Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl. I don’t often take part in Top Ten Tuesday (I forget or it’s not a topic I feel I have ten books that fit etc) but I do always do the seasonal TBR posts. That’s mainly because I find it interesting and somewhat entertaining to see how many times a book ends up on a TBR – please do go through my TBR tag if you also want to see books repeatedly appear. It’s not because I don’t want to read them, all books I mention in my TBR posts are books I own and want to read, it’s just that I’m a mood reader and easily distracted by other books.
So, after that bit of context, here are ten books I’d like to read in the coming months but who knows how many of them I actually will.
Life for Each: Poems by Daisy Zamora
This poetry collection is literally 70 pages long. I could read it in the morning before work it’s that short.
Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki
An historical fiction about three sisters growing up in the countryside in Athens before the Second World War. It’s a coming of age story with romance, secrets and family drama. From the title alone it seems like a good book to read during the summer months.
The Restless by Gerty Dambury
Set in 1960s Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, The Restless follows a nine-year-old girl who is struggling with the sudden disappearance of her teacher and her father at the onset of a workers’ strike.
Dangerous Remedy by Kat Dunn
Had not heard of this book before I got it in a subscription box but it seems to be a story about a ragtag group of outcasts in Revolutionary France and it has some Frankenstein elements? Sounds good to me.
Scarlet Odyssey by C.T. Rwizi
An epic fantasy set in a landscape inspired by the history of southern and eastern Africa and its myths and magic. I got this via Amazon’s First Reads as the premise of a young man who wants to become a mystic in a society where women do magic and men are warriors caught my eye.
Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun
This is another super short book of less than 100 pages and is a collection of short stories – both things making it something that I should read quickly and soon.
Hawkeye: Kate Bishop Vol 1 – 3 by Kelly Thompson, Leonardo Romero, Michael Walsh and Jordie Bellaire
I’m kind of cheating and combing three books into one choice here, but it’s a graphic novel series and as I have them all, I will be reading them one after the other. I love Hawkeye – both Clint Barton and Kate Bishop – and have been meaning to read Kate’s latest story arc for a while now.
The Sisters Grimm by Menna van Praag
Another book I got in a subscription box and it’s a story of four sisters trying to find one another and there’s magic I think? As you may probably tell, when it comes to subscription box books I haven’t heard of before, I like going into them knowing as little as possible. I do know The Sisters Grimm is set in Cambridge which is where I work so it’ll be cool reading a book set somewhere I know pretty well.
13 Colors of the Honduran Resistance by Melissa Cardoza
Feminist author and activist Melissa Cardoza tells thirteen stories about women from the Honduran resistance in the aftermath of the 28th June 2009 coup against President Manuel Zelaya.
A Phoenix First Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell
Guess what, this was a book I got from a subscription box! It’s a collection of short stories by Black authors that explore the Black experience through fantasy, science fiction, and magic.
What books are on your TBR for the next few months? If you’ve read any of these and think I should read them ASAP, please let me know.
Elena Square Eyes 
Three Summers sounds good!
Thanks, I just need to read it now!
Ooh I need to read A Phoenix Must First Burn. Just gotta get my hands on a copy….
Haha yep that’s how I feel about so many books 🙂
I haven’t read any of these but A Phoenix First Must Burn sounds great! Hope you enjoy them 🙂
Thank you 🙂 One of my favourite things about Top Ten Tuesday is discovering books I’d not heard of or read before.
Great list! I need to read A Phoenix First Must Burn, too, and Three Summers sounds really interesting. Happy reading!
Ooh, yes! I really need to read that Hawkeye book!
I love a Hawkeye book! Finally got them in February and I still haven’t read them yet which is just not good enough.
Thanks! Happy reading to you too! 🙂
Ooh, The Sisters Grimm does sound good.
My TTT .
It does! Hope I like it/actually read it soon 😉
Dangerous Remedy was on my list this week too!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/16/top-ten-tuesday-268/
Haha! Snap! Hope you get to read it soon 🙂
The Sisters Grimm, how clever! Three summers also seems good! Hope you enjoy reading your list! Here’s my TTT https://elzareads.blogspot.com/
Thanks – me too, just hope I get to them soon! 🙂
All of these look like they would be really good. I hope you love them!
Thank you! Me too 😉
I love the cover for Dangerous Remedy! Hopefully you get a lot of these read (I also make TBR lists and then don’t always read them!)
Haha thanks! It’s the thought that counts I’m sure 😉
I hope you enjoy these when you get a chance! Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
Thank you 🙂
A Phoenix Must Burn sounds interesting! hope you enjoy your books ❤
Thank you, yeah I hadn’t heard of it before it came through the letterbox but I’m definitely looking forward to reading it 🙂
Great list 🙂 I keep seeing The Sisters Grimm around and am tempted to add it to my own TBR list, I have so many books to read already though. Hope you enjoy all these.
Thanks! Haha! Yes that’s the one “downside” to Top Ten Tuesday, it’s so easy to discover new books to add to that ever growing TBR
Oooh, I so relate to the whole dilemma of books repeating a bunch on TBRs because they’re owned books but also never getting around to them because of mood reading!
And oooh, The Sisters Grimm and Hawkeye: Kate Bishop both look interesting! Happy reading–hopefully you’re able to knock out a good chunk of these! 🙂
Glad to hear I’m not alone 🙂
Thanks! Well I’ve already read one of them! It was the super short poetry collection but at least it’s a start 😀
I ended up dnf-ing The Sisters Grimm. Nothing about that book grabbed me unfortunately. I hope you like it better. I just ordered A Phoenix First Must Burn.
Interesting. To be honest I haven’t really heard much about it one way or another so I’m looking forward to seeing what I make of it 🙂
A Phoenix first must burn!
I’m really looking forward to reading it! Especially as it includes authors I’ve never read before so I think it’ll be a great introduction to new voices.
Yes definitely!