Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
Pretty much similar circumstances as my Spring TBR, in that I’m working through a few Reading Challenges this year, so most of the books on my TBR are taken from these. I feel like I’m making good progress, but next year am going to aim for something a bit more achievable, as the two 2023 Challenges I picked up have 40 and 164 books on – I think I could have hit 40 if I wasn’t also trying to do the other one! The Netflix Challenge has 24, but it’s not limited to a year, so that one, at least I’ll definitely finish at some point!
Summer TBR
A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe (Disney Reading Challenge) / The Harrowing of Doom by David Annandale (2023 Tarot Reading Challenge) / Made in Manhattan by Lauren Layne (Netflix Moves & TV Shows)
Starting with the next three NetGalley books on my lists. A Terrible Kindness I think is going to be a fairly difficult read, set around the events in Aberfan in 1966. The other two are much lighter – one a Marvel novel, and the other a Contemporary Romance, so a good mix in there, I think.
The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu
This isn’t on a Reading Challenge, but it’s due out in September and with it being a twist on Hamlet, I’m really keen to dig into this before release. It sounds fascinating, a sci-fi locked-room thriller retelling, so at the moment it’s high on my NetGalley TBR.
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty (Disney Reading Challenge) / Rebel Witch by Kelly-Ann Maddox (2023 Tarot Reading Challenge) / My Own Worst Enemy by Lily Lindon (Netflix Movies & TV Shows)
These are three more of my NetGalley/Challenge books, and I’m really looking forward to these! Especially The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, which I have heard so many good things about!
In Mind of the Vampire by John Vance
This is another non-Challenge NetGalley book, and it’s been on my NetGalley TBR now for a shamefully long time. I really need to make time for this one, and I’m hoping to do that this summer!
Not That Bad Edited by Roxanne Gay (2023 Tarot Reading Challenge) / So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (Netflix Movies & TV Shows)
I’m not sure if I’m going to read both of these over summer, but I’m definitely going to try and read at least one – I have them both as physical books and they’re ones I really want to read, but know might be a bit heavy, and I want to be able to absorb as much information from them as possible.
I’m pretty hopeful now going into summer, especially as for my last Spring TBR, I managed to read 5 of the 6 NetGalley/Challenge books, and one I DNF’d, and out of the two physical books I read one and am partway through the other! So hopefully by the time autumn comes around I’ll have read most of these, too. As always, if you have read these and want to point me towards your reviews, please feel free!
Unwrapping Words 