Top Ten Authors I Wish Would Write Another Book

For this week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by the Broke and Bookish, we have Top Ten Authors I Wish Would Write Another Book.

1. Donna Tartt – She comes out with a book every 10 years (sample size: 2) so you know, ANY DAY NOW.
2. Kelly Braffet – I KNOW she’s working on something, but I don’t know what stage it’s in
3. Martha O’Connor – last I heard she was working on a book about Tinkerbell (a character I actually happen to hate). Though I wasn’t particularly interested, I’m now a bit worried that she hasn’t come out with another book. Yeah, I know it happens but…
4. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar – seriously I wish these two ladies would get together and co-write another Madwoman in the Attic type book but for 20th century women writers. Their analyses are utterly fascinating.
5. Erin Morgenstern – yeah I know, she just came out with The Night Circus. MOAR PLS.
6. Eleanor Catton – I kind of vaguely remember her talking about what she was working on…and it didn’t sound like something I’d like but *crosses fingers anyway*
7. Curtis Sittenfeld – I think what I really want is for her to write another book that I’m actually interested in reading, which hasn’t really happened since Prep.
8. Penelope Lively – it’s been a couple of years since Family Album. Even though I could just make my way through her backlist, it’d be nice if she came out with something new.
9. J.D. Salinger – This one’s a bit complicated. If he were still alive, I’d totally be rooting for him to write another book BUT now that he’s dead, I’m all like NO ONE BETTER UNEARTH A MANUSCRIPT HE’D HATE THAT. So yeah.
10. Emily Bronte – OK so she’s also dead… but you know, it’s a shame she only wrote Wuthering Heights. Or maybe it isn’t such a shame.

Top Ten Books I’m Excited To Read in 2012


The Millions has come out with their annual Most Anticipated Books Preview just in time for today’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by the Broke and Bookish: Top 10 Books I’m Excited to Read in 2012. For the most part, I’ve stuck to the books on the Millions’ list but there are a couple of ones I know about on my own. If I’m being totally honest, I found this year’s selection a little lackluster and I feel far less excited about these books than I did about last year’s, but still, here are ten upcoming books I’m interested in taking a stab at.

1. The Last Nude by Ellis Avery
One of my favorite artists is Tamara de Lempicka so I was actually struck first by the cover of this one> It wasn’t until I read the synopsis that I realized, it’s a fictionalized account of her and Rafaela Fano (subject of “The Dream,” “La Belle Rafaela,” etc)

2. The Guardians: An Elegy by Sarah Manguso

3. Arcadia by Lauren Groff
I’ve been hearing nothing but good things about this novel… I still haven’t read her other work, but I’ll probably give this a try anyway.

4. The Red House by Mark Haddon

5. Broken Harbor by Tana French
I still haven’t gotten around to reading Faithful Place, but I will, and when I do, this one’s next!

6. Office Girl by Joe Meno
This totally sounds like the type of novel I would like. Last year that didn’t work out so well for me, so we’ll see how it goes this year.

7. Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub
I said I thought Emma Straub was a strong enough writer that I’d give her novel a chance even though I wasn’t head over heels in love with her short story collection, so I’ll be doing just that.

8. How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
Been anticipating this one since it came out in the UK last year. I’m not entirely sure I’m going to agree with everything she has to say (I recall disagreeing with some of her remarks already), but I have to read it myself before I judge.

9. Girl Land by Caitlin Flanagan
First learned about this book from Hachette’s Winter catalog that I got from BEA. Seems like a must for the feminist in me!

10. The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn

As stated previously, I really want to limit the number of books I purchase this year, so perhaps it’s a good thing that there’s nothing on here that screams OMG GOTTA HAVE IT NOW! though what I’ve listed is at least mildly interesting to me. Will this be the year I finally get through a significant portion of my own books? STAY TUNED.

Looking Back, Looking Forward

illustrated by Maureen Wingrove

appy New Year everyone! You’ll recall that I’ve already done a 2011 Year in Reading post but I sort of forgot that I had meant to talk about the challenges I completed (and didn’t complete), so I’ve decided to do that here instead…and talk about some of my goals for the new year :) Last [...]

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2011 Year in Reading

Night-Circus-UK-cover

t’s unlikely I’ll pick up another book this year seeing as I haven’t read anything since the 11th of November (let’s not talk about it all right?), so I guess it’s time to post my 2011 Year in Reading! This little survey was created by the Perpetual Page Turner Like Gillian of the Portrait of [...]

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Tis the Season…to Get Rid of Some Books!

hanks everyone who snagged books! All the books that were claimed have been sent out and the rest will be donated to Housing Works Bookstore most likely. :) Tis the season for giving! I couldn’t figure out how to bundle these so I decided to just make my life a lot easier. Below is a [...]

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And the Winner Is…

Charles Dickens: A Life and James Joyce: A Life And the winner of both literary bios is *drumroll* Margaret! x Thank you to everyone who entered! I’ll be giving away quite a number of my books during the holiday season, so feel free to stop buy again for goodies :)

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