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:

Book Covers that Give off Fall Vibes

• Kingdom of Tomorrow by. Gena Showalter
• Before I Let Go by. Kennedy Ryan
• You’ve Found Oliver by. Dustin Thao

• The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam by. Megan Bannen
• Fall I Want by. Lyra Parish
• The Pumpkin Spice Cafe by. Laurie Gilmore

• Can’t Help Falling in Love by. Sophie Sullivan
• The Seven Year Slip by. Ashley Poston
• If It Makes You Happy by. Julie Olivia

Fall Into You by. Caroline Frank

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Top Ten Tuesday Topics:

July 1: Freebie/Throwback (Come up with a topic you’d like to do or go back and do an old topic you missed or just want to do again!)
July 8: Books I’d Like to Re-read (Share either your favorite books that you enjoy re-reading or books that you’d like to read again!) (Submitted by Becky @ Becky’s Book Blog)
July 15: Books with Honorifics in the Title (“…an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person’s name, e.g.: Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., Mx., Sir, Dame, Dr., Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person’s name, as in Mr. President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.” For more info, click here.) (Submitted by Joanne @ Portobello Book Blog)
July 22: Books Set in/Take Place During X (Pick a place, time, era, etc. Examples: Books set in Europe/Italy/Australia/Chicago, books set in Regency England, books that take place during the 1900s, books set in imaginary worlds/post-apocalyptic/dystopian worlds, books set on the ocean, books set it castles, books that take place during WW2, etc.)
July 29: Beach/Beachy Reads (Share books you’d take to the beach OR books that take place at the beach.)
August 5: Genre freebie (Pick any genre you’d like and build a list around it. You can even narrow the topic if you’d like, such as: thrillers with unreliable narrators, fantasy romance with fae characters, or historical romance with suspense elements.)
August 12: Books Guaranteed to Put an End to Your Book Slump (Which books would you recommend to someone (it’s me, I’m someone) dealing with the dreaded book slump? No book is grabbing their attention or making them excited to sit down and read and they are suffering for it.)
August 19: Books with a High Page Count (Share those doorstop books!)
August 26: Non-bookish Freebie (The sky is the limit here. Make a top ten list on any topic of your choosing, bookish or not!)
September 2: Books With Occupations in the Title (Submitted by Hopewell’s Public Library of Life)
September 9: Villains (favorite, best, worst, lovable, creepiest, most evil, etc.)
September 16: Literary/Bookish Candles I’d Make (Pick a book and assign it a fragrance or fragrance combo that would make a nice candle.) (Submitted by Heather @ The Frozen Library)
September 23: Books on My Fall 2025 to-Read List
September 30: Book Covers that Give off Fall Vibes (Or, if you’re not a cover person, share the books in general that feel like Fall.)

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 Fall 2025 to-Read List

• Never Ever After by. Sue Lynn Tan
• Every Spiral of Fate by. Tahereh Mafi
• The Scammer by. Tiffany D. Jackson

• Cold Wire by. Chloe Gong
• Red City by. Marie Lu
• Brimstone by. Callie Hart

• Fallen City by. Adrienne Young
• Burning Daylight by. Emily McIntire
• The Rebel and the Rose by. Catherine Doyle

The House Saphir by. Marissa Meyer

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Top Ten Tuesday Topics:

