Top Ten Tuesday

 Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

This week's theme is Ten Authors We've Only Read One Book From & Need To Read More.

1) NALINI SINGH - I read the first book in the Psy-Changeling series this year, but then I put off reading the second book. I'm not really sure why because I loved the first one. The second book is on my TBR list for the end of this year.

2) JONATHAN MABERRY - I read Rot & Ruin, and again loved it, but never read another one of his despite owning two different zombie series from him.

3) JODI PICOULT - I've read The Pact and own nearly every book she's written based off the fact that I loved that one book. 

4) MAGGIE STIEFVATER - I know I should be ashamed to have her on this list! I read Shiver a couple years ago, and I really need to get to the rest of that series, plus all her others that I own (again based off only reading the one book).

5) STEPHEN KING - Oh, the shame! I have only read Deloris Claiborne. I smuggled it out of my mom's room when I was 15 or 16. I have sense inherited quite the collection of King novels from my mom as well as several I bought myself. Now I just need to read them.

6) ORSON SCOTT CARD - I read Ender's Game a very long time ago. I would really like to read more of that series, and I own Pathfinder and need to read it.

7) CATHY KELLY - I read Past Secrets, and there are several more on my shelves I need to read.

8) LYNN VIEHL - I read If Angels Burn. I need to get to the rest of them!

9) LAURIE FARIA STOLARZ - Again, I read Deadly Little Secret, and I own the rest of that series and her Blue is For Nightmares series.

10) HOLLY BLACK - I read Tithe in high school for a book club, but never got around to ready anything else by her.

Bonus: ROBIN MCKINLEY - I've actually read 2 books by her, but I seriously need to read more! I read Rose Daughter in high school and adored it. I own and have read Sunshine so many times the book is in bad shape. Somehow though, I've never made it around to reading any of her others. 

End of the Year Book Bucket List

There are roughly 15 weeks left in 2014. If I read about two books a week from now until then, I can get through 30 more books before the end of the year, putting my total books read this year at 55. I wanted to read one book a week for this year, for a minimum of 52 books. Life hasn't really let it work out that way. However, now I have more time on my hands. According to my Goodreads tracker, I am 12 books behind for the year. I think it's doable; a few weeks ago it said I was 25 books behind schedule, so I'm already catching up! I am posting a bucket list of books I would like to finish before the end of the year if possible. Several of them I already have checked out from the library, so I'm assuming I will get to them. There's also several that I own and have waited a long time to get around to reading. (Actually to be honest, most of the books I own I'm still waiting to get around to reading!) They are listed in no particular order, definitely not the order I will read them in. How many books do you want to read before the end of the year? Do you have a list of books in mind?

1) Much Ado About Marriage by Karen Hawkins
2) The Eternity Cure by Julie Kagawa
3) Contagious by Scott Sigler
4) A Werewolf in Manhattan by Vicki Lewis Thompson
5) Lament by Maggie Stiefvater
6) Spider's Bite by Jennifer Estep
7) Prodigal Son by Dean Koontz
8) The Shining by Stephen King
9) The Laird by Grace Burrowes
10) Lock In by John Scalzi
11) Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
12) The Devil in Denim by Melanie Scott
13) The Iron Hunt by Marjorie M Liu
14) Tainted by Julie Kenner
15) Ready Player One by Ernest Cline - SKIPPED
16) The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
17) A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
18) The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
19) He's Gone by Deb Caletti
20) The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater (actually the first 3 books - ARC)
21) Symbiont by Mira Grant
22) The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
23) The Beautiful Ashes by Jeaniene Frost
24) Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld
25) Think Eat Move Thrive by Dr. James Rouse
26) Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
27) The Moment of Everything by Shelly King (ARC)
28) The Vault of Dreamers by Caragh M O'Brien (ARC)
29) Moonlight Raider by Amanda Scott (ARC)
30) Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly by Jones & Tremblay (ARC)
31) Bathing the Lion by Jonathan Carroll (ARC)
32) Fragile World by Paula Treick DeBoard (ARC)
33) In the Heart of the Dark Wood by Billy Coffey (ARC)
34) Whatever Life Throws at You by Julie Cross (ARC)
35) Shelter Mountain by Robyn Carr
36) Chasing Perfect by Susan Mallery

There are more than 30 on the list because every list needs a few extras in case some are DNF or I turn out to be more ambitious than I planned.

