*Top Ten Tuesday* Books on my Fall TBR

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Joood - Hooligan of Platypire reviews bossed me into doing this, so I guess this is a thing I do now. 

This weeks theme is books on my Fall TBR. Now I'm notoriously bad at sticking to my TBR, and even committing to books once I've started them (there's a reason I have 31 books on my currently reading shelf on Goodreads), so this is going to be a list of books that I plan on FINALLY finishing this fall because I do what I want, and I will be reading them in the designated time period so it totes counts.

Here we go!

1: An Exaltation of Larks by Suanne Laqueur - I feel like I have been reading this book forever (it's been almost a full year), but that's because I HAVE to keep putting it down because it's intense. I'm like Joey on Friends, and if I wasn't worried about the cold damaging my Kindle, it would have made repeated trips to the freezer by now. But I am bound and determined to get this book finished and reviewed this fall.

2: Back of Beyond by Neeny Boucher - This is another book that I started over a year ago. It originally got put down because I had a couple proofreading jobs come in back to back that needed my attention more, and somehow I have just not gotten back to this. But it's high time I did.

3: The Voyage by Tammie Painter - I received an ARC of this book over two years ago and I have not finished reading it yet. I try to do the right thing, but sometimes the ARCs are just so tempting I have to say yes, but then I fail to follow through because I'm a horrible human being sometimes.

4: Everything Belongs to Us by Yoojin Grace Wuertz - I've ONLY been reading this book since February, but I got an ARC of it through Netgalley so I should really get it finished seven months ago. Anyone have a time machine I could borrow?

5: The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd - This was one of the first books I started reading for book club at our current duty station. That was about 2.5 years ago. It's clearly time I finish this book.

6: Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder - I've been reading this book for over two years now. It's a bit more dry than I was expecting (I don't know why I wasn't expecting it to be dry, it's non-fiction) so I just haven't felt pulled towards finishing it.

7: Give Me Your Answer True by Suanne Laqueur - This was a book I picked for my book club to read over two years ago. Most of the members that started it also finished it before the meeting, but not me! In my defense, this is The Man I Love from Daisy's perspective, and while it's very much a different story, the part before their lives diverge is somewhat predictable, so it was slow reading...and then the meeting was over and the urgency to finish was gone and somehow it got put on the way-back burner. Fortunately it should have aged well back there.

8: The Things We Wish Were True by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen - This book has been languishing on my currently reading shelf for just over a year now. It was a book club pick that was intriguing, but for some reason got put off until the last minute (because that's how I do everything if I'm being honest) and I didn't end up finishing it in time. Honestly, I think I'm only at like 30% in this story, but I'm going to finish it this fall, probably.

9: The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck - I only started this book back in like April or May for book club, and being WWII era historical fiction, I should have plowed right through it, but I think I had several back to back proofreading jobs at that time, so this was just not a priority. Also, I'm only like twenty pages into it, so it hadn't even really gotten particularly interesting yet.

10: Squirrel Bait by C.P. Davis - This is a book that I should have read back in February of 2016 when it first released (it's less than 100 pages long so it's not a particularly big commitment), but I bought my copy of the book, so there's really no review requirement there and other things have just felt either more pressing or more entertaining since then. When you add to that the fact that nagging me usually gets the opposite of the desired result, I've sort of been ignoring reading the book out of spite (to an extent). And I'd originally intended to save this book until next March (so I could post the review on April 1st, although I can still save the review until April 1st I guess), I have since decided that I want to clear up my currently reading shelf before the end of the year, so it's gotta' go!

So there you have it. Exactly ten books that I plan on finishing reading this fall because they've been on my currently reading shelf for way too long.

What books are you looking forward to reading this fall? - Katie

*If you're stopping by from the link up, please be sure to leave a link to your post so I can check out your list as well.* 

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