July 1: Freebie/Throwback (Come up with a topic you’d like to do or go back and do an old topic you missed or just want to do again!)
July 8: Books I’d Like to Re-read (Share either your favorite books that you enjoy re-reading or books that you’d like to read again!) (Submitted by Becky @ Becky’s Book Blog)
July 15: Books with Honorifics in the Title (“…an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person’s name, e.g.: Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., Mx., Sir, Dame, Dr., Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person’s name, as in Mr. President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.” For more info, click here.) (Submitted by Joanne @ Portobello Book Blog)
July 22: Books Set in/Take Place During X (Pick a place, time, era, etc. Examples: Books set in Europe/Italy/Australia/Chicago, books set in Regency England, books that take place during the 1900s, books set in imaginary worlds/post-apocalyptic/dystopian worlds, books set on the ocean, books set it castles, books that take place during WW2, etc.)
July 29: Beach/Beachy Reads (Share books you’d take to the beach OR books that take place at the beach.)
August 5: Genre freebie (Pick any genre you’d like and build a list around it. You can even narrow the topic if you’d like, such as: thrillers with unreliable narrators, fantasy romance with fae characters, or historical romance with suspense elements.)
August 12: Books Guaranteed to Put an End to Your Book Slump (Which books would you recommend to someone (it’s me, I’m someone) dealing with the dreaded book slump? No book is grabbing their attention or making them excited to sit down and read and they are suffering for it.)
August 19: Books with a High Page Count (Share those doorstop books!)
August 26: Non-bookish Freebie (The sky is the limit here. Make a top ten list on any topic of your choosing, bookish or not!)
September 2: Books With Occupations in the Title (Submitted by Hopewell’s Public Library of Life)
September 9: Villains (favorite, best, worst, lovable, creepiest, most evil, etc.)
September 16: Literary/Bookish Candles I’d Make (Pick a book and assign it a fragrance or fragrance combo that would make a nice candle.) (Submitted by Heather @ The Frozen Library)
September 23: Books on My Fall 2025 to-Read List
September 30: Book Covers that Give off Fall Vibes (Or, if you’re not a cover person, share the books in general that feel like Fall.)

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:

Literary/Bookish Candles I’d Make

(Pick a book and assign it a fragrance or fragrance combo that would make a nice candle.) (Submitted by Heather @ The Frozen Library)

This is an interesting topic! I don’t think I’ve ever thought of what book I’d make into a candle fragrance so this should be fun.

• Reckoning by. Gillian Eliza West
• Better Than Revenge by. Kasie West
• Burning Daylight by. Emily McIntire

• Wild Reverence by. Rebecca Ross
• A Forbidden Alchemy by. Stacey McEwan
• The Beautiful Maddening by. Shea Ernshaw

• The Knight and the Moth by. Rachel Gillig
• Enchantra by. Kaylie Smith
• Love Unmasked by. Becky Dean

Nightshade by. Autumn Woods

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Top Ten Tuesday Topics:

July 1: Freebie/Throwback (Come up with a topic you’d like to do or go back and do an old topic you missed or just want to do again!)
July 8: Books I’d Like to Re-read (Share either your favorite books that you enjoy re-reading or books that you’d like to read again!) (Submitted by Becky @ Becky’s Book Blog)
July 15: Books with Honorifics in the Title (“…an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person’s name, e.g.: Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., Mx., Sir, Dame, Dr., Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person’s name, as in Mr. President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.” For more info, click here.) (Submitted by Joanne @ Portobello Book Blog)
July 22: Books Set in/Take Place During X (Pick a place, time, era, etc. Examples: Books set in Europe/Italy/Australia/Chicago, books set in Regency England, books that take place during the 1900s, books set in imaginary worlds/post-apocalyptic/dystopian worlds, books set on the ocean, books set it castles, books that take place during WW2, etc.)
July 29: Beach/Beachy Reads (Share books you’d take to the beach OR books that take place at the beach.)
August 5: Genre freebie (Pick any genre you’d like and build a list around it. You can even narrow the topic if you’d like, such as: thrillers with unreliable narrators, fantasy romance with fae characters, or historical romance with suspense elements.)
August 12: Books Guaranteed to Put an End to Your Book Slump (Which books would you recommend to someone (it’s me, I’m someone) dealing with the dreaded book slump? No book is grabbing their attention or making them excited to sit down and read and they are suffering for it.)
August 19: Books with a High Page Count (Share those doorstop books!)
August 26: Non-bookish Freebie (The sky is the limit here. Make a top ten list on any topic of your choosing, bookish or not!)
September 2: Books With Occupations in the Title (Submitted by Hopewell’s Public Library of Life)
September 9: Villains (favorite, best, worst, lovable, creepiest, most evil, etc.)
September 16: Literary/Bookish Candles I’d Make (Pick a book and assign it a fragrance or fragrance combo that would make a nice candle.) (Submitted by Heather @ The Frozen Library)
September 23: Books on My Fall 2025 to-Read List
September 30: Book Covers that Give off Fall Vibes (Or, if you’re not a cover person, share the books in general that feel like Fall.)

