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Hello! It’s Tuesday, and you know what that means! Time for another Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl). Today’s topic is supposed to be “Books I’ve Added to my TBR and Forgotten Why,” but I usually know why I add books to my TBR, so that wouldn’t be a very good list. Instead, I’ll talk about the most recent books to my TBR. There were a few books I recently added to Goodreads because I read them a long time ago, but I’m not going to include them here.

I’ve never read Twilight before (or seen any of the movies), and wasn’t planning to. After all the book came out 15 years ago and people have mixed feelings about it today. And to be honest? I’m reading it right now and I have to say, while it is entertaining, their relationship has some problems. But with Midnight Sun coming out, I figure, why not read the series? It’s kind of fun to be reading something that lots of your book friends are reading.

I’ve been making a point to read more nonfiction lately. So along with Twilight, I’ve been reading a couple chapters from The Bell Curve every day. It’s definitely an academic book. A few of the chapters are a little controversial, and I have to wonder what direction some of the trends they found went in after this book went to print about 25 years ago.

Of Silver and Shadow was an ARC I got from Netgalley. I was in a hurry to read it, thinking it was coming out at the end of May, and then I discovered that it wouldn’t come out until 2021 (likely because of Coronavirus).

My friend Katerina King wrote Malediction, which came out last fall. I’m not sure why I didn’t add it to my Goodreads TBR sooner than I did.

I read The Guinevere Deception last fall, and I’m looking forward to reading Kiersten White’s sequel, The Camelot Betrayal. This series has some great covers! I can’t wait to read this one.

There’s going to be a sequel to Veronica Roth’s Chosen Ones. It’s still untitled, but I plan to read it. So I added it to my TBR.

Forged in Fire and Stars was a book recommendation given to me. It has a beautiful cover, and it sounds interesting. This book came out last month, but I haven’t had the opportunity to read it yet.

I never read Little Women, but I had the opportunity to read the first few pages of Jo & Laurie and it was pretty good. I got to meet Melissa de la Cruz in March, and the book seemed interesting when she described it.

I got The Summer of Impossibilities as an ARC. I suppose I could have added this book to last week’s Top Ten Tuesday, which talked about books that give off summer vibes.

Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare doesn’t have a cover yet, and it’s also not available for pre-order, but it’s already on my TBR. I like all the Shadowhunter books, so I’ll probably want to read this as soon as it comes out.

So these are my most recent TBR adds! Next week we’re talking about our summer TBRs!

Hello! It’s Tuesday again, and that means it’s time for Top Ten Tuesday! Today we’re talking about Books that I Predict will be Five Star Reads. I’m writing this post on January 11th, and I may have read some of these books prior to the time this gets posted. Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl!

This book is arriving tomorrow! I’m so excited for that. I expect The Kingdom of Back will be a book I’ll love, because I love almost everything that Marie Lu writes.

Another book I expect to love is Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare. I love the Shadowhunter books and I expect that this will be another amazing story. I’ve already seen Cordelia and James Herondale in some stories and can’t wait to see more of them. I already have Chain of Thorns, Chain of Iron, and the untitled Wicked Powers books on my TBR because I know I’ll enjoy them.

I’m looking forward to Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon! This is an enemies-to-lovers story set during graduation. I’ve been interested in reading some of her stories before, but this one really sticks out to me.

In November I plan on reading The Scorpio Races (occasionally I’ll plan to read something far in advance, especially if the book happens over a specific date). Based on the other books I’ve read by Ms. Stiefvater, I expect this one to be five stars.

What’s it about? I don’t know. But it’s Marie Lu. I gave Batman only four stars but I’m not really into superheroes. She wrote this beautiful Instagram post the other day about going out into the backyard with her son.

Here’s another book I can almost guarantee five stars to based on the author alone. Her, Marie Lu, and Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunters books are almost always going to be good.

Why have I not read this book yet? I loved the Grishaverse books and expect this one to be awesome too. I probably wouldn’t have to wait long for this one at the library (if at all) yet there are so many other books out there crowding for my time.

If it’s a book about gamers, I’m probably going to like it. I have this ARC and am excited to read it. Hopefully I’ll finish it before its release date on January 28th. I didn’t read a ton of books in November and December and am a little behind in some of the books I want to read, but I’ll probably get to this soon.

The first book in the Lux series, Obsidian, was a five star read, and I predict that the second book in the series, Onyx, will be amazing as well.

March is going to be an amazing month for books, I predict. I have three? (I think, there may be four) books pre-ordered for March 3rd, and then there’s also Between Burning Worlds, which comes out on the 24th (another pre-order). So looking forward to finding out what happens to Chatine. I’m glad I read Les Misérables last fall. Out of the (several, now) books I’ve read inspired by that book, I think this one has the most in common with it. I’m looking forward to this and a reread of Sky Without Stars, so I can compare it to the original Victor Hugo masterpiece.

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.

Hello! It’s Tuesday again, so it’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl). This week was a freebie… at first I had no clue what to do today, but I was inspired by Whimsy Pages to create a list of books from the last ten years that were still on my TBR! I decided to do one book per year, like the one where we listed our favorite books (one per year) that we did on May 28th. I didn’t have a book on my TBR from 2010, but thanks to that week’s list, I was able to find a book that I’d like to read from that year, so now it resides on my TBR as well.

2009: The Maze Runner

I actually checked this one out of the library, read a couple of paragraphs, and then didn’t come back to it. The book sounds interesting enough, but I was interested in other books at the time. This one remains on my TBR.

2010: Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour

I first heard about this book through Top Ten Tuesday a couple of months ago. It sounds like a good book, so it went onto my TBR.

2011: The Miracle of Freedom: 7 Tipping Points that Saved the World

I love history, and this book sounds really interesting. This book is about how lucky we are to be living in the world we are today, because there were several turning points in history, that if they turned out differently, could have caused human history to turn out differently.

2012: The Raven Boys

I talk about how I need to read one of Maggie Stiefvater’s books almost every week. Why haven’t I? So many books, so little time.

There’s actually a readalong going for these books, and I’m really planning on doing it. So maybe I’ll read it this month?

2013: Vicious

V.E. Schwab is another author I talk about wanting to read. Every. Single. Week. I’ve even purchased some of her books. Yet I haven’t read one of her books yet. Soon.

2014: The Auschwitz Escape

I’m pretty sure I’ve liked every single Joel C. Rosenberg book that I’ve read so far. I haven’t read this one yet, but I’d like to. There’s actually several of his more recent books that I haven’t read yet.

2015: Uprooted

I still haven’t read anything by Naomi Novik, even though both Uprooted and Spinning Silver look good. Perhaps sometime this year.

2016: The Underground Railroad

I hadn’t heard about Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad until last year, but it looks like a really good book. Don’t know when I’ll get around to reading it, but hopefully someday.

2017: Eliza and her Monsters

I just recently added this book to my TBR, but it looks pretty good and I’d like to read it sooner rather than later.

2018: American Panda

There are so many amazing books I’ve read from 2018, but one of the books that is still on my list is American Panda. It seems like such a cute book. Why haven’t I read it yet? Probably for the same reasons I haven’t read any of the other books on this list. I’d like to though.

So those are some books from the last ten years that are on my TBR that I haven’t read yet. What are some of the books on your TBR that you have yet to read?