Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Mainstream Popular Authors that I Still Have Not Read. I’m not sure what “mainstream” means (in the eye of the beholder, I suppose), but these are all authors who gets lots of buzz and/or time on bestseller lists… and I haven’t read their books!
Colleen Hoover
Elizabeth Gilbert
Elin Hilderbrand
Nora Roberts
Janet Evanovich
Jesmyn Ward
Abraham Verghese
Brandon Sanderson
Sarah J. Maas
Patrick Rothfuss
A few of these I just haven’t gotten to yet but likely will eventually; and some of the authors write in genres or styles that don’t always click for me.
Are there any here that you really love? If you think I should try any of these authors… let me know and try to convince me!
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Book Titles That Would Make Great Newspaper Headlines. I’m not sure that the books I’ve chosen would make great headlines, but hey, I tried!
My list:
The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey
The Underside of Joy by Seré Prince Halverson
The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West
The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
The Bright Side of Disaster by Katherine Center
The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab
Do any of these sound like newspaper headlines to you?
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. I wasn’t particularly into this week’s topic (Secondary/Minor Characters Who Deserve Their Own Book), but since I missed TTT last week, I decided to go ahead and do that topic instead!
My list this week is is Books on My Fall 2023 To-read List. My list includes combination of upcoming new releases, books I already own but haven’t read yet, and one on my library hold list.
My top 10 for fall are:
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
The Wake-Up Call by Beth O’Leary
The Bell in the Fog by Lev AC Rosen
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
Heartsong by TJ Klune
The Beginning of Everything by Jackie Fraser
The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub
What books are you most excited for this fall? Do we have any in common?
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Book Covers In the Colors of My Country’s Flag. Since I live in the US, that makes my colors this week Red, White & Blue!
Here’s an assortment that fits the theme (not sticking with a list of 10 this week):
Starting, of course, with Outlander!
Some others that make a nice red, white & blue pattern:
And a few more that fit!
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Happy 4th of July!
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A final note: I’d love to see your flag-themed posts, so please share your link if you have one!Save
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Most Anticipated Books Releasing During the Second Half of 2023.
There are so many books I’m looking forward to! Here are some highlights that I’m excited to read during the 2nd half of 2023… trying not to repeat the books highlighted in last week’s summer TBR post (except for the October Daye books, because those are absolutely at the top of my “most excited for” list this year!!).
The Wake-Up Call by Beth O’Leary
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
Sleep No More (October Daye, #17) by Seanan McGuire
The Innocent Sleep (October Daye, #18) by Seanan McGuire
California Golden by Melanie Benjamin
Dreambound by Dan Frey
Saga, volume 11 by Brian K. Vaughan
The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub
What new releases are you most looking forward to? Please share your links!
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Books on My Summer 2023 to-Read List.
I’m hoping to get to a LOT of books already on my shelves… but I also have a bunch of new releases coming up that I’m really looking forward to, so the key will be finding the right balance of old and new!
For this list, I’ll just focus on some upcoming (and recent) new releases that I’m excited for:
Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
The Summer Skies by Jenny Colgan
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
With Love From Cold Word by Alicia Thompson
Infinity Gate by M. R. Carey
Ravensong by TJ Klune
The Breakaway by Jennifer Weiner
Sleep No More (October Daye, #17) by Seanan McGuire
All the Dead Shall Weep (Gunnie Rose, #5) by Charlaine Harris
Thief Liar Lady by D. L. Soria
What are you planning to read this summer? Please share your links!
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Favorite Heroines. This felt like a familiar topic to me, but it looks like it’s been many years since I put together a similar list, and by now I have plenty of new ones to highlight!
Here are ten of my favorites (hint: the first one will not be a surprise!):
Claire Fraser – Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
Mercy Thompson – Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs
October Daye – October Daye series by Seanan McGuire
Erin, Mac, Tiffany and KJ – Paper Girls graphic novels by Brian K. Vaughan
Zinnia Gray – A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow
Mika Moon – The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
Marra – Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
Beatrice Clayborn – The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk
Jane Ellsworth – Glamourist Histories series by Mary Robinette Kowal
Sunny Nwazue – The Nsibidi Scripts series by Nnedi Okorafor
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Love Freebie, which means we all put our own spin on the topic of LOVE.
