Top Ten Books on My Winter TBR List

Happy Top Ten Tuesday!

I love Top Ten Tuesdays and all the beautiful aspirations, but I'm not one to set myself up for failure, so let's just see if I can finish the books I set out to read in 2013...

Top Ten Books on My Winter TBR List

From My Fall TBR List:

1. MadAddam by Margaret Atwood

2. Short Stories in Spanish: New Penguin Parallel Text

3. Box Office Poison by Philippa Bornikova

From My Summer TBR List:

4. The Wet and the Dry by Lawrence Osborne

5. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankel

6. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

7. Night Film by Marisha Pessl

From My 2013 TBR List:

8. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

9. The Seeress of Kell by David Eddings

10. The Sorceress of Darshiva by David Eddings

Comments

litlove said…

I want to read the Marisha Pessl but it's still in hardback over here. I'll wait for the paperback to come out. I do have Bring Up The Bodies for my delectation at some point. I keep saving it up for a rainy day which is ridiculous really. I should get it out!

December 14, 2013 at 4:53 PM

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