Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is our Summer (or Winter) TBRs.
The theme for this season is reading (or finishing) those things I was meant to in 2025. At the same time, I’m not reading at the speed I used to so I’ve only picked four books for this summer.
Burn the Stars (Dying Gods #2) by Elisha Kemp
I talked about this one recently in my currently reading update for December, but there’s so many other things that have been going on that I haven’t had the chance to pick this back up. I’m 80 pages in and it’s a 350 pages book so in theory it shouldn’t take me that long.
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Naturally, I bought this the week it came out and I’ve been avoiding it since. I’ve managed to avoid all spoilers and the trailer for the movie so far but I really need to pick it up sooner rather than later. I just know that it’s going to hurt me and I don’t know if I’m ready.
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
This is a reread for me. It’s one of my top three favourite books and it ended up getting picked for my book club in October. Well, then life happened and we haven’t been able to organise our meet-up yet. I’ve been holding off rereading it because I want it fresh in my mind, but hopefully we’re setting a date this week.
Katabasis by R.F Kuang
This one is sort of related to the book club. It’s not something we’ve picked but we were all pretty excited about its release and we’d been talking about it last meeting. I’d planned to pick it up that week but again, life happened. The only thing about reading Kuang for me is that her books require my full attention—I can’t be reading anything else that week/fortnight/whatever, which is difficult when I’m definitely a multi-book kind of reader.
What are you reading this season?
Earl Grey Books 
I am reading Sunrise on the Reaping right now. I’ve owned it since it was published, too, and now I am determined to finish it before year’s end. Good luck!
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Thank you, you too!
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I have Katabasis on my shelves. I have so many deadline books for next year that they have made up my whole list!
Have a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
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I love Rebecca – maybe 2026 will be the time for another re-read of this one!
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Thanks for sharing your #TTT, I hope you enjoy them
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May these all be favorite reads for you when the opportunity presents itself.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!https://readbakecreate.com/winter-2026-tbr-ten-books-i-hope-to-read/
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I loved Sunrise on the Reaping. It explained why Haymitch was the way he was very nicely. I hope you like these books!
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Enjoy your reread!
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I’d really like to read Rebecca! Here is our <a href=”https://www.longandshortreviews.com/miscellaneous-musings/top-ten-tuesday-books-on-my-winter-2025-2026-to-read-list/“>Top Ten Tuesday.</a> Thank you!
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I do hope you get a chance to read Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins – I gave it a million stars out of 5. 💚
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Sunrise on the Reaping was outstanding and the trailer looked excellent. I’m looking forward to seeing the movie and getting traumatized all over again.
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SUNRISE ON THE REAPING is really good. Read it!! I hope you enjoy all your winter reading.
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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