I’m linking up with Top Ten Tuesday. Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Check out upcoming Top Ten themes on Jana’s blog!
Today is a “rewind,” and I think my topic might have been a prompt at some point? In any case, I thought it would be fun to share the last ten books I added to my TBR—although I’ll be skipping over books without final covers or anything I’ve already shared on the blog. This is a mix of genres, you’ll even see some literary fiction and YA on the list. Maybe you’ll find something that looks good to you too:-D (Click on the title to read the full blurb on Goodreads)
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. “Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.” I don’t talk much about Ann Patchett on this blog, but I love her books. Not only that, I love her! She co-owns Parnassus Books in Nashville, and I try to buy books from them whenever I can. If you’re on Instagram, make sure to follow @parnassasbooks and check out Ann’s video every Tuesday called The Laydown Diaries.
Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle. “Ninth House meets A Deadly Education in this gorgeously dark academia fantasy following a teen mage who must unravel the truth behind the secret society that may have been involved in her classmates’ deaths.” Dark academia books seem to be everywhere these days, but I really like the sound of this one.
Dazzling by Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ. “Treasure and her mother lost everything when Treasure’s daddy died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets a spirit who promises to bring her father back – but she has to do something for him first.” I can’t remember where I saw this, but it definitely grabbed my attention. I believe this is only available in the UK right now.
Death Valley by Melissa Broder. “The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story.” Check out the blurb for this book, you will want to read it too! I love the blend of literary fiction and magical realism.
The Last Girls Standing by Jennifer Dugan. “In this queer YA psychological thriller from the author of Some Girls Do and Hot Dog Girl, the sole surviving counselors of a summer camp massacre search to uncover the truth of what happened that fateful night, but what they find out might just get them killed.” I do have a soft spot for slasher stories, and I may just have to check this one out.
Make Me a Liar by Melissa Landers. “Veronica Mars gets a fantastical twist in this novel about a girl with a transferrable consciousness, who uses her power for good, only to have it turned on her when someone uses her body to commit murder. Now she must solve the crime before the killer comes after her.” This sounds pretty weird and twisty!
How Can I Help You by Laura Sims. “From the author of Looker comes this “compulsive and unforgettable novel” (Mona Awad) of razor-sharp suspense about two local librarians whose lives become dangerously intertwined.” A thriller that revolves around a library and librarians? I’m so curious about this:-)
Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano. “On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, hoping to learn the truth about her son’s death–but finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into the bizarrely insular community and their complicated rules…” Another one in the “weird” category, I actually just got a copy of this from NetGalley so I will let you know just how weird it is;-)
The New One by Evie Green. “A suspenseful, cutting-edge novel about two parents who finally get the daughter they’ve always wanted–it’s too bad she isn’t real. From the author of We Hear Voices.” I read and enjoyed Evie Green’s last book, and I think this is going to be good.
Beholder by Ryan La Sala. “Something evil is compelling people to destructive acts, a presence that’s been hiding behind Athan’s reflection his whole life, watching and biding its time. Soon, he’s swept up in a supernatural conspiracy that spans New York, of occult high societies and deadly eldritch designs. If beauty really is in the eye of the beholder, what can it do to us once it’s inside?” La Sala just wrote a book called The Honeys, which I’ve been hearing great things about. I’d love to check up his upcoming book, it sounds great!
Great selection, Tammy! I really wanna read Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano. The cover alone is speaking to my soul and the description also makes it sound like an intriguing read.
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I think it sounds amazing. Maybe we will both get to read it!
We did the same topic this week!
Great minds!
I’m not usually into “weird” books, but DEAD ELEVEN sounds super compelling! I might have to check it out. I graduated high school in 1994, so maybe I’d fit right in on the creepy island…
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Hey it might be perfect for you!
Good “rewind” topic — I didn’t have the time or energy to figure out a TTT theme, so I just skipped it. 🙂 I’m not familiar with any of these, but the covers are amazing!
LOL I mostly skip TTT but I do like being able to choose our own theme.
Curious Tides sounds very interesting.
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I agree, and the cover also makes me want to read it:-)
Make Me a Liar sounds interesting. I need to check that one out. I hope you enjoy all of these.
Thanks Deanna:-)
Interesting selection of books I’ve never heard of before. I like it! The one that stood out to me the most was How Can I Help You. As you said, a thriller revolving around a library and librarians is enough to catch me eye.
I can’t remember where I saw How Can I Help You, since it’s not my usual type of read. But it really does sound good!
So when I see a topic like this from you, it easily becomes “10 Books Barb Will Add to Her TBR!” Seriously, there’s 9 here I haven’t seen before and that I now NEED in my life!
LOL I’m right there with you:-)
You can never go wrong with La Sala (I skipped his 2nd book because it was contemporary and it sounded like it had a heavy dose of romance in it, but both Reverie and The Honeys were awesome!).
Out of your ten books, I only had heard about three before. Seriously, finding new books (mostly) off the beaten path is your superpower LOL.
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I’ve never read La Sala, I must get on that. And yes, I would say finding new books is my passion, lol.
I’d read Last Girl standing!
It sounds like fun, right?
Curious Tides sounds so good, and I love the cover for it. I’ve been really wanting to read Dead Eleven also. Beholder has such a cool cover (and sounds really good!). Thanks for sharing these, I have a lot to add to my own TBR now!
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I’ve been adding WAY too many books, lol.
I haven’t heard of any of these, but the cover of Curious Tides is really attractive to me for some reason. Maybe it’s the geometry of everything. Looks like you have a nice variety of recently-added TBR books.
I’m definitely intrigued by the Curious Tides cover.
Gosh, Ninth House meets A Deadly Education sounds too good to be true!
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You’re right! That one has a lot of potential:-)
I have a bunch of these on my watchlist! I gotta check out all the YA though!
Some of the YA sounds pretty good!
I like dark academia at times so I might have to get that one!
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Me too, I haven’t read one in a while.
How many interesting titles!! The two that are more intriguing to me are Curious Tides and Make Me a Liar!
I figured there would be something for everyone on this list:-)
Some interesting looking books.
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Thanks Stormi. It’s definitely an interesting mix;-)
These all sound really intriguing. I’m especially curious about the Jennifer Dugan book since it sounds so different from her usual YA stories.
I’ve never read Jennifer Dugan but I definitely want to try this one:-)
Dead Eleven and The Last Girls Standing both sound appealing to me. Dead Eleven does sound quite weird, in a good way, so looking forward to your thoughts on that one 😀
It does sound really weird, I’m hoping it’s a “good” weird:-)
I hope you enjoy them all! I’m interested in Death Valley, even though the cover freaks me out.
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Ha ha I know that cover makes me nervous!
“How Can I Help You?” sounds good, I like a good bookish thriller
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It sounds so different from other thrillers out there.
I like Ryan La Sala as a person (on twitter) so I really need to check out some of his books.
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