Anticipated books of 2019

If you read one of my earliest posts on this blog about how I'm a book hoarder, then you'll know that I truly do not need to go out looking for any more books to read, as I have years worth of books already sitting on both my physical bookshelf and my kindle.  And yet, part of the way I ended up a book hoarder - and the author of a book blog - is that I'm always keeping an eye out for new interesting books coming out, especially when they're by my favorite authors.  So, here is a list of the books I'm most excited for in 2019, so far!  I've listed them in order of their currently scheduled publication date, with the date in parentheses after the book title and author.  Some of them I have advance copies of from Netgalley, others I'll be waiting for them to come out and hoping that either the library gets them or they go on sale!  So many books to read!

A Critical Look At Critics' Top Books of 2018

I know that a few of you are anxiously awaiting my reveal of my top 10 books of 2018.  But if you have been getting my top 10 lists for years, then you'll know that I don't make and distribute my list til January.  After all, what if I read an awesome book (or books) in December?  So, in the meantime, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at various different critics' lists of their favorite books of 2018.

GCBC - Fall Reading Roundup

As I've mentioned a few times previously, I am in a book club of sorts that consists of just me and my friend Sarah, which we call, GCBC, which stands for Grand Central Book Club (since we usually meet for lunch at Grand Central).  We used to just pick a book to read occasionally when we had plans to get together, but earlier this year we decided that since we like to read so many of the same books anyway, we might as well coordinate reading them together.  Plus we both seem to derive perhaps as much enjoyment from planning out what we are going to read as we do the actual reading itself!  And since life has been busy and thus conspiring against us getting together, most of the book discussion these days is done over e-mail, which makes it pretty easy to turn it into a blog post to share our views!  So, following is a discussion between us of 12 books we both read this fall.

From the Top 10 Archives - Jen's 10 Favorite Books of 2009

Since shortly after I started this blog about a year ago, I've been periodically looking back on my top 10 favorite books of years past, which were lists I made at the end of each year (since 1999!) and shared with a growing group of friends.  Each list consists of my favorite books I read in a particular year, not necessarily books published that year.  Today, I'll look at my list from 2009.

Here's my list from 2009, in alphabetical order by author's last name:

The Opposite of Love - Julie Buxbaum
Belong to Me - Marisa De Los Santos
Love the One You're With - Emily Giffin
Barefoot - Elin Hildebrand
The House at Riverton - Kate Morton
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
The Year of Fog - Michelle Richmond
Driving Sideways - Jess Riley
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak