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 that Give off Fall Vibes. I last did this TTT topic in 2020 and 2019 — let’s see if I can come up with a fresh batch of 10!
When I think of autumn, I think of browns and oranges and yellows — so here are a selection of books from my shelves with cover colors in a fall palette.
What books make you think of autumn? Please share your TTT link!
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 Fall 2025 to-Read List.
Once again, summer whooshed by! I read 8 out of 10 books on my summer TBR list, and I’m including one of the two remaining on my TBR for fall. (I do still want to read the other one… eventually.) Looking ahead now that fall is here, I have a new set of books to prioritize — and hope to do a decent job balancing commitment books (ARCs, book group books) with books that I just feel like reading!
In the interest of not repeating myself, I’m not including any of the books already featured in my list of anticipated new releases for the 2nd half of 2025… but yes, I still intend to read the five remaining from that list too!
My top 10 for fall are:
What books are you most excited to read this fall? Do we have any in common?
If you wrote a TTT post, please share your link!
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 With Occupations in the Title.
This is a fun one! Here are books from my recent reading years that fit the prompt:
Which books made your list this week?
If you wrote a TTT list, please share your link!
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 with a High Page Count. I’ve definitely done variations on this topic before, focusing on the longest books I’ve ever read, plus the longest read in particular years (here are my lists from 2021 and 2017/2018) — but it’s been a while, so why not give the topic an update?
To kick things off, here are (more or less*) the longest books I’ve ever read, according to my Goodreads stats:
*this is actually somewhat changeable, depending on the edition… but let’s just say these are among the longest I’ve ever read!
(Hmmm… I suppose without Diana Gabaldon, George R. R. Martin, and Stephen King, I’d have a lot more free reading time on my hands!)
To keep things fresh, I’ll add in the longest books I’ve read from 2022 until now. My ten longest recent books are:
More Gabaldon and King… and yes, that makes 11 books, simply because the 11th longest book is too good to leave off my list!
Which are the longest books you’ve read in the past few years?
If you wrote a TTT list, please share your link!
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 Guaranteed to Put an End to Your Book Slump, with the prompt: Which books would you recommend to someone dealing with the dreaded book slump? No book is grabbing their attention or making them excited to sit down and read and they are suffering for it.
Of course, no one book is going to work for everyone — but here are ten that grabbed me right from the start and never let me go, which is just what we all need when a slump hits.
1. The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal: This story of women astronauts is set during an accelerated space race after a meteor strike changes the future of life on Earth. It’s gripping and fascinating, and the characters are unforgettable. (review)
2. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree: Sometimes, all you need is a bit of cozy fantasy and great coffee! This book is understated and charming. (review)
3. The Husbands by Holly Gramazio: One of the strangest concepts for a novel, and it’s amazing! (review)
4. When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi: Outright silliness can be the perfect antidote to a slump… and what’s sillier than a book about the moon turning to cheese? (review)
5. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab: A tense, layered vampire story that spans centuries — I couldn’t put it down. (review)
6. Weyward by Emilia Hart: I loved everything about this beautifully written witchy tale. (review)
7. Every Summer After by Carley Fortune: A gorgeous romance with a beautiful setting and complicated characters. Prepare to be swept away to a sunny summer lake! (review)
8. Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto: More silliness! And so much fun. (review)
9. Kills Well With Others by Deanna Raybourn: A group of older women approaching retirement from life as assassins — unique and funny. (review)
10. The Guncle by Steven Rowley: This book’s lighthearted surface hides deeper emotions and beautiful connections. Lovely, and also lots of fun. (review)
What books would you recommend to break a reading slump?
If you wrote a TTT list, please share your link!
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 a Genre freebie, with the prompt: Pick any genre you’d like and build a list around it. You can even narrow the topic if you’d like, such as: thrillers with unreliable narrators, fantasy romance with fae characters, or historical romance with suspense elements.
I considered and discarded a bunch of options before settling on time travel as my theme for the week. I’m sure I must have covered this topic before — many times!! — but it’s just such a good one, and there are always more books to add.
Here are some favorite, beloved time travel books*… plus a smaller handful that I read but didn’t love, although in most cases, there were at least a few elements to appreciate.
*Technically, these aren’t all exactly time travel. Some just have time-related weirdness (such as extraordinarily long lives) that make me include them in this category!
