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Monday, June 24, 2019

TTT: Summer Reading List

Top Ten Tuesday: What do I hope to read this summer?

I. Books from my own shelf:
  1. The Submission by Amy Waldman (I've started it already)
  2. Christy by Catherine Marshall
  3. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
  4. The Library Book by Susan Orleans
  5. The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom
  6. Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr
  7. Crooked Letter Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
  8. Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker
II. Upcoming book club selections
  1. Martin Marten by Brain Doyle
  2. Circe by Madeline Miller
  3. Astoria by Peter Stark
III. Books I've started but need/want to finish
  1. East of Eden by John Steinbeck 
  2. The Overstory by Richard Powers
  3. Fear by John Woodward
IV. Mock Printz/YA titles
  1. The Lucky Wars by Julie Berry
  2. The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
  3. On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
  4. Sadie by Courtney Summers
  5. Dig by A.S. King
  6. Internment by Samira Ahmed
  7. I, Claudia by Mary McCoy


How did I do on my Spring TBR list? 

I did good. I read all but four of the books on my list, and three of them I replaced with other books.

Spring TBR. 
I. Books from my own shelf:
  1. La's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith ✔
  2. Redeployment by Phil Kay ✔
  3. Ten Windows by Jane Hirshfield 
  4. The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom ✔
  5. The Four Things that Matter Most by Ian Byock, M.D. ✔
  6. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan ✔
  7. The Confessions of Fitzwilliam Darcy by Mary Street ✔
  8. Small Wonders by Barbara Kingsolver
  9. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson ✔
  10. The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka ✔
  11. Fear by Bob Woodward
II. I know a few upcoming book club titles:
  1. Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa ✔
  2. The Walk by Richard Paul Evans ✔
  3. Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue ✔
III. Books I've placed on hold at the library that likely will be available soon
  1. Shout: a poetry memoir by Laurie Halse Anderson ✔
  2. Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc by David Elliott ✔
  3. The Friend by Sigrid Nunez ✔
  4. Sadie by Courtney Summers
I replaced all the books on the 'My Own Shelf' books that I didn't read with other books I own, so I actually read at least eleven books in that category. I've requested Sadie (the only other book I didn't finish) again from the library but am waiting my turn.
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