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🏃🏻‍♀️ In A Rush? This newsletter has:

• 2 witchy fall book lists
• A Q4 bingo card with themes
• Our TBR Pile bingo card with no dates
• Quick updates for TUL (Uncorked Reading 2027!)

I love love loved The Burning Side by Sarah Damoff and In Stormy Weather by Chelsea Curto. Theo of Golden brought me more rage than perimenopause.

🧙🏻‍♀️ Channel Your Inner Witch With These Books

With Practical Magic 2 in theaters—I still have to see it, but I have heard great reviews—and in honor of Alice Hoffman's newest novel, The Witches of Cambridge ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️, I recently updated my favorite witchy reading list.

After spending a fun day in Salem, MA, visiting The House of the Seven Gables before the October crowd chaos, I also updated our Salem Witch Trials reading list.

📚 October - December 2026 Uncorked Reading Challenge

This bingo card is filled with warmth and even more indulgence. I cannot wait to see what you pick.

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To get the most out of this challenge, join our private Facebook group, Uncorked Readers, and follow along on The StoryGraph.

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October through December topics include:

• Guilty Pleasure - This could be a book you are embarrassed to read in public, something a little steamy, or maybe just an innocent indulgence. Chocolate cake? Adopting all the senior kitties? Reading really bad romance books...
• Baking - Just in time for the new season of GBBO (I am watching. Are you?). Time to make that cake and eat it too! Find a fiction or nonfiction book about baking.
• Family - This might be found family, books about siblings, holiday gatherings, Friendsgiving, pets, and more.
• Snow - Head to a snowy destination, read about sledding or another snowy sport, or read a book with a blizzard. Snow on the cover is always fun.
• Celestial - We talked about looking to the sky, so let's focus on the stars, what we cannot see, space, magic, and more. Maybe this is something divine and godlike. Moon, sun, stars; make it yours! A goddess in literature?!
• Glitter - A 5-star read, glitter on the cover, people who sparkle, or a NYE party? I cannot wait to see your interpretation here.
• Footprints - Read a children's book, a book that leaves footprints on your heart, or a book with footprints on the cover. Maybe read another book with snow or sand where you can see footprints. How about a book with Bigfoot?!
• Music - Find a book about music or one that makes you sing.

📚 It's Not Too Late For Our TBR Pile Reading Challenge

If you couldn't get to our To Be Read Pile Bonus Challenge this U.S. summer, start it now.

✨ Uncorked Reading 2027

I cannot believe that I just typed those words, but it's coming...

Stay tuned to Uncorked Readers as we discuss our 2027 Uncorked Reading Challenge...

Happy Uncorked Reading!