Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup of book bloggers hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl! I’ve always maintained that I’m awful at compiling lists of beach reads, so I’m taking this week’s topic about summer books to literally share with you the books I’m planning on reading over the next few months!
The Completionist: It seems like dystopian stories with a feminist bent are pretty popular these days, but something about this one caught my eye and I’ve got a review copy to read!
The Feast of Love: I’m a sucker for stories set in places familiar to me, and Baxter’s supposed a great writer, so this Ann Arbor-based book about the love people share in various types of relationships seems like a good place to start with him.
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: Jon Benet Ramsey’s murder seems unlikely to ever be solved, but I’m definitely interested in reading the foremost true crime account of what happened.
The Looming Tower: I’m a little worried this is going to be substantially similar to Ghost Wars, which I read in January, but I’m curious to read it anyways.
My Own Words: Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a role model and a national treasure and my husband bought me this book quite a while ago so it’s time to actually read it.
Olive Kitteridge: I’m always here for prize winners, and this one got the Pulitzer in 2009. I’ve also never read Strout before, so here’s hoping I enjoy her work as much as others have!
The Romanov Empress: Ah, self-indulgence in the form of historical fiction about royalty. This book follows the mother of Nicholas II, which will be a new perspective for me to read from!
The Pleasing Hour: I’ve actually read some mixed reviews of this debut, but it’s short and it was cheap for the Kindle when I bought it so I’ll try it out.
Shantaram: I do love a gigantic sprawling novel.
The Informant: Another huge book, this one is about a federal investigation of price-fixing by a major worldwide corporation and the sometimes dicey control the FBI had over its prize witness and sounds fascinating.