Happy Top Ten Tuesday! And happy first day of fall too! Summer is my favorite time of year, which makes me sad, but I do love putting together my seasonal TBRs (even though my track record has been poor this last year; it might be do with having an unemployed husband who’s around all the time). Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.
But first, let’s see how I did during the summer:
- Conquest – Celest Harte: Read
- Descendant of the Crane – Joan He: Read
- Keeper – Kim Chance: Unread
- Opposite of Always – Jason Reynolds: Read
- Mirror Gate – Jeff Wheeler: Unread
- The Bride Test – Helen Huang: Read
- Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour – Morgan Matson: Read
- The First Hostage – Joel C. Rosenberg: Unread
- A Curse So Dark and Lonely – Brigid Kemmerer: Unread
- Jo & Laurie – Melissa de La Cruz & Margaret Stohl: Read
It was only a 60% success rate. I did read finish the Twilight series during the summer and I had some ARCs. I’ve started to include some of my ARCs starting this list, because for now, I’m just not getting as much reading done, although I’m still caught up on my reading challenge.
So here’s what I hope to read this fall:
I don’t know if it’s considered cheating because I have the ARC and I’m already 43% done with the book, but Skyhunter was going to be on my fall TBR anyway (it comes out September 29th), so I figure I should put it up here. So far, it’s really good! I wasn’t a huge fan of the cover initially, but now that I’m reading it, it makes a lot more sense.
I didn’t finish Keeper this summer, so it’s carrying over to the fall. Hopefully I’ll have the opportunity to read it before winter.
The First Hostage is another carry-over from the summer. It’s been a couple of years since I read the first book in the series, so I might want to reread the first book. Maybe I’ll get this one on audiobook since I have a couple credits and I don’t have a physical copy of this book.
Mirror Gate is another book I didn’t read over the summer. It looks like a summery book, so maybe I’ll try to read this in October when the weather is still sometimes nice. It did snow a couple weeks ago, allowing Olaf to experience the summer, but the weather is nice again.
The final book I didn’t get the chance to read over the summer was A Curse So Dark and Lonely. Let’s see if I can get to all four of these books.
I have to wait until September to read A Sky Beyond the Storm, which doesn’t give me a lot of time to read this in the fall, but I pre-ordered this book and will probably start reading it on December 1st.
How I ended up with an ARC of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is beyond me. But it comes out on October 6, so I’m going to start this as soon as I finish Skyhunter. With the way I’ve been reading so slowly lately, I should finish it just prior to its release date.
I also have an ARC of Make Up Break Up, but I’m on Sandhya Menon’s street teams so I know why I got this. This book doesn’t come out until February, but if I put it here right on my Fall TBR, I’ll be able to read about it in plenty of time to gush about it prior to its release. She also has a Christmas novella coming out, Booked for Christmas, that sounds really cute.
Lucky me, I got a copy of The Red Scrolls of Magic for free! The Kindle version was on sale for $1.99 at Amazon.com, and I had a $5 credit on Amazon after they had a promotion where they gave you free money for reading on the Kindle. There were two slots open on the TBR lottery, and this was one of the books I drew. Cassandra Clare’s books are always good (if not long, haha).
Talon was the other book I drew out of the TBR lottery. This has an amazing cover! I got this one on sale too, a while back, which is pretty good, because my book budget is almost zero right now. Fortunately, our library is amazing and has bought every book I’ve recommended to them, but since I already own this, I don’t have to worry about that.
So that’s ten! Will I be able to read them all this quarter? Hopefully. Since I included most of the ARCs I have, there’s a better chance I’ll read these than the summer TBR books.
So what do you plan on reading this season? I’m sure I’ll discover many more books this week. Next week we’re going to talk about favorite book quotes. We’ve done topics like this before, so I’ll try to come up with some new ones.