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:

Villains (favorite, best, worst, lovable, creepiest, most evil, etc.)

My brain doesn’t work today so I’m only listing six villains!

• Coffin Moon by. Keith Rosson – John Varley, a psychotic killer on a killing spree
• Thorn Season by. Kiera Azar – King Erik
• Sunrise on the Reaping by. Suzanne Collins – President Snow

• Rose in Chains by. Julie Soto – Marrow and the Bomardi’s
• The Dragon and the Sun Lotus by. Amelie Wen Zhao – Demon Queen Sansiran
• The Serpent and the Wings of Night by. Carissa Broadbent – the villain that I learned to love, Vincent

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Top Ten Tuesday Topics:

July 1: Freebie/Throwback (Come up with a topic you’d like to do or go back and do an old topic you missed or just want to do again!)
July 8: Books I’d Like to Re-read (Share either your favorite books that you enjoy re-reading or books that you’d like to read again!) (Submitted by Becky @ Becky’s Book Blog)
July 15: Books with Honorifics in the Title (“…an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person’s name, e.g.: Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., Mx., Sir, Dame, Dr., Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person’s name, as in Mr. President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.” For more info, click here.) (Submitted by Joanne @ Portobello Book Blog)
July 22: Books Set in/Take Place During X (Pick a place, time, era, etc. Examples: Books set in Europe/Italy/Australia/Chicago, books set in Regency England, books that take place during the 1900s, books set in imaginary worlds/post-apocalyptic/dystopian worlds, books set on the ocean, books set it castles, books that take place during WW2, etc.)
July 29: Beach/Beachy Reads (Share books you’d take to the beach OR books that take place at the beach.)
August 5: Genre freebie (Pick any genre you’d like and build a list around it. You can even narrow the topic if you’d like, such as: thrillers with unreliable narrators, fantasy romance with fae characters, or historical romance with suspense elements.)
August 12: Books Guaranteed to Put an End to Your Book Slump (Which books would you recommend to someone (it’s me, I’m someone) dealing with the dreaded book slump? No book is grabbing their attention or making them excited to sit down and read and they are suffering for it.)
August 19: Books with a High Page Count (Share those doorstop books!)
August 26: Non-bookish Freebie (The sky is the limit here. Make a top ten list on any topic of your choosing, bookish or not!)
September 2: Books With Occupations in the Title (Submitted by Hopewell’s Public Library of Life)
September 9: Villains (favorite, best, worst, lovable, creepiest, most evil, etc.)
September 16: Literary/Bookish Candles I’d Make (Pick a book and assign it a fragrance or fragrance combo that would make a nice candle.) (Submitted by Heather @ The Frozen Library)
September 23: Books on My Fall 2025 to-Read List
September 30: Book Covers that Give off Fall Vibes (Or, if you’re not a cover person, share the books in general that feel like Fall.)

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 With Occupations in the Title

• Maid for Each Other by. Lynn Painter – a maid.
• The Knight and the Moth by. Rachel Gillig – a Knight is kind of a job?
• Assistant to the Villain by. Hannah Nicole Maehrer – an assistant is a job!

• Heartless Hunter by. Kristen Ciccarelli – a hunter can be a job!
• A Legend in the Baking by. Jamie Wesley – a baker is an occupation.
• Happy Medium by. Sarah Adler – a medium is an occupation and also in the book cover is a farmer which is also an occupation.

• Battle of the Bookstores by. Ali Brady – not in the title, but there are bookshop owners in this book.
• The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by. Megan Bannen – an undertaker is definitely a job.
• The Housemaid by. Freida McFadden – another maid.

