TTT-summer of possibilities 2026

Happy Tuesday my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. I have missed the last several weeks and I am glad to be back today!! Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is: Books on My Summer 2026 To-Read List. This one will be easy as there are SO many books that I want to read. The hard part will be narrowing it down to 10. Since I am still trying to focus on what I own, most some of these will be books I already have. Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and you can head over there to see what our other bookish friends are up to today. 

Top Ten Tuesday-summer of possibilities 2026

Physical books I OWN

 

Targeted by Lynette Eason has been on my list for probably a year or more, I really need to read it. Strawberry Fields for Never by Kate Watson is one I am excited for, but keep putting it off because it's the beginning of a series, and I know I will want to binge it! Which, will derail my other plans, LOL!

 

The Bitter End Birding Society by Amanda Cox is our book club pick for July, so I know I will be reading it. Frankly, My Dear Clara by Kristi Ann Hunter is another first book in the series, and the rest of the series hasn't been written yet.

 

The Trauma Response by M.J. Padgett and The Grump's Bodyguard by Latisha Sexton are part of the Give a Bookish Girl a Biker series (books 4 &3). I have read the first two, just got sidetracked.

 

The Bookshop of 99 Doors by Jaime Jo Wright and A Brewed Awakening by Pepper Basham are two that I recently received and I am trying to stay on top of the books coming in (not quite as many as in previous years).

KINDLE Own

 

Second Impressions by Pepper Basham and Flames by Ginny L. Yttrup

 

Off-Script and Over-Caffeinated by Rhonda Rhea and Before Time Runs Out by Amy Matayo. I have enjoyed everything I have read by Amy, but this one is fantasy, I think, which is not in my normal wheel-house.

 

Designing Happily Ever After by Ellie Hall and The Rival Kiss by Jessica Kate. Does anyone else forget about the books on their Kindle?! I rarely think of them, sigh.

Checked out on Kindle Unlimited:

 

Everything's Coming Up Josey by Susan May Warren. This one was on my TBR forever and I couldn't find a copy of it anywhere, and then I finally found it on Kindle Unlimited. I have had it checked out for several months. The same goes for A Ghost in Sacramento by Ellie Thornton. I have read the first two books years ago and enjoyed them, but I can't tell you what they were about now.

 

The Fire in our Hearth by Rae Walsh is another that I read the first two books years ago and need to read this one. The Finding of Miss Fairfield by Grace Hitchcock is the first in another series, so I might put it off again.

 

Honeysuckle Breeze by B.R. Goodwin. She is a new to me author, but I read the first book in this series a few months ago and have been meaning to get back to it. Off the Wall by Julie Christianson is part of the Only Magic in the Building series that came out last summer. I read a few of the books last summer, and have read a few more this summer, with the intentions of finishing the series. 

 

Signed, Sealed, and Smitten by Melanie Jacobson and The Escape Plan by Katie Bailey are the final two books in the Only Magic in the Building series.

You Again by Jen Atkinson is the fourth book in the Just a Guy with A Goal series. I immediately downloaded it when it released last month, then promptly forgot about it. These are just a few of the books I have checked out on Kindle Unlimited, LOL.

Library checkouts or requested:

 

Formula of Deception by Carrie Stuart Parks and The Wings of Poppy Pendleton by Melanie Dobson. I have requested both of these from the library, but they haven't come in yet.

Spies, Lies, & Alibis by Natalie Walters. My hold came in for this last week and I *think* it is what I am planning to read next. I am doing this thing where I read one I own, then a library book or KU or something, then I try to read another one that I own.

My last pre-order that I ordered in January will arrive in July:

Bookmarked for Love by Sarah Monzon. It is the third book in the Checking Out Love series and I enjoyed the first two.

As you can see, my summer is all booked, LOL! Have you read any of these? Which ones should I prioritize first? What are you hopeful to read this summer? Do you think I will read all of these, or will my mood change and these will continue to languish?!

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