Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week there is a new topic and this week’s topic is: Ten Book I Enjoyed Recently (last yearish) That Weren’t My Typical Genre/Type of Book (or that was out of your comfort zone)
1) The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown – I’m not a HUGE nonfiction reader, but I really enjoyed this one!
2) The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness – I think this is classified as Science Fiction? I’m not sure because I don’t read a lot of Science Fiction.
3) Skyscraping by Cordelia Jensen – I almost never read books written in verse and I didn’t expect to enjoy this one, but I did.
4) Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson – When I read romance it’s generally YA Contemporary, but I’m glad I gave this one a shot.
5) In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters – I don’t think I’d classify this book as horror, but it’s about as horror as I get.
6) Wonder by R.J. Palacio – This is a middle grade book that I read for a class. It definitely made me think about things in a different way.
7) The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman – What is this, magical realism? I’m not sure, but I liked it.
8) Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig – This is about as close to a Western I think I’ll ever get.
9) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr – I don’t often stray into the Adult Fiction genre, but I’m glad I did for this one.
10) Uprooted by Naomi Novik – A little more in the Fantasy genre than I would normally read, but I still liked it.
Great list! Glad you enjoyed TKONLG, I’m impatient to read it 😀
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I did enjoy it! I’m not sure if I’ll be able to handle the rest of the books in the trilogy, but I am glad that I read the first one.
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I haven’t read any of these yet (definitely planning on reading the Patrick Ness book), but they all sound good! Happy you enjoyed reading out of your zone.
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Yeah! I was actually surprised at how wide I usually read–it was kind of difficult to come up with ten books that I felt were outside of what I usually read!
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I love books in general, so it was a really hard topic. 🙂
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The Knife of Never Letting Go is one that I’m planning to read this year.
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/top-ten-tuesday-45/
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I keep seeing The Knife of Never Letting Go on these lists. I’ve been meaning to read it. Must push to the top of my list. I LOVED Wonder (it’s on my list, too!) and The Graveyard Book. Here’s my TTT
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So many of these are on my TBR–I’m really looking forward to reading All The Light We Cannot See, glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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It was so good! Especially if you already like historical fiction/that time period.
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