Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Summer 2019 TBR

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup of book bloggers hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl! This week, we're bringing to you our summer reading. I've always maintained that my summer reading are just books I happen to read in the summer, so these are mostly not breezy or beachy.



Amsterdam: This is a Booker Prize winner, one of the prizes that my own tastes tend to track most strongly with.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: I've never read Murakami, so this giant book is going to be a trial run. Hopefully I like his writing!

Washington Black: I'm not sure about this book club pick...it's gotten lots of praise, but "adventure story" is not something that usually does it for me.

Polite Society: I have an ARC of this Indian twist on Emma, which actually does sound like a fun summer read!

Nickel and Dimed: Systemic poverty is a buzzkill, but it's important to be educated about.

The Man in the High Castle: I like alternative histories, and I loved Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep when I read it in high school, so hopefully I still enjoy Phillip K Dick?

How to be Good: I really like reading Hornby novels. They're pleasant and funny and I don't have to think too hard.

Sashenka: I have fallen hard into a Russia/Soviet Union obsession lately, so an epic about a woman's life beginning before the fall of the Romanovs and continuing through the Soviet era is right up my alley.

Money Rock: This is a nonfiction look at the life of a drug dealer in North Carolina, and the broader social forces that have impacted him and his family. I get a lot out of books that talk about broader movements through looking at particular people's lives.

Marie Antoinette: Royalty!

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  1. Nickel and Dime was a wonderful read. I highly recommend it.

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    1. I've been meaning to read it forever so I'm excited to get to it!

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  2. Great list! I need to read some Antonia Fraser and I've heard really good things about Washington Black. Hope you enjoy all these!

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    1. I've had the Marie Antoinette book on my list for so long, I love royalty books!

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  3. Ian McEwan--how could it possibly be bad? Read Nickel and Dimed when it first came out and I still remember when she was a house cleaner although I don't know why that stayed with me so clearly. Looks like a good selection of summer reading.

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    1. I think it's a pretty good variety! I have a hard time reading too much in a row that feels samey so I always look to move between genres a lot

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  4. Some really interesting books on here, think I'm going to add Nickel and Dime and Amsterdam to my TBR. I've read Atonement and really enjoyed it but haven't read anything else by McEwan.

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    1. Amsterdam is pretty thin (less than 200 pages), so it won't be a big time commitment if it doesn't work for you!

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