This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic from The Broke and the Bookish is near and dear to my heart (and my library checkout/holds lists):
Top Ten 2016 Releases We Meant to Read But Didn’t Get Around To (But TOTALLY Plan To):
- Nicola Yoon’s The Sun Is Also a Star (in progress)
- Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff’s Gemina (on hold at the library)
- Susan Dennard’s Truthwitch (own it)
- C.B. Lee’s Not Your Sidekick (in progress)
- David Arnold’s Kids of Appetite (checked out)
- Brittany Cavallaro’s A Study in Charlotte (checked out)
- Eliot Schrefer’s Rescued (Christmas present)
- Matthew Desmond’s Evicted (audiobook on hold)
- Zadie Smith’s Swing Time (checked out)
- Ta-Nehisi’s The Black Panther (on hold)
How about you? What new books did you not quite get to this year that you hope to tackle in 2017?
Finally, I just wanted to give a final tally for Bout of Books 18. In addition to the three books I finished and reviewed last week (the first two were already in progress, so it’s really less impressive than it sounds), I also made progress on two other books, Jay Asher’s What Light, another of my Christmas books, and my current non-fiction read, Dear Data, by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec.
Clearly, the reading portion of my goal-setting was a success. I didn’t visit anyone else’s blog, only gave a couple updates, and only participated in the one challenge, in addition to doing the Twitter chats, so the social aspect of my goals left something to be desired. However, I did actually post reviews of the completed books, so I’m not considering it a total washout.