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
- 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
How did I do on my Summer TBR?
- 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...
- S
he Loves You (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah)by Ann Hood
LOVED Before We Were Yours! I hope you enjoy it (and all the other books on your list, of course).
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Great list! I keep hearing great things about My Plain Jane. It seems like I need to check it out. Happy reading! :)
ReplyDeleteIt is pretty silly... a lot about capturing ghosts, but i love the way the team of writers insert themselves into the writing.
DeleteIt looks like you crushed most of your Summer List! Nice job. I'm currently reading a "just because I wanted to" type of a book now. A re-read and it was so refreshing.
ReplyDeleteI sort of cheat when I make these lists because often I already have the books on my library list or have them checked out. If I do a good job creating the list, I will at least try to get to these books in the next three months. But my list is laughably long, I admit.
DeleteWow. Well done on your summer list! :-) Enjoy your Autumn ones!
ReplyDeleteAn American Marriage is a perfect book club read...so much to discuss!
ReplyDeleteGood to know. One of the gals in my club said it was pretty heavy.
DeleteI was just eyeing my copy of Under the Wide, Starry Sky, thinking I should read it. Tess of the Road and A Gentleman in Moscow are both on my TBR pile as well. I am not sure they are meant for me this fall though. You did great in August! I don't even want to go back and look at my list. I'm sure I failed. LOL
ReplyDeleteOh good. I've heard wonderful things about the Gentleman in Moscow.
DeleteI loved Dread Nation. I hope you enjoy it as well. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteI passed up a chance to read it several months ago and then had to get back in line. Soon, I hope, it will be my turn again at the library.
DeleteI'm reading "An American Marriage" and I think it will make an excellent discussion book. I'm undecided yet whether I like it or not. I'm about half through. I may slow down on it a bit because Robert Galbraith(aka J.K.Rowling) has a new mystery out. :)
ReplyDeleteI like to think of my lists as suggestions. I enjoy making them. I consult them when I don't know what I want to read. But they are not law. If, after a year, a book hasn't been read---it may be stricken from my list. That's just how it goes.
ReplyDeleteI've heard lots of good things about about An American Marriage and Dread Nation. My book group really enjoyed Before We Were Yours - it's an astounding bit of historical fiction - stunning that that really happened.
ReplyDeleteLooks like an awesome fall reading list! I am focusing on dark & creepy and suspenseful for the RIP Challenge - helps me plow through some of my extensive TBR collection, and a nice change of pace for me.
Enjoy all these great books!
Sue
Book By Book
Glad to hear that your group liked Before We Were Yours. I have done zero research on it so I don't even know what it is about. I am judging the Cybils again this year, so won't participate in other challenges from now to the end of the year.
DeleteAn American Marriage is a fantastic book, I hope you enjoy it! I just finished Dread Nation and really liked it. Fear is a book I'm interested in reading but it might be too depressing (sigh). Happy fall reading!
ReplyDeleteI am finding I can only read FEAR in small doses. Everything about Trump makes me furious.
DeleteI'm very curious about Fear and A Thousand Beginnings and Endings is one I want to read too.
ReplyDeleteI know, me too! I just heard about the book and think it should be good.
DeleteI didn't enjoy My Plain Jane as much as My Lady Jane but it was still fun. I also have A Gentleman in Moscow and Girl Made of Stars on my TBR after hearing such great things about them. Good luck getting through your list.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you did a good job on your summer tbr - and good luck on this season!
ReplyDeleteVery impressive. I love how you read ahead of potential awards. I wish I were better at that. I really enjoyed both Dread Nation and Rebound. I was just looking at Darius The Great (Is Not Okay) at a bookstore the other day. It sounds good.
ReplyDeleteI have many of the books on hold at the library. My problem is that they always seem to come in at the same time.
DeleteGreat list for fall reading! And you did so well on your summer reading list. I have trouble making a list of what I am going to read because I usually pick something that suits my mood at the moment.
ReplyDeleteI tend to make my lists based on books I already determined I would read. Ha! Like adding something to a TO-DO list that I've already done just so I get the satisfaction of crossing it off.
DeleteI enjoyed Dread Nation and A Thousand Beginnings and Endings. I hope you find more good ones from your list. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm working on finishing up my summer reading list for the fall. I got few left to read. Looking forward to reading your reviews for these books.
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