creatures, or is something more sinister happening that's threatening to break MACUSA's statute of secrecy revealing the wizarding community to the non-Maj population?
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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath ★★★☆☆
POPSUGAR Reading Challenge Prompt: A book about mental health
Brief synopsis: After returning home from a summer scholarship in New York, Edith discovers she wasn't chosen for the competitive writing class she was hoping to enroll in. Instead she plans to write a novel. But her life isn't quite what she thought it would be, and maybe she doesn't truly know who she is or what she wants in life. This novel is a haunting look at mental health in the 1950s through Edith's journey of a mental breakdown.
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Lethal White by Robert Galbraith ★★★★☆
POPSUGAR Reading Challenge Prompt: A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym
Brief synopsis: When a young man with some obvious mental health-related issues storms into Cormoran Strike's office claiming to have seen a child murdered, Strike becomes determined to find out what really happened. Is the child murder somehow tied in with the paid case Strike and his partner Robin are on - one involving major political figures? Meanwhile, Robin marries her longtime boyfriend Matthew but things aren't all rainbows and butterflies - not to mention Robin's still reeling from the previous injury received on the job.
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Duma Key by Stephen King ★★★★★
POPSUGAR Reading Challenge Prompt: A best-seller from the year you graduated high school
Brief synopsis: After Edgar Freemantle's near-death experience featuring Reba's Fancy and a crane (the machine, not the bird), he loses his arm and his wife and decides to spend a sabbatical on the Florida coast in Duma Key. While there, he gets back into creating art - a small hobby he had as a child. But something's not quite right about his artwork. And something's not quite right about Duma Key either.
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