Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Meant To Read In 2017 But Didn't Get To

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup of book bloggers hosted by The Broke and The Bookish! Every year, I get all big eyed about lots of exciting looking new releases, but I'm largely a backlist reader. The books I've listed here are ones that got published last year that I already own and am really looking forward to getting to soon!

The River of Consciousness: I love Oliver Sacks so much, and I have all of his other books, so I got this back in October and I can't wait to immerse myself in his last work.

Fresh Complaint: My mom got me my best birthday present maybe ever...a signed copy of this book, with a happy birthday note from Jeffrey Eugenides (my favorite author!). I'm almost afraid to read this copy...what if I spill on it?

The Tiger's Daughter: I heard such good things about this female-led fantasy debut based in East Asia that I grabbed a copy and haven't gotten a chance to get to it yet.

Hunger: I've actually still not read any of her other books, but Roxane Gay's internet writing is so good that I got my hands on her memoir dealing with her body.

You Play The Girl: I'm a sucker for pop culture writing about women, and this essay collection got good reviews!

The Marsh King's Daughter: This is set in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a weird and wonderful place that I hold dear to my heart, so I had to get it.

Prince Charles: I am Royal Family obsessed, and I genuinely think Charles has led a really interesting, odd life so I am definitely down to read about it.

American War: This book, set slightly in the future about a second Civil War in the US, seems to hit a lot of my interest buttons (I love alternate history/speculative fiction style books), but I just didn't get around to it.

Word By Word: WORDS! I love words (obviously, I read a lot of them). This book about dictionaries seems fascinating.

Scoring The Screen: I love to turn to my husband when we're watching a movie or TV show and point out how the music is trying to make the audience feel, which I'm sure is his favorite part of watching movies with me, so this book about musical scores, a Christmas gift from my mom, is right in my wheelhouse!

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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Meant To Read In 2017 But Didn't Get To

Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Books For The Second Half of 2017

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup of book bloggers hosted by The Broke and The Bookish! This week, we're looking at books coming out in the back half of 2017 that we're looking forward to. I know I've mentioned this before, but I'm not a big "looking forward" reader and don't pay an especially amount of attention to new releases. So these ones tend to be a little hard for me. But here are ten books coming out later this year that I really want to read.

The King Who Had To Go: I love the British royal family and all of their drama and the abdication crisis is really the height of that kind of upper class drama so I am HERE for a book about it. 

Our Little Racket: I always wonder how much the families (especially the spouses) of white-collar criminals actually know. This novel explores the impact of a Bernie Madoff-type's downfall on his family and it seems like something I'd just love.

Heather The Totality: This was on my most-anticipated-of-the-year list, because it's the guy who made Mad Men a thing and I loved Mad Men and I will read whatever he writes. 

See What I Have Done: Lizzie Borden was tried (and acquitted, although practically no one remembers that) of the brutal axe murders of her parents, and this book looks to tell her story.

Sing, Unburied, Sing: My three years in the South left me with an enduring fascination for a part of the country to which I have not returned since I graduated from law school. This tells the story of a black family in Mississippi and I really want to read Jesmyn Ward, I've heard such great things.

Shadow of the Lions: Twisty boarding school novels are like catnip for me (probably because I went to a deeply boring public school).

Worth Dying For: I'm always interested in the symbols humans adopt and cling to, and this nonfiction looks at a symbol loaded with meaning: flags.

The Goddesses: Intense female friendships are another insta-read category, and this seems Single White Female-y in a delightfully dark way. 

The River of Consciousness: Oliver Sacks is one of my favorite authors, and this is a book he was working on when he passed and I want to read some of the last words he left behind.

Hunger: I've got Bad Feminist on my shelf but haven't read it yet. Nevertheless, I've heard great things about Roxane Gay's writing (and she's an A+ Twitter follow, if you haven't already). This memoir about her relationship with her body has gotten amazing reviews so far. 

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Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Books For The Second Half of 2017