Top 10 Tuesday 11th July

Hello and welcome to another Top 10 Tuesday! Hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl and featuring a different bookish theme each week, I’ve been taking part in this for as long as I can remember. This week we are getting a freebie topic and look, we are halfway through the year. I wanted to take a look at some books I want to read before the end of 2023 – will this help keep me accountable? Not if my seasonal TBR’s are anything to go on but…..let’s do it anyway. Criteria for this one are books that are already on my shelf – not counting anything I haven’t bought yet or that isn’t released. I was supposed to be reading more from my shelves this year but let’s face it, I have FOMO.

Ten Books To Read Before The End Of 2023

Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore.

I loved Graceling, Fire and Bitterblue. I was so happy when I found out that there were going to be more books in this world! This is on my 23 in 2023 challenge list and I really want to make sure I get to this one because there has been another book published since I bought this.

The Winners by Fredrik Backman

Book #3 in the Beartown trilogy. I love books 1&2 so much. This is a big chunkster but that’s not what kind of stops me from picking it up. It’s more the fact that Backman books tend to destroy me emotionally as well. I love them but I tend to bawl my eyes out all the way through them and look, I need to be prepared for that. This is also on my 23 in 2023 challenge list and I’m way behind in that so…..this would also really help.

The Uncaged Sky by Kylie Moore-Gilbert

This is a memoir of an Australian academic who was detained in an Iranian jail on suspicion of being an Israeli spy for….a long time. Ok it says it on the cover. 804 days. I have actually started this but it gave me anxiety, even though I know she survives obviously, she’s now back in Australia. She was released in a prisoner swap. There’s a lot of weird shit, the deeper you go. I want to read this, it is one that would count for two challenges I’m doing this year but once again, I need to be okay with the subject matter.

The Serpent And The Wings Of Night by Carissa Broadbent

Everyone and their mother is reading this or has just finished it at the moment, it seems like. And like I said above, FOMO. I’ve actually read another book set in this world (but with a….different group of vampires I think? There are like 2-3 different groups or something) and it was okay. This is getting a lot of good reports though, especially the romance, although both this book and the next are quite long. Around 600p I think, which I don’t mind if it hooks me in.

Indigo Ridge by Devney Perry

First in a small town, romantic suspense series about a bunch of siblings? I think? I’ve heard some good things and I like an interconnected series. I’d also like to read these on KU before they get yanked off it like pretty much everything else that even gets a whiff of popularity.

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

I read Demon Copperhead last year and I’ve also read Kingsolver’s memoir on growing food. We own so many other books of hers and I need to go back and start reading them.

In A Jam by Kate Canterbary

I’ve heard a lot of good things about this book and this author in general. It also seems to have a lot of the tropes I enjoy in romance (marriage of convenience, he falls first, etc). I’ve had it from KU for a while, I need to finally read it!

Along For The Ride by Mimi Grace

I’m not sure why I haven’t read this yet! It seems 100% my jam. A road trip book (love!), enemies to lovers, sign me up. Definitely need to prioritise this.

The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles

I forget why and when I got this – must’ve read a recommendation somewhere. And it definitely sounds like something I’d love – m/m romance, maybe Victorian times? Magic, evil things. It’s also a series too, so if I like it, there’s more.

Furyborn by Claire LeGrand

I’ve had this one on the TBR shelf for a while and I’d like to read it to see if I like it and want to continue with the series. If not, I’ll donate it. I’m about to do a big cull of my shelves in the coming weeks and I have a few books like this, where I want to read them and see if they’re worth keeping and going on with.

Will I read all of these? Will I read any of these? Who knows?! That’s the beauty of it haha. Hopefully I do get to some of them, just so I can tick some books off my challenges, switch out some KU books and decide if I want to keep some others. If you’ve read any of these, be sure to let me know which ones I should definitely push to the top of my (overflowing) pile.

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