This week’s prompt for Top Ten Tuesday is “books recently added to your TBR”. That’s an easy one for me, because I keep veeeery careful records… I won’t just add the ones I’ve got most recently, or it’d basically echo my last couple of Stacking the Shelves posts. So here’s a selection of what I’ve got/borrowed in the last couple of months.
- Touch, Claire North. I might’ve been disappointed in The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, but I have been a fan of North’s work since she first published as Catherine Webb.
- A Darkling Sea, James L. Cambias. I think this was mentioned by a friend in a book group. It made it to my wishlist, anyway, and from there onto my bought list!
- Impulse, Dave Bara. Picked up on, ha, impulse. Looks like fun space opera type stuff.
- Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales. For book club!
- Mortal Heart, Robin LaFevers. I’ve just read Grave Mercy. I already had Dark Triumph on my list, but now I’ve gotta get my hands on Mortal Heart…
- Blackout, Connie Willis. I’m actually pretty ambivalent about Willis’ work, but I told myself I’d give it another go!
- Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson. Had never quite connected this book with the Ms Marvel writer! When I realised, well, the choice was obvious.
- Knight’s Shadow, Sebastien de Castell. I’m still only partway through the first book, since I got distracted. Oops. But this is waiting for me.
- The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro. I have to get around to this soon. I hear it’s got Gawain in it!
- The Mirror World of Melody Black, Gavin Extence. Having loved The Universe Versus Alex Woods, and knowing this is about mental illness in many ways, I couldn’t help but pick this one up as soon as I could.
Tahdah! What’s everyone else been getting hold of?
Great list! I’d like to read The Buried Giant, too. I’m also hoping to read Grave Mercy soon.
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I’ve loved most of Kazuo Ishiguro’s work so far, so I have such high hopes!
I haven’t heard of any of the books on your list but I have heard of a few of the authors. I read Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never let me go and I liked the film adaptation of it which I saw last year. Very sad in film format! Enjoy your books!
I did like Never Let Me Go — really well written, I thought. Haven’t seen the film, though!
Gawain *grabby hands* this list is awesome. I actual have a few of these on my shelve As well the universe vs alex sounds good I’ll pick it up soon.
Good taste, re: Gawain! He’s probably my favourite Arthurian character.
Great list! I have that entire Robin LaFevers trilogy on my TBR – hoping to get to it soon, I’ve heard some great things about it.
I really enjoyed the first book! (The review will be up here in a couple weeks if you’re interested enough to check back…) Some people I know didn’t enjoy it, but I found myself disagreeing with them almost point for point.
I’ve got Grave Mercy in my TBR pile; I’ve yet to get around to reading it. I’ve heard so many good things about that series.
I’ve only read one of Connie Willis’s books (which was Passage). I know that some people really love this author’s books, but I was not impressed. There was too much repetition, too many stereotyped characters, and a really weak ending that didn’t make a whole lot of sense (I got the feeling that the author didn’t quite know how to end things). I think I also tried to read Doomsday Book many years ago… but I don’t think I got very far.
I do enjoy it! My review hasn’t gone live yet, or I’d link it.
Yeah, I… I can agree with that. Also, Willis’ stories frequently seem to involve people passing the idiot ball around.
Touch! I can’t recommend that one enough. I was literally jumping up and down with excitement after reading it, trying to find push this book on everyone I know 😛
Ooh, good to know!
Apart from Touch, Mortal Heat and Knight’s Shadow these are new book to me and I think I need to look them up to see if they are something I might like too so thanks for heads up, I love finding out about new books this way xx
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Ohhhhhhhhhh nice list. Alif the Unseen is an AMAZING book… this crazy techo-magic mix. I wish it wasn’t her only novel.
I’m looking forward to it!