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Top Ten Tuesday – Books on my Fall 2023 TBR

 

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.  Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is Books on My Fall 2023 TBR.  I always enjoy this topic because I’m curious to see what my fellow book bloggers are planning to read next.  I have a lot of ARCs to read this fall so my focus will primarily be on those, although I do hope to squeeze in a few of the books from my shelves as well.

Books on My Fall 2023 TBR

   

   

 

1. BETTER HATE THAN NEVER by Chloe Liese  –  “Childhood enemies discover the fine line between love and loathing in this heartfelt reimagining of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.”

2. A DEMON’S GUIDE TO WOOING A WITCH by Sarah Hawley  – “Calladia Cunnington curses the day she met Astaroth the demon, but when he shows up memoryless, why does she find him so helpless . . . and sort of hot?”

3. THE FRAGILE THREADS OF POWER by V.E. Schwab – “From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, and set in the world of A Darker Shade of Magic, V. E. Schwab opens a new door into perilous adventure and tangled schemes with The Fragile Threads of Power.”

4. THE FAKE MATE by Lana Ferguson  – “Two wolf shifters agree to be fake mates but unexpectedly find something real in this steamy paranormal romantic comedy by Lana Ferguson.

5. STARLING HOUSE by Alix E. Harrow – “A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that can’t stay buried and the sinister house that sits at the crossroads of it all.”

6. IRIS KELLY DOESN’T DATE by Ashley Herring Blake – “To get her mind off everything and overcome her writer’s block, Iris tries out for a local play, but comes face-to-face with Stefania—or, Stevie, her real name. When Stevie desperately asks Iris to play along as her girlfriend, Iris is shocked, but goes along with it because maybe this fake relationship will actually get her creative juices flowing and she can get her book written. As the two women play the part of a couple, they turn into a constant state of hot-and-bothered and soon it just comes down to who will make the real first move…”

7. MIDNIGHT IS THE DARKEST HOUR by Ashley Winstead  –  “From the critically acclaimed author of In My Dreams I Hold A Knife and The Last Housewife comes a gothic Southern thriller about a killer haunting a small Louisiana town, where two outcasts—the preacher’s daughter and the boy from the wrong side of the tracks—hold the key to uncovering the truth.

8. WRECK THE HALLS by Tessa Bailey – “A sexy, hilarious standalone holiday rom-com about the adult children of two former rock stars who team up to convince their estranged mothers to play a Christmas Eve concert.”

9. THE UNMAKING OF JUNE FARROW by Adrienne Young  –  “A woman risks everything to end her family’s centuries-old curse, solve her mother’s disappearance, and find love in this mesmerizing novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Spells for Forgetting.”

10. A WINTER IN NEW YORK by Josie Silver  –  “A young chef stumbles on a secret family recipe that might lead her to the love—and life—she’s been looking for in this stunning novel.”

 

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Question:  Have you read any of these or are you planning to read any of them?

Top Ten Tuesday – Some of My Favorite Friendships in Books

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.  Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is Favorite Character Relationships (These can be platonic or not. Romantic relationships, parent/child, siblings, family bonds, friendships, found families, pet/human, etc.).  I decided it would be fun to share some of my favorite friendships in books that I’ve read.  I love friendships that feel like family and I think most of these fit that bill. They might tease and give each other hell, but when it comes down to it, they always have each other’s back.

 

Some of My Favorite Friendships in Books

 

THE BOYS FROM THE BROMANCE BOOK CLUB SERIES

FINLAY & VERO FROM THE FINLAY DONOVAN SERIES

RYLAND & ROCKY FROM PROJECT HAIL MARY

HARRY & RON FROM THE HARRY POTTER SERIES

STEPHANIE & LULA FROM THE STEPHANIE PLUM SERIES

KAZ BREKKER’S CREW IN THE SIX OF CROWS DUOLOGY

THE BAT BOYS FROM THE ACOTAR SERIES (ALSO, MOR & FEYRE)

ELOISE & PENELOPE FROM THE BRIDGERTON SERIES

THE REN FAIRE FAMILY FROM THE WELL MET SERIES

THE RAVEN BOYS FROM THE RAVEN CYCLE SERIES

 

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Have you read any of these?

