Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup of book bloggers hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl! This week, we’re bringing to you our summer reading. I’ve always maintained that my summer reading are just books I happen to read in the summer, so these are mostly not breezy or beachy.
Amsterdam: This is a Booker Prize winner, one of the prizes that my own tastes tend to track most strongly with.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: I’ve never read Murakami, so this giant book is going to be a trial run. Hopefully I like his writing!
Washington Black: I’m not sure about this book club pick…it’s gotten lots of praise, but “adventure story” is not something that usually does it for me.
Polite Society: I have an ARC of this Indian twist on Emma, which actually does sound like a fun summer read!
Nickel and Dimed: Systemic poverty is a buzzkill, but it’s important to be educated about.
The Man in the High Castle: I like alternative histories, and I loved Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep when I read it in high school, so hopefully I still enjoy Phillip K Dick?
How to be Good: I really like reading Hornby novels. They’re pleasant and funny and I don’t have to think too hard.
Sashenka: I have fallen hard into a Russia/Soviet Union obsession lately, so an epic about a woman’s life beginning before the fall of the Romanovs and continuing through the Soviet era is right up my alley.
Money Rock: This is a nonfiction look at the life of a drug dealer in North Carolina, and the broader social forces that have impacted him and his family. I get a lot out of books that talk about broader movements through looking at particular people’s lives.
Marie Antoinette: Royalty!