Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature created and hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week a new ‘top ten’ challenge is posted – anyone can join in. This week’s topic is ‘Top Ten Books On Your Fall *or in my case Spring* TBR List’.
I would love, love, love to list a whole bunch of brand new and ‘coming soon’ books but I’m sticking to my Mount TBR challenge and going with the following ten:
1. Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears – Winner of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction
2. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan – I’ve enjoyed most of McEwan’s books so looking forward to the latest.
3. Monkeys by Susan Minot – someone recommended this ages ago and it’s been sitting in my TBR pile for eons. Now is its time!
4. Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon – ditto above
5. The Starboard Sea by Amber Dermont – totally sucked in by the prep-school cover.
6. Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton
7. The Sweet Life series (they’re short novellas) by Francine Pascal – confession: I was a Sweet Valley High addict in the eighties. I pounced on Sweet Valley Confidential when it was released last year and although I found it somewhat difficult t o read about Elizabeth and orgasms in the same sentence, I enjoyed it in the unique way that one does when re-living a teen moment.
8. Catching the Sun by Tony Parsons – I have long been a fan of Parsons although his last couple of books haven’t pulled the heart-strings the way his earlier books did. I’m hoping this is a return to ‘vintage’ Parsons.
9. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout – not sure how I missed this Pulitzer prize winner…
10. One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper – when I first read Tropper, I loved his writing style so much that I immediately bought all of his books. But I didn’t read them all at once. Instead, I’ve been stringing the pleasure out and in fact I have a few more to read as well as his new release, One Last Thing Before I Go.
Put Olive Kitteridge first on your schedule for fall. Fabulous!
Here’s my Top Ten Books I’m Awaiting This Fall. I hope you will stop by!
I’m not buying any more books until I’ve read 25 from my TBR pile (it’s the Mount TBR challenge) – so Olive will be read within the next couple of months!
Thanks for stopping by.
I loved Foal’s Bread….beautifully written book.
I want to read Sweet Tooth too.
I wouldn’t have picked up Foal’s Bread by the cover alone… or even the topic! But haven’t read a bad review yet, so I’m looking forward to it.
Wife 22 is a great book, I would highly recommend it.
Oddly, I can’t remember where I read a review/ who recommended it but I do know I rushed to order it straight away!
Olive Kittredge is wonderful – it’s set near where I grew up. And I’m excited about Sweet Tooth!
I’ve read mixed reviews of Sweet Tooth but as a devoted McEwan fan, I can’t miss it.
I love Johnathan Tropper and I just got his new one in the mail. It might end up on my fall TBR as well. I am also excited about the new McEwan.
I’m halfway through Tropper – true to form, he’s making me laugh and cry all within the space of one page.
I loved Olive Kitteridge. Beautifully written.
Not sure how this one passed me by for so long – everyone who has read it raves about it.