Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl. It’s time for my seasonal TBR! I say seasonal but it’s not like I have any spooky books here, really it’s just ten books I’d like to make a priority over the next few months.
Child Soldier by China Keitetsi
My Uganda read for my Read the World Project. I think this is will be a tough read as it’s a true story but it’s important to learn about these things.
Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
I read The Lies of Locke Lamora earlier this year and really enjoyed it. I want to continue on with the series so I don’t forget everything but at the same time I do want to spread the next two books out as I don’t think there’s any news when the fourth book in the Gentleman Bastard series will be out.
Angel Mage by Garth Nix
I actually know nothing about this book and bought it just because it’s by Garth Nix and I love the Old Kingdom series. I’m looking forward to seeing what it’s about.
Black Widow: Forever Red by Margaret Stohl
I did start this book ages ago, maybe at the beginning of this year, and only got about 30 pages in before putting it down as I wasn’t in the mood for it. I think it should be a quick, fun read even if I find the more teen focussed superhero stories a bit hard to get into to begin with after being so used to reading the comics/watching the films.
An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie
This is my book for Togo in my Read the World Project. I think it’ll be really interesting to see how a Togolese man becomes fascinated by Greenland and his determination to go there.
Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo
This is the first novel from Madagascar to ever be translated into English and it’s set in the nineteenth century and it’s about the relationship between a slave and his master’s daughter.
Loveless by Alice Oseman
Alice Oseman is a much-loved contemporary UK YA author and Loveless will be the first book of her I’ve read.
Palestine+100 edited by Basma Ghalayini
This is a short story collection which has a range of genres, science-fiction, dystopia, noir and is about what the future of Palestine might look like.
Mama Hissa’s Mice by Saud Alsanousi
This will be my Kuwait read for the Read the World Project and is about friendship and protest.
Descendants: Isle of the Lost by Melissa De La Cruz
I recently watched and loved all the Descendants films and became slightly obsessed as a lot of the songs got stuck in my head! I went out and got the books and I’m looking forward to revisiting the characters in a different format.
What’s on your TBR over the next few months?
Elena Square Eyes 
Red Seas Under Red Skies is one of my favorites! Happy reading!
Thanks! I’m pretty sure I’ll love it, I just want to have that world and those characters around to revisit for longer 🙂
Great list! Loveless is one I’d really like to cross off my TBR, too.
Thanks! I’m pretty sure I’ll fly through Loveless (like I do with pretty much all contemporary) it’s just a case of when am I going to pick it up 😛
Beyond the Rice Fields sounds like a fascinating read. The first novel translated into English from Madagascar.
Yeah, trying to read a book from every country in the world is a challenge when it takes time for books to be translated. Still, I’m getting there slowly! 😀
Sounds like you’ve got some heavy reading coming up. I hope you enjoy all these!
Happy TTT!
Susan
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Thank you – hopefully it doesn’t get too much, think I’ll try and alternate between more fun/light-hearted contemporary and the more serious historical/non-fiction 🙂
Child Soldier does sound like a tough read, but I’d bet it will also be an important one. 🙂
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Thanks. It still surprises me how many horrible things happen in the world, and how often you don’t hear or learn about it till well after the fact
The Isle of the Lost is fun! I read that one out loud with my daughter a few years ago.
Aww that’s good to hear! 🙂
I’ve not read any of these! I hope you enjoy them when you get a chance. Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
Thank you! 🙂 haha! That’s one of my favourite things about TTT, you get to discover so many books – and probably add a tonne to your TBR if you’re anything like me 😉
Oh I enjoyed the Black Widow book when I read it!
Ooh that’s good to here! 🙂
I really want to read Loveless! I hope that you get to all of these books and you enjoy them all! Happy Reading! 🙂
Thanks! *fingers crossed*
I read Angel Mage and I really enjoyed it. I haven’t read many books about angels, so I was really curious about this one. As cool as that was, it is as the found family among the main characters that I really loved.
There’s a found family aspect?! That’s my favourite thing ever! OK I need to read that soon!
Loveless was the first book I’d read of Alice’s too! I loved it so much I’ve bought nearly all her other books now.
Ooh high praise indeed! I’m really looking forward to picking it up 🙂
Great list! Enjoy
Thank you 🙂
I haven’t heard of any of these but I hope you enjoy them ♡
Thanks! One of my favourite things about TTT is hearing about different books 🙂
Great list! I am also super interested in Loveless by Alice Oseman as I love the Heartstopper graphic novels by her 🙂
Thanks! I’ve heard great things about the Heartstopper series too *adds to the TBR* 😀
Out of these I’ve only read Angel Mage but a few of them are on my TBR.
Hope you enjoy them!
Thanks! 🙂 Fingers crossed I get to them soon and like them when I do 😉