Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup of book bloggers hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl! This week, we’re talking about weather-y books, so I’ve chosen ten books with weather words in the title off of my to-be-read list to share with you!
The Shadow of the Wind: This book, translated from the Spanish, is a mystery about a man who sets out to discover why an author’s books are being destroyed in post-WW2 Barcelona and it’s supposed to be very good.
A High Wind in Jamaica: This is a novel about children, on a voyage from Jamaica to England, who find themselves onboard a pirate ship after their boat is attacked on route and the relationship that develops between the pirates and the kids, and it sounds very much up my alley!
Moon of the Crusted Snow: I’ve heard amazing things about this post-apocalyptic story, set in a First Nations town in Canada. If I do like it, a sequel is being released soon!
Snow in August: I can’t quite remember how this historical fiction book about the relationship that develops between a young Irish Catholic boy and a refugee rabbi in his neighborhood in post-WW2 New York City ended up on my list, so here’s hoping I enjoy it!
The Year of the Flood: I’ve been meaning to read this sequel to Oryx and Crake basically since I read Oryx and Crake.
Before the Flood: This one is a nonfiction book, about a valley in Massachusetts that was deliberately flooded in order to ensure drinking water for the Boston area. I’ve never read a book about something like this before!
June Rain: Another book that I can’t quite remember where I learned about, this one is about a shooting that takes place at a church in Lebanon and the fallout from it, based on a real incident in the author’s home village.
The Art of Racing in the Rain: They made this into a movie, and it’s about/narrated by a dog, and will probably make me cry and I like a good book that makes me feel things every so often.
The Stormchasers: Another one that seems like it will be feelings-forward, about a pair of twins dealing with mental illness and set in the high-tension world of stormchasing.
What Stands in a Storm: I graduated from law school at Alabama only a year before the horrific tornado that struck Tuscaloosa and still remember watching livestream coverage of it as it happened, worrying about the many friends I still had there. Which is why this book, about that Alabama tornado outbreak, is something I’ve been wanting to read for a while!