Top Ten Tuesday – Sea You Later: 10 Books with “Sea” in the Title

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.  Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is Water (This can be covers with water on them, books with bodies of water in them, titles with bodies of water in them, etc.).  I looked over at my shelves, saw a few books with Sea in the title and decided to go for it and see if I could think of ten titles.  Then after I found ten titles, I realized I had already done this topic before and so I started over again to see if I could find ten more I hadn’t already used, haha.  Below is what I came up with and you can click on the links below to read the synopsis of each of these books.

 

 

   

10 Books with “Sea” in the Title

 

THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA by TJ Klune

THE MAGIC OF SEA GLASS by Jenny Hale

COTTAGE BY THE SEA by Debbie Macomber

THE STARLESS SEA by Erin Morgenstern

SUNRISE BY THE SEA by Jenny Colgan

TO SLEEP IN A SEA OF STARS by Christopher Paolini

A LONG PETAL OF THE SEA by Isabel Allende

SEA SWEPT by Nora Roberts

SKIN OF THE SEA by Natasha Bowen

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway

 

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Have you read any of these?

Top Ten Tuesday – 10 Holiday Books I’m Planning to Read This Year

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.  Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is Genre Freebie (Pick a genre and build a list around it.).  Since I recently shared my spooky season TBR, I thought it would be fun to go ahead and share my holiday TBR since I have already started looking ahead to see what books I want to read this holiday season.  If you’ve been following me for a while, you know I love a good holiday read, particularly if it gives off Hallmark Christmas movie vibes, so that’s mostly what you can expect here.  There are books from some of my favorites like Kerry Winfrey, Tessa Bailey, and Mary Kay Andrews, as well as some new-to-me authors I’m looking forward to trying like Ginny Baird and Zoe Allison.

You can click on the links below to read synopsis of each of these books.  Some of them also already have giveaways up on Goodreads, so be sure to enter those if any sound good to you. 🙂

 

 

10 Holiday Books I’m Planning to Read This Year

 

FAKING CHRISTMAS by Kerry Winfrey

BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CHRISTMAS by Mary Kay Andrews

LOVE, HOLLY by Emily Stone

THREE HOLIDAYS AND A WEDDING by Uzma Jalaluddin and Marissa Stapley

WRECK THE HALLS by Tessa Bailey

THE BOOK CLUB HOTEL by Sarah Morgan

A WINTER IN NEW YORK by Josie Silver

THE HOLIDAY MIX-UP by Ginny Baird

EMERGENCY CONTACT by Lauren Layne & Anthony Ledonne

THE EX-MAS HOLIDAYS by Zoe Allison

 

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Are you planning to read any of these?

Top Ten Tuesday – 10 Books I’m Planning to Read During Spooky Season This Year

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.  Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is supposed to be Characters from Different Books Who Should Team Up (or date, be friends with, etc.) (Submitted by Cathy @ WhatCathyReadNext).  I unfortunately blanked out and couldn’t think of anyone so I decided to go rogue this week and share some books I’m planning to read during spooky season this year. I know it’s only August, but these books are already calling to me, thanks in part to a virtual event I attended recently where several of Berkley’s wonderful authors gave presentations to tease their upcoming releases.  It was such a fun event and I’m now even more excited than I already was about their new books.

You can click on the links below to read synopsis of each of these books.

 

10 Books I’m Planning to Read During Spooky Season This Year

 

VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE by Isabel Cañas

MY ROOMMATE IS A VAMPIRE by Jenna Levine

BLACK SHEEP by Rachel Harrison

IN CHARM’S WAY by Lana Harper

THE FAKE MATE by Lana Ferguson

A DEMON’S GUIDE TO WOOING A WITCH by Sarah Hawley

GOOD BAD GIRL by Alice Feeney

HUNT ON DARK WATERS by Katee Robert

THE ONLY ONE LEFT by Riley Sager

THE SEPTEMBER HOUSE by Carissa Orlando

 

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Are you planning to read any of these?

Top Ten Tuesday – 10 Books I Was Influenced to Read because of Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.  Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is Books I’ve Read/Want to Read Because of Top Ten Tuesday (books you discovered through Top Ten Tuesday, or they kept appearing in top tens and you got intrigued). This is a great topic because there are so many books I probably never would have read if not for seeing them on other bloggers’ Top Ten Tuesday lists that have since gone on to become favorite reads of mine. Here are a few that immediately came to mind.