                                                          

September 2014 New Releases

NOTE: This is by no means a complete list of book or movie releases. These are books that I am personally interested in reading and keeping track of when they are published or movies I'm interested in seeing. Book titles link to Goodreads.

***This is the month most fall TV series come out on DVD! And of course TFIOS!***

2 September

BOOKS:
Personal - Lee Child (Jack Reacher #19)
The Secret Place - Tana French (Dublin Murder Squad #5)
Son of No One - Sherrilyn Kenyon (Hellchaser #6; Dark Hunter #23)
Dark Blood - Christine Feehan (Dark #26)
The Drop - Dennis Lehane
The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell
Murder 101 - Faye Kellerman (Decker/Lazarus #22)
Night Unbound - Dianne Duvall (Immortal Guardians #5)
The Laird - Grace Burrowes (Captive Hearts #3)
Red Blooded - Amanda Carlson (Jessica McClain #4)
House Immortal - Devon Monk (House Immortal #1)
Fall of Night - Jonathan Maberry (Dead of Night #2)
Wickedly Dangerous - Deborah Blake (Baba Yaga #1)
The Fatal Tree - Stephen Lawhead (Bright Empires #5)

MOVIES:
Grey's Anatomy - Sn 10
Chicago Fire - Sn 2
Chicago PD - Sn 1
Person of Interest - Sn 3
The Originals - Sn 1
New Girl - Sn 3

9 September

BOOKS:
Festive in Death - J D Robb (In Death #39)
The Witch with No Name - Kim Harrison (Hollows #13)
The King's Curse - Philippa Gregory (Cousin's War #6)
The Children Act - Ian McEwan
Blood of My Blood - Barry Lyga (Jasper Dent #3)
Found - Harlan Coben (Mickey Bolitar #3)
Waking Up - Sam Harris
Fighting Chance - Jane Haddam (Gregor Demarkian #29)
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel

MOVIES:
Captain America: Winter Soldier
Supernatural - Sn 9
Vampire Diaries - Sn 5
Homeland - Sn 3
Blue Bloods - Sn 4
Goldbergs - Sn 1
Hannibal - Sn 2

16 September

BOOKS:
Edge of Eternity - Ken Follett (Century Trilogy #3)
The Infinite Sea - Rick Yancey (5th Wave #2)
The Certainty of Violet & Luke - Jessica Sorenson (Coincidence #5)
The Vault of Dreamers - Caragh M O'Brien

MOVIES:
The Fault in Our Stars
Castle - Sn 6
Bones - Sn 9
Grimm - Sn 3
Arrow - Sn 2
Big Bang Theory - Sn 7
Hawaii Five-O - Sn 4
Sleepy Hollow - Sn 1
CSI - Sn 14
South Park - Sn 17

23 September

BOOKS:
Bones Never Lie - Kathy Reichs (Temperance Brennan #17)
Skink--No Surrender - Carl Hiaasen (Skink #7)
The Prince Who Loved Me - Karen Hawkins (Oxenburg Princes #1)
Afterworlds - Scott Westerfeld 
In a Handful of Dust - Mindy McGinnis (Not a Drop to Drink #2)

MOVIES:
Neighbors
The Signal
Think Like a Man Too
Scandal - Sn 3
Mentalist - Sn 6
Necessary Roughness - Sn 3
Mom - Sn 1
The 100 - Sn 1
Reign - Sn 1
Modern Family - Sn 5
Defiance - Sn 2
Royal Pains - Sn 5
Nashville - Sn 2

30 September

BOOKS:
Burning Desire - Donna Grant (Dark Kings #3)
The Perfect Witness - Iris Johansen 
The Betrayed - Heather Graham (Krewe of Hunters #14)
The Resolution of Callie & Kayden - Jessica Sorenson (Coincidence #6)
Chained by Night - Larissa Ione (MoonBound Clan Vampire #2)
Priestess Dreaming - Yasmine Galenorn (Otherworld #16)
French Pastry Murder - Leslie Meier (Lucy Stone #21)
Proof Positive - Archer Mayor (Joe Gunther #25)

MOVIES:
Beauty and the Beast - Sn 2
Mike & Molly - Sn 4
24: Live Another Day