LOVED:
Best of the best:
**Which I read because of my undying love for the gorgeous movie version! Which I really must watch again one of these days…
LIKED (or merely tolerated):
All of these have at least something interesting about them, but for various reasons, simply did not work exceptionally well for me.
Do you have any favorite time travel books?
What genre did you focus on this week? If you wrote a TTT list, please share your link!
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 Beach/Beachy Reads, with the prompt: Share books you’d take to the beach OR books that take place at the beach.
I love books with a summer vibe, and all of these take place at or near a beach of some sort… or at least include a brief visit! Here are ten of my favorites:
What books made your list this week? Please share your TTT links!
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/Throwback, with the prompt: Come up with a topic you’d like to do or go back and do an old topic you missed or just want to do again! Looking back at earlier TTT topics, I thought I’d go back and provide an update on my freebie topic from spring 2024: Backlist Books To Read.
What you’ll see below is a duplicate of my 2024 list… but with notes on which books I’ve read, which I’m still interested in, and which I’m not planning to pursue. I’ve actually read a decent amount of these… yay, me!
Here’s my 2025 update on my 2024 backlist post:
1. Kristin Hannah – Backlist titles identified in 2024:
2025 update: I read The Nightingale earlier this year, and loved it! My review is here. I’d still like to get to the other two, and probably more beyond that.
2. TJ Klune: Backlist titles identified in 2024:
(Note: Same book; original cover on the left, new cover for the 2025 reissue on the right)
2025 update: Read it, loved it! My review is here. I do have a few other early books by TJ Klune marked as to-read:
I’m not necessarily rushing to pick these up — but please do let me know if you’ve read them and recommend them!
3. William Kent Krueger: Backlist title (series) identified in 2024:
2025 update: Probably going to pass. I’m not really looking to get involved in even more series at the moment, and mysteries aren’t my go-to genre in any case.
4. Dana Stabenow: Backlist titles identified in 2024:
2025 update: Again, probably not. I do love this author, but I think I’ll hold off on any backlist titles, and will look forward to her upcoming 2026 new release, The Harvey Girl.
5. Abby Jimenez: Backlist titles identified in 2024:
2025 update: Yes! Read them all! I didn’t love this trilogy quite as much as the Part of Your World trilogy… but I still enjoyed all of these (especially the 2nd book) and I’m glad I read them!
6. Rachel Harrison: Backlist titles identified in 2024:
2025 update: Yes! This book was so creepy and disturbing, and I loved it! My review is here. And now, I’m eagerly awaiting her 2025 new release, Play Nice, coming this fall.
7. Kelley Armstrong: Backlist titles identified in 2024 (two different series starters):
2025 update: I read City of the Lost, book #1 in the Rockton series, and I’m eager to continue! In fact, I’m hoping to start the 2nd book this month. As for the Cainsville series, this will remain a “maybe someday” read for me, but I don’t feel any urgency about it.
8. Jenny Colgan: Backlist titles identified in 2024:
2025 update: I did read Where Have All the Boys Gone (review)… and didn’t especially love it. I have a feeling that her earlier books may all feel a bit dated to me at this point, so I don’t think I’ll follow through with any others. (But who knows? Never say never, when it comes to favorite authors…)
9. Eva Ibbotson: Backlist titles identified in 2024:
2025 update: I didn’t get to any of these, but still want to!
10. Katherine Center: Backlist titles identified in 2024:
2025 update: I didn’t get to either of these… but I still intend to! And then I’ll have made it through all of her backlist books.
BONUS PICKS: Because why stop at 10? Here are a few more authors I’m adding to my 2025 list, whose backlists I need to explore:
Have you read any of my backlist picks? Any you especially recommend?
If you wrote a freebie post this week, what topic did you choose? Please share your link!
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 in the Second Half of 2025.
All of a sudden it’s summer, and… whoosh!… time is flying by. It’s hard to think about the 2nd half of 2025 already, when I’ve barely kept up with my reading plans from the 1st half.
Here are ten books scheduled for release from July through December that I’m looking forward to:
What upcoming new releases are you most excited for? Please share your TTT 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 2025 to-Read List.
It’s impossible to keep up with all the books I have my eyes on! Here are the top 10 I most want to make time for… preferably for reading outdoors, in the sun, with warm breezes and a big iced coffee to go with them!
What are you planning to read this summer? Please share your TTT links!
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