Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup of book bloggers hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl! Yesterday was the first day of winter, so let’s take a look at my seasonal reading list…well, most of it, there will be book club selections in here as well! I think it’s a pretty good mix of genres, and features an extremely famous author I’ll be reading for the first time!
Mindhunter: I know that this got made into a Netflix series fairly recently, but I’ve had the book on my list for quite a while now. I went through a phase where I wanted to be a criminal profiler so this seems like something I’ll really like.
The Wife Upstairs: Rachel Hawkins is a fantastic Twitter follow, and having recently re-read Jane Eyre for book club, I’m really excited to read her take on it!
Go, Went, Gone: This is the book club selection for December, and I’m always excited when we pick a book I’ve already bought! I’ve heard great things about Jenny Erpenbeck’s work and am excited to read it.
The Satanic Verses: I read his Booker Prize-winning Midnight’s Children about two years ago and thought it was wonderful, albeit very dense. I like his writing, and have to admit I’m curious about the work that meant a fatwa was issued against him.
On Hitler’s Mountain: I don’t much love memoir, but memoirs about important historical events are often the exception. This one is about growing up German during the Nazi regime by a girl who grew up wanting to critically examine her country’s history and I think it will be very interesting.
Murder on the Orient Express: I have actually never read Christie before! I saw the movie version ages ago, so long that I can’t actually remember the solution to the mystery, but remember it was very entertaining.
The Sea: I’m a sucker for a Booker Prize winner.
All Girls: Coming of age novels are an especially favorite of mine, as are books set in closed academic environments like prep schools, so this seems extremely up my alley.
The Secret Life of Bees: I have a cousin who loves this book, and several people I trust have really enjoyed it too, so I’m curious about it!
The Leftovers: I’ve never seen the HBO show, but I understand the premise and think it sounds interesting!