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Monday, January 20, 2025

TTT: Most recent additions to my TBR shelf


Top Ten Tuesday: Most Recent Additions to My TBR Shelf
Explanations below.







1. Not Like Other Girls by Adamo -- Added last night because I saw it was a finalist for the Morris Book Award which goes to the best YA Debut novels. (2024)

2. Shackled by Cooper --- Added last night because it is one of the finalists for the YALSA Best Nonfiction Award to be announced the end of the month. (2024)

3. Salvation Canyon by Rosenthal -- I saw it on a list of books read by a friend on Goodreads. It is a survival story in Joshua Tree NP. My husband and I always joke about a sign we saw when we were visiting Joshua Tree NP which said "Don't Die Here Today!" Sounds like good advice. (2020)

4. Fourteen Days by Atwood -- Added because I am a Margaret Atwood (Handmaid's Tale) fan. (2024)

5. The Unselected Journals of  Emma M. Lion by Brower --- A book blogger did such a good review of this one I decided I need to read it. (2019)

6. Now in November by Johnson -- A past Pulitzer Prize winner that sounds like one I should read. (1934)

7. Three Wild Dogs (and the Truth): a Memoir by Marcus Zusak -- I love The Book Thief so I want to read about the author. (2025)

8. The Inland Island by Johnson --- Same author as Now in November. A book vlogger said this was one of his favorite nonfiction reads of 2024. (1969)

9. Of Time and Turtles by Montgomery -- I really liked Sy Montgomery's nonfiction book about octopuses. This one promises to be just as good. (2023)

10. Four Thousand Paws: Caring for the Dogs of the Iditarod by Morgan -- an impulse add to my list. I like dogs and I'm interested in how they keep the dogs sae on such a long run through ice and snow. (2024)

11.  The Dream Hotel by Lalami -- I added this book to my list two weeks ago of  most anticipated books of the first half of 2025. It is one on that list I'm fairly sure I will actually try to read. (2025)

12. Memorial Days by Brooks -- I read Horse last year written by Geraldine Brooks. While she was writing that book her husband unexpectedly died. I was so taken by the notion of how on earth did she finish the book with that happening in her private life. Now I can read about how she did it. (2025)

13. Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green -- I read everything this author writes and have already got in line for the book at the library even though it isn't published yet. (2025)


-Anne
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