Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Top Ten Tuesday - Fall 2024 Reading List


Happy Tuesday, dear readers! This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt from That Artsy Reader Girl is the books I plan on reading this fall. Are any of these on your TBR list? Have a great day! (NOTE: Book summaries from NetGalley).

🆘 The Lies We Leave Behind by Noelle Salazar - Somewhere in the Pacific, 1943. Kate Campbell is a nurse who bravely flies back and forth from the front to rescue wounded soldiers, amid long days, harsh conditions and often dangerous weather. Driven by a deep personal need to help in the war effort, she is conflicted when an injury results in her reassignment to the relative comfort of the English countryside. Love has never been part of her plan, but despite herself, she falls for an officer with three bullet wounds, startling blue eyes and a wicked sense of humor. For the first time, Kate sees a future far from the horrors of war and hate. But before she can pursue it, a secret from her past calls her to duty, and she'll have to travel back into danger one more time to rescue a part of herself she'd left behind. But will she make it back? And will that future still be waiting for her if she does?

🌴 The Life Impossible by Matt Haig - When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.

🏡 We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes - Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is . . . complicated. So when her real dad—a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago—suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you: about love, and what it actually means to be family.

🌊 The Sirens by Emilia Hart - 2019: Lucy awakens from a dream to find her hands around her ex-lover’s throat. Horrified, she flees to her older sister’s house on the Australian coast, hoping she can help explain the strangely vivid nightmare that preceded the attack—but Jess is nowhere to be found. As Lucy awaits her return, the rumors surrounding Jess’s strange small town start to emerge. Numerous men have gone missing at sea, spread over decades. A tiny baby was found hidden in a cave. And sailors tell of hearing women’s voices on the waves. Desperate for answers, Lucy finds and begins to read her sister’s adolescent diary. 1999: Jess is a lonely sixteen-year-old in a rural town in the middle of the continent. Diagnosed with a rare allergy to water, she has always felt different, until her young, charming art teacher takes an interest in her drawings, seeing a power and maturity in them—and in her—that no one else has. 1800: Twin sisters Mary and Eliza have been torn from their loving father in Ireland and forced onto a convict ship bound for Australia. For their entire lives, they’ve feared the ocean, as their mother tragically drowned when they were just girls. Yet as the boat bears them further and further from all they know, they begin to notice changes in their bodies that they can’t explain, and they feel the sea beginning to call to them. 



🎧 Over the past couple of months I’ve become obsessed with listening to audiobooks narrated by Saskia Maarleveld (she is AMAZING). Here are some audiobooks narrated by Saskia that I currently have on my TBR list: The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn (currently listening), The Briar Club by Kate QuinnThe Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin The Keeper of Hidden Books by Madeline Martin, Switchboard Soldiers by Jennifer Chiaverini, and Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini.


16 comments:

  1. A great audiobook narrator makes all the difference in the world. I’m glad you like Saskia Maarleveld so much.

    Here is my Top Ten Tuesday.

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  2. Great list! I love a good historical fiction read. I've yet to give Quinn's books a go. I need to. I hope you enjoy all these.

    Happy TTT!

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    1. I highly recommend The Rose Code by Kate Quinn. It's my favorite so far. Happy Tuesday!

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  3. The Sirens sounds super interesting.

    Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.

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  4. I hope you enjoy reading all of these. And an audiobook narrator can either make or break a book.
    Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
    https://readbakecreate.com/autumn-2024-tbr-ten-books-i-hope-to-read/

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  5. Matt Haig is a favorite author of mine so I'm looking forward to reading The Life Impossible, too. :D

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  6. The Sirens looks so good. I hope you enjoy all these books and have a wonderful week. - Katie

    My TTT if you wish to visit - https://justanothergirlandherbooks.blogspot.com/2024/09/top-ten-tuesday-books-on-my-fall-2024.html

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  7. I do not typically listen to audio books because I was born with a moderately severe hearing loss but I think maybe I should give it a try again. I'm curious to know what makes you feel that Saskia Maarleveld is a great narrator.

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    1. She does all of the voices, male and female, and they are all unique. She also has a beautiful accent. If I had to recommend one to the start with it would be The Rose Code. Thank you for visiting!

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