The Last Fashion House in Paris by. Renee Ryan – seamstresses.

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Top Ten Tuesday Topics:

July 1: Freebie/Throwback (Come up with a topic you’d like to do or go back and do an old topic you missed or just want to do again!)
July 8: Books I’d Like to Re-read (Share either your favorite books that you enjoy re-reading or books that you’d like to read again!) (Submitted by Becky @ Becky’s Book Blog)
July 15: Books with Honorifics in the Title (“…an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person’s name, e.g.: Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., Mx., Sir, Dame, Dr., Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person’s name, as in Mr. President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.” For more info, click here.) (Submitted by Joanne @ Portobello Book Blog)
July 22: Books Set in/Take Place During X (Pick a place, time, era, etc. Examples: Books set in Europe/Italy/Australia/Chicago, books set in Regency England, books that take place during the 1900s, books set in imaginary worlds/post-apocalyptic/dystopian worlds, books set on the ocean, books set it castles, books that take place during WW2, etc.)
July 29: Beach/Beachy Reads (Share books you’d take to the beach OR books that take place at the beach.)
August 5: Genre freebie (Pick any genre you’d like and build a list around it. You can even narrow the topic if you’d like, such as: thrillers with unreliable narrators, fantasy romance with fae characters, or historical romance with suspense elements.)
August 12: Books Guaranteed to Put an End to Your Book Slump (Which books would you recommend to someone (it’s me, I’m someone) dealing with the dreaded book slump? No book is grabbing their attention or making them excited to sit down and read and they are suffering for it.)
August 19: Books with a High Page Count (Share those doorstop books!)
August 26: Non-bookish Freebie (The sky is the limit here. Make a top ten list on any topic of your choosing, bookish or not!)
September 2: Books With Occupations in the Title (Submitted by Hopewell’s Public Library of Life)
September 9: Villains (favorite, best, worst, lovable, creepiest, most evil, etc.)
September 16: Literary/Bookish Candles I’d Make (Pick a book and assign it a fragrance or fragrance combo that would make a nice candle.) (Submitted by Heather @ The Frozen Library)
September 23: Books on My Fall 2025 to-Read List
September 30: Book Covers that Give off Fall Vibes (Or, if you’re not a cover person, share the books in general that feel like Fall.)

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:

Top Ten Moments of My Summer 2025

Since summer is coming to an end soon, I figure I should look back on my summer!

1. My trip to South Korea with my sister! We had so much fun and enjoyed the shopping, the eating, the sight-seeing and our fun tour group. 🫰🏽

2. My hunt for Labubus! I never wanted one, but since I didn’t know what to get my daughter as a souvenir from South Korea I said I’d go to Pop Mart and get her one – but she didn’t really want one either. Well I failed, they were sold out at the Pop Mart I went to and I searched at Haneda Airport when we had a layover in Japan but I was on the wrong side. This obsession to just find one led me to TikTok to learn from Labubu hunters. And I learned good tricks and tips…now I have way too many 😅.

These are my Labubus – yeah that Wings of Fortune is staying pretty in her box! lol…

3. K-Pop Demon Hunters – I saw it on Netflix when it released and said nah, not into watching a kid’s film right now. Then I went on TikTok and I heard one of the songs and said I’m watching it! I asked my kids if they wanted to watch it with me and my son said it looked “cringe”.🙄 I watched it, ALONE, and almost cried at the end. I was like WOW, I love it. I told my son how good it was and he was like ehhh….then two days later, he says, can I watch it? Because he saw something about it on youtube shorts! Oh of course, trust youtube but not your mother’s opinion! LOL…needless to say he loves it and my daughter loves it too. We are obsessed.

4. Sleeping in 😅. The kids loved sleeping in and I did too. Kids had a chill summer going to piano, swim, we hung out at arcades and malls, the pool, just a nice relaxing two months for them.

