Welcome to today’s edition of Top Ten Tuesday! This week we’re going to talk about the books on our Winter TBR. Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.
First, we’re going to talk about how well we did on our Fall 2018 TBR. How many of those did I read?
- Wildcard – Marie Lu: Read
- Addicted to Outrage – Glenn Beck: Read
- The Mortal Instruments – Cassandra Clare: Read. Not only did I read that book, but I also read all of The Infernal Devices and The Dark Artifices. So I was wildly successful on this particular TBR item.
- Legendary – Stephanie Garber: Read
- Muse of Nightmares – Laini Taylor: Read
- Fawkes – Nadine Brandes: Read
- A Thousand Perfect Notes – C.G. Drews: Unread.
- Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi: Read
- Empire of Storms and Tower of Dawn – Sarah J. Maas: Unread. See above where I read the rest of Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments, plus TID and TDA. And Queen of Air and Darkness was 880 pages. I think fall had its share of monster-sized books as it was.
- My True Love Gave to Me: Read
8/10 books read from my Fall 2018 TBR is pretty good.
Since I didn’t get the chance to read Empire of Storms or Tower of Dawn last season, I still plan on reading it this winter. Now I need to read Kingdom of Ash too. All ginormous books.
I also didn’t read A Thousand Perfect notes either. Just because I didn’t get the chance to read this book yet, doesn’t mean that I don’t want to. I hope to read this one soon.
Shelly Goodman Wright is a friend of mine, and has been teaching my son’s writing class for a couple of years now. I’ll be taking a writing for publication class with her in February, and she’s going to help me improve my book, The Brightness of Shadow. She gave me a copy of her book, Twisted Roots, a couple of years ago, and I think maybe I should read it? So it’s on my TBR, and I plan to read it before February.
I got permission to read an ARC of The Girl King by Mimi Yu, so of course this book is on my winter TBR. I was approved for this book about a month ago, and haven’t read it yet because of NaNoWriMo, and also because publishers don’t like you to write your reviews too early. Since I’m in the time frame where I can post reviews, I’ll probably read this one soon.
Another ARC I was approved for is The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi. I haven’t read it yet for the same reasons I haven’t read The Girl King yet. This one has a later publication date, so I’ll probably read the other one first, but I plan on reading it this winter.
The Invisible War is a graphic novel that I got from Netgalley. It looked interesting, so I requested it. I’m pretty good about reading my ARCs, so this is one of the books I’ll be reading soon.
On many of the Top Ten Tuesday posts about cozy and wintry reads, The Grisha Verse trilogy showed up multiple times. I’ve wanted to read it for a while, but haven’t gotten around to it yet. I want to read it before I get to Six of Crows too. So onto the TBR it goes.
Since I plan on finishing the Throne of Glass series this winter, I thought I’d follow it up by reading A Court of Thorns and Roses, and the books after that. This was another series that found its way onto the Cozy/Wintry reads edition of Top Ten Tuesday. Perhaps I should make an attempt to read it before the winter is over.
I got so many books on Black Friday this year it’s shameful. Okay, maybe not shameful, but I did get a lot of books. One of the books that I bought was The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden. It definitely has a wintry feel to it — I mean, look at the cover. This isn’t exactly a book that I want to read in the middle of July.
Sky in the Deep was another Black Friday purchase. It’s been one of those books that I’ve been looking at for months, but never got around to reading. Now that I have a copy on my Kindle, I don’t have an excuse for not reading it. Besides, this story is about Vikings… can we get anything more wintry than Vikings? It’s cold up in the North! I should probably get to this book before the weather gets warmer again.
So there’s my Top Ten Tuesday list for this week. What are you planning on reading this winter? Did you knock out a big portion of your fall 2018 TBR, or did you end up throwing that thing out the window and just read whatever sounded good at the time?
Next week is Christmas Day! I’ll be talking about books I hope to find under my Christmas tree. If I don’t… well, there’s always Amazon gift cards!
Ooh Sky in the deep was pretty good! Hope you like it.
I still need to read Wildcard.
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Thanks! It looks really good. I’m surprised you haven’t read Wildcard yet. I guess there are a ton of other good books out there too.
