Hello, and welcome to this week’s ABC Book Challenge! In July, I started going over My Books in Goodreads, and I’ve been highlighting the books I really liked or found interesting. This week is the letter S, and there are a ton of them! I first found this challenge over at Me, Myself, and Books, but I believe it was started by The Thrifty Bibliophile.
For almost a year, I’d go visit people’s blogs on Top Ten Tuesday and say “I really need to read a book by Maggie Stiefvater.” I finally read The Raven Boys a couple months ago. Now I should read The Scorpio Races. Maybe I’ll wait until next November though, because the first line is “𝙄𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙉𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙤, 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮, 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙚.”
The Grishaverse books were another series I said I needed to read for forever. I had read a short story by Leigh Bardugo though, so I couldn’t say I had never written any of her stories before. This series was amazing.
I loved Sky Without Stars and have already pre-ordered the sequel, Between Burning Worlds. It’s a story set on another planet in a culture that seems to resemble Paris. J’adored this book!
Skyhunter doesn’t come out until October 6, 2020, but I’ve already pre-ordered my Kindle copy. It isn’t the book I ordered the farthest in advance, Chain of Gold gets that honor (I pre-ordered that book with last year’s Christmas money).
Spectacle was a book that kept me turning the (virtual) pages. It didn’t get a lot of marketing, which was a shame, because it was really good.
I love history, and I’ve heard that SPQR is a good history book. I’ll have to read it someday. Maybe it will win the TBR lottery for this winter.
Strange the Dreamer is a beautiful book with a… strange name. I didn’t know what “beautiful prose” was until I read this book. If you haven’t read it yet, you should.
I almost bought Summer Days and Summer Nights over the summer, until I realized I wouldn’t have time to read it. I originally borrowed it from the library. While it’s not really the time of year to read it now, I would like to read it again.
Switchback sounds like an interesting story about two teens that get lost in the Canadian wilderness. I’m starting to put together my Winter 2019/20 TBR lottery. All the books on today’s list I haven’t read are on that list. Maybe I’ll get to read one of them this winter.
Those are just some of the books that are on My Books on Goodreads that start with the letter S. See you next week!