 

 

10 Books I Was Influenced to Read because of Top Ten Tuesday

 

IT ENDS WITH US by Colleen Hoover

A MAN CALLED OVE by Fredrik Backman

THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA by TJ Klune

LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus

THE UNDERTAKING OF HART AND MERCY by Megan Bannen

THE SONG OF ACHILLES by Madeline Miller

BEFORE I LET GO by Kennedy Ryan

THE SIMPLE WILD by K.A. Tucker

THINGS WE NEVER GOT OVER by Lucy Score

THINGS YOU SAVE IN A FIRE by Katherine Center

 

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Have you read any of these?

Top Ten Tuesday – Forgotten Backlist Titles That Deserve More Love

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.  Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is  Forgotten Backlist Titles (Spread love for books that people don’t talk about much anymore!).  I decided to approach this topic by looking back through the earliest days of my blog and see what books I used to write about all the time.  The ten I chose to feature today are ten that I absolutely loved but just rarely ever think about or talk about anymore.  They’re definitely worth a read if you have them sitting on your TBR. 🙂 You’ll also see a lot of YA books featured since YA was a huge part of my reading and blogging experience when I first started out and honestly up until the last year or two when I migrated almost exclusively to romance and adult books.

 

 

Ten Forgotten Backlist Titles That Deserve More Love

 

THE LUNAR CHRONICLES by Marissa Meyer

WORDS IN DEEP BLUE by Cath Crowley

SHADES OF MAGIC TRILOGY by V.E. Schwab

FANGIRL by Rainbow Rowell

STALKING JACK THE RIPPER by Kerri Maniscalco

WHEN DIMPLE MET RISHI by Sandhya Menon

JELLICOE ROAD by Melina Marchetta

HOMEGOING by Yaa Gyasi

THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE by Katherine Arden

LETTERS TO THE LOST by Brigid Kemmerer

 

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Have you read any of these?

Top Ten Tuesday – 10 Books I DNF’ed During the Pandemic but am Ready to Revisit

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.  Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is supposed to be the last 10 books I DNF’ed.  I don’t really like to talk about my DNFs so I’m going to do a little twist on the topic. I abandoned more books than ever before during the pandemic.  I don’t think it had anything whatsoever to do with the books not being good but more so that I just wasn’t in the right headspace to read them.  That was around the same time I made a sharp pivot in my reading tastes towards romance.  I wanted nothing to do with the darkness of a thriller or any kind of horror, and I just couldn’t concentrate on any intricate worldbuilding which made me set aside several fantasy novels.  So, what I’m sharing today are ten books I set aside during the pandemic that I feel like I want to revisit now that I’m in a better headspace.

 

   

10 Books I DNF’ed During the Pandemic but am Ready to Revisit

 

LEGENDBORN by Tracey Deonn

GHOST TREE by Christina Henry

GIDEON THE NINTH by Tamsyn Muir

THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME by Laura Dave

THE SHADOW OF THE GODS by John Gwynne

THE FINAL GIRL SUPPORT GROUP by Grady Hendrix

THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES by Suzanne Collins

THE TESTAMENTS by Margaret Atwood

TOMORROW, and TOMORROW, and TOMORROW by Gabrielle Zevin

A DEADLY EDUCATION by Naomi Novik

 

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Have you read any of these?

Top Ten Tuesday – Books With One-Word Titles

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.  Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is Books With One-Word Titles.  One-word titles often impress me because it seems nearly impossible to perfectly capture the essence of the hundreds and hundreds of pages they’ve written with a single word and yet some of the most powerful book titles I can think of are just a single word.  I’ve already shared some of my favorite one-word titles in an earlier TTT post so today I thought I’d share some of the ones I found on my TBR.  I tried not to pick any that were just the main character’s name, but instead chose ones I thought conveyed the overall vibe of the book.

 

 

One-Word Book Titles That are on my TBR

 

CONFESS by Colleen Hoover

FLAWLESS by Elsie Silver

ICEBREAKER by Hannah Grace

LEGENDBORN by Tracey Deonn

SLAMMED by Colleen Hoover

BREATHLESS by Jennifer Niven

BRIDE by Ali Hazelwood

CACKLE by Rachel Harrison

HEARTSTOPPER by Alice Oseman

HOOKED by Emily McIntire

 

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Do any of these titles stand out to you?

Top Ten Tuesday – My 10 Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

 

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.  Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is a Freebie, so I thought it would be fun to share my 10 Favorite Reads of the Year So Far. All of my favorite authors delivered big for me in the first half of the year, so these are all highly anticipated releases that met or exceeded my very high expectations.

 

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My 10 Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

 

   

 

Have you read or are you planning to read any of these?