I decided that it
is finally time to participate in Top Ten Tuesday! I’ve been putting it
off/forgetting about it for years now, but I’ve always wanted to do it.
If you’re unaware,
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly original feature created by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week
there’s a new Top Ten theme that the blogger responds to with their own list of
answers.
This week’s theme
is… *drumroll please*…
Ten Books With Fall/Autumn
Covers/Themes
This is a hard one
because I don’t have my shelves full of books with me, but I tried. Mostly, I
just chose orange-ish books or ones that remind me of Halloween.
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With shades of The Hunger Games, Ender’s Game, and
Game of Thrones, debut author Pierce Brown’s genre-defying epic Red Rising hit
the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation.
Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a
rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from
the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded
among the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work to bring down Society
from within.
A life-or-death tale of vengeance with an
unforgettable hero at its heart, Golden Son guarantees Pierce Brown’s
continuing status as one of fiction’s most exciting new voices.
When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something
about her had changed. Something frightening enough to make her parents lock
her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond,
a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the
mysterious disease that had killed most of America’s children, but she and the
others emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they could not
control.
Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones. When
the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. She is on the
run, desperate to find the only safe haven left for kids like her—East River. She
joins a group of kids who have escaped their own camp. Liam, their brave
leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him,
Ruby can’t risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents. When
they arrive at East River, nothing is as it seems, least of all its mysterious
leader. But there are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to
use Ruby in their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced with a
terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at having a life
worth living.
Powerful love comes with a price. Who will be the
sacrifice?
Kami has lost the boy she loves, is tied to a boy she
does not, and faces an enemy more powerful than ever before. With Jared missing
for months and presumed dead, Kami must rely on her new magical link with Ash
for the strength to face the evil spreading through her town.
Rob Lynburn is now the master of Sorry-in-the-Vale,
and he demands a death. Kami will use every tool at her disposal to stop him.
Together with Rusty, Angela, and Holly, she uncovers a secret that might be the
key to saving the town. But with knowledge comes responsibility—and a painful
choice. A choice that will risk not only Kami’s life, but also the lives of
those she loves most.
This final book in the Lynburn Legacy is a wild,
entertaining ride from beginning to shocking end.
Though she tries returning to the life she knew before
the accident, Pierce can't help but feel at once a part of this world, and
apart from it. Yet she's never alone . . . because someone is always watching
her. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants
you back.
But now she's moved to a new town. Maybe at her new
school, she can start fresh. Maybe she can stop feeling so afraid.
Only she can't. Because even here, he finds her.
That's how desperately he wants her back. She knows he's no guardian angel, and
his dark world isn't exactly heaven, yet she can't stay away . . . especially
since he always appears when she least expects it, but exactly when she needs
him most.
But if she lets herself fall any further, she may just
find herself back in the one place she most fears: the Underworld.
Vane Weston should have died in the category-five
tornado that killed his parents. Instead, he woke up in a pile of rubble with
no memories of his past — except one: a beautiful, dark-haired girl standing in
the winds. She swept through his dreams ever since, and he clings to the hope
that she's real.
Audra is real, but she isn't human. She's a sylph, an
air elemental who can walk on the wind, translate its alluring songs, even
twist it into a weapon. She's also a guardian — Vane's guardian — and has sworn
an oath to protect him at all costs.
When a hasty mistake reveals their location to the
enemy who murdered both their families, Audra has just days to help Vane unlock
his memories. And as the storm winds gather, Audra and Vane start to realize
that the greatest danger might not be the warriors coming to destroy them, but
the forbidden romance growing between them.
Ethan Wate thought he was getting used to the strange,
impossible events happening in Gatlin, his small Southern town. But now that
Ethan and Lena have returned home, strange and impossible have taken on new
meanings. Swarms of locusts, record-breaking heat, and devastating storms
ravage Gatlin as Ethan and Lena struggle to understand the impact of Lena's Claiming.
Even Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals is affected - and their abilities
begin to dangerously misfire. As time passes, one question becomes clear: What
— or who — will need to be sacrificed to save Gatlin?
For Ethan, the chaos is a frightening but welcome
distraction. He's being haunted in his dreams again, but this time it isn't by
Lena - and whatever is haunting him is following him out of his dreams and into
his everyday life. Even worse, Ethan is gradually losing pieces of himself — forgetting
names, phone numbers, even memories. He doesn't know why, and most days he's
too afraid to ask.
Sometimes there isn't just one answer or one choice.
Sometimes there's no going back. And this time there won't be a happy ending.
Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans
who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the wolds of humans and vampires. They
protect vampire secrets - and human lives.
In The Indigo Spell, Sydney was torn between the
Alchemist way of life and what her heart and gut were telling her to do. And in
one breathtaking moment that Richelle Mead fans will never forget, she made a
decision that shocked even her...
But the struggle isn't over for Sydney. As she
navigates the aftermath of her life-changing decision, she still finds herself
pulled in too many directions at once. Her sister Zoe has arrived, and while
Sydney longs to grow closer to her, there's still so much she must keep secret.
Working with Marcus has changed the way she views the Alchemists, and Sydney
must tread a careful path as she harnesses her profound magical ability to
undermine the way of life she was raised to defend. Consumed by passion and
vengeance, Sydney struggles to keep her secret life under wraps as the threat
of exposure — and re-education — looms larger than ever.
Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the tender attention her
grandmother, Maylene, bestowed upon the dead of Claysville. While growing up,
Rebekkah watched as Maylene performed the same unusual ritual at every funeral:
three sips from a small silver flask followed by the words, "Sleep well,
and stay where I put you."
Now Maylene is gone and Bek must return to the
hometown—and the man—she abandoned a decade ago, only to discover that
Maylene's death was not natural . . . and there was good reason for her odd
traditions. In Claysville, the worlds of the living and the dead are
dangerously connected—and beneath the town lies a shadowy, lawless land ruled
by the enigmatic Charles, aka Mr. D. From this dark place the deceased will
return if their graves are not properly minded. And only the Graveminder, a
Barrow woman, and the current Undertaker, Byron, can set things to right once
the dead begin to walk.
Returning home for winter break, Sam and Leesha
Hollister are amazed to find that their father has become a vampire, their
mother a ""mummy,"" and their little brother a werewolf,
and realize that they must save the family soon or have a very scary Christmas.
Three plantations. Two wishes. One ancient curse.
All her life, Barrie Watson has been a virtual
prisoner in the house where she lives with her shut-in mother. When her mother
dies, Barrie promises to put some mileage on her stiletto heels. But she finds
a new kind of prison at her aunt’s South Carolina plantation instead—a prison
guarded by an ancient spirit who long ago cursed one of the three founding
families of Watson Island and gave the others magical gifts that became
compulsions.
Stuck with the ghosts of a generations-old feud and
hunted by forces she cannot see, Barrie must find a way to break free of the
family legacy. With the help of sun-kissed Eight Beaufort, who knows what
Barrie wants before she knows herself, the last Watson heir starts to unravel
her family's twisted secrets. What she finds is dangerous: a love she never
expected, a river that turns to fire at midnight, a gorgeous cousin who isn't
what she seems, and very real enemies who want both Eight and Barrie dead.
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Alright, there you
have it. My first Top Ten Tuesday and my list of autumn covers. What books
would you put on this list? Let me know in the comments section.
