Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup of book bloggers hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl! This week is a water theme, so I’ve chosen ten books from my to-be-read list that have water in the title to highlight!

The Water Cure: This book bills itself as The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Virgin Suicides, and since those are two of my favorite books I couldn’t resist.

Freshwater: This is supposed to be an incredible debut novel…I’ve read one of Emezi’s later works and liked-but-didn’t-love it so I’m looking forward to seeing how I feel about this one.

The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: I’ve read Jared Yates Sexton’s article-length work before and really enjoyed it, so I have high hopes for this book!

Flesh and Bone and Water: To be honest I don’t really remember putting this on my list but it looks like it’s about a teenage love affair and a reconnection as adults which is very much up my alley.

The Water is Wide: This is Pat Conroy’s memoir, about teaching at an underprivileged school in the Gullah area of South Carolina. I generally like his novels so I’m curious about his memoir.

The Chronology of Water: This book shows up on basically every must-read memoir list.

In The Water They Can’t See You Cry: I so often find sports memoirs disappointing, but yet I keep on reading them! This one is the swimmer Amanda Beard’s. Lots of memoirs on this list, apparently!

The Water Knife: This one has a Nevada politics connection! One of the main characters apparently was inspired by Pat Mulroy, a former head of the Southern Nevada Water Authority (which controls water issues in Las Vegas).

The Blackwater Lightship: Pretty sure I picked this one up at a secondhand shop because I wanted to read something by Colm Toibin.

Like Water for Chocolate: Legendary Mexican novel in translation.