I love the seasonal Top Ten Tuesday topics That Artsy Reader Girl posts, and, in a true surprise, I find from the last time around that I’ve finished five of the ten titles I included (and started three others). Sometimes I don’t get to any of them.

So here’s hoping that I actually get to a majority of the books I’m including today of the top ten titles on my to-be-read list for this winter:

1. The Rivals by Jane Pek
2. Back After This by Linda Holmes
3. Rainbow Rowell’s Slow Dance
4. Jasper Fforde’s Red Side Story
5. The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
6. Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. Klune
7. Aliya and the Infinite City by Laila Rifaat
8. A Winter in New York by Josie Silver
9. Reynard the Fox by Anne Louise Avery
10. 1000 Words by Jami Attenberg

It helps that I own five of these books already and that several are by favorite authors. No excuses about the library holds list being too long!

How about you? What are you hoping to read this winter?

I just looked back at my summer tbr list and found I’ve finished none of the books I’d listed. Sigh.

Will that stop me from listing ten more books I hope to read this fall as part of That Artsy Reader Girl’s seasonal Top Ten Tuesday? No, no it will not:

1. Erin Sterling’s The Wedding Witch
2. A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle Jensen
3. Holmes, Marple, and Poe by James Patterson and Brian Sitts
4. Richard Osman’s We Solve Murders
5. Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi
6. The Hedgewitch of Foxhall by Anna Bright
7. Hanif Abdurraqib’s There’s Always This Year
8. The Afterlife of Mal Caldera by Nadi Reed Perez
9. The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
10. How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann

What’s on your TBR for this fall? Mysteries? Fantastical tales? Classic lit to be read as the evenings fall earlier?

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from That Artsy Reader Girl invites us to share the debuts we enjoyed — those first published works by authors that completely wowed us. Here are ten of mine:

1. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
2. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
3. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
4. Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
5. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
6. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
7. Me: Moth by Amber McBride
8. Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
9. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
10. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

How about you? What debut novels have you loved?

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from That Artsy Reader Girl asks us to share the books we’re most looking forward to that come out between July and December. Other than Rainbow’s and Maehrer’s books, I’ve not included any I listed last week, but I did have to cheat and expand the list to 11:

1. Rainbow Rowell’s Slow Dance
2. Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
3. Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. Klune
4. The Frindle Files by Andrew Clements
5. S.J. Bennett’s A Death in Diamonds
6. A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sanju Mandanna
7. The Witching Wind by Natalie Lloyd
8. Naomi Novik’s Buried Deep and Other Stories
9. The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
10. The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
11. Erin Sterling’s The Wedding Witch

How about you? What’s coming out during the second half of 2024 that you can’t wait to get your hands on?

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday at That Artsy Reader Girl is a seasonal favorite — the top ten books on my summer TBR list:

1. Rainbow Rowell’s Slow Dance
2. A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvia Cathrall
3. Nicola Yoon’s One of Our Kind
4. Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
5. How to Read a Book by Monica Wood
6. The Summer Pact by Emily Giffin
7. Kate Quinn’s The Briar Club
8. A Gentleman and a Thief by Dean Jobb
9. We Shall Be Monsters by Tara Sim
10. A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic by J. Penner

What books are you hoping to read this summer?

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic from That Artsy Reader Girl is Authors I’d Love a New Book From. Here are ten of mine:

1. Rainbow Rowell (This is cheating, because her next novel is due out in July, but still…)
2. Maia Chance (It looks like she has a thriller coming out this summer, but I was really hoping for one of her mysteries.)
3. Deanna Raybourn (I downed the latest Veronica Speedwell a few weeks ago and would be delighted with another in that series or another standalone.)
4. Sonali Dev (I haven’t read her latest, but know I’ll devour it quickly and then I’ll want more!)
5. Erin Morgenstern (I have, but haven’t read, The Starless Sea, but even that came out five years ago.)
6. Grace Lin (Her middle grade novels are exquisite.)
7. Carsten Henn (It looks like he has other books, but they don’t seem to have been translated.)
8. Michael Scott (I want him to write something new and then come to the U.S. to promote it, because he was such a great author to hear live.)
9. Chad Harbach (How has he never published another novel?!)
10. Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (A third series from them would be just great from my perspective!)

How about you? Are there authors you’d like to have send you a new manuscript right now?