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. Please check out her website for more TTT topics!

This week’s topic is:

Books On My Winter 2025-2026 to-Read List

I’ve read all my December arcs so now I’m working on January arcs, and also backlist titles! There are books on my shelves that need to be read!

• Poison in Their Hearts by. Laura Sebastian – a hardcover on my shelf
• Seven Deadly Thorns by. Amber Hamilton – a fairyloot book that is sitting pretty on my shelf
• Never Ever After by. Sue Lynn Tan – another fairyloot book that is really lovely on my shelf

• Every Spiral of Fate by. Tahereh Mafi – I just bought this book
• Dawn of the North by. Demi Winters – another arc for January
• Oxford Blood by. Rachael Davis Featherstone – another arc for January

• Blood & Roses by. Annie Summerlee – an arc for January
• Hollow by. Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti
• Mate by. Ali Hazelwood

The Wicked and the Damned by. Rebecca Robinson

What’s on your TTT?

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Top Ten Tuesday Topics:

November 4: The First 10 Books I Randomly Grabbed from My Shelf (Stand in front of your book collection, close your eyes, point to a title, and write it down. If you have shelves, point to your physical books. If you have a digital library, use a random number generator and write down the title of the book that corresponds with the number you generated. You get bonus points if you tell us whether or not you’ve read the book, and what you thought of it if you did!)
November 11: Books I Enjoyed that Were Outside My Comfort Zone (or books you’d like to read that are outside your comfort zone!)
November 18: Modern Books You Think Will Be Classics In The Future (submitted by Veros @ Dark Shelf of Wonders)
November 25: Thanksgiving/Thankful Freebie
December 2: Freebie
December 9: Books Set in Snowy Places (If snow isn’t your thing, pick another kind of place and share books set there!)
December 16: Books On My Winter 2025-2026 to-Read List
December 23: Books I hope Santa Brings/Bookish Wishes
December 30: Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf

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. Please check out her website for more TTT topics!

This week’s topic is: Books Set in Snowy Places (If snow isn’t your thing, pick another kind of place and share books set there!)

Books With a Winter Vibe

I was trying to pick book covers that I didn’t use to my Holiday Romances TTT last week, but that was hard so I’m going with Books with a Winter Vibe since it’s easier.

• A Curse of Shadows and Ice by. Catharina Maura
• White the Dark Remains by. Joanna Ruth Meyer
• A Winter Ash of White Ash by. Lucia Damisa

• A Land So Wide by. Erin A. Craig
• The Frozen River by. Ariel Lawhon
• Frost Bound by. Frost Kay

• Snowglobe by. Soyoung Park
• Hollow by. Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti
• Mate by. Ali Hazelwood

What’s on your TTT?

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Top Ten Tuesday Topics:

November 4: The First 10 Books I Randomly Grabbed from My Shelf (Stand in front of your book collection, close your eyes, point to a title, and write it down. If you have shelves, point to your physical books. If you have a digital library, use a random number generator and write down the title of the book that corresponds with the number you generated. You get bonus points if you tell us whether or not you’ve read the book, and what you thought of it if you did!)
November 11: Books I Enjoyed that Were Outside My Comfort Zone (or books you’d like to read that are outside your comfort zone!)
November 18: Modern Books You Think Will Be Classics In The Future (submitted by Veros @ Dark Shelf of Wonders)
November 25: Thanksgiving/Thankful Freebie
December 2: Freebie
December 9: Books Set in Snowy Places (If snow isn’t your thing, pick another kind of place and share books set there!)
December 16: Books On My Winter 2025-2026 to-Read List
December 23: Books I hope Santa Brings/Bookish Wishes
December 30: Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf

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. Please check out her website for more TTT topics!

This week’s topic is: Freebie

Holiday Romances

I’m not huge on reading holiday romance but here’s a few that I’ve read or want to eventually read.

• You Make It Feel Like Christmas by. Sophie Sullivan
• Yours For the Season by. Emily Stone
• My Favorite Holiday by. Lauren Blakely

• Good Spirits by. B.K. Borison
• Holly by. Adalyn Grace
• How My Neighbor Stole Christmas by. Meghan Quinn

• Merry Christmas Filthy Animal by. Meghan Quinn
• A Merry Little Kissmas by. Lauren Blakely
• Holiday Ever After by. Hannah Grace

A Merry Little Lie by. Sarah Morgan

What’s on your TTT?

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Top Ten Tuesday Topics:

November 4: The First 10 Books I Randomly Grabbed from My Shelf (Stand in front of your book collection, close your eyes, point to a title, and write it down. If you have shelves, point to your physical books. If you have a digital library, use a random number generator and write down the title of the book that corresponds with the number you generated. You get bonus points if you tell us whether or not you’ve read the book, and what you thought of it if you did!)
November 11: Books I Enjoyed that Were Outside My Comfort Zone (or books you’d like to read that are outside your comfort zone!)
November 18: Modern Books You Think Will Be Classics In The Future (submitted by Veros @ Dark Shelf of Wonders)
November 25: Thanksgiving/Thankful Freebie
December 2: Freebie
December 9: Books Set in Snowy Places (If snow isn’t your thing, pick another kind of place and share books set there!)
December 16: Books On My Winter 2025-2026 to-Read List
December 23: Books I hope Santa Brings/Bookish Wishes
December 30: Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf

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. Please check out her website for more TTT topics!

