It’s Tuesday again, which means another edition of Top Ten Tuesday! Today’s Topic is “The Ten Most Recent Additions to my TBR”. I am writing this slightly in advance, so it might change a bit, but these are what was added to my TBR when I wrote this.
As always, Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl!
The Queen of Nothing – Holly Black
I stayed up to finish The Wicked King on the day that I got it. I didn’t want to put it down. While the ending wasn’t a huge cliffhanger (I mean, nobody got stabbed right before the end or anything), I certainly want to find out what happens next. ASAP. I’ll be looking for ARCs of this when it comes out.
The Tiger at Midnight – Swati Teerdhala
This description from the author: “I’m the author of THE TIGER AT MIDNIGHT, which is LEGEND x AN EMBER IN THE ASHES set in a fantastical ancient India.” completely got me. She must be a mind reader or something, because I fangirl over both those books. All the time. I need to read this book! Can I get an ARC? I’ll be stalking Netgalley for this one.
Once & Future – Amy Rose Capetta
A gender-bent King Arthur retelling set in the future? Sign me up. This was another book I found from Top Ten Tuesday bloggers.
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages – Gaston Dorren
I’m a polyglot, so I’m always learning languages. If you learned twenty languages, you could speak to half of the population. This book sounded pretty interesting.
Sweet on You – Becky Wade
This is another Top Ten Tuesday book that I saw that looked good. Since it’s part of a trilogy, I guess I have to read the others first?
Song of the Abyss – Makiia Lucier
I still haven’t read Isle of Blood and Stone yet, but it’s in my TBR Jar. The second book is Song of the Abyss, which I added to my TBR because I was trying to win it. It looks good. Hopefully I’ll get to read it soon.
Blood Heir – Amélie Wen Zhao
I love how this story is Russian-inspired. I see it on Twitter all the time, and the author seems nice too. I’m looking forward to reading it! I requested an ARC on Netgalley; I hope I get approved.
The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
I saw this book last summer and it looked interesting, but then I forgot about it. Another person’s Top Ten Tuesday post reminded me about it, so it ended up on my TBR.
The Land of Yesterday – K. A. Reynolds
The cover to this book is gorgeous! It looks like such a cute book. It’s a middle grade book that I plan to read and have my boy read too. My library doesn’t have it (gasp) but I ordered it through inter-library loan.
Ghosts of the Shadow Market – Cassandra Clare
I’ve pre-ordered this book already, so guess what I’ll be reading on June 4th? This book tells a bunch of short stories involving different shadowhunters throughout history, as seen from the eyes of Brother Zechariah (Jem Carstairs). Looking forward to reading it!
So there’s your Top Ten Tuesday for this week. Next week is supposed to be “Upcoming Releases I’m on the Fence About” but after writing it I realized I didn’t want to be so negative, so I changed it to a post on the books that have been on my TBR the longest.
What books did you recently add to your TBR? Are you inspired by other people’s TTTs like I am?
That Holly Black series is everywhere and sounds so good. I definitely am going to start that series soon!
Her writing is great. I hope you like it!
I have only read a few of the Shadowhunter novellas, but I heard you really need to read the Shadow Market. That it’s critical to understanding where the story is going. Not sure if it’s true, but that is what I have heard.
Sam@wlabb recently posted…Top Ten Tuesday: Last Ten Added
Interesting. Their fan wiki is very detailed so I can look stuff up there. Or I can just download the other stuff too.
I really need to get to The Cruel Prince…. like right now. I LOVE fae books, and I adore Holly Black’s writing….. so what am I doing????
OOOOOOO! I’ve seen Amélie Wen Zhao’s book around on twitter too! It sounds like a really good read! I’ve been looking for more Russian inspired books, I feel like it’s a very intriguing setting for a story to be set in. Especially Russian Folklore, I need more of that!
AAAAAAAAAAAA! WHAT?!?! I DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT GHOSTS OF THE SHADOW MARKET!!! WHERE HAVE I BEEN!?!?! A book based on precious bean, Jem!!! *zooms away to pre-order*
I hope you get approved for the ARC’s you want!
Happy Reading! <3
Lin @ The Reader of A Thousand Stars recently posted…Recent Additions To My TBR Mountain
Guess we’ll both be reading Ghosts of the Shadow Market on June 4.
I found out a few minutes ago I got approved for an ARC of Blood Heir! So guess I’ll be reading that ASAP.
I haven’t read The Wicked King yet but I’m excited to see how this series will end. Have fun reading all of these !
Marti recently posted…The Ten Most Recent Additions to My To-Read List
Thanks! I think the last book will be great!
Definitely excited for The Queen of Nothing! My fingers are crossed that Cardan acted only to protect Jude and that she’ll somehow find a loophole to get around what was done (is that vague enough? LOL).
Tanya @ Girl Plus Books recently posted…Top Ten Tuesday: Most Recent TBR Additions
It’s going to be an interesting resolution. I think, despite how they act like they both despise each other, that they really do care about each other and it will work out, despite the circumstances at the end of the book. And I do think that what they said to each other (being vague here) will hold. That’s my theory though. Have to wait until the ARCs start coming out. Because I will be trying to get an ARC.
I keep seeing that Holly Black series EVERY.WHERE. Hope you get to enjoy these lovelies soon – and glad to know I am not the only one who obsessively (ain’t no shame) stalks NetGalley, just waiting for a particular book to pop up.
I try to keep my Netgalley percentage over 80%; now that I’ve reviewed 24 books there, I’m safe in asking for more books without going over the percentage. But I’m really hoping to read The Tiger at Midnight, The Queen of Nothing, and Legend 4 when their ARCs become available.
A genderbent King Arthur? YES PLEASE!
LOL, that’s exactly what I thought.
Awesome list! I’m super excited for Sweet on You. I love that whole series.
That’s good to know, since I usually try to read series in order. I haven’t read the others either.
I’m so excited for The Queen of Nothing! I’ll just be waiting here… on a cliffhanger… for a year…
Kelly @ Wandering Through Books recently posted…The Ten Most Recent Additions to My To-Read List
Yes. I know NetGalley had Wicked King ARCs, which I didn’t request because I hadn’t read The Cruel Prince yet. If I see a Queen of Nothing ARC at some point I’ll request it without question.
I really have got to get around to reading The Cruel Prince one of these days!
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If you do, I hope you like it!
I can’t wait for Ghosts of the Shadowmarket! A lot of the other books are on my TBR as well! (And The Queen of Nothing will be as soon as I get around to reading The Wicked King… oops.)
Niamh @ nuggets of niamh recently posted…my audiobook TBR pile // Top Ten Tuesday
Well, The Wicked King did just come out this month… and since we have to wait for The Queen of Nothing, there’s no rush.
The wait for The Queen of Nothing is going to kill me *sigh*
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Hope we both get ARCs!
How long is the wait for Queen of Nothing because I need it now. I hope it ends up being an amazing conclusion.
Me too. I don’t know when the release date is, hopefully there’ll be ARCs available this fall.