Happy Tuesday, book friends! I love doing these quarterly TBR lists with The Broke and the Bookish, particularly as I've actually started referring to them as a guide for what to read next (which is probably the whole idea in the first place, duh!). I did really well with my Fall TBR List -- of the 14 books I mentioned I read nine of them, and I have one checked out and two on request at the library. Not too shabby!
There are tons of books I want to get to this winter, but only one winter 2015 release so far. I'm sure I'll be adding to my to-read list after looking at other bloggers' posts!
1. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
From the Goodreads summary:
An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set
in the eerie days of civilization's collapse.
*It sounds like this will be a unique take on an apocalyptic plot. And the cover is gorgeous! I'm really excited to read this one.
2. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
From the Goodreads summary:
A debut psychological thriller about a woman who becomes emotionally
entangled in a murder investigation because of something she witnesses on her
daily commute.
3. Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
From the Goodreads summary:
Choose correctly and you’ll find fame, fortune, and true love. Choose incorrectly and you’ll find misery, heartbreak, and a guest stint on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. All this, plus magic tricks, cocktail recipes, embarrassing pictures from your time as a child actor, and even a closing song. Yes, if you buy one book this year, congratulations on being above the American average, but make that book Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography!
*I don't read a lot of celebrity memoirs, but this is such a clever "why didn't I think of that" format that I can't resist!
4. Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre
From the Goodreads summary:
It’s the rule -- always watch your fives
and twenty-fives. When a convoy halts to investigate a possible roadside bomb,
stay in the vehicle and scan five meters in every direction. A bomb inside five
meters cuts through the armor, killing everyone in the truck. Once clear, get
out and sweep twenty-five meters. A bomb inside twenty-five meters kills the
dismounted scouts investigating the road ahead.
Fives and twenty-fives mark the measure of a marine’s life in the road repair platoon. Dispatched to fill potholes on the highways of Iraq, the platoon works to assure safe passage for citizens and military personnel. Their mission lacks the glory of the infantry, but in a war where every pothole contains a hidden bomb, road repair brings its own danger.
Fives and twenty-fives mark the measure of a marine’s life in the road repair platoon. Dispatched to fill potholes on the highways of Iraq, the platoon works to assure safe passage for citizens and military personnel. Their mission lacks the glory of the infantry, but in a war where every pothole contains a hidden bomb, road repair brings its own danger.
5. The Forger by Bardford Morrow
From the Goodreads summary:
The rare book world is stunned when a reclusive collector, Adam Diehl, is found on the floor of his Montauk home: hands severed, surrounded by valuable inscribed books and original manuscripts that have been vandalized beyond repair. Adam's sister, Meghan, and her lover, Will -- a convicted if unrepentant literary forger -- struggle to come to terms with the seemingly incomprehensible murder. But when Will begins receiving threatening handwritten letters, seemingly penned by long-dead authors, but really from someone who knows secrets about Adam's death and Will's past, he understands his own life is also on the line -- and attempts to forge a new beginning for himself and Meg.
6. I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
From the Goodreads summary:
Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn't exist. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. Before he disappeared into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminal investigation….What begins as an unusual and challenging investigation will become a terrifying race-against-time to save America from oblivion.
*I need more thrillers and more series in my life. This fits both bills!
7. Neverhome by Laird Hunt
From the Goodreads summary:
An extraordinary novel about a wife who disguises herself as a man and goes off to fight in the Civil War.
8. Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
From the Goodreads summary:
The classic dystopian novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization’s enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity.
*Must read more classics! I'm so intrigued by the plot, which is about a society in which books are forbidden (gasp!).
9. The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey
From the Goodreads summary:
After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.
Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker.
*I'm finally going to start this series!
10. The Lost Dogs by Jim Gorant
From the Goodreads summary:
An inspiring story of survival and our powerful bond with man's best friend, in the aftermath of the nation's most notorious case of animal cruelty.
*"The Lost Dogs" is the first book on my Goodreads to-read list and I'm tired of looking at it every time I access my list. Plus it sounds like a great story. Grr, Michael Vick, grr!
