Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Top Ten Books on My Summer TBR List

The Top Ten list, hosted by the Broke and the Bookish, for this week is the Top Ten Books On My Summer TBR List. TBR stands for "To Be Read"... And my TBR list has been growing by leaps and bounds lately! One particularly fantastic benefit to being a book blogger is that you learn about all sorts of wonderful books that you might not otherwise have known about. This is great. . . the big problem is finding the time to read them all, of course!

Ok, so here--I think!--are the Top Ten Books I'd like to read this summer. I reserve the right to change my mind and deviate from this list! I am very talented at deviating. . . because you never know what fabulous book will pop up and need to be read right away, no matter what the plan was! But these are the books topping my TBR pile for the summer months:

1. The Rise and Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman

2. Americanah by Chiminanda Ngozi Adichie

3. Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian

4. Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

5. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

6. The Vacationers by Emma Straub

7. The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters by Michelle Lovric

8. The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin

9. I Love You More by Jennifer Murphy

10. Euphoria by Lily King

What's on the top of your reading list for summer?

12 comments:

  1. Americanah is on my list too. I haven't heard of Euphoria before....I need to see what that's about. I liked Emma Straub's first novel, but Vacationers doesn't really pique my interest for some reason. I will be interested to hear what you think.

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  2. I think Euphoria sounds really interesting! It's about a love triangle of anthropologists, who are studying a tribe in New Guinea in the 1930s. I haven't read any reviews yet, but the publisher's description has me itching to read it! It sounds right up my alley....but then again, the stack keeps getting higher and higher, so....!

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  3. Great list! I see several books that I want to read on it. I look forward to your reviews!

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  4. Great list! I really want to read Burial Rites and Americanah as well.

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    1. I've started Americanah as an audiobook....and it's very interesting so far! I'm really enjoying it.

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  5. I LOVED Burial Rites. Didn't like The Fortune Hunter. I have Boy, Snow Bird...haven't read it yet.

    Nice collection for your summer reading. ENJOY!!

    Elizabeth

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    1. I certainly do want to read Burial Rites.... I wonder if it should be saved for winter. There is a lot of coldness and bleakness, right..... Hard to see reading that one outside in the warm weather!

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    2. You may want to read it in the summer so you don't feel so cold. :)

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    3. Ha, maybe you're right--read it at the beach? Sounds like the very opposite of what most people bring in their beach bags. But then, I have never felt I had to read only "light" books in the summer.

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    4. Right...no need to read light books in the summer. :)

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  6. Looks like a great list! Can't wait to put my summer reading pile together.

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    1. Thanks! Well, this is officially he first day of summer, isn't it? Good day to make your summer pile!

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