Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
This week’s topic is ‘Top Ten Forgotten Backlist Titles which Jana carries on to say is about thinking outside the shiny, new, trendy titles and think about ones that aren’t talked about anymore. She says that she often gets caught up in all the new releases and finds herself reading the same books everyone else is, that there’s no variety in the bookish community, and social media is full of pictures and reviews of the same handful of books
I do agree with her – every now and again I get fed up to the back teeth of seeing the same books – but luckily, what I tend to read are not the books everyone else is. So this is going to be 10 books I’ve read recently that I haven’t seen other people reading
Alix E Harrow – The Once And Future Witches
Mandy Baggot – Staying Out For The Summer
Colin Elford – A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger
AJ Aalto – Touched
Christie Barlow – Love Heart Lane
Jessica Bruder – Nomadland
Susan Cooper – Over Sea, Under Stone
Alexis Caught – Queer Up
Peter Ackroyd – History Of England: Foundation
Neil Gaiman – The Ocean At the End Of the Lane
Do you tend to read the same books as everyone else? What have you read lately that other people haven’t been reading?
Queer Up sounds interesting for sure.
And, yeah, that’s one reason why I don’t follow many book bloggers or vloggers on social media (unless we’re buddies and they talk about non-bookish things, too). You see the same books repeated far too often on those pages.
I think it’s great that certain books have such big audiences. I just get tired of seeing the same stuff talked about over and over again. Haha.
Here is my Top Ten Tuesday post.
Queer Up was a fantastic read – one of those books I wish had existed when I was a wee queer teen, figuring out that I maybe liked girls instead of boys but has been equally helpful now figuring out everything around gender.
I’m probably about 50/50 with the books I read. About half of them are the current popular books (which I usually pick up because the cover or the blurb is too tempting to pass up) and the other half are older or more obscure titles.
I still want to read The Once and Future Witches! I’ve heard such great things about it.
Thanks for stopping by my TTT earlier!
I’m really good at adding the popular books to my TBR, and when I did a huge Waterstones haul at Christmas picked them up… but my TBR is so huge I haven’t got round to reading many of them because there’s SO MUCH I want to read.
I am highly recommending Once And Future Witches. It was beautifully written, the narrative was gorgeous and the story was gripping and layered and I just fell in love!