Happy Tuesday, y’all! This week, Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl has given us a couple of options. One is to share books we wish we could read for the first time again. That didn’t interest me. The other option is a non-bookish freebie. Happy Birthday to Me! Well, not quite, but soon. Real soon! How soon? Tomorrow! To celebrate, I decided to do this Birthday Book Tag I found over at Read All the Things! for this week’s TTT.
As I’ve read over 80 books this year, I decided to focus on books I’ve read in 2025 for the answers to these prompts. All titles will lead to Goodreads.
Let’s check out my Birthday Book Tag!
BIRTHDAY CAKE: A BOOK WITH A CLICHÉ PLOT, BUT YOU LOVE IT ANYWAY
- Title: You Started It by Jackie Khalilieh
- Release Date: May 2025
- It’s a YA contemporary with some fake dating sprinkled in.
PARTY GUESTS: MOST ANTICIPATED UPCOMING RELEASES
Secret Nights and Northern Lights by Megan Oliver
Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson
Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief by Benjamin Stevenson
BIRTHDAY PRESENTS: A BOOK THAT SURPRISED YOU
- Title: A Most Puzzling Murder by Bianca Marais
- Release Date: June 2025
- A book full of puzzles throughout, and I’m not just talking about the typical puzzles of solving the murder. There are anagrams, pictographs, and codes to break. There are also a few choose-your-adventure moments.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SONG: A BOOK THAT DESERVES THE HYPE
- Title: Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
- Release Date: April 2022
- Honestly, I could have put any Abby Jimenez book on this list. This is just one that I read this year.
MUSIC: A BOOK WITH MEMORABLE QUOTES
I’m not one to collect quotes. Which makes it challenging to come up with a book for this prompt.
GETTING OLDER: A BOOK YOU READ WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG, BUT WOULD APPRECIATE MORE IF YOU’D READ IT WHEN YOU WERE OLDER
- Title: Madden & Summerall by Rich Podolsky
- Release Date: September 2025
- While this isn’t a book I read when I was young, it did bring back memories from my past. These two men were part of many of my fall Sunday afternoons.
BIRTHDAY MEMORIES: A BOOK THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY
- Title: You Make It Feel Like Christmas by Sophie Sullivan
- Release Date: September 2025
- It’s more than just a Christmas romance.
And that’s the Birthday Book Tag! I would love to know your answers to these questions, and let me know if you do this tag to celebrate your birthday!
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Happy 50th birthday to you for tomorrow! Love this book tag – a great idea. 🎂🎉🎁
Happy Birthday, what a fun book tag.
Here’s a link to my TTT post
https://rosieamber.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/%f0%9f%93%9atoptentuesday-10-books-i-wish-i-could-read-again-for-the-first-time-tuesdaybookblog-booktwitter-bookx/
Thanks for putting the new Stevenson book on my radar! Happy birthday!
How fun!! Here is my TTT. https://dmhoisington.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/top-ten-tuesday-5/
What a fun way to celebrate your upcoming 50th birthday! This is such a creative idea for a Top Ten Tuesday, and I love the different categories in the tag. Happy early birthday to you—I hope you enjoy it,
Happy birthday. I hope it’s a good one.
You Started It looks fun! Definitely one I need to look up. HAPPY (almost) BIRTHDAY! Hope you have an amazing day. 🙂 Thanks for visiting my list.
Happy Birthday! tomorrow 🥳🎂🥳
Madden & Summerall by Rich Podolsky is one my hubby & I can listen to together. Definitely getting the audiobook.
What a fun tag! Happy Birthday for tomorrow 🎉 I hope you have a fabulous time celebrating!
These are fun answers. And happy almost birthday! I hope you have a fun time celebrating.
What a fun twist for this week! Happy 50th for tomorrow!
Wow this is such a creative tag!! Also happy 50th for tomorrow 😀 Here’s my Top Ten Tuesday post – https://justreadjessie.blog/2025/10/14/top-ten-tuesday-books-i-wish-i-could-read-again-for-the-first-time/
So fun!! Happy 50th birthday! I am getting closer to that milestone as well.
These are all amazing. I need to add some of these to my wish list. Every time I see You Make It Feel Like Christmas, I have to sing it. Happy birthday, Pam!
A great tag! I hope that you have a lovely birthday!
Great list! I love Abby Jimenez. I hope you have an amazing birthday! Happy Tuesday!
Happy Birthday!
Fun tag!! Have a Happy Birthday!!!
Happy birthday! I hope you have the most amazing day.
Fun post! Happy Birthday!
Fun birthday post! Happy Birthday! I like Abby Jimenez and Benjamin Stevenson, too.
Happy birthday!! I hope you enjoy many more books in the year to come!
Happy birthday! I’m really looking forward to Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief too. I hope you have a wonderful and bookish day!
Happy birthday! Hope you celebrated in style!
Happy 50th birthday! This is such a fun tag to do too 🙂
Happiest of birthdays! I hope this year brings you lots of joy. You Started It looks cute. I love the fake dating trope and have yet to tire of it.
Happy Birthday!! I love that you did this special post for your birthday! I hope you had a great day and the best year ahead!
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Belated happy birthday!
Happy Belated Birthday, Pam. I hope you had a wonderful day.