Top Ten Tuesday: Backlist Books to Read

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s is a freebie — we each pick whatever topic we feel like. One topic on my mind is Backlist Books — thinking about authors whose recent books I’ve loved, and whether they have older books I should go back and read.

Here are the authors whose backlist books I think I’d like to explore:

1. Kristin Hannah – There are just so many! I’ve read her most recent books, but have several more of her earlier books on my to-read shelf, including:

2. TJ Klune (of course!) — I love everything I’ve read so far! Here’s one I’d like to get to:

3. William Kent Krueger: I loved his stand-alones, and keep hearing that his Cork O’Connor series is a must-read.

4. Dana Stabenow: I love her Kate Shugak series, and I’m so happy to have discovered her Eye of Isis books too! Here’s a series that I haven’t read yet:

5. Abby Jimenez: Can’t wait to start this trilogy!

6. Rachel Harrison: I have one more backlist book to read, and it looks great:

7. Kelley Armstrong: I’ve loved everything of hers I’ve read so far, so I’m eager to try one (or both) of these earlier series starters (Omens is book #1 in the Cainsville series; City of the Lost is #1 in the Rockton series):

8. Jenny Colgan: Always a favorite! I’ve read almost all of her books from the last 10 years or so, but there are still a bunch of her earlier books I’ve yet to read:

9. Eva Ibbotson: I feel in love with The Secret Countess, and now I need to read ALL of these:

10. Katherine Center: Ever since How To Walk Away, I’ve read each new book by Katherine Center as soon as I could, and now I’ve started digging into her backlist books as well. As far as I know, I just have these two yet to read:

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Have you read any of my backlist picks? Where should I start?

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  7. I’ve read through both the Cainsville series and her Rockton one… Cainsville falls apart at the end; the first few books are great, everything you expect from Armstrong… then you get to book 3/4 and things start to go sideways and the last book was just meh. You could tell she was done with the series which is so unfortunate. Rockton, on the other hand stayed really consistent and I pretty much loved every instalment she released. I do hope you enjoy them, if you do decide to read them!

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  10. I’m working my way through Abby Jimenez’s backlist, too. I really love her books! And I highly recommend Kelley Armstrong’s Rockton series. It’s one of my favs. 😀

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