Green Book Covers on my TBR Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I was going to do my favorite books with green covers or favorite green covers in general, but I couldn’t pull enough. I thought going into the TBR makes more sense! I think all of these are upcoming releases and none are already out, but there could be a few recent ones. Either way… all on my TBR to read at some point in time!

Book Titles Featuring Ordinal Numbers Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I decided to do this by searching in my Goodreads shelves in order (“first” then “second” etc.) so this list will feature my favorite books for each of the ordinal numbers. I haven’t read a book for all ten-ish of them so there’s a small TBR section below as well. Favorites by Number TBR Books

Genre Freebie: New or Upcoming Mystery/Thrillers I’m Excited to Read Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. My book breakdown each year is largely contemporary fiction/romance and mystery/thrillers. Naturally those were the first two genres I thought of when I saw this TTT topic. I figured I’d focus on some mystery/thrillers I recently added to my TBR that are coming out in the future or recently released. Hopefully there are some to add to your TBR!  

Love Freebie: Books I Didn’t Expect I’d Love Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I like to track the books I was pleasantly surprised by for exact moments like this. No idea what to feature for this Love/Valentines Day freebie post until I looked at my Goodreads shelves. I thought it would be fun to show some books that I was surprised that I ended up loving (or at least really enjoying!). Yes, You Do Like Literary Mysteries I always get intimidated by the more literary, slow-burn mysteries because thrillers – in my head – are more twisty and fun. I’ve learned in the last couple of years how much I really enjoy these slower burn mysteries! Two of these are by the same author and I’ve learned that apparently I’ll like anything Liz Moore writes, even if the plot isn’t totally up my alley. I hope to keep this up by reading more in the future. Getting inspired to write a blog post now… Second Chance Surprises Both of these books were by authors I’d already read once or twice and were pleasantly surprised by these follow-on experiences with them. I’d enjoyed a book or two by them in the […]

Favorite Book Covers with Cool Typography Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I love book cover designs and track them on Goodreads, so I went to my “cover love” shelf and pulled my favorite covers that feature some kind of nice or cute typography! Nothing crazy or super fancy but basically my favorite fonts and typography featured on book covers.  

Bookish Discoveries of 2025 Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. This TTT is meant to feature our bookish discoveries of the previous year, which can include new-to-you authors you discovered, new genres you learned you like, new bookish resources you found, friends you made, local bookshops you found, a book club you joined, etc. New-to-Me Authors   These are the fifteen new-to-me authors that I plan to read more books from. I really enjoyed all of these (lowest rating is three stars, but I’m intrigued enough to read more). There were probably less than five new authors that I don’t plan to read from again, so that’s definitely a win! Bookish Discoveries Reading an hour a day keeps me on track I’m someone who likes to have goals but doesn’t really like rigidity. It’s hard to explain. I started #75booked at the tail end of last year because I was behind on my Goodreads challenge by a few books and needed to lock in. I decided reading for an hour a day was the best middle-ground between challenging myself and being realistic. I have a couple weeks left of the challenge, so it was nice to bring that energy to start […]

2026 Goals Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I plan on reading 100 books this year. Yes, I’m back closer to the olden days on my blog. I don’t think I’ll ever read 150-180 books again but I really would like to read a couple of books per week at this point. I thought it would be fun to see my progress – the highs and lows of the last few years. I started my blog in 2014 midway through the year so the 91 books I read were actually from like June to December, which is wild. I was pretty jacked up about reading for a few years and always read over 100 books, usually more than 150, until Covid happened. I barely squeaked out 100 books and decided to go with a lower amount for the following couple of years. I got my mojo back in 2023 and 2024 before kind of crashing again this year. 100 may be optimistic but I decided I will reduce my goal if needed at the end of Q1 and not give myself too much shit for it. Along with this specific number of books, here’s what I’m hoping to accomplish: Spend more […]