Top Ten Tuesday — Water & looking at my TBR pile…

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August 29: Water (This can be covers with water on them, books with bodies of water in them, titles with bodies of water in them, etc.)

The Water Outlaws
by S.L. Huang

I requested this from Netgalley and Libby, fingers crossed! First published August 22, 2023.

Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang’s The Water Outlaws are bandits of devastating ruthlessness, unseemly femininity, dangerous philosophies, and ungovernable gender who are ready to make history—or tear it apart.

Shipwrecked!: Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor
by Martin W. Sandler

This one is actually on my shelf thanks to Netgalley and a favourable review by a reading buddy. Planning to read it soon.

Most of the world’s ocean floor remains to be discovered. In fact, it’s estimated to be home to over 3 million sunken vessels and countless treasures of the past. This enthralling and adventure-filled nonfiction book for young readers recounts some of the most captivating shipwrecks from history, …

The Black Coast (The God-King Chronicles, #1)
by Mike Brooks

I got this one after reading the enthusiastic reviews of my favourite reading buddies. It reminds me a little of my current read by Robin Hobb and The Liveship Traders. Definitely keeping this one.

When the citizens of Black Keep see ships on the horizon, terror takes them because they know who is coming: for generations, the keep has been raided by the fearsome clanspeople of Tjakorsha. Saddling their war dragons, Black Keep’s warriors rush to defend their home only to discover that the clanspeople have not come to pillage at all. Driven from their own land by a daemonic despot who prophesises the end of the world, the raiders come in search of a new home . . .

Winter Tide
by Ruthanna Emrys

This has been on my shelf since 2017! I‘m not sure if I still want to read it. Keep or toss? Undecided…

After attacking Devil’s Reef in 1928, the U.S. government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to the desert, far from their ocean, their Deep One ancestors, and their sleeping god Cthulhu. Only Aphra and Caleb Marsh survived the camps, and they emerged without a past or a future.

The government that stole Aphra’s life now needs her help. FBI agent Ron Spector believes that Communist spies have stolen dangerous magical secrets from Miskatonic University, secrets that could turn the Cold War hot in an instant, and hasten the end of the human race.

Cross of St. George (Richard Bolitho, #24)
by Alexander Kent

This has been on my shelf even longer, since 2016! I used to love this kind of naval historical fiction. I absolutely love and adore the Horatio Hornblower novels by C.S. Forester and have read and liked the odd Patrick O‘Brien. I am pretty sure I have read something else by Alexander Kent before. Still, it‘s been a while… Keep or toss? Undecided…

February 1813: As American privateers pick off British and Canadian ships in the wake of the War of 1812, Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho returns to Halifax to defend Crown property. In the cold waters off Nova Scotia, he fights fruitless skirmishes with men of the frontier, all the while longing for peace.

So much for my shelf of owned book or soon to be published stuff! Also on my want-to-read shelf:

The Deep
by Rivers Solomon

Not sure about this one. Pretty cover, mermaid, it‘s been recommended a lot… It might be too unsettling for my current mindset. Keep or toss? Tossed!

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society-and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award-nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group clipping.

Glimmer
by Marjorie B Kellogg

I like cli-fic and dystopia, so I added this to my shelf some time ago. But I‘ll probably toss it. So many books, so little time. Tossed…

It’s 2110, the Earth’s glaciers have melted, and there’s no climate fix in sight. As refugees stream inland from the inundated coasts, social structures and national economies are stressed to the point of fracture. Food production falters. Pandemics rage. Rising sea level and devastating superstorms have flooded much of Manhattan and wrecked its infrastructure. Its residents have mostly fled, but a few die-hards have bet their survival on the hope that digging in and staying local is a safer strategy.

Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods
by Danna Staaf

About time that I read another octopus-themed book! Non-fiction, why not! Probably as an audiobook! Keep for now!

Before mammals, there were dinosaurs. And before dinosaurs, there were cephalopods—the ancestors of modern squid, octopuses, and more creatures—Earth’s first truly substantial animals. Essentially inventing the act of swimming, cephalopods presided over an undersea empire for millions of years—until fish evolved jaws, and cephalopods had to step up their game or risk being eaten. To keep up, some streamlined their shells and added defensive spines, while others abandoned the shell, opening the gates to a flood of evolutionary innovations: masterful camouflage, fin-supplemented jet propulsion, and intelligence we’ve yet to fully measure. Monarchs of the Sea is a history about these bizarre but beautiful creatures that ruled the seas—and still captivate us today.

Fathomless: A Cate Granger Novel 1
by Greig Beck

Maybe my next low-brainpower-creature-feature. Sounds like fun. Keep for now…

CARCHARODON MEGALODON
The largest and most fearsome predator to have ever existed on our planet. Rumors of its existence in our modern oceans have persisted for centuries. Now, in a new adventure, the rumors explode into brutal and terrifying reality.

That‘s only 9 books instead of 10, but I am done with my TBR pile and water-themed books. 2x books tossed, 2x undecided… 🤷‍♀️