5. My annual breast MRI scan being unexciting – which is a very good thing! 💃🏻

6. Standing in line at Best Buy with my kids to get the Nintendo Switch 2 on release day! That was a top moment for my kids mostly, but their joy makes my heart happy.

7. Las Vegas trip with my hubby! Our first trip together without the kids, since having kids almost 13 years ago. He hadn’t been to Vegas since the late 1990’s! 👀 I went 3 years ago.We walked some of the strip, but we did use the tram and walked through the connecting hotels. We did not walk at night to see the hotels lit up, we were so tired by night time lol that heat is killer! We ate (food is EXPENSIVE there), we gambled, it was fun!

8. Lady Gaga concert, Las Vegas Night 3! The reason for our Vegas trip in the first place and the show was so good. 🥰 Loved that our hotel, Park MGM, was right next to the arena.

I only have full videos of Paparazzi, Shallow, Die with a Smile and Million Reasons because they were the slow songs. It was taking awhile to upload my Paparazzi video so here are just short clips of two songs. I was dancing while all the upbeat songs were playing, so no long video of it.

9. Not really a top moment but we finally got our house painted – I’m glad it is DONE. But we were kind of trapped in the house while they did it.

10. Had time to hang out with friends this summer, why is it so much harder as an adult to see people? Different schedules and all – but I went to see Alex Warren at the Waikiki Shell with a friend and it had been awhile we went out.

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Top Ten Tuesday Topics:

July 1: Freebie/Throwback (Come up with a topic you’d like to do or go back and do an old topic you missed or just want to do again!)
July 8: Books I’d Like to Re-read (Share either your favorite books that you enjoy re-reading or books that you’d like to read again!) (Submitted by Becky @ Becky’s Book Blog)
July 15: Books with Honorifics in the Title (“…an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person’s name, e.g.: Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., Mx., Sir, Dame, Dr., Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person’s name, as in Mr. President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.” For more info, click here.) (Submitted by Joanne @ Portobello Book Blog)
July 22: Books Set in/Take Place During X (Pick a place, time, era, etc. Examples: Books set in Europe/Italy/Australia/Chicago, books set in Regency England, books that take place during the 1900s, books set in imaginary worlds/post-apocalyptic/dystopian worlds, books set on the ocean, books set it castles, books that take place during WW2, etc.)
July 29: Beach/Beachy Reads (Share books you’d take to the beach OR books that take place at the beach.)
August 5: Genre freebie (Pick any genre you’d like and build a list around it. You can even narrow the topic if you’d like, such as: thrillers with unreliable narrators, fantasy romance with fae characters, or historical romance with suspense elements.)
August 12: Books Guaranteed to Put an End to Your Book Slump (Which books would you recommend to someone (it’s me, I’m someone) dealing with the dreaded book slump? No book is grabbing their attention or making them excited to sit down and read and they are suffering for it.)
August 19: Books with a High Page Count (Share those doorstop books!)
August 26: Non-bookish Freebie (The sky is the limit here. Make a top ten list on any topic of your choosing, bookish or not!)
September 2: Books With Occupations in the Title (Submitted by Hopewell’s Public Library of Life)
September 9: Villains (favorite, best, worst, lovable, creepiest, most evil, etc.)
September 16: Literary/Bookish Candles I’d Make (Pick a book and assign it a fragrance or fragrance combo that would make a nice candle.) (Submitted by Heather @ The Frozen Library)
September 23: Books on My Fall 2025 to-Read List
September 30: Book Covers that Give off Fall Vibes (Or, if you’re not a cover person, share the books in general that feel like Fall.)

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 with a High Page Count That I Read This Year | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday | 8/19/25

Books have been having high page counts on the regular now which is surprising to me. I consider 500 pages long so here are the longest books I read this year that are 500 pages and more.

• Anathema by. Keri Lake – 688 pages – from what I remember, I enjoyed it but did think it was long.
• Onyx Storm by. Rebecca Yarros – 758 pages – this felt like it.
• Oathbound by. Tracy Deonn – 656 pages – this book went by fast, especially the second half.

