"Outside a dog a book is man's best friend, inside a dog it is too dark to read!" -Groucho Marx========="The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." -Jane Austen========="I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."-JK Rowling========"I spend a lot of time reading." -Bill Gates=========“Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.” -Jacqueline Kelly=========

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

TTT: My Fall TBR

My Fall TBR
Upcoming book club selections:
  • Under the Wide, Starry Sky by Nancy Horan
  • An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
  • Sacrifice by S.J. Bolton
  • Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
YA books that are potential award winners
  • My Plain Jane by Cyntha Hand, et al (Finish)
  • Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
  • Rebound by Kwame Alexander
  • What I Leave Behind by Alison McGhee
  • Votes for Women: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot by Winifred Conkling
  • We'll Fly Away by Bryan Bliss
  • A Thousand Beginnings and Endings by Ellen Oh, et al
  • Proud: Living My American Dream by Ibtihja Muhammad
  • The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by Harry Abrams
  • Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
  • Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake
  • Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Audiobooks:
  • Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman
  • A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
  • Dear Madam President by Jennifer Palmieri
  • The Wisdom of Sundays by Oprah Winfrey
Just because I want to read them:
  • Fear by Bob Woodward (Currently reading)
  • She Loves You (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah) by Ann Hood
Think I have a few too many books on my list? Ha! I do, too!

How did I do on my Summer TBR?

Upcoming book club selections:
  • Educated: a Memoir by Tara Westover ✔
  • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (a re-read) ✔
  • Under the Wide, Starry Sky by Nancy Horan
YA books that are potential award winners
  • Boots on the Ground by Elizabeth Partridge 
  • The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert ✔
  • Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman ✔
  • Picture Us In the Light by Kelley Loy Gilbert ✔
  • Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card by Sara Saedi ✔
  • The Prince and the Dressmaker by Wang ✔
  • My Plain Jane by Hand/Ashton/Meadows. Currently reading
Audiobooks 
  • When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon ✔
  • Educated: a memoir ✔ See above
  • Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood.
  • My Plain Jane by Hand/Ashton/Meadows (see above)
Just because...
  • She Loves You (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah) by Ann Hood