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Books On My Fall 2023 To-Read List

 It's funny--I like making these seasonal TBR lists and thinking about books for each season--especially fall, since that's when the biggest books of the year tend to come out, but I am well aware that I'm a mood reader and don't tend to actually read by season. I have gotten better at "gaming" these lists with books I've just started or already have though, so I do tend to read at least a few on each list at the promised time.

Books On My Fall 2023 To-Read List

1. Celebrating the Jewish Year: The Fall Holidays by Rabbi Paul Steinberg, edited by Janet Greenstein Potter--I actually put this on hold at the library shortly after the High Holidays last year, to be activated about a month beforehand this year, and I'm so glad I did. It's helpful to get in the mood both for teaching Hebrew school and for my own reflections around the holidays. I love how there is always more to learn! 

2. Twelve Past Midnight by Tiffany Alexanderson--LibraryThing review book--it's a timeloop book set in a fantasy world with a magic system that reminds me of alchemy and definitely has some steampunk flavor although it's not a steampunk world. Just getting into it.

3. My Goodbye Girl by Anna Gomez--another LibraryThing review book. I haven't started this one yet, but it's about a romance author in one of those relationships where they run into each other/meet up every few years and they're just together when they're together, which is one of my favorite tropes.

4. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen--Chen Chen is one of my favorite poets, but I've only read his poems on the internet or in journals/anthologies before. I finally got this one from interlibrary loan, and I'm absolutely savoring it.

5. The Rabbi Who Prayed for the City by Rachel Sharona Lewis--I just found out that a sequel to The Rabbi Who Prayed With Fire came out this year. I am here for it!

6. Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld--This one is sitting on my shelf, and the time is coming to crack it open. I already know it will be great.





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Susan said…
I never stick to my seasonal TBRs either, but that doesn't mean it's not fun to make them! LOL. I hope you enjoy your Fall reading, whatever it looks like.

Happy TTT!
September 19, 2023 at 9:21 PM
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