• Bound in Ink and Flame by. Ava Larksen – 731 pages – this book was too long
• The Jasad Crown by. Sara Hashem – 692 pages – I loved it but the beginning did feel long
• The Twisted Throne by. Danielle L. Jensen – 512 pages – not super long, but this wasn’t my favorite book in the series.

• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by. Suzanne Collins – 541 pages – this one was a slow read.
• Holy Terrors by. Margaret Owen – 560 pages – I read this one fast.
• King of Envy by. Ana Huang – 530 pages – felt like I had to slog through this one.

Arcana Academy by. Elise Kova – 576 pages – this didn’t feel like a long book.

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Top Ten Tuesday Topics:

July 1: Freebie/Throwback (Come up with a topic you’d like to do or go back and do an old topic you missed or just want to do again!)
July 8: Books I’d Like to Re-read (Share either your favorite books that you enjoy re-reading or books that you’d like to read again!) (Submitted by Becky @ Becky’s Book Blog)
July 15: Books with Honorifics in the Title (“…an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person’s name, e.g.: Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., Mx., Sir, Dame, Dr., Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person’s name, as in Mr. President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.” For more info, click here.) (Submitted by Joanne @ Portobello Book Blog)
July 22: Books Set in/Take Place During X (Pick a place, time, era, etc. Examples: Books set in Europe/Italy/Australia/Chicago, books set in Regency England, books that take place during the 1900s, books set in imaginary worlds/post-apocalyptic/dystopian worlds, books set on the ocean, books set it castles, books that take place during WW2, etc.)
July 29: Beach/Beachy Reads (Share books you’d take to the beach OR books that take place at the beach.)
August 5: Genre freebie (Pick any genre you’d like and build a list around it. You can even narrow the topic if you’d like, such as: thrillers with unreliable narrators, fantasy romance with fae characters, or historical romance with suspense elements.)
August 12: Books Guaranteed to Put an End to Your Book Slump (Which books would you recommend to someone (it’s me, I’m someone) dealing with the dreaded book slump? No book is grabbing their attention or making them excited to sit down and read and they are suffering for it.)
August 19: Books with a High Page Count (Share those doorstop books!)
August 26: Non-bookish Freebie (The sky is the limit here. Make a top ten list on any topic of your choosing, bookish or not!)
September 2: Books With Occupations in the Title (Submitted by Hopewell’s Public Library of Life)
September 9: Villains (favorite, best, worst, lovable, creepiest, most evil, etc.)
September 16: Literary/Bookish Candles I’d Make (Pick a book and assign it a fragrance or fragrance combo that would make a nice candle.) (Submitted by Heather @ The Frozen Library)
September 23: Books on My Fall 2025 to-Read List
September 30: Book Covers that Give off Fall Vibes (Or, if you’re not a cover person, share the books in general that feel like Fall.)

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 Guaranteed to Put an End to Your Book Slump

Books To Read For Spooky Season

I didn’t want to think too much for this topic so I changed it and since we are in August (I know it’s technically summer still), here are some books that will get you in the mood for spooky season!

• Coffin Moon by. Keith Rosson – I have this arc, haven’t read it yet.
• The Possession of Alba Diaz by. Isabel Cañas – this is on my TBR!
• Witch You Would by. Lia Amador – I have an arc I haven’t read yet.

• Mayra by. Nicky Gonazalez
• Soul of Shadow by. Emma Noyes
• A Spell to Wake the Dead by. Nicole Lesperance

• Their Monstrous Hearts by. Yiğit Turhan
• Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by. Kylie Lee Baker
• A Land So Wide by. Erin A. Craig

The Executioners Three by. Susan Dennard

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Top Ten Tuesday Topics:

