This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is The Ten Most Recent Additions to My To-Read List, which should have been a simple topic… except that my TBR is currently a rat’s nest spread across Goodreads, several spreadsheets for brainstorming/tracking this year’s reading challenges, Libby’s tag/hold system, and physical shelves.
With the exception of the actual most recent addition (featured in the header), Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant, the rest are adds from the past month or so, broken into categories by reason for adding. All recent, all anticipated, but not strictly chronological!
Umami, Laia Jufresa (10: A translated book written by and/or translated by a woman)
All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders (18: A novel by a trans or nonbinary author)
The Fifth Season and sequels, N.K. Jemisin (3: A book by a woman and/or AOC that won a literary award in 2018)
The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited!, Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy, Carey Pietsch (45: Published in 2019)
To Kill A Kingdom, Alexandra Christo (27: A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature)
Circe, Madeline Miller (15: A retelling of a Classic)
Mortal Heart, Robin LaFevers (Book 3 of the His Fair Assassin trilogy)
Authority and Acceptance, Jeff VanderMeer (Books 2 and 3 of the Southern Reach Trilogy)
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