Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme that was created by The Broke and Bookish, and is now hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl!
TTT is one of the memes I’ve missed during my blogging hiatus! I don’t think I’ll be able to participate every week, but I love this week’s topic, so here I am!
In case you don’t know, I went through a 6-year-long reading slump, so I have a crap ton of books on my shelves that I haven’t even thought about reading for a while. This week’s TTT gave me the chance to go through my shelves to pick out some of the books I still really want to read! That being said, a lot of these titles are going to be some older YA books!
For the first set of books still sitting around on my physical TBR, we have here a bunch of sequels that I wasn’t able to get around to before my reading slump:
- Winter by Marissa Meyer: II think I remember attempting to read Winter, but I just never got around to finishing it. Maybe I read it too far apart from when I read the first three and just lost interest. I’m still hoping to give it another shot, though!
- Wildcard by Marie Lu: I would say Marie Lu is in my Top Ten Authors I Missed During My Reading Slump. I do plan to reread Warcross so I can finish this duology, and same for The Young Elites because I haven’t read the second and third books yet (though I don’t own copies yet, which is why they aren’t on this list)! 🥳
- Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi: Children of Blood and Bone was a 5- star read for me, but it just felt like the sequel took forever to come out, so I lost interest. I got the second book on sale for like $2 though, so I might reread book one to get to this!
Next up, we have a few older titles that aren’t sequels:
- Dark Shores by Danielle L. Jensen: If you know me at all, you know that Danielle Jensen has written two of my favorite series (Stolen Songbird and The Bridge Kingdom — though I’ve only read the first two books of the latter). I tried to read Dark Shores some time ago but couldn’t get into it, so I put it on hold. However, I didn’t like Jensen’s last book, A Fate Inked in Blood, so there is a chance that I was just in denial in will end up not liking this as well. 🥺)
- An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir: I’ve been WAITING to read this since before it was even released. It’s a behemoth of a book though, which intimidates me. 😂 THIS YEAR, I PROMISE.
- We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal: Same with An Ember in the Ashes! Though for this, I’m not sure if I’ll read it this year. Thoughts?
- The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert: This is another book I got on sale for like $2. I don’t even remember anything about it.
Just to keep things new, I’m also adding in a few ebooks I got at the start of the year:
- Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater: I’m finally getting into more non-YA books this year! This sounds like a cutesy historical fantasy, which is quickly becoming my go-to genre if I want to read something I know I’ll love. 💕
- The Red Palace by June Hur: I LOVED A Crane Among Wolves (it’s one of TWO 5-star reads for me this year) and am now pretty much open to reading anything by this author.
- One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig: I’m ending this post on what I think will be my next read after my current one! Just so curious about this!
And that’s it!
This isn’t even half of the books I have on my physical and ebook TBRs, but these are some of the ones I feel like I’ll still get to eventually. Have you read any of them? Are any of them on your TBRs as well? Leave me links to YOUR TTT posts this week! 💕
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