Congratulations for getting through so much of your Autumn TBR, especially all those Cassie Clare books! I’ve been meaning to get to the Throne of Glass series and A Thousand Perfect Notes for so long now so I hope you’re able to read them soon, too!
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The Cassandra Clare books are just so easy to read, even though they tend to be long. Hopefully we’ll both finish ToG and A Thousand Perfect Notes soon.
Awesome, you gave me some ideas for the upcoming year.
🙂 Next year’s going to be a great reading year!
Nice list, I definitely want to read the Bear and the Nightingale sometime.
Hope you’re able to get around to it soon!
You did excellent with your fall TBR! Twisted Roots looks really interesting.
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I hope it is. I should have read it years ago when she first gave it to me, but there are so many other books out there!
These books all look rather interesting. I hope you manage to get to them and enjoy them and have a great week.
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At least I own most of these books. For my fall TBR I had to wait for most of the books at the library. I think the only one I don’t own is Empire of Storms, but that doesn’t have a long waiting list at the library ever.
Great TBR! You have some of my favs on it just adored Sky in The Deep and ACOTAR. Also planning to read Gilded Wolves and The Girl King this winter
Great choices. You have a couple of my favs on there. Just loved Sky in the Deep and ACOTAR. I’m also planning to read Girl King and Gilded Wolves
Looking forward to reading them then!
Wow, 8/10 off your Fall TBR, that’s amazing! I hope you enjoy Empire of Storms, A Thousand Perfect Notes, Shadow and Bone and ACOTAR!
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Thanks! It’ll be fun to go through them. Hope I can get at least 8/10 for this TBR.
8/10 is great job on your Fall TBR. I now want to go back and check mine.
I bet you did great! You’re always reading.
The Gilded Wolves is on my TBR – it sounds so cool!
I’ve seen it on a lot of TBRs this week.
Wow, very impressed that you were able to read so many of your Fall TBR books! I fail miserably always. I mean- I always read my review books, but any that are NOT for review? Forget it, I’m lucky if I get to one or two! I am the same as you though, I won’t let myself read them *too* early because let’s be real, I am never going to review them until it’s actually due to be reviewed, and if I read them too soon, I forget! Hope you enjoy these when you do read them!
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I try to write the review right away… but since they don’t want you to publish the reviews too early, I have to schedule it well in advance, when there’s places in my blog schedule that need reviews now!
Do I spy “The Invisible War”? Looks like I didn’t write that review for nothing, hehe! Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on it.
Haha I’m sure I got the idea from you :-).
Wow, you did really good with your Fall TBR. I hope you end up enjoying The Bear and the Nightingale. I thought is was amazing.
Good! I like how it has kind of a Russian theme to it. That’s what got me interested.
I loved A Thousand Perfect Notes. It’s so good! 🙂 Wonderful list!
I’ve wanted to read it for several months now, but it seems like something gets in the way. It’s in my TBR jar for January, and I’m going to read one of the books from that jar, at least. But since it’s on this list, and I’m done reading the extensive pile of Cassandra Clare books I read in the fall, I’ll probably get to it. I just should make sure I get to it before I start ACOTAR.
The Bear and the Nightingale looks and sounds really good! Hope you’re able to pick up everything on your list soon!
The SJM books (ACOTAR series and Empire of Storms) are the only ones I don’t have at the moment. I’ve been getting lots of them for cheap when they go on sale at Amazon.com. 🙂
WOW! Good for you, Brooke. You really made great progress on your fall TBR. I’m scared to look at mine, and so… I haven’t. 😉
Best of luck with your winter TBR; someday I need to pick up Cait’s debut because I’ve seen/heard really good things about it. Thanks so much for visiting Finding Wonderland. I appreciate it.
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Thank you for visiting back. LOL to checking on your TBR, although I’m sure you’ve read plenty of amazing books, whether they were on your TBR or not. Have a merry Christmas!
I’m scared of checking how I did on my fall TBR. I know it was bad. You did really well with yours. I hope you love all your winter books.
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You read a lot of books though, even if they weren’t on your TBR. All those really interesting nonfiction books! Merry Christmas!