Top Ten Books on My 2014 Winter TBR List

November 25, 2014 Top Ten Tuesday 20

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.  This week’s topic is Top Ten Books on My Winter To-Be-Read List.  

I actually made two lists, one of books that are coming out between Dec. 21 and March 21, and one of books that are already out, but I haven’t gotten around to reading yet. Of course, whether I’ll get to all of these is anyone’s guess!

New/Forthcoming Books

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  • Dreaming Spies (Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes #13), by Laurie King
  • Unbound (Magic Ex Libris #3), by Jim C. Hines (1/06/15)
  • Shadow Scale (Seraphina #2), by Rachel Hartman (3/10/15) 

 

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Older Books (from my TBR pile/list)

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  • A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Lenox #1), by Charles Finch (and the rest of the series up through book 6)
  • In a Dark House (Kincaid & James #10), by Deborah Crombie (and the rest of the series through book 16)

 

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What’s on your Winter TBR list?

 

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20 Responses to “Top Ten Books on My 2014 Winter TBR List”

  1. Lianne @ caffeinatedlife.net

    I really want to read The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, I hope to get around to it soon! (with the paperback coming out soon and all)

    I read one of Deborah Crombie’s books years ago and enjoyed it, but never got around to the other Kincaid & James novels…I should do that one of these days xD

    Happy reading! 🙂 My TTT
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  2. Camille @ Girl meets Books

    *squeals* You’ve got The Thief on your TBR list, I’m so happy. Everybody should read Megan Whalen Turner. I hope you’ll enjoy reading that one. My favorite is the second book and I hope you’ll get to read the entire series. I have The Night Circus on my shelf as well. I hope to read that one maybe next year. And yes to Julia Quinn and Jennifer Nielsen. I haven’t read the 3rd book in the Ascendancy trilogy yet but I do have the book on my shelf. Thanks for sharing.

    Here’s my TTT 🙂
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  4. Stephanie

    This looks like a such a good list Lark and you are such a prolific reader you will probably get through them all! The only one of your older titles that I’ve read is The Night Circus and I loved it – so atmospheric – I hope you like it. I also would like to read The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry as well as a number of things on your yet to be published list (Shadow Scale!).
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    • Lark_Bookwyrm

      I still haven’t read three of the ten from my Fall TBR list, so we’ll see! I probably should have put those three on this list, but I was hoping to get to them before this list posted. (Obviously, I didn’t!)

      And since I’m still having trouble commenting on your blog, I’ll put my comment here instead: What a great list! I want to read about half of your books now (a few were already on my TBR, just not in the top ten.) The Eterna Files sounds like a lot of fun; Sabriel has been on my list for several years; Zenn Scarlet and The Mad Scientist’s Daughter both sounded appealing when I first heard of them (and still do); and I hadn’t heard of that Holmes anthology but now I must read it! I read the Oz anthology put together by the same editor, and it was very good; and there are some terrific writers in the Holmes anthology. Thank you for pointing me in its direction!

      • Stephanie

        An Oz anthology sounds pretty fantastic – I think I’ll add that to my TBR! Sorry the comment thing still doesn’t work! I have been thinking, for several reasons, of moving my blog to self-hosted or perhaps WordPress. I am extremely nervous about it though and think I would quickly get over my head in the technical arena. I’m afraid I’ll lose a bunch of things etc… You recently shifted to a new platform didn’t you? Did it go pretty smoothly? Any words of wisdom?
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        • Lark_Bookwyrm

          I did; I had Ashley from NozeGraze and Creative Whimsey move my blog, and she did a great job. There has been a steep learning curve in switching to self-hosted WordPress (which, combined with my work schedule, is why I haven’t customized the look of the blog much yet.) But I do feel I’m getting a handle on how to use it, and I love Ashley’s Ultimate Book Blogger plugin! There are a few things I still want to tweak (or perhaps pay Ashley to tweak) but on the whole I’m pretty happy with it. If you’re like me, and not very techie, I highly recommend getting help, either unpaid if you have a WordPress-savvy friend, or paying someone like Ashley to do the actual switchover. Just make sure you get someone trustworthy! (She came highly recommended, and I can second that, if you want to hire her.) A lot of what you need to learn after that you can find by googling. 🙂

  5. Kim

    Oh I’m just dying for Shadow Scale too!! And I have yet to read the Magic ex Libris series but I really can’t wait to! Jim C. Hines is such a delight on social media.
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  6. Katherine @ I Wish I Lived in a Library

    So many great books on here! Dreaming Spies made my list as well and I’m really looking forward to Teardrop Lane. How did I forget about the new Quinn and Krentz?? Don’t know what I Was thinking there! I have the Charles Finch and In a Dark House was so good! Pretty much the only Crombie I didn’t love was the one set in Scotland about Hazel. Go read A.J. Fikry! It’s such a short read and it’s sweet. I didn’t find it as amazing as some other reviewers but it’s a really nice curl up with a book on a cold day kind of read.
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    • Lark_Bookwyrm

      I keep telling myself I should wait to read Teardrop Lane and Dreaming Spies until I get some of my earlier ARCs read – but I want to read them both NOW! I just bought all six of the Finch mysteries I haven’t read (they were or are on sale for Kindle, yay!) but I keep blowing the book budget so I’ll have to get some of the Crombies from the library. And I will definitely read A.J. Fikry! I hadn’t realized it was short; I kept thinking it was long and that was putting me off because I have so many other books to get through.