July 1: Freebie/Throwback (Come up with a topic you’d like to do or go back and do an old topic you missed or just want to do again!)
July 8: Books I’d Like to Re-read (Share either your favorite books that you enjoy re-reading or books that you’d like to read again!) (Submitted by Becky @ Becky’s Book Blog)
July 15: Books with Honorifics in the Title (“…an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person’s name, e.g.: Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., Mx., Sir, Dame, Dr., Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person’s name, as in Mr. President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.” For more info, click here.) (Submitted by Joanne @ Portobello Book Blog)
July 22: Books Set in/Take Place During X (Pick a place, time, era, etc. Examples: Books set in Europe/Italy/Australia/Chicago, books set in Regency England, books that take place during the 1900s, books set in imaginary worlds/post-apocalyptic/dystopian worlds, books set on the ocean, books set it castles, books that take place during WW2, etc.)
July 29: Beach/Beachy Reads (Share books you’d take to the beach OR books that take place at the beach.)
August 5: Genre freebie (Pick any genre you’d like and build a list around it. You can even narrow the topic if you’d like, such as: thrillers with unreliable narrators, fantasy romance with fae characters, or historical romance with suspense elements.)
August 12: Books Guaranteed to Put an End to Your Book Slump (Which books would you recommend to someone (it’s me, I’m someone) dealing with the dreaded book slump? No book is grabbing their attention or making them excited to sit down and read and they are suffering for it.)
August 19: Books with a High Page Count (Share those doorstop books!)
August 26: Non-bookish Freebie (The sky is the limit here. Make a top ten list on any topic of your choosing, bookish or not!)
September 2: Books With Occupations in the Title (Submitted by Hopewell’s Public Library of Life)
September 9: Villains (favorite, best, worst, lovable, creepiest, most evil, etc.)
September 16: Literary/Bookish Candles I’d Make (Pick a book and assign it a fragrance or fragrance combo that would make a nice candle.) (Submitted by Heather @ The Frozen Library)
September 23: Books on My Fall 2025 to-Read List
September 30: Book Covers that Give off Fall Vibes (Or, if you’re not a cover person, share the books in general that feel like Fall.)

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: Genre freebie

Dark Academia Books I’ve Read This Year

(Pick any genre you’d like and build a list around it. You can even narrow the topic if you’d like, such as: thrillers with unreliable narrators, fantasy romance with fae characters, or historical romance with suspense elements.)

I’ve been meaning to make a post about dark academia books I’ve read this year because wow, has there been a LOT this year! So here are the dark academia books I’ve read so far in 2025.

• House of Hearts by. Skyla Arndi
• Enigma by. RuNyx
• Arcana Academy by. Elise Kova

• A Theory of Dreaming by. Ava Reid
• Neverthorn by. Shannon Mayer
• On Wings of Blood by. Brian Boleyn

• Nightshade by. Autumn Woods
• Lovely Dark and Deep by. Elisa A. Bonnin
• Unhallowed Halls by. Lili Wilkinson

And there is more coming…👀

Katabasis by. R.F. Kuang – release date 8/26/25

What’s on your TTT?

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Top Ten Tuesday Topics:

July 1: Freebie/Throwback (Come up with a topic you’d like to do or go back and do an old topic you missed or just want to do again!)
July 8: Books I’d Like to Re-read (Share either your favorite books that you enjoy re-reading or books that you’d like to read again!) (Submitted by Becky @ Becky’s Book Blog)
July 15: Books with Honorifics in the Title (“…an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person’s name, e.g.: Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., Mx., Sir, Dame, Dr., Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person’s name, as in Mr. President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.” For more info, click here.) (Submitted by Joanne @ Portobello Book Blog)
July 22: Books Set in/Take Place During X (Pick a place, time, era, etc. Examples: Books set in Europe/Italy/Australia/Chicago, books set in Regency England, books that take place during the 1900s, books set in imaginary worlds/post-apocalyptic/dystopian worlds, books set on the ocean, books set it castles, books that take place during WW2, etc.)
July 29: Beach/Beachy Reads (Share books you’d take to the beach OR books that take place at the beach.)
August 5: Genre freebie (Pick any genre you’d like and build a list around it. You can even narrow the topic if you’d like, such as: thrillers with unreliable narrators, fantasy romance with fae characters, or historical romance with suspense elements.)
August 12: Books Guaranteed to Put an End to Your Book Slump (Which books would you recommend to someone (it’s me, I’m someone) dealing with the dreaded book slump? No book is grabbing their attention or making them excited to sit down and read and they are suffering for it.)
August 19: Books with a High Page Count (Share those doorstop books!)
August 26: Non-bookish Freebie (The sky is the limit here. Make a top ten list on any topic of your choosing, bookish or not!)
September 2: Books With Occupations in the Title (Submitted by Hopewell’s Public Library of Life)
September 9: Villains (favorite, best, worst, lovable, creepiest, most evil, etc.)
September 16: Literary/Bookish Candles I’d Make (Pick a book and assign it a fragrance or fragrance combo that would make a nice candle.) (Submitted by Heather @ The Frozen Library)
September 23: Books on My Fall 2025 to-Read List
September 30: Book Covers that Give off Fall Vibes (Or, if you’re not a cover person, share the books in general that feel like Fall.)

