Hello! Welcome to another week of Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl)! Today we’re supposed to write about “Favorite Things to Eat/Drink While Reading” but water doesn’t sound all that exciting. Instead, I’m doing a post to bridge the gap between last week (Books I Really Want to Read But Haven’t Had Time For Yet) and next week (Books on my Fall 2019 TBR).
I have so many books that I want to read that I’ve resorted to drawing my seasonal TBR choices out of a figurative hat (I actually use a random number generator). There were six books I absolutely had to read as soon as possible (pre-orders), and that left four slots for the fall 2019 TBR lottery. There were 45 books on my list. Here are ten of the books that didn’t make the TBR lottery for this fall.
I got a copy of Listen to Your Heart from the Colorado Teen Literature Conference that I attended earlier this year. I had been hoping to find some time to read it this summer, but I didn’t. And it lost the TBR lottery this time around. Since it’s a summery looking book, unless I find time to slip in another book before the weather starts to chill, I’ll probably wait until next summer to read it.
I read Obsidian earlier this year, but I still haven’t moved forward in the Lux series. I’ll put this one on the list for the winter TBR and see if it wins.
The Kiss Quotient was good, so I’d like to read The Bride Test also. Well, not right now. Maybe it’ll have better luck in the winter. I think this is a book that would have year-round appeal, at least.
Once & Future, a futuristic King Arthur retelling, was on the list of books I was interested in reading this fall. The odds were not in its favor. Maybe I’ll read it this winter.
Mirror Gate is the sequel to Storm Glass, a book I read last winter (I remember listening to it while driving through harrowingly snowy roads). Maybe this is one of those series I’m destined to read in the cold.
I found Three Dark Crowns on sale for $1.99 and had to pick it up. Unfortunately, I haven’t found time to read it yet. It looks like fate doesn’t want me to read it yet either.
Despite the creepy eye on the cover, I did pick up a copy of Shatter Me when it was on sale for $1.99. I read A Very Large Expanse of Sea earlier this year, so Tahereh Mafi is no longer a new-to-me author, however, this series is.
Will I ever stop buying books on sale? Probably not. Black Wings Beating was another sale book. And it’s another book I won’t read any time soon. Perhaps this book will win the winter lottery.
Wintersong has winter right on the cover; so maybe it’s good that I won’t be reading it just yet. I get cold just looking at the cover. Brrr! I’m sure this one will have another chance next quarter.
Meet Cute seems to have a summery vibe to it, although that’s only from looking at the cover. I’ll probably wait until spring to see if this book wins then. It looks like a cute book, but so do a lot of books that I’d like to read someday.
So those are ten books that I thought about reading this fall, but I probably won’t. I usually schedule one ARC and one book from my seasonal TBR per week, so if I read more than that, I might be able to fit one of these in, but we’ll see. There are other books that didn’t win the TBR lottery that didn’t go here (or were listed last week). Those extra books will be whatever I feel like at the time.
Next week, I’ll post my actual Fall 2019 TBR and we’ll see how I did with my summer 2019 TBR.
Oooh good luck reading these! I really enjoyed Once & Future and Shatter Me, so I hope you do too.
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Hopefully it won’t take too long to get to them!
What a fun concept! I’m such a mood reader so I’m not sure I could make this work but I really like the idea.
Three Dark Crowns is one of my favorite series so I do hope you pick it up soonish, it’s definitely a fall/winter read! The Bride Test was wonderful as well 😀
Happy reading!
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That’s good to know that Three Dark Crowns is a winter read. Fall is an interesting time of year because you can still read the summery books, but you can read the winter books too.
I hope you get a chance to read all of these books soon.
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I also use a random number generator to pick my TBR! Then I don’t have to use my own brain power to do it. When you finally get to these books, I hope they’re amazing!
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Thank you! Sometimes there’ll be a book that I *have to* read, but then there’s a lot of times when there’s a hundred books begging for your attention and I’m like “I’ll let fate decide”. Then I don’t have to feel bad about saying no to the others.
The Bride Test and Black Wings Beating are both on my ‘one day TBR’. Hoping you can get to them soon!
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Hope you can too! By the time I get to them though, there’ll be another 50 books waiting for my attention, LOL.
I hope you end up liking Once & Future! I know a lot of people did, but some of it ended up falling flat for me and it wasn’t something I’d read again. Just me though.
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Hopefully. That happens sometimes though. Sometimes books everybody loves are just “meh” for me.
Great list! Once & Future, Wintersong and Three Dark Crowns are all on my TBR, too – I need to check them out soon. 🙂
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Hopefully you’ll get the chance soon. Those were all $1.99 sale books for me (I just love those).
I love your method for picking TBRs by lottery! I have crazy reading lists and shelves on Goodreads set up, which takes the spontaneity out a bit. One reason I add a “random read” every once and a while!
I love the serendipity of it. How do you pick your books? Do you do a lot of book challenges?
I love KWest, and I really enjoyed Listen to Your Heart. TBT was fabulous, because Helen Hoang is amazing, and I am a fan of the Shatter Me books. I hope you get to read some of these at some point.
Kasie West’s books sound amazing. I’m glad you liked them, because I eventually plan on reading them!
I honestly wasn’t crazy about Three Dark Crowns, so you’re not missing a whole lot there!
Sorry you didn’t like it. I read a short story by Kendare Blake before and liked it, so I’ll probably eventually get to it. But I only paid $1.99 for it, so if I don’t like it, it wouldn’t be that big of a deal.
Very cool topic! I actually heard that Meet Cute has a really misleading cover and it’s a pretty heavy contemporary. I own it as well but haven’t gotten to it yet.
Interesting to know. It’s something I’d still like to read, but maybe not when I want something über light.
The last Three Dark Crowns book just came out and I need to find some time to read it. I like the series although the last book was my least favorite. Shatter Me I think looks interesting too! I hope you get to some of these at some point. 🙂
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So it looks like one vote for good, one vote for not, LOL. It looks like a fall/winter read so hopefully I’ll get the chance to read it while it’s still snowing outside (which, in Colorado, could go on into May or sometimes even June).
I love that you pick numbers out fo a hat (so to speak!) to narrow down your top 6 on your TBR!
It makes picking out a book so easy! Then I also don’t have to feel bad about saying “no” to reading a book (for now). There have been books (and authors) I feel so bad about not having read yet, but this pawns off my not having read them yet on fate.
Looks like you will have plenty of interesting reads whenever you fit these in!
I don’t own them all, but it shouldn’t be too hard to get them. Still, so many books, so little time!
Wintersong is great to read in the Winter!
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