Category: top ten tuesday

Top Ten: Books I Meant to Read in 2018

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s theme was books I meant to read in 2018.

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green // Archenemies by Marissa Meyer // Breakout by Kate Messner // The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas // The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

Night Film by Marisha Pessl // Sadie by Courtney Summers // There There by Tommy Orange // The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee // The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

Top Ten Tuesday: Authors I Read for the First Time in 2018

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s theme was authors I read for the first time in 2018. Since I read more than just ten, I thought I’d highlight those whose future (or even previous!) work I’d like to read more of.

Abby Norman (Ask Me About My Uterus) // Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera (What If It’s Us) // Christina Lauren (My Favorite Half-Night Stand) // Hester Fox (The Witch of Willow Hall)

Jasmine Guillory (The Proposal) // Julia Fine (What Should Be Wild) // Laura Ruby (The Shadow Cipher) // Mary H.K. Choi (Emergency Contact) // Pénélope Bagieu (Brazen)

Top Ten: Most Anticipated Releases for the First Half of 2019

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s theme was my most anticipated releases for the first half of 2019. Let’s go!

How to Date Men When You Hate Men by Blythe Roberson (1/8) // Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom (1/8) // Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen (1/29) // Giant Days vol. 9 by John Allison (2/19) // Trump Sky Alpha by Mark Doten (2/19)

Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World by Clive Thompson (3/26) // Ms. Marvel vol. 10 by G. Willow Wilson (4/9) // If I’m Being Honest by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka (4/23) // The Clockwork Ghost by Laura Ruby (5/14) // Star-Crossed by Minnie Darke (5/21)

Top Ten: Books on My Winter TBR

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s theme was books on my winter 2018/19 TBR. These quarterly posts are my favorite to post: not only because I love to peek at what’s being published in the next few months, but also because I love the structure this kind of TBR provides. (Even though I almost never follow my own choices!)

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green // A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness // Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen // How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough // In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker // Night Film by Marisha Pessl // On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden // The People We Hate at the Wedding by Grant Ginder // You Know You Want This: “Cat Person” and Other Stories by Kristen Roupenian

* ETA: Nasty Women by 404 Ink was replaced by In Cold Blood.

Top Ten: Books Featuring Sexy Times

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s theme was a freebie, so I decided to focus on books on my TBR which feature sexy times* (which is itself a take on the freebie prompt from February 12th). Because there’s nothing that screams “Winter Read” to me more than something I want to devour while wrapped up on the couch, here’s to unabashedly loving books that don’t fade to black.

*I am aware that, except for The Kiss Quotient, all of these are male/female romances featuring white protagonists. I am sorry. Please enjoy the abs.)

The Deal by Elle Kennedy // Forget You, Ethan by Whitney G. // Full Package by Lauren Blakely // How Not to Fall by Emily Foster // I Think I Love You by Lauren Layne

 The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang // Losing It by Cora Carmack // The Perfect Play by Jaci Burton // Sex, Not Love by Vi Keeland // Sweet Filthy Boy by Christina Lauren

Top Ten: Friendships

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s theme was platonic relationships, but I wanted to focus specifically on friendships – and the many different forms they take!

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell // A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab // A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray // Lumberjanes, vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson // My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren

Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl // The Passage by Justin Cronin // The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory // The Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby // Smart Girls like Me by Diane Vadino