Top 10 Tuesday 19th July

Hello and welcome back to another Top 10 Tuesday, hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. There’s a different bookish themed topic each week but sometimes we get to do our own topic and today is one of those days! I’m going to keep it simple, hoping that sharing these might give me some help in deciding in which order to read them:

My 10 Newest Additions To My Bookshelf!

Gild by Raven Kennedy

I bought this because there’s so much hype. But I’ve also read that the first book is meh and you’ve just got to push through that because 2&3 are amazing. But I don’t really want to push through “meh” books to start a series just to get to good things, lol. They should all be good! At least these were cheap to buy and the covers are nice.

Furyborn by Claire Legrand

I…honestly don’t know why I threw this into my cart the day I was doing some shopping haha. Maybe it came up in the recommended – I do like the cover though. And I was looking for a new fantasy (new to me, these books aren’t really new) that I could sink my teeth into. So I decided to try this.

Sorcery Of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

Also not a new one but this is a book I’ve eyed a few times over the years but I finally decided to buy it after hearing someone really rave about it – in fact say it was the best book they’d read in 2022. So hopefully I love it too.

Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

This sounds like so much fun! I’ve heard some good things – it’s about a family reunion where apparently, all of the attendees have one thing in common, apart from being family and that’s that they’ve all killed someone. I think people start dying at the reunion so….yeah. Hopefully this is great!

The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days In An Iranian Prison by Kylie Moore-Gilbert

Kylie Moore-Gilbert is an Australian-British academic who was jailed in Iran on an espionage charge. She was released via a prisoner swap in 2020 after 804 days, during which she received psychological torture and solitary confinement. This is bound to be….harrowing. But I’m very interested in reading it.

You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

Heard really good things about this in a lot of different places (podcasts, BookTube, instagram) so I am curious to try it for myself.

Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper

This interests me for lots of reasons – Hooper is an Australian author of both non-fiction and fiction and I’ve read quite a few of her previous books. This is a sort of memoir in a way, which she wrote when her partner and father of her two young children, was diagnosed with leukaemia. My husband has also been diagnosed with cancer, although a different type, for the first time when our children were 6 and 3 and there were many times when I thought I might have to try and explain the unexplainable to them.

The Widow Of Walcha by Emma Partridge

Non-fiction that I picked up on audiobook after Audible enticed me back with 2 months for 0.99c lol. This is about a woman named Natasha who marries Matthew, a nice country grazier in rural New South Wales (Australia) and within months, he’s signed over his multi-million dollar property into her name. Not long later, he’s dead in an apparent suicide…in an interesting twist, the paramedic first on the scene is the former husband of Natasha…..who she once tried to kill. I’m from NSW although I live in another state now and I remember this case quite well – I like listening to non-fiction on audio, so I got this for when I’m doing computer work and just need something to keep me occupied.

Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Very excited for this, it looks cute but also different! Sometimes it’s hard to find something that feels fresh.

Every Summer After by Carley Fortune

It’s really cold and quite bleak here at the moment, this is a very summery looking read that might help me feel a little less like this winter will never end! This seems like a second chance lovers story set in a picturesque location – hopefully it delivers all the feels!

And these are the 10 newest books to my shelves…..if you’ve read any, let me know – what should I prioritise? Is there anything there that is must read right now?!

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