Most Anticipated Books of 2025 – First Half 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 really love the start of a new year to look at things like this and feel refreshed. I’ll try to not go crazy here but I like to track what’s coming so I can reflect on it later and see what I actually read. Based on the books below, May is my most anticipated reading month – there are so many good ones scheduled! January   February March April May June

Favorite Books of 2024 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 recently filled out a little survey for Instagram based on my favorite old blogging survey so I thought it would be easiest to share a couple of those graphics here!

Books I Hope Santa Brings Me 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. As usual, I could go a month and a half without posting a TTT and then there’s a TBR-related one… I’m back! I’m going to include the books I plan to finish my year with as of right now (writing this post 12/16), as well as January and February titles. There’s something about a new year that juices me up for reading again! On My Christmas List I put these five single books on my Christmas list and in the process of checking Amazon, I may have spoiled which ones were purchased lol. Oh well. I also added the TOG boxed set because I only read these from the library and I don’t even think I own them on my Kindle. What I’ll Buy/Preorder with Gift Cards   All of these except the Nita Prose would be preorders that I’m excited to own next year! I’m hoping to get a B&N gift card because I don’t buy books from Amazon as a general rule but we’ll see what people do for me lol. I own the first Molly the Maid book as cute little paperback and want to collect […]

Books on My Winter 2024-2025 to-Read List 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. As usual, I could go a month and a half without posting a TTT and then there’s a TBR-related one… I’m back! I’m going to include the books I plan to finish my year with as of right now (writing this post 12/16), as well as January and February titles. There’s something about a new year that juices me up for reading again! EOY 2024 I’m currently reading THE MOST WONDERFUL CRIME OF THE YEAR and will finish before book club tonight (whoops). I’m halfway through A WINTER WISH and unfortunately my Libby book got sent back to the library when I turned off airplane mode lol it was on sale so I bought a physical copy and it arrives tonight so I can finish soon. THE HOLIDAY HONEYMOON SWITCH is probably? my final holiday full-length book for the year – also a Libby one waiting on my Kindle. I think I’ll actually end the year on THE SONGBIRD OF THE HEART AND STONE because it’s a fantasy that I can take my time with, once my holiday reading is done. These are the final three short stories […]

Books with Flowers on the Cover (TBR Edition) 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 am always a sucker for book cover-related prompts so here I go as usual! I decided to fill in the “blank” on the cover with flowers because duh. I didn’t want to pull the same books you would have seen around here recently so there’s a mix of release dates below. All of these books are on my TBR.

Halloween Freebie: Creepy, Scary, Atmospheric Books 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 read a good amount of mysteries and thrillers, not a lot of horror, but I thought it would be fun to share some of the creepy or atmospheric or spooky books I’ve read. Not a ton of jump-scares in my reading life but these books gave me the creeps, had a few scary moments, or just had a great Halloween-esque atmosphere!

Books I Read or Avoided Because of the Hype 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 this one! I wrote a post a while back about books I’m afraid to read so you’ll likely see a bit of overlap on here in one of the sections, but I definitely can let the hype of a book affect my reading. READ AVOIDED  

Fall 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. If there’s one TTT you can always count on seeing from me, it’s a TBR list! Fall is my favorite season and right when I begin getting into heavier, longer books and genres other than contemporary romance and mysteries. I definitely still read those but you’ll see fantasy and even science fiction start to creep up in my reading. I’m going to arrange this one by month (release date and/or when I plan to read the book) rather than in different types of reads. I’ll let you know if the book is a review copy, highly anticipated release, or based on my mood 😉 I’m writing this post a couple of weeks before it goes live so you may have already seen some of these September reads on my “currently reading” shelf by now! September I have a bigger list for September because I’ve actually read more this month than expected and somehow have been in the mood to keep it up! I also know there’s a good chance many of these will shift into October or November, but want to stow them here for now. These ones are quick mysteries and contemporary […]

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles – Books with Travel 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 a good road trip book! I even have a Goodreads shelf where I track books like that. Many of these came off that shelf actually but a couple involve other modes of transportation (like boats, planes, etc.). These are all top reads for me so I highly recommend checking any of them out!