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 Debut Novels I Enjoyed.
I had to go digging a bit, since I don’t necessarily know which of the books I’ve loved have been debut novels. But after a little research, here’s what I’ve come up with.
My top ten debut novels:
Rosemary & Rue (October Daye, #1) by Seanan McGuire (review)
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (review)
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. The prompt for this week’s TTT is: Throwback Freebie (Pick a TTT topic that has been previously done. Maybe you missed it, weren’t blogging then, or you’d like to update an old list you made.)
I decided to go with a topic that I last did in 2021 and really liked: Book Titles That Are Complete Sentences . My 2021 post is here; read on for a new, refreshed list. All books listed are books I’ve read since then.
I managed to find many more than I expected to! For purposes of this post, I’m sticking to ten… but I’m bookmarking this topic for myself, so I can come back to it next time I need a freebie theme.
My top ten picks for books with complete sentences as titles:
Where Have All the Boys Gone? by Jenny Colgan (review)
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 My Favorite Color on the Cover.
I don’t know if this is my favorite color… but at this time of year, it’s the color I most yearn for: The blue of a beautiful sea!
Summer sea blue… I don’t know if that’s an actual color name, but it’s something I love. I guess I’m just dying for a beach vacation!
Here are ten books with shades of sea blue:
Don’t these book covers make you want to head to the beach?
What color did you choose for this week’s TTT? 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 Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2024.
There are so many to choose from — but since I already featured a bunch in my winter TBR post, I’ll focus on a different set of books this week.
Here are (just some of) the books I can’t wait to read in 2024!
Listed in order of release date:
The Women by Kristin Hannah (2/6/2024)
To Woo & To Wed by Martha Waters (2/6/2024)
The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden (2/14/2024)
The Prisoner’s Throne by Holly Black (3/5/2024)
Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle (3/5/2024)
Studies at the School by the Sea by Jenny Colgan (3/26/2024)
The Princess of Las Vegas by Chris Bohjalian (3/26/2024)
The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto (3/26/2024)
The Evolution of Annabel Craig by Lisa Grunwald (4/16/2024)
Funny Story by Emily Henry (4/23/2024)
What upcoming new releases are you most excited for? 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 Favorite Books of 2023.
There were so many great ones! It’s hard to narrow my list down to just ten…
Consider this just a sampling of the great books I read in 2023!
1.. Wolfsong by TJ Klune: But really, the entire Green Creek series is my top reading experience of the year. I loved all four books, but Wolfsong holds an especially strong place in my heart. After all, it’s all candy canes and pinecones and epic and awesome. (review)
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2. Hello Stranger by Katherine Center: The main character’s situation is like nothing I’ve ever read before. This book is fascinating and entertaining and lovely. (review)
3. Hard to pick just one T. Kingfisher book! I read three by this author in 2023, and these two are especially wonderful: (reviews here and here)
4. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree: The hype is real! This book has gotten so much buzz, and it’s all deserved. The cozy fantasy I never knew I needed. (review)
5. Whalefall by Daniel Kraus: This wins the prize for the weirdest thing I read all year… and yet, I still can’t get it out of my mind! (review)
6. A duo from a favorite series: Sleep No More (review) and The Innocent Sleep (review), books 17 and 18 in the excellent October Daye series by Seanan McGuire, were released one month apart in the fall, telling the same story from two different characters’ perspectives. Simply awesome.
7. Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer: Every once in a while, a Georgette Heyer novel is just right for the moment, and I absolutely loved reading Sprig Muslin this year. (review)
8. Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto: This book made me laugh and kept me guessing. Just pure fun. (review)
9. The Celebrants by Steven Rowley: I loved this story of friendship across the years — beautiful and emotional and truly resonant. (review)
10. The Gunnie Rose series by Charlaine Harris: I hadn’t thought this would interest me, but after reading the first book (An Easy Death) early in the year with my book group, I couldn’t stop until I’d read all five (and I’m hoping for more!).
The rest of the best:
Who am I kidding? I can’t name just 10!! Here are other books from my 2023 reading adventures that I loved too much not to mention:
What were you favorite books of 2023? 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 The Ten Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf .
I don’t buy physical books nearly as much any more, but I can never seem to resist adding books to my Kindle library when I spot a good price drop.
Here are the 10 ebooks that I’ve added most recently:
Emmett by L. C. Rosen
Violeta by Isabel Allende
Little, Big by John Crowley
The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest
Island of the Lost by Joan Druett
The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
The Belle of Belgrave Square by Mimi Matthews
The Apology by Jimin Han
The Bookseller of Inverness by S. G. Maclean
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
What books have you added to your shelves most recently? 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 about our bookish wishes.
My holidays are already over — and while my family was very good to me, many of my bookish wishes came true because I treated myself to great sale prices! Still, I do have remaining books I’d love copies of at some point.
Here are 10 books (not including books not yet released) that I’ve recently added to my wishlist:
The House is on Fire by Rachel Beanland
The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
Get Lucky by Katherine Center
The Star and the Strange Moon by Constance Sayers
Spells for Lost Things by Jenna Evans Welch
The Second Chance Year by Melissa Wiesner
The Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
Hemlock Island by Kelley Armstrong
The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune
Booked on a Feeling by Jayci Lee
What books are you wishing for? 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 a freebie — which means we all choose our own topics.
Hanukkah starts in just two days (this Thursday night), and since Hanukkah is the Festival of Lights, my TTT post will be all about candles, lights, and flames!
Here are 10 books whose titles fit my topic — all are books that I’ve either read or plan to read!
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoka
The Flame and the Flower by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2) by Terry Pratchett
Light Years From Home by Mike Chen
Midnight Blue-Light Special (Incryptids, #2) by Seanan McGuire
Light a Single Candle by Beverly Butler
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
What was your TTT topic this week? If you wrote a 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 Reasons Why I’m Thankful for Books. What a great topic!
Here are 10 of my reasons why I’m thankful for books:
Escape: I love immersing myself in the world of a book and shutting out reality while I’m reading.
Learning: Although I’m almost exclusively a fiction reader, I still find myself learning so much from what I read — from medical conditions to world history to cultures that are different than my own, there’s so much to explore and experience.
Connection: When I meet someone new and learn they’re a reader too, suddenly, there are endless topics to discuss and bond over.
Comfort: When days are stressful or my brain feels overloaded, it’s lovely to be able to curl up with a well-loved book and feel calm and cozy again.
Boredom busters: I can never be bored if I have a book with me (and I always have a book with me). Waiting rooms? Long lines? Holding for customer service? That’s okay — I have something to read.
Book buddies: I love my inner circle of book buddies, those real-life people who love books as much as I do — we swap, share thoughts, make recommendations, and have book-related experiences that our non-bookish friends just don’t get.
Nostalgia: Certain books take me back to places and people from my earlier years, so reading them again is not only a wonderful reading experience in and of itself, but also brings memories of family and experiences that are tied to those books.
Imaginary journeys: I love it when the world of a book is so immersive that it just sweeps me away.
Words, words, words: Beautiful writing, intricate wordplay, unusual vocabulary… these are a few of my favorite things.
The glamour of it all! Oh, I’m kidding, but I do love just looking at my bookshelves and enjoying how pretty they all are.
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!
Bookshelf Fantasies 