It feels like five minutes ago that we were posting our winter reading lists, but today’s Top Ten Tuesday theme is a spring reading list! As ever, I don’t really theme my reading lists, so this just ends up being what’s top-of-mind for me. At the moment, that means finishing the books that I bought last year and haven’t started yet, so let’s pick out some of those.

1. Strange New World, by Vivian Shaw. 
   I’ve been meaning to read this for ages, and even reread the previous three books to prepare for it, but I still haven’t picked it up. Surely, surely, now will be the time.
2. The Wolf and His King, by Finn Longman.
   This is a retelling of ‘Bisclaveret’, which I studied in my first undergrad degree, and I am very excited to read it. I got it for Christmas and it just hasn’t made the way to the top yet, but surely now!
3. Wearing the Lion, by John Wiswell.
   I’ve been very curious to try Wiswell’s books, and though I’ve heard slightly mixed things about this one, it does sound potentially right up my alley.
4. Brigands & Breadknives, by Travis Baldree.
   I loved Legends & Lattes, and though I wasn’t as big a fan of the prequel, I’m still looking forward to giving this a shot.
5. Cat Dragon, by Samantha Birch.
   Got to admit, I know very little about this book other than the fact that there are cat dragons, and I am all over this concept.
6. Welsh Food Stories, by Carwyn Graves.
   I enjoyed Graves’ previous book, Tir; I don’t think he and I entirely see eye to eye on what makes ‘Welshness’, but he still has interesting things to say, and I’m interested to learn more about Welsh food culture beyond cawl, Welsh cakes, bara brith and rarebit.
7. Thrice Married to a Salted Fish, vol 1, by Bi Ka Bi.
   It sounds like a fun story, and the other volumes should be set to come out this year, so I’d like to dive in soon!
8. Mistakenly Saving the Villain, by Feng Yu Nie.
   Ditto! I’ve seen some comparisons to Heaven Official’s Blessing, which intrigues me since I love that book.
9. Shield of Sparrows, by Devney Perry.
   I admit to being slightly intimidated by how much of a chonker this one is… but I’ve heard some really good things, so I’d like to give it a shot soon.
10. The Isle in the Silver Sea, by Tasha Suri.
    This one comes highly hyped up, so I have very high expectations. I’ve enjoyed Suri’s work in the past… but again, it’s a bit of a chonker, so I’m a little shy of it, ahaha.

You might notice that there are actually some repeats from my winter TBR. I must admit, I only read four books from the list: The Palace of Illusions, Spinosaur Tales, Solo Leveling (light novel vol 1) and Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint (light novel vol 1). Oops! Maybe I’ll do better with the spring list… though to be fair, I still don’t even own a copy of The Wife Comes First.

What are you excited about this spring?