Red-Haired Ash Reads

Now that June is over, it’s time to do a wrap up of the JIAM 2025 Audiobook Challenge that took place during the whole month of June. While I had planned to complete two of these prompts, I didn’t expect to listen to as many books as I did this month. So lets look at what I did read and what challenges I completed.

As a reminder, here were the challenge prompts:

• Finish/Start a series in a month. (listen to at least 3 audiobooks in a series)
• Love your Library (listen to 3 audiobooks from your local library)
• Let there be Monsters (listen to 3 audiobooks with monsters/paranormal elements)
• Going the Distance (listen to 3 audiobooks over 12 hours each)
• Tackle your Audiobook TBR Pile (listen to 3 audiobooks you already own)

In my post at the beginning of the month, I stated that I wanted to attempt two of the challenges this time. The Tackle Your Audiobook TBR and Finish/Start a series in a month.

While I didn’t end up reading the books that I said I was going to for this challenge, I did read a lot of books. I completed two rounds of Finish/Start a series in a month. Then I completed two more challenges, Let There Be Monsters and Tackle Your Audiobook TBR, and I almost completed the Love Your Library challenge.

So here is everything I read for this challenge:

Also here are the links to my reviews for each of these categories if you are interested in my feelings about them.

Finish/Start a Series #1:

• Soulbound Series by Hailey Turner

Finish/Start a Series #2:

• Metahuman Files series by Hailey Turner

Let There Be Monsters:

• Resurrection Reprise by Hailey Turner
• Secondhand Skin by Hailey Turner
• False Comeback by Lily Mayne

Tackle Your Audiobook TBR:

• Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby (DNF)
• The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom by James Green
• A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen
• Death and Relaxation by Devon Monk

Love Your Library:

• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara

As you can see, it was a very productive audiobook month. It helped that the project I have been working on at work is perfect for audiobooks.

Did you participate in this challenge? if so, how did you do? Also, have you read any of these books?