Cute Covers with Water on Them 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 you give me an open-ended TTT, I’m going to make it about book covers! I thought with the basic prompt of “water” for this week, I would show some cute or favorite book covers with water on them.  

Genre Freebie: Upcoming Mysteries and 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. I pretty much exclusively read contemporary romance and mystery/thrillers these days (with the occasional fantasy novel thrown in). I thought it would be fun to share some upcoming mysteries and thrillers I’m excited to read! These are all books publishing after this post goes live (from the end of August into possibly next year). Here are some unreleased books to add to your TBR!      

Forgotten Backlist Titles I’d Recommend 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 have been very hip to new releases and hyped up books this year, so it’s definitely refreshing to find some hidden backlist gems that need more readers these days! I have an entire “underrated” shelf on Goodreads I would recommend you try out, but here are ten favorites that fit the bill here (and are all published in 2021 or earlier). Trilogies and Duologies Young Adult Fiction Adult Fiction/Romance

Most Recent DNFs 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 don’t usually talk about DNFs on my blog or review them so I’m excited actually to touch on this topic! I’ve been a bit better with quitting books lately but I do feel like finding 10 DNFs will bring me back a few years haha.    

Books with One-Word Titles 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 decided to keep this topic (books with one-word titles) to just the ones on my TBR so it would be easier to track them down on Goodreads!    

Books I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read Yet (2023 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 always start to analyze my TBR and think about the books I still need to read around the middle of the year. There are so many new releases that it’s hard to keep up with those on top of balancing backlist reads and review copies. I thought this week’s freebie could be fun to share the ten books that I can’t believe I haven’t read yet this year. These are books I was super excited for or review copies that have been sitting on my Kindle somehow.

Book Covers in the Colors of My Country’s Flag 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 live in the US so obviously I can show off some red, white, and blue! I considered being creative and making an actual flag but honestly I’m not that kind of patriotic gal. Instead, here are some cute book covers that fall in this color scheme! I used books I’ve recently added to my TBR for this as well.    

July to December Releases I’m Excited For 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. Fun fact: I wrote this post and scheduled it to go live last week, then I was looking at the TTT for this week… lo and behold. I decided to just paste it over here and share with the rest of y’all! As you can see, I’ve been doing a lot of random TBR planning for so many reasons – for the upcoming seasons, for all the random books that the library is going to give me access to, for readathons… all the things. Here are some of the books coming out in the second half of the year that I’m super excited to read! I went month by month but there’s only one December book as of now squished in with November at the bottom. July August September October November & December

Summer TBR: July, August, September 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. Okay maybe you’re sick of seeing my TBRs around here but you know I can’t resist this one! I’ve shared some summery books I hope to read this year, a long-term TBR that includes July/August, and second-half-of-2023 releases I’m excited for (obviously also including this summer). Needless to say, this topic has been covered in multiple posts this month, but this is a concise list of my true ~summer TBR~ with all of those things considered for July, August, and most of September. This will include the books I’m hoping to read during these months as well as the new releases that I’d love to read when they come out! Here we go! July New Releases & Review Copies I have a few of these in my possession as review copies (BUSINESS OR PLEASURE and THE LGACIES) and an early BOTM release (SHE STARTED IT. I preordered ALL THAT’S LEFT TO SAY so that will come right away. The other two (ONE OF US IS BACK and JUST ANOTHER MISSING PERSON) will be snagged from the library or purchased. Other Books on my TBR I hope to read THE NATURALS series […]

Bookish Wishes 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 don’t have a book wishlist usually (except for when I scramble to ask for things for Christmas from my dad!), so I won’t be linking anything here today. I usually like to use this prompt to talk about all the books I hope to buy or own someday in my personal library. We currently rent a house and plan to buy in the next couple of years. When I have my own office and/or library space there, I hope to add a lot of favorites to my shelves! Here are some books on my long-term wishlist! New Throne of Glass Covers As you’ve seen in recent posts, I’m exclusively using these new and gorgeous covers for the TOG series on my blog during my reread/finish of the series! I absolutely looooove these new designs. I wanted to buy all the paperbacks (literally had them in my B&N cart one day and almost pressed purchase) but decided to wait until I have more space for them in my home library. I may also ask for all of them as gifts at some point lol. Shady Hollow Series I read and enjoyed the SHADY […]