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Top Ten Books on My Fall TBR List

Top Ten Tuesdays are over at the Broke and the Bookish!

I've been bad lately and acquired all kinds of books in a variety of manners (some at DragonCon, which I attended this weekend and plan to write more about over the next week)!

HOWEVER, as I am moving to Chicago in just over a week now (!), I think I'll focus first on library books.

1. Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert (this is sort of cheating, I already started this.)

2. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

3. The Last Unicorn Hunt by Bruce Covey

4. Demon Lord of Karanda by David Eddings

5. This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

Coming out this month! I'm excited to learn more about Yunior and to read more of Diaz's unique style.

6. Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Yes, I know this was also on my spring list, but now I have it, so I'm really going to read it!

7. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

8. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

This may also have been on my spring list, but now I own it!

9. The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro

Received for review from Algonquin Books.

10. The Second Empress by Michelle Moran

Because I'm on a great run for historical fiction this year, and I'd love to learn more about Napoleon's second wife.

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