TOP 10 TUESDAY: Summer 2022

June 28: Books On My Summer 2022 TBR List

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Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

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I do not judge a book solely by it’s cover, but book covers can give certain feels.

There are two noticeably older books, Fight Club (1996) and The Time Machine (1895); I intentionally chose older covers to show, for these two.

Shout out for the Memphis book cover: vibrant saturated colors – gorgeous and perfect for summer!

Confession: The Time Machine is from the list TOP 10 TUESDAY: Books I Was SO EXCITED to Get, but Still Haven’t Read .

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Echo Volume 1: Approaching Shatter by Kent Wayne – 206 pages, ebook – Fiction, Science Fiction, Series – Published August 9, 2015 by Smashwords Edition

In the far future, humanity has settled Echo, where it has endured over a thousand years of dark age. Corporations and governments have merged, becoming the oppressive authority known as the Regime. Military and police have merged into the Department of Enforcement, their only mission to crush a huge rebel network known as the Dissidents. Over half the planet is covered by decaying cityscapes and the elite live high above; removed and remote from the populace on the moon-city of Ascension. Hope lies in one man, a former Enforcer named Atriya. But before he can break the cycle of darkness and ignorance on Echo, he must do it within himself.

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Echo Volume 2: The Taste of Ashes by Kent Wayne – 297 pages, Kindle Edition – Fiction, Science Fiction, Series – Published March 1, 2016 – 4.6 rating on Amazon/4.51 rating on goodreads.

Most of us change gradually over the course of decades. For Crusader Atriya, it will happen in a single, agonizing day. On the edge of a decaying cityscape, Atriya struggles to hold onto his identity as he faces death from both enemies and allies alike. In the process, his old self is torn away, and he catches a glimpse of what he may one day become.

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Echo Volume 3: The Dialectic of Agony by Kent Wayne – 396 pages, Kindle Edition – Fiction, Science Fiction, Series – Published January 23, 2017 – 4.7 rating on Amazon/4.8 rating on goodreads

While Crusader Kischan Atriya fights to keep his life and sanity, his mentor Chrysalis Verus undertakes a perilous journey across the wilds of Echo. Their separate paths intertwine in the unlikeliest of places and across all borders, both psychic and physical.

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Echo Volume 4: The Last Edge of Darkness by Kent Wayne – 581 pages, Kindle Edition – Fiction, Science Fiction, Series – Published October 1, 2018 – 4.7 rating on Amazon/4.72 rating on goodreads

Echo Volume 4 chronicles Crusader Atriya’s time in Mandala City. As Atriya crafts his mind into a psionic arsenal, he realizes that no weapon—no matter how fantastic—will be enough to defeat the Regent. The only way he stands a chance is by vanquishing the ignorance within himself.

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Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk – 221 pages, Kindle Edition – Classic, Debut, Fiction, Literature, Mystery, Novel – First published August 1, 1996

“The first rule about fight club is you don’t talk about fight club.” Chuck Palahniuk’s outrageous and startling debut novel that exploded American literature and spawned a movement. Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with white-collar jobs and failed lives take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded just as long as they must.

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If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha – 272 pages, Kindle Edition – Asia, Contemporary, Debut, Fiction, Women

A riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossibly high standards of beauty, secret room salons catering to wealthy men, strict social hierarchies, and K-pop fan mania.

“Even as a girl, I knew the only chance I had was to change my face… even before a fortune-teller told me so.”

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It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover – 385 pages, Kindle Edition – Abuse, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Women

Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most.

Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up
— she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.

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Memphis by Tara M Stringfellow – 272 pages, Kindle Edition – Debut, Family, Fiction, Historical, Race, Tennessee, Women

A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that she has the power to change her family’s legacy.

In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father’s violence, seeking refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan’s grandfather built this majestic house in the historic Black neighborhood of Douglass–only to be lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis. This wasn’t the first-time violence altered the course of Joan’s family’s trajectory, and she knows it won’t be the last.

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Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger – 320 pages, Kindle Edition – Historical, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Thriller – First published March 26, 2013

New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson’s Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder.

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Time Machine, The by H.G. Wells – 128 pages, Kindle Edition – Adventure, Classic, Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Time Travel – First published May 7, 1895

“I’ve had a most amazing time….”

So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era— … With a speculative leap that still fires the imagination, Wells sends his brave explorer to face a future burdened with our greatest hopes…and our darkest fears. A pull of the Time Machine’s lever propels him to the age of a slowly dying Earth.  There he discovers two bizarre races—the ethereal Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks—who not only symbolize the duality of human nature, but offer a terrifying portrait of the men of tomorrow as well. 

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