This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from That Artsy Reader Girl invites us to share Books I Loved that Made Me Want More Books Like Them. I couldn’t think of titles that sent me scrambling for read-alikes, but I could come up with a list of books that made me want to read everything its author had written/will write:

1. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (I used to save money for trips to Waldenbooks at the Meriden Square, where I went through all the Anne books and into Montgomery’s other series/standalones.)
2. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (I might not love everything he writes, but I will read it.)
3. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell (I recognize this book has some problems with the portrayal of Park, but I loved it.)
4. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (This is another book with some problems in terms of racial interactions, which Kingsolver tried to address in her later Pigs in Heaven. I haven’t reread it in a long time and can’t speak for how it holds up, but I adore it has made me a Kingsolver devotee.)
5. A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle (Pretty sure it’s time for a reread of this classic tale of home improvement and cultural miscues)
6. The 13 Clocks by James Thurber (I don’t know how to best categorize Thurber’s works except maybe to say it has a strong moral compass and a witty soul.)
7. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (Another must-read author of my youth. I’ve even read her religious essays.)
8. When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin (Her descriptions are pure poetry.)
9. A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd (This book conveys such a love of words!)
10. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (I adored his way of telling stories through both words and pictures.)

Other books in this same category include Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds, Booked by Kwame Alexander, and The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon.

How about you?

I’m a little further along on my sock foot than I was last week. I’m also about a third of the way through Jo & Laurie by Margaret Stohl and Melissa de la Cruz. And in audiobooks, I’m past the halfway point on The Bookshop of Second Chances and most of the way through No Time like the Future, Michael J. Fox’s latest memoir.

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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from That Artsy Reader is a freebie, so I thought I’d share ten of the books I currently have checked out from the library that I’m particularly looking forward to reading:

1. Pride and Premeditation by Tirzah Price
2. Arsenic and Adobo by Mia Manansala
3. Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlaine
4. Trowbridge Road by Marcella Fleischman Pixley
5. Class Act by Jerry Craft
6. The Magic Fish by Le Nguyen Trung
7. You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar
8. Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Sutanto
9. The Resisters by Jen Gish
10. Aurora Burning by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristof

How about you? Do you have anything out from the library you’re particularly looking forward to?

I’m onto the foot of my first rainbow and clouds sock. Maybe I’ll finish it while I’m up visiting my folks.

I finished the print book I’d been reading and am now just picking which library books that are due soon after I get back to town I should take for vacation reading. Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala is one possibility.

On Overdrive, I’m about halfway through Jackie Fraser’s The Bookshop of Second Chances. I’ve got a couple memoirs for Rudi and me to listen to on the drive — Michael J. Fox’s most recent one and the book Amber Ruffin wrote with her sister, Lacey Lamar.

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I got through the heel of my sock during a conference call yesterday and am on to the foot. At least I think I am. I decreased the heel more than usual, so I need to try on the sock once the foot’s a little longer to make sure it doesn’t muck up the fit.

And I started two new books. On paper, it’s Sonya Lalli’s Serena Singh Flips the Script. Set in my neighborhood, it’s the story of a young woman figuring out how to find your people as an adult. I heard about it on my birthday weekend as part of an author event hosted by one of my local bookshops. So far, so good, which makes me happy, because one of her other titles has been in my audiobooks queue for a while.

And in my ears, it’s The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser about a middle-aged English woman who, after losing her marriage and her job in near proximity, discovers she’s inherited a great uncle’s Scottish house and library of first editions. It just so happens there’s a kind-hearted but curmudgeonly antiquarian bookseller in town…

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Somehow I thought when I saw this week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic from That Artsy Girl, Book Titles That Are Complete Sentences, I thought it was going to be hard to compile. But I like title challenges more than I like cover challenges and figured I could scroll through several pages of my Goodreads lists and find enough to qualify. Turns out, not so much! It only took me the first two pages of my most recent reads to compile 10, all read within the past 19 months:

1. Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez
2. Take a Hint, Dani Brown! by Talia Hibbert
3. Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why by Alexandra Petri
4. Get a Life, Chloe Brown! by Talia Hibbert
5. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
6. I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal
7. Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
8. Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia
9. Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
10. Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

While most of these books have been written in the past couple years, the Meg Cabot dates to 2005, perhaps marking it as a forerunner in the category.