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:

Beach/Beachy Reads

(Share books you’d take to the beach OR books that take place at the beach.)

I can’t bring books to the beach because I’m either in the water with my kids or keeping an eye on them. So let’s do books with a beachy cover!

• It’s a Love Story by. Annabel Monaghan
• Summer Girls by. Jennifer Dugan
• We Were Liars by. E. Lockhart

• The Maui Effect by. Sara Ackerman
• The Love Haters by. Katherine Center
• The Design of Us by. Sajni Patel

• Bridesmaid Undercover by. Meghan Quinn
• Just for the Summer by. Abby Jimenez
• The Break-Up Pact by. Emma Lord

These Summer Storms by. Sarah MacLean

What’s on your TTT?

Find me here: Instagram (bookstagram📚) | TikTok | Etsy | youtube

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Top Ten Tuesday Topics:

July 1: Freebie/Throwback (Come up with a topic you’d like to do or go back and do an old topic you missed or just want to do again!)
July 8: Books I’d Like to Re-read (Share either your favorite books that you enjoy re-reading or books that you’d like to read again!) (Submitted by Becky @ Becky’s Book Blog)
July 15: Books with Honorifics in the Title (“…an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person’s name, e.g.: Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., Mx., Sir, Dame, Dr., Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person’s name, as in Mr. President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.” For more info, click here.) (Submitted by Joanne @ Portobello Book Blog)
July 22: Books Set in/Take Place During X (Pick a place, time, era, etc. Examples: Books set in Europe/Italy/Australia/Chicago, books set in Regency England, books that take place during the 1900s, books set in imaginary worlds/post-apocalyptic/dystopian worlds, books set on the ocean, books set it castles, books that take place during WW2, etc.)
July 29: Beach/Beachy Reads (Share books you’d take to the beach OR books that take place at the beach.)
August 5: Genre freebie (Pick any genre you’d like and build a list around it. You can even narrow the topic if you’d like, such as: thrillers with unreliable narrators, fantasy romance with fae characters, or historical romance with suspense elements.)
August 12: Books Guaranteed to Put an End to Your Book Slump (Which books would you recommend to someone (it’s me, I’m someone) dealing with the dreaded book slump? No book is grabbing their attention or making them excited to sit down and read and they are suffering for it.)
August 19: Books with a High Page Count (Share those doorstop books!)
August 26: Non-bookish Freebie (The sky is the limit here. Make a top ten list on any topic of your choosing, bookish or not!)
September 2: Books With Occupations in the Title (Submitted by Hopewell’s Public Library of Life)
September 9: Villains (favorite, best, worst, lovable, creepiest, most evil, etc.)
September 16: Literary/Bookish Candles I’d Make (Pick a book and assign it a fragrance or fragrance combo that would make a nice candle.) (Submitted by Heather @ The Frozen Library)
September 23: Books on My Fall 2025 to-Read List
September 30: Book Covers that Give off Fall Vibes (Or, if you’re not a cover person, share the books in general that feel like Fall.)