This week’s topic is: Thanksgiving/Thankful Freebie

Fall Vibes Book Covers

Happy Thanksgiving week to all that celebrate and if you don’t, happy thanksgiving anyway, I’m grateful you are here reading my blog!

• The Book of Autumn by. Molly O’Sullivan
• The Pumpkin Spice Spell by. Erin Branscom
• If It Makes You Happy by. Julia Olivia

• Julia Song Is Undateable by. Susan Lee
• You’ve Found Oliver by. Dustin Thao
• Tusk Love by. Thea Guanzon

• Best Hex Ever by. Nadia El-Fassi
• The Pumpkin Spice Café by. Laurie Gilmore
• Second Chance Romance by. Olivia Dade

The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

What’s on your TTT?

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Top Ten Tuesday Topics:

November 4: The First 10 Books I Randomly Grabbed from My Shelf (Stand in front of your book collection, close your eyes, point to a title, and write it down. If you have shelves, point to your physical books. If you have a digital library, use a random number generator and write down the title of the book that corresponds with the number you generated. You get bonus points if you tell us whether or not you’ve read the book, and what you thought of it if you did!)
November 11: Books I Enjoyed that Were Outside My Comfort Zone (or books you’d like to read that are outside your comfort zone!)
November 18: Modern Books You Think Will Be Classics In The Future (submitted by Veros @ Dark Shelf of Wonders)
November 25: Thanksgiving/Thankful Freebie
December 2: Freebie
December 9: Books Set in Snowy Places (If snow isn’t your thing, pick another kind of place and share books set there!)
December 16: Books On My Winter 2025-2026 to-Read List
December 23: Books I hope Santa Brings/Bookish Wishes
December 30: Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf

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. Please check out her website for more TTT topics!

This week’s topic is:

Books I Enjoyed that Were Outside My Comfort Zone

(or books you’d like to read that are outside your comfort zone!)

• Middle of the Night by. Riley Sager – I kept seeing this author’s book around and I finally read one and did enjoy it. Will definitely try out more of his books.
• Hekate: The Witch by. Nikita Gill – I really enjoyed this book and I didn’t think I would because it is written like poetry with some paragraphs for other chapters. So I didn’t think I’d like it because I don’t usually read poetry.
• Alchemised by. SenLinYu – this is a long book and super hyped so I am intimidated by it a little. I’m not afraid of how long it is but I was just afraid I’d be disappointed because the hype is so strong.

• Coldwire by. Chloe Gong– I love Chloe Gong but Sci-Fi isn’t a genre I usually pick up so I was hesitant going into this one and I enjoyed it – even though there was a lot of tech words to process. 😅
• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by. Grady Hendrix – I haven’t read anything from this author yet but definitely want to! Leave me any recs for which book I should read in the comments.
• Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by. Kylie Lee Baker – I love this author and have read all her books and I thought this was so different in what I’ve read from her before (fantasy). So Bat Eater is horror and out of my element but I loved it.

• Katabasis by. R.F. Kuang – it’s VERY academic and I had to process a lot of information but I enjoyed it a lot.
• Coffin Moon by. Keith Rosson – it’s horror (and I don’t do a lot of horror) and the villain is a psychopath but the heroes in this story had such an amazing story, I loved this book.
• As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by. Zoulfa Katouh – a book about living in Syria during a civil war – this book broke my heart.

What’s on your TTT?

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Top Ten Tuesday Topics:

November 4: The First 10 Books I Randomly Grabbed from My Shelf (Stand in front of your book collection, close your eyes, point to a title, and write it down. If you have shelves, point to your physical books. If you have a digital library, use a random number generator and write down the title of the book that corresponds with the number you generated. You get bonus points if you tell us whether or not you’ve read the book, and what you thought of it if you did!)
November 11: Books I Enjoyed that Were Outside My Comfort Zone (or books you’d like to read that are outside your comfort zone!)
November 18: Modern Books You Think Will Be Classics In The Future (submitted by Veros @ Dark Shelf of Wonders)
November 25: Thanksgiving/Thankful Freebie
December 2: Freebie
December 9: Books Set in Snowy Places (If snow isn’t your thing, pick another kind of place and share books set there!)
December 16: Books On My Winter 2025-2026 to-Read List
December 23: Books I hope Santa Brings/Bookish Wishes
December 30: Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf

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. Please check out her website for more TTT topics!

This week’s topic is:

The First 10 Books I Randomly Grabbed from My Shelf

(Stand in front of your book collection, close your eyes, point to a title, and write it down. If you have shelves, point to your physical books. If you have a digital library, use a random number generator and write down the title of the book that corresponds with the number you generated. You get bonus points if you tell us whether or not you’ve read the book, and what you thought of it if you did!)