Focusing on my favorite love stories from the books I’ve read recently has become my go-to topic for the “love freebie” TTT topic — I’ve been keeping it going since 2020! Here are my ten favorite love stories that I read in the past year:
1. Boyfriend Material and Husband Material by Alexis Hall: I read both of these in 2022, and loved the development of the main characters’ relationship.
2. Tokyo Dreamingby Emiko Jean: This secretly-a-princess duology is a wonderful treat, and I really enjoyed the main character’s romantic dilemmas.
3. An Island Wedding by Jenny Colgan: The 5th and final book in the Mure series is a wonderful wrap-up (despite my frustration over one dangling plotline). So many of the characters get happily-ever-afters, which is great, because five books in, I adore these characters so much.
4. The Comeback by Lily Chu: The romance — between a non-famous woman and her incognito houseguest who ends up being one of K-pop’s biggest idols of all times — is definitely wish-fulfillment, but it’s just so much fun. Loved the audiobook!
5. The No-Show by Beth O’Leary: This book is heart-breaking as well as entertaining, and it takes quite a while to feel anything but exasperated with the male lead… but then? Boom. Loved this book, and highly recommend reading it with as little info in advance as possible.
6. Not Your Average Hot Guyby Gwenda Bond: I’m including this here because it’s so, so silly, and because I’m pretty sure this is the only book I’ve ever read with a romance between a woman who works in her family’s escape room business and the (literal) Prince of Hell.
7. By the Book by Jasmine Guillory: What’s not to love about a modern-day retelling of Beauty and the Beast?
8. A Season for Second Chancesby Jenny Bayliss: I love a good small-town, new-chance-at-love story, and this one has so many great ingredients — lovely setting, a café, a sea rescue, and grown-ups in relationships!
9. Heading Over the Hill by Judy Leigh: Main characters Dawnie and Billy are absolutely #couplegoals! I need to read more (much more!) by this author.
10. The Unplanned Life of Josie Hale by Stephanie Eding: When’s the last time you read a romance with a single, pregnant woman as the main character? This was a first for me, and I really enjoyed it.
What were the best love stories you read during the past year?
If you wrote a TTT post this week, please share your link and let me know your topic!
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is 2023 Debut Books I’m Excited About — but I really don’t tend to get very excited about debut books in advance (and don’t even keep track of upcoming debuts), so this topic was a non-starter for me.
Instead, I thought I’d spin off from the designated topic, moving from books by new authors to books by authors who are new to me. Much easier to come up with a list of ten!
Here are ten authors whose books I plan (or hope) to try in 2023:
Farrah Rochon
Deepa Varadarajan
Victor LaValle
Claire Keegan
Nikki Erlick
Colleen Oakley
Jenni Fagan
Trish Doller
Nita Prose
Deesha Philyaw
Two of these (Nikki Erlick and Claire Keegan) are authors of books my book group will be reading later this year, and the rest are an assortment of books that I’ve had on my radar for a while plus a couple of ARCs.
Have you read any of the books pictured above, or read other books by these authors? Are there any in particular you’d recommend?
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2022.
I actually have a very long list for 2022 — but I’ll narrow it down to the the 10 I enjoyed the most. So hard to choose!
Darcie Little Badger
Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton & Jodi Meadows (yes, these are three people, but they co-authored the book I read!)
Jennifer Thorne
Sara Novic
Julia Whelan (I’ve listened to her narrate audiobooks before, but this was my first encounter with a book she wrote herself)
Judy Leigh
Malinda Lo
Zoje Stage
Alexis Hall
A. G. Slatter
If you’ve read any other books by these authors, please let me know which you’d recommend!
What new-to-you authors did you discover in 2022? Any particular favorites? Do we have any in common?
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