Top Ten Popular Authors I've Never Read (46)

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I feel like not all of these authors are as popular as others. But they are all authors I feel I should have already read for one reason or another. Now, as you read, you might think: "hmm, I haven't read any of their books" or "oh, I've been meaning to read that person's books too" or "that one was good, you should read that" or perhaps "GABY WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU STOP EVERYTHING NOW AND READ THAT" (you'll know that one when you see it). But whatever the reaction, just know I'm embarrassed to list all these authors here. Also know: I have at least one book by each of these authors and I will get to it. I promise.

Top Ten Books On My Fall 2013 TBR List (33)

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Even though I RARELY stick to these Top Ten Tuesday TBRs, I still make them. And I generally add books I already have to them, not the awesome books that are about to come out. Those will pop up and make my reading schedule more and more difficult as the months get colder and colder. So here are Ten Books I already have and intend to fit into my busy fall TBR. Many of these may not get read, as happened with my summer TBR Top Ten Tuesday, but still. I took the books off the shelves and took pictures. I'm hoping for brownie points.

1. CURTSIES AND CONSPIRACIES by Gail Carriger

2. SIEGE & STORM by Leigh Bardugo

3. THE DARKEST MINDS by Alexandra Bracken

4. THE ART OF WISHING by Lindsay Ribar

5. THE BOOK OF BROKEN HEARTS by Sarah Ockler 

6. FORGIVE ME, LEONARD PEACOCK by Matthew Quick

7. AMY & ROGER'S EPIC DETOUR by Morgan Matson

8. SECOND CHANCE SUMMER by Morgan Matson

9. LOLA AND THE BOY NEXT DOOR by Stephanie Perkins

10. THE BOY ON THE WOODEN BOX by Leon Leyson

What's on your Fall TBR? A bunch of books you already have? Maybe some highly anticipated fall releases? Let me know what's on your radar in the comments below!

Waiting On: Forgive Me Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick (28)

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Title: Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
Author: Matthew Quick
Release Date: August 13th, 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown Books For Young Readers

In addition to the P-38, there are four gifts, one for each of my friends. I want to say good-bye to them properly. I want to give them each something to remember me by. To let them know I really cared about them and I'm sorry I couldn't be more than I was—that I couldn't stick around—and that what's going to happen today isn't their fault.

Today is Leonard Peacock's birthday. It is also the day he hides a gun in his backpack. Because today is the day he will kill his former best friend, and then himself, with his grandfather's P-38 pistol.

But first he must say good-bye to the four people who matter most to him: his Humphrey Bogart-obsessed next-door neighbor, Walt; his classmate Baback, a violin virtuoso; Lauren, the Christian homeschooler he has a crush on; and Herr Silverman, who teaches the high school's class on the Holocaust. Speaking to each in turn, Leonard slowly reveals his secrets as the hours tick by and the moment of truth approaches.

In this riveting book, acclaimed author Matthew Quick unflinchingly examines the impossible choices that must be made—and the light in us all that never goes out.

[Summary Source: Goodreads]

I am a lover of different, awesome sounding books. This is one of those different, awesome sounding books. Someone please put said different, awesome sounding book in my hands ASAP. 

Have YOU heard of this one? Is it different and awesome sounding to you too? Let me know in the comments below!