Top Ten Tuesday: My Summer TBR

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This week’s theme is: Books on my Summer 2019 TBR.

I really love creating reading lists. It keeps me on track with my planned reading, and I love looking back and seeing what I have accomplished. Hence my participation in this week’s TTT, my summer TBR. Only it’s not summer here, summer’s done and dusted. This will be my monsoon TBR. And here are the books I plan to read.

1. The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu: I read and loved The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu a couple of months ago. And now Ash and I have planned a buddy read for the second book in this awesome sci-fi series – The Dark Forest.
2. Death’s end by Cixin Liu: If The Dark Forest turns out to be as good as I expect it to be, then I plan to continue and finish the trilogy by reading Death’s end.
3. Dissolution by C.J.Sansom: I have been hearing a lot about this medieval mystery series set during the time of Henry VIII. And I am finally taking the plunge and picking up the first book in the series – Dissolution. I am really excited about this one!
4. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles: I am a bit iffy on this one. I started this book last year, read about 70 odd pages, and just couldn’t get into it. I think the story of an old man stuck in house arrest in a posh hotel in Moscow just didn’t resonate with me. But so many people have praised this book to the skies that I feel I should give it just another chance.
5. Milkman by Anna Burns: Milkman won the Man Booker prize last year. This book feels like a feminist read about a young girl who is harassed by someone called the milkman. I started it last week (part of my Spring TBR), but I put it on hold because it’s the kind of book one needs to get immersed in, and right now, I am just a tad too distracted with other stuff.
6. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon: I’m finally back into Outlander again. I read the first book way back when and thought I was done with the series. But now I started watching a couple of TV episodes of The Outlander and thought maybe I need a little historical romance in my reading as well.
7. Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James: This book advertised as an African Game of Thrones was on my spring reading list as well. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get to it, and so am pushing this to my summer reading list.
8. Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J.Maas: I need to get up to date on this series. That’s all. And someone please tell me this is the last book. I don’t think I can deal with more Aelin in my life.
9. To all the boys I’ve loved before by Jenny Han: I saw the movie on Netflix, and really liked it. Cheezy, but also romantic and sweet. And now I have to read the book, because the book’s always better, right?
10. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders: I suspect I am being too ambitious here. Would I really be able to finish so many chunksters over the space of a summer/monsoon? I don’t think so. But I am putting it here anyway. This book has been sitting on my shelf for the past year giving me guilt pangs. Maybe just putting it in my TBR officially will get me to at least try the book.

So that’s my TBR list all planned out and ready. I hope to be actually making a dent in this over the next couple of months.

What about you, what books are on your TBR list? Have you read any of the books I mentioned here? Which one would you recommend I get started with ASAP?