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It’s Tuesday, again! Wasn’t it just yesterday I wrote about books to read with my book club?
I suppose on a positive note, that makes it one more week closer to spring. Sooo tired of cold and snow, I want sun, warmth, spring and colors! But still February and time for this weeks TTT.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish
This week’s list:

Ten Dystopian Series I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read

Well here’s the thing, I’m somewhat of an period-genre-reader, for a while it was all fantasy, then science fiction, then via fantasy (again) it was Urban fantasy, then all things vampire, all things zombies… and so on and so forth. But for a couple of year now it’s been mostly books from the post apocalyptic and dystopian genre. I say mostly, there is just so much misery, darkness and never ending pain a girl can take, right?

Luckily for me, dystopian is sort of the In Thing right now, so there are plenty books to read and discover. Why have I missed some of today’s big dystopian titles? The answer, well I like shiny things, and look over there it’s a new book….

1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
I know, I know, I should have read this series by now, Oh I really should.
But, well, this is embarrassing, haven’t even seen the movies either…Ummm, let’s skip to the next book, shall we.

2. Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
This one been on my TBR list for what feels like forever, started on it a couple of times but never come around to actually finish it. Strange, a dystopian story with paranormal elements should really be my cup of tea..

3. Maze Runner by James Dashner
Totally missed this one when it came out, it wasn’t until I read about it becoming a movie that I, “well that might be interesting…”

4. The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
Why, why haven’t I read this series?! Its dystopien and Zombies, hello! Zombies! I don’t have an answer, I just haven’t read it.

5. Legend by Marie Lu
A typical Dystopian story, good reviews keeps turning up, maybe I should have a go at it.

6. The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
Cinderella as a Cyborg?
I was first skeptical, but now, well maybe I should put it on one of my TBR lists.

7. The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
One more from that famous TBR list, aliens and dystopian, I simply must make some time for it!

8. Linked by Imogen Howson
I do love a story set in a future that on the surface “seems” to be utopian…

Since there is two slots left I will end this list with two classics. The ting is, I of all people should have read these long ago, mostly because in a sense they are some of the books that “made” the genre. Simply put, strong books that deserves to be read!

9. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
10. 1984 by George Orwell

There you have it, today’s list. Some books I really should have read by now, some just waiting to-be-read and one or two will undoubtedly in the end stay at the list; Series I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read!

How about you, are you like me, all good intention and then a book comes along, and then another one, and another, then you sort of forgot about the first book and it will end on some list with books you should have read, but haven’t.

It’s been two weeks since I’ve posted anything here. Two weeks!
I rarely get sick, but this winter it feels like there are sick people everywhere! At the office, on the local transport, people sneezing, coughing and all sort of unpleasantness. So I suppose it was no surprise when even I got sick, a nasty winter flu that totally knock me out. Finally I feel like myself again, so it’s about time to catch up with some reading, writing and of course this week’s TTT.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish
This week’s list:
 

Ten Books I’d Love to Read With My Book Club/If I Had A Book Club
(or you could pick a specific kind of book club — like if you had a YA book club or an adult book club or a science fiction book club etc.)

Well, sometimes I think it could be fun to be in a book club, to read and discuss a book together with others, I do miss talking about and analyze certain books, unfortunately not many of my friends share my passions of books (or the genres I read). I suppose it is one of the reasons I started blogging in the first place, to share some thoughts about the books that passes through my hands and together with reading other book blogs it fill up a bit of that void.

Could be fun to pick up just a few books, or maybe a couple of series to read alongside with people in a book club, when I think about it, the following series/ books would be awesome to discuss further.

1. Partials Sequence by Dan Wells
One of my new all-time favorite post-apocalyptic series. Read Partials last summer and just finished Fragments in december and now waiting for the right time to read Ruins. If there ever were a book series that would be fun to sit down and discuss it would be this one.

How to survive in a post-apocalyptic world is always interesting to discuss, in Patrials we also have the science and virology that felt well researched and sort of new for the genre. But beside that, and this is why I love this kind of story’s, if you are born as a human or artificially build as one, what makes us human, do we all have the same right to “life” and who decides which one of us live or die?

2. Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer was a surprise for me, it wasn’t really what I thought it would be and it would be a perfect book to sit down and analyze and hear what others think.

Is this slightly unhinged, detached and broken girl finally falling into pieces, is she slipping into madness? Or are there more to her hallucinations than the most obvious explanation?

3. Glitch by Heather Anastasiu
Dystopian novels are often fairly easy to discussions and analyses, Glitch might not be all new with ideas but I liked the first book in the series (and looking forward to read the second). It felt a bit like a cross of a young adult version of George Orwell’s 1984 novel and the movie Equilibrium.

What if we always were connected to a network, all our emotions and feelings were controlled, what if we never had to feel pain and suffering. What would that do to us as human, and of course what if there were someone controlling and watching you, what kind of society would that be?
 

There is a couple of book series on my TBR-list that has Book Club potential, like:
 

4. Anna dressed in blood by Kendare Blake
Curses, rage and murdering ghost mixed with a love story, well that would make some interesting late night discussion, right?

5. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of curious photographs…
Yes I think that will be just my cup of tea.
 

Then there is all those favorite books that I’ve read but would be fun to discuss, analyses and revisit again, books such as:
 

6. Ocean at the end of the lane by Neil Gaiman
Wonderful, magical and lovely Gaiman, I just cant get enough of this book.

7. American God by Neil Gaiman
It’s been ages since I’ve read this classic, maybe time for a re-read.

8. Maplecroft by Cherie Priest
An Lovecraftian story Cherie Priest style, I just loved it!
 

What’s your pick of books, are the some that you think is Book Club material?

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

This week’s list:

Top Ten Most Anticipated Debut Novels For 2015

Hmmm, well this wasn’t easy.
Keeping track of debut novels is not really my strong suite and I only found 2 on my list 😦

1. The Creeping by Alexandra Sirowy
A creepy mystery, that really can’t go wrong in my book.
“…before the summer ends, Stella will learn the hard way that if you hunt for monsters, you will find them.”

2. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Seem to be somewhat of and fantasy/ dystopian mix, could be interesting, and well I like the cover (oh yes! sometimes I’m that easy).

At least I’m certain that my fellow bloggers will do better, looking forward so read more TTT lists.