Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the Broke and the Bookish. Today’s theme was:
Ten Books I Picked Up On A Whim
I’m going to mention seven books I picked up at BEA completely on a whim, either because I thought the cover was gorgeous, I had heard great things about the author’s other books, or someone at the publisher pitched it to me and it sounded awesome.
Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs – I haven’t yet read but have heard amazing things about Maggs’ other book, The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy. She was there so I thought “Why not?” Wonder Women sounds awesome.
Children of Icarus by Caighlan Smith – Look at that cover! So freaking cool.
The Graces by Laura Eve – Witches and a beautiful cover. Annalisse – one of the girls I was exploring with – said she’d heard good things. It was one of her most anticipated, so I thought I’d check it out too.
The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid – Cool cover, cool concept. How could I refuse? Especially when one of my friends accidentally got an extra.
The Loose Ends List by Carrie Firestone – This one is actually on my Goodreads TBR so I guess it isn’t completely on a whim, but I honestly don’t remember what the book is about.
Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland – This one was pitched to me by a lovely woman at the Penguin Random House booth and it has a cute cover and texts on the inside. You guys know how much I love that. Plus, her pitch had me hooked.
The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics – How CREEPTASTIC does this look??
What books have you picked up on a whim lately?
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I’m most excited for The Diabolic, judging by the synopsis and the awesome cover XD The Loose Ends List was on my TBR for a while, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. Love this post! ❤
Brittany @ Brittany’s Book Rambles
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Eeek The Diabolic! The premise sounds incredibly fun.
Cheers,
Joey via. thoughts and afterthoughts.
Doesn’t it sound cool? I’d be happy to share when I’m done (how much does US to Canada media mail cost? Do you know?).
Ahhh, that is very kind of you to offer Stef but I cannot ask you to do that! Don’t worry about me haha, I’ll figure something out via requests!
Some beautiful covers here… I see a few books I’d pick up to look over, myself. My TTT
Which ones would you pick up?
On covers alone–The Graces, for the bright colors; The Diabolic because that’s an interesting contrast with the butterfly; and The Loose Ends List because it looks happy.
I’m sure I can share one of these when I finish with it!
I am really tempted to request the Graces! So many good looking books!
You should!
Wow. I didn’t see or pick up any of those books at BEA. I do really like the cover of Our Chemical Hearts though.
Isn’t that a cute cover?! And it’s also got texts and stuff, which I think is cool. Several of these I picked up because I just asked the publishers to tell me about which books they were excited about. 🙂
Great list, and you found some excellent books! I didn’t end up with any of those and will need to look into them. And I think I’ll use this idea for my TTT. 🙂
I thought it was a fun way to showcase some of the books some people might not have heard of. 🙂
I also picked up Our Chemical Hearts! It was a mix of cover lust and when I got to the table they were out of the Jay Asher book so OCH was the only one I didn’t have already on the table. Sounds like a good read though!!
Oh, no! I’m sorry you missed out on Jay Asher’s book! I got in line for that one early because I was so excited for it!