Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books On My Winter TBR

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

There were so many Christmas books that came out this season! I don't ever remember this many coming out in one year. There's more than any one person could read!

 I am so excited to read my Winter TBR. Holiday books are a genre I look forward to every year.  I am  even hosting a holiday reading challenge called Whole Latte Xmas.You can find all the info and sign up for it here.

Here is my Top Ten Books on My Winter TBR list:

1. The Christmas Blessing by Melody Carlson

2. Winter Solstice (Winter #4) by Elin Hilderbrand

3. Home for Christmas (Yorktide, Maine #7) by Holly Chamberlin

4. Merry and Bright by Debbie Macomber

5. The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman

6. The Noel Diary by Richard Paul Evans

7. Chasing Christmas Eve by Jill Shavis

Not all of the books I plan to read this winter are holiday books. Here are three recent releases I am really excited about.

8. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

9. The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

10. Artemis by Andy Weir

2017 Whole Latte Xmas Reading Challenge

I look forward to holiday books every year. There's just something special about curling up with a hot latte and a warm blanket with a good holiday book next to the lit Christmas tree while the snow falls quietly outside. Because of this I'm bring back the #WholeLatteXmas reading challenge. 

I also couldn't find any holiday themed reading challenges! I'm posting this a little late because I figured someone would do a holiday themed challenge. If they are please link to it in the comments.

How the Whole Latte Xmas Reading Challenge Works:

• This is a design it yourself challenge. I want you to choose your own reading goals.
•  This is a low pressure challenge meant to be fun.

• Books can be any genre but must be winter or holiday themed. While the name of the challenge is Christmas, books about other winter holidays will count. This includes Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, and New Year's.

• Books may have titles or cover art that features winter, frost, ice, freezing, the months of December or January, or anything else associated with the season.

• When you have reviewed a book, you are encouraged to come back to this post and add the link to your review in the comments.

Additional Rules: 

• This challenge runs from Nov 25 - Jan 7.

• You may sign up anytime during the challenge. 

• I won't be creating different levels. Read as little or as many books as you want. 

• You may include books of any format including traditional books, ebooks, or audiobooks.

• You may reread books. 

• Books may count towards other reading challenges.

• Use the hashtag #WholeLatteXmas

• If you could be so kind, please place the Whole Latte Xmas Reading Challenge banner on your blog to help spread the word. 

• Please link back to this blog, post about it on Facebook, Tweet about it, and so on to help spread the word.
• Please sign up using the link below

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Yummy Foods Shown On Books

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

I know it's late but this week the theme is Top Ten Yummy Foods Mentioned in Books but I'm changing it to Shown On Books because even though food is on the cover I haven't read all of them so I don't know if there's food mentioned in the book.

I also gave myself the rule that I can't use cozy mysteries because there's seems to be hundreds of those with food names. I felt it was kind of cheating.




1. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer




2. The Cupcake Queen by Heather Hepler




3. Chocolat by Joanne Harris




4. Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson




5. First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen




6. Ex-mas by Kate Brian




7. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarity




8. Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave




9. I'm the Vampire, That's Why by Michele Bardsley




10. When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books With Fall/Autumn Covers/Themes

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

I'm going back to two weeks before and doing Fall/Autumn covers because I missed this topic and it's one of my favorites.

I even have a Pinterest board for Fall/Autumn books!





1. Turkey Trot Murder by Leslie Meier




2. Bitter Harvest by Ann Rule




3. That Night by Chevy Stevens




4. Autumn Killing by Mons Kallentoft




5. The Year of Gadfly by Jennifer Miller




6. The Wood by Chelsea Bobulski




7. Give Em Pumpkin to Talk About by Joyce and Jim Lavene

8. Whispers in Autumn by Trisha Leigh

9. Autumn Getaway by Jennifer Gracen

6. Thanksgiving by Janet Evanovich

My Bookbusters TBR

September was a terrible month of reading for me. I barely got anything read so I am super excited for all the October readathons and plan to hit them hard.

The first readathon of the month is #Bookbusters hosted by Elena Reads Books. It is a bingo style challenge with activities as well.

The reading challenge board: 

Here is the activities challenge board:

Here is my Bookbusters TBR

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books With Hot Characters on the Cover

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic is a Characters Freebie. I'm choosing Top Ten Books With Hot Characters on the Cover.

I have not read all of these so I don't know if the cover image matches the actual character description but I've been looking for an excuse to do cover eye candy for awhile now. I'll note which books I have read.




1. Easy by Tammara Webber




2. Lick by Kylie Scott




3. Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James (Read)




4. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks (Read)




5. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris (Read)




6. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks (Read)




7. Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (Read)




8. The Martian by Andy Weir (Read)




9. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon




10. Kiss of Steel by BecMcMaster

Top Ten Tuesday: Throwback! Top Ten Books I Loved the First Years I Was Blogging

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic is a Throwback Freebie. I'm choosing Top Ten Books I Loved the First Years I Was Blogging.

My blog has gone through some name and url changes since I first started it. Because of this, I thought I had lost the list of all the books I have read from when I started blogging in 2010 but thanks to the Wayback Machine it was not lost! However, it appears I only blogged about 8 books that year so I'll have to include some from 2011 too to complete the list.*

*Hmmm...now that I look at the list I realize I wasn't wowed by many 2011 books...so let's include 2012 too.

2010 

1. Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell

2. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

3. Push by Sapphire

4. Night by Elie Wiesel

5. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert


2011

6. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

7. A Christmas Story by Jean Shepherd


2012

8. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

9. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

10. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern