Top Ten Tuesday #7

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely people at The Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Books Dealing With Tough Subjects

This list took me ages to put together because I could not remember what books I'd read that would fit the criteria! It's actually a Top Nine list and the majority of these titles are from before I started blogging.

Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

Room - Emma Donoghue

Wonder - R J Palacio

Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson

Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher

The Fault In Our Stars - John Green

If You Find Me - Emily Murdoch

Wintergirls - Laurie Halse Anderson

Before I Die - Jenny Downham

Reading RoundUp #21

It's Monday, What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from!

Yet another good week! In all fairness though most of what I finished this week was pretty short, already started or I stayed up quite late to finish... Isn't that sunrise pretty?

Finished

Pretty Dark Nothing - Heather L Reid

Circle Of Lies - Sara Dailey & Staci Weber

The Taker - Alma Katsu

If You Find Me - Emily Murdoch

Thorn Abbey - Nancy Ohlin

If I Should Die - Amy Plum

The Coroner - M R Hall

Started

The Testing - Joelle Charbonneau

The Crimson Shard - Teresa Flavin

The Reckoning - Alma Katsu

Still reading

Zel - Donna Jo Napoli

Carniepunk  - Rachel Caine et al

A Clash Of Kings - George R R Martin

Wickedness - Deborah White

 What have you been reading?

Book Haul #23

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly event hosted on Tynga's Reviews, In My Mailbox is a weekly event hosted by The Mod Podge Bookshelf and Letterbox Love is a UK edition hosted by Narratively Speaking. Here we can share what new books we've picked up this past week. There are also lots of other 'book haul' memes out there for you to choose from!

It's an illness, a bona fide illness - the compulsive need to buy books! It must be otherwise I've got no excuse. Here's what I got this week without even meaning to... I blame a certain chain of shops in this country who were having a clearance sale. I was good... only bought five books which cost me £4.00/$6.00!

Bought

Loki's Wolves - K L Armstrong & M A Marr

Deadly Hemlock - Kathleen Peacock

Muse - Rebecca Lim

The Dark Glamour - Gabriella Pierce

Casebook Of Victor Frankenstein - Peter Ackroyd

The Shadow Lantern - Teresa Flavin

Bronze Gods - A A Aguirre

If You Find Me - Emily Murdoch

From the publisher

The Testing - Joelle Charbonneau

From LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Bridge Of Dead Things - Michael Gallagher

Kindle Buys

If I Should Die - Amy Plum

What Really Happened In Peru - Cassandra Clare & Sarah Rees Brennan

Kindle Freebies

Prince Of Wolves - Quinn Loftis

Grace Doll - Jennifer Laurens

Death Comes Home - Rhiannon Frater

The Written - Ben Galley

So, that's my haul... I've already read If You Find Me and If I Should Die - wow! A big thank you to Templar for sending me The Testing, I can't wait to get started on it! Thanks also to my buddy for the tip about The Written, love what I've read so far!

What did you get this week? Enable me a bit more...