Top Ten Tuesday | Most Recent Books Borrowed from the Library

Posted December 25, 2023 by Haze in Top Ten Tuesday, Weekly Book Memes / 45 Comments

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl that features a different bookish topic every week.

Today’s topic is Most Recent Additions to my Bookshelf, but I didn’t buy or get a lot of books recently (I did get a couple of gift cards to the bookstore though!), so I’ll do the Most Recent Books I Borrowed from the Library instead. These are a mix of physical books, e-books, and audiobooks I currently have from the library. I have to say, I love my library and I love that we get such a wide catalog of books.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and got many of the books they wanted!

Top Ten Most Recent Books I Borrowed from the Library

Top-Bottom, Left-Right:

  1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy – I actually think I played myself with borrowing both this one and the next one. They are both thick books and I didn’t know they’d be ready at the same time! It’s very likely that I’ll have to return one or the other unfinished and have to go back on the waitlist.
  2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy – See above!
  3. The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner, Ph.D. – This has been on my TBR for a while. I don’t remember exactly, but I think it got on my radar because of a conversation I had with someone about how men are shamed for crying and women are shamed for showing anger. I could be remembering wrong, but I’m curious to read the book anyway.
  4. Lighter by Yung Pueblo – I flipped through a copy of Yung Pueblo’s newest book, The Way Forward, and loved the few pages I read, so I placed a hold on all his books from the library. This was just the one that became available first.
  5. Accountable by Dashka Slater – A fellow book blogger, Anne @ Head Full of Books, featured this book on her blog and I was intrigued!
  6. The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin – I recently read Madeline Martin’s The Last Bookshop in London, and I loved it, so of course I have to read her other books too!
  7. Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson – This book has also been on my TBR for a while, but it took another fellow blogger recommending this book because we both loved Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half, to move it up my list.
  8. The Second Mrs. Astor by Shana Abe – I came across this book purely by accident while browsing my library’s audiobook catalog. It’s a historical fiction set on the Titanic, so of course I was interested!
  9. Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson – Another book I came across while browsing my library’s catalog. Books about books, I have to read it!
  10. The Forbidden City series by Melissa Addey – The edition I have from the library is a 4-in-1, and I found it browsing the physical shelves. I’ve always been fascinated by stories of Imperial China, so I’m very interested in reading this.

I am very much looking forward to these books! Have you read any of them? I’d love to hear your thoughts. What books are on your bookshelf?

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45 responses to “Top Ten Tuesday | Most Recent Books Borrowed from the Library”

  1. Rissi JC

    I always think I’m going to read classic lit and don’t. Books like War & Peace kind of “scare” me as a reader just because they’re so long. 😉 I do spy a familiar to my shelf read in Melissa’s novel. Those do look like fun. Hope you enjoy all of these!

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    • Haze

      Honestly, War & Peace and Anna Karenina scare me too! They seem so daunting. But one of my favorite classic novels is The Count of Monte Cristo, and it’s one I’ve read over and over again because I love it so much, so I’m hoping to find more beloved classics!

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    • Haze

      It is so wonderful to have a great library! I’m from Malaysia and we don’t have good libraries there, and books are so expensive, so when we moved to Canada, I was thrilled and so grateful for the library here!

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  17. Leah @ Leah's Books

    This is such a great list, Haze! I’ve got Anna Karenina and War and Peace on my TBR, but I think it would be pretty challenging reading them both in a short period of time since they’re both so long. The Forbidden City sounds amazing – I find stories of Imperial China fascinating too! I hope you enjoy all of these, and love that you also support your local library!

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    • Haze

      Yes! I read Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck when I was young and I fell in love with it. The ending went on a bit too long, but I loved it and read it several times over. I hope The Forbidden City will be just as good!

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