📚 I feel like I have more books in my digital library so I’m going to be picking from there!📚

• A Curious Kind of Magic by. Mara Rutherford – this was an arc I just finished. It’s a cozy fantasy and I enjoyed it!
• The Rebel and the Rose by. Catherine Doyle – another arc that I am currently reading. So far, so good!
• Graceless Heart by. Isabel Ibañez – yup, another arc that I will start reading in December since it publishes in January.

• Blackthorn by. J.T. Geissinger – an arc I did finish, this book releases today actually!
• For No Mortal Creature by. Keshe Chow – another arc and yes I finished it.
• An Arcane Inheritance by. Kamilah Cole – this is an arc, haven’t read it yet and this book comes out in December.

• Vesselless by. Cortney L. Winn – not an arc lol, just a book I saw on Allurial and then found on Kindle Unlimited.
• Oxford Blood by. Rachael Davis Featherstone – another arc but this comes out in January so I haven’t read it yet.
• We Who Have no Gods by. Liza Anderson – an arc, this is a book that comes out in January so I have not gotten to it.

Fallen City by. Adrienne Young – an arc that releases TODAY and yes, I did finish it.

What’s on your TTT?

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Top Ten Tuesday Topics:

November 4: The First 10 Books I Randomly Grabbed from My Shelf (Stand in front of your book collection, close your eyes, point to a title, and write it down. If you have shelves, point to your physical books. If you have a digital library, use a random number generator and write down the title of the book that corresponds with the number you generated. You get bonus points if you tell us whether or not you’ve read the book, and what you thought of it if you did!)
November 11: Books I Enjoyed that Were Outside My Comfort Zone (or books you’d like to read that are outside your comfort zone!)
November 18: Modern Books You Think Will Be Classics In The Future (submitted by Veros @ Dark Shelf of Wonders)
November 25: Thanksgiving/Thankful Freebie
December 2: Freebie
December 9: Books Set in Snowy Places (If snow isn’t your thing, pick another kind of place and share books set there!)
December 16: Books On My Winter 2025-2026 to-Read List
December 23: Books I hope Santa Brings/Bookish Wishes
December 30: Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf

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. Please check out her website for more TTT topics!

This week’s topic is: freebie

Horror Books I’ve Read in 2025

In honor of Halloween here are some horror books I’ve read this year! I am not a true Horror fan, but this year I’ve had fun reading these books. And most of these are Lite Horror, or young adult because I’m a wimp – I cannot do full on horror. 😅

• The Dead of Summer by. Ryan La Sala – a virus, zombies, body horror
• Coffin Moon by. Keith Rosson – vampire horror
• The Executioners Three by. Susan Dennard – not a lot of horror, young adult, sorta like Stranger Things

• Soul of Shadow by. Emma Noyes – dark, Norse mythology
• And the River Drags Her Down by. Jihyun Yun – grief, paranormal, body horror
• Predatory Natures by. Amy Goldsmith – plant horror

• Their Monstrous Hearts by. Yiğit Turhan – monstrous butterflies
• Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng – covid, serial killer, paranormal
• House of Hearts by. Skyla Arndi – family curse, paranormal, secret society

A Spell to Wake the Dead by. Nicole Lesperance – cult, witchcraft

What’s on your TTT?

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Top Ten Tuesday Topics:

October 7: Satisfying Book Series (Maybe all the books were amazing or there wasn’t any second book syndrome or the final book wrapped everything up soooo perfectly.)
October 14: Non-book Freebie (Come up with a topic that’s not bookish! You could share something about yourself like your hobbies, things you collect, fandoms you’re a part of, things on your bucket list, places you’ve traveled, things you’re proud you’ve accomplished, challenges you’ve overcome, your favorite recipes/sports teams/foods/etc. Or you could go down the less personal route and share your ten most visited websites, your favorite trends in fashion right now, the TV shows you’re obsessed with, etc. Or just have your pet guest post and share their top ten favorite things! Anything goes.)
October 21: Cozy/Atmospheric Reads
October 28: Halloween Freebie

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. Please check out her website for more TTT topics!

This week’s topic is:

Cozy/Atmospheric Reads

I don’t read a lot of cozy books but here are some I have read, and some I want to read.

• Tusk Love by. Thea Guazon
• Witch You Would by. Lia Amador
• Deja Brew by. Celestine Martin

• Legends & Lattes by. Travis Baldree
• The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by. Megan Bannen
• Spindleheart by. T.I. Avens

What’s on your TTT?

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Top Ten Tuesday Topics:

October 7: Satisfying Book Series (Maybe all the books were amazing or there wasn’t any second book syndrome or the final book wrapped everything up soooo perfectly.)
October 14: Non-book Freebie (Come up with a topic that’s not bookish! You could share something about yourself like your hobbies, things you collect, fandoms you’re a part of, things on your bucket list, places you’ve traveled, things you’re proud you’ve accomplished, challenges you’ve overcome, your favorite recipes/sports teams/foods/etc. Or you could go down the less personal route and share your ten most visited websites, your favorite trends in fashion right now, the TV shows you’re obsessed with, etc. Or just have your pet guest post and share their top ten favorite things! Anything goes.)
October 21: Cozy/Atmospheric Reads
October 28: Halloween Freebie