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We’re in the midst of annual Top Ten Tuesday topics at That Artsy Reader Girl<\/a>, and this week’s is the top ten books we’re most anticipating that are being published before the end of June. Here are mine:<\/p>\n

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  1. Jasper Fforde’s Dark Reading Matter<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Rainbow Rowell’s Cherry Baby<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Deana Raybourn’s A Ghastly Catastrophe<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. T.J. Klune’s We Burned So Bright<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. Anne of a Different Island<\/em> by Virginia Kantra<\/li>\n
  6. E.B. Asher’s This Will Be Interesting<\/em><\/li>\n
  7. The Astral Library<\/em> by Kate Quinn<\/li>\n
  8. Kory Stamper’s True Color<\/em><\/li>\n
  9. By The Book<\/em> by Jessica George<\/li>\n
  10. Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter<\/em> by Heather Fawcett<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    How about you? What’s coming out in the next six months that you’re excited to read?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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