Top Ten Tuesday (75)

Top Ten Books I Grab When I Want to Read