Top Ten Tuesday is an original blog meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and is currently being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is “Books I’ve Added to my TBR and Forgotten Why.” I actually forgot to do this week’s topic but since I didn’t post last week’s Books that Give Off Summer Vibes post, I will do so now. Reminder that as people begin to go back to their normal routines, there are still people protesting and fighting for justice. I encourage you to visit this site if you aren’t quite sure where to get started. There are so many resources out there and there is no excuse not to stay informed. For this topic, I am listing five contemporaries that are perfect to pick up this summer as well as five that I plan to pick up. Covers are linked to Goodreads.
Five Books You Should Pick Up:
1. Don’t Date Rosa Santos by Nina Moreno
2. Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann
3. Truly Madly Royally by Debbie Rigaud
4. Love From A to Z by S.K. Ali
5. When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
Five Books I Should Pick Up:
6. Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
7. You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
8. The Perfect Escape by Suzanne Park
9. The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa
10. If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann
Which contemporary book are you planning to pick up this summer? Let me know in the comments and be sure to leave me a link to your own TTT post, so I can visit.
I love the look of several of your choices. Oh man. This is a tough week. I want my TBR to go down in size not up, but I’m afraid I’ll be adding books to my list tonight based on the books people list. My TTT list of books I don’t remember why I wanted to read
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I think being a bookworm is just accepting that we will never run out of books we want to read.
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I haven’t read many contemporaries lately but there are so many coming out that look good. I’m hoping to read at least a few this summer. I’m always drawn to contemps more in summer for some reason. The Perfect Escape looks fun!
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Yes, that’s one of the reasons I want to pick it up, fun contemporaries are perfect summer reads.
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I’m not much of a contemporary reader but I’ve heard some great things about these books. Especially Felix Ever After
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Yes, I need to read that one this summer.
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Let’s Talk About Love was a great story!
My TTT .
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I loved that one so much!
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Great list! Let’s Talk About Love is one I’m hoping to read very soon, and I’d really like to give Don’t Date Rosa Santos a try.
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Let’s Talk About Love is one of my favorite contemporaries and so is Rosa Santos!
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I keep forgetting to special order Let’s Talk About Love from my local bookstore. I should do that once the quarantine is done. I was looking forward to it then but they never had it locally.
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Yes, it’s so good!
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There are some joyful looking covers here.
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Yes, got to love joyful covers, especially when they feature people of color.
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Don’t date Rosa Santos and You Should See Me in a Crown are the highest on my tbr!
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Rosa Santos is so so so good. I have You Should See Me in a Crown and am hoping to get to it soon.
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When Dimple Met Rishi was a lot of fun to read! Here is my Top Ten Tuesday.
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Yes, I love that one so much.
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Don’t Date Rosa Santos has been on my radar since it was published. You Should See Me in a Crown is also a book I want to pick up.
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Rosa Santos is so good. You must pick it up soon.
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I agree with this list! We should all read them!
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Agreed!
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I really loved When Dimple Met Rishi, and I’m hoping to read more by Menon this summer. I also plan to read You Should See Me In a Crown!
-Lauren
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Menon has some amazing books!
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I just finished Felix Ever After last night! It’s definitely a solid summer read. I didn’t know that it mostly takes place during June, lol, so the timing was good.
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Perfect, will need to get my hands on it soon!
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Great post, I love Let’s Talk About Love and really want to pick up Felix Ever After 💜
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Yay!
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I recently got a Kindle copy of Let’s Talk About Love and I am super excited to read it!
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Yes, I’m so excited for you. It’s such a great book!
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