Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, a fun way to get yourself thinking and sharing about books and bookish things.

September 22: Top ten books on my fall 2015 tbr

Jumping back in on Top Ten Tuesday! I love making the seasonal TBR lists, even though I rarely make it through them. It’s fun to dream. Anyway, you might recognize a few of these off my summer TBR list… that I never got around to…! This fall has been so busy already so I don’t have many expectations, especially if I go with a couple of these chunksters here—that might be about all I can do! But all these books look so amazing, I still can’t wait to dig in.

• A Little Life … Hanya Yanagihara
• Black Mass … Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill (in progress)
• City on Fire … Garth Risk Hallberg
• Dead Mountain … Donnie Eichar
• Fates and Furies … Lauren Groff
• The Heart Goes Last … Margaret Atwood
• The Last Pilot …Benjamin Johncock
• Slash … Slash with Anthony Bozza
• Station Eleven … Emily St. John Mandel
• The Troop … Nick Cutter

And of course I have books from my TBR Pile Challenge and Ebook Challenge to read… sigh! I think I’m (almost) ready to throw in the towel on those challenges.

What’s on your reading list for the fall?

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, a fun way to get yourself thinking and sharing about books and bookish things.

June 30: Top ten books I’ve read in 2015 so far

Halfway through the year, it’s a good time to reflect and pick the best books I’ve read so far in 2015. Looking forward to a lot of great reads in the second half of the year, too. Turned out to be half fiction, half non-fiction. In alphabetical order by title:

• All the Birds, Singing … Evie Wyld (review)
• Attempting Normal (audio) … Marc Maron, read by author (review)
• Columbine … Dave Cullen (review)
• Delicious Foods … James Hannaham (review)
• Hausfrau … Jill Alexander Essbaum (review)
• Just Mercy (audio) … Bryan Stevenson, read by author (review)
• Men We Reaped … Jesmyn Ward (review)
• Our Endless Numbered Days … Claire Fuller (review)
• The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace … Jeff Hobbs (review)
• Sweetland … Michael Crummey (review)

Looking over this list, I realize that all but one of them (Columbine) were borrowed from the library! (But I loved Marc Maron’s audiobook so much I did go out and buy a hardcover copy for myself.) KC Public Library FTW!

What are the best books you’ve read in 2015 so far?

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, a fun way to get yourself thinking and sharing about books and bookish things.

June 16: Top ten books on my summer 2015 tbr

I’m terrible about keeping to these season TBR lists, but I like to make them! Summer officially goes from June 21–September 22 this year, and I’m ambitious so here’s what I think can read in that time… at least what I’d like to get through! We’ll see what comes up in between, though, and what I end up going for on audio during my road trips this summer 😉

• A Little Life … Hanya Yanagihara
• Americanah … Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Authority and Acceptance … Jeff VanderMeer (a twofer!)
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers … Katherine Boo
• City on Fire … Garth Risk Hallberg
• Dead Wake … Erik Larson
• Get in Trouble … Kelly Link
• Horrorstör … Grady Hendrix
• Station Eleven … Emily St. John Mandel
• An Untamed State … Roxane Gay

I’d also like to try to catch up a bit on my TBR Pile Challenge (need to read four more by the end of August) and Ebook Challenge (five more!). Not sure I’ll make it this year with the challenges again, sigh. Would it be cheating to do some of these selections on audio, even though I should read them in the format I committed to in the challenges?

What’s on your reading list this summer?

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, a fun way to get yourself thinking and sharing about books and bookish things.

June 9: Top ten anticipated 2015 releases

I’m twisting this one a bit, because I don’t remember doing an “anticipated releases” post at the end of 2014, so some on my list have already been released this year (and I’ve already read a few!) Here they are, in chronological order by release date:

• A Little Life … Hanya Yanagihara • March 10
• Dead Wake … Erik Larson • March 10
• Delicious Foods … James Hannaham (my review) • March 17
• Hausfrau … Jill Alexander Essbaum (my review) • March 17
• Music for the People … William A. Everett (about) • May 12
• The Shore … Sara Taylor • May 26
• The Last Pilot … Benjamin Johncock • July 7
• Fates and Furies … Lauren Groff • September 15
• The Heart Goes Last … Margaret Atwood • September 26
• City on Fire … Garth Risk Hallberg • October 13

What new 2015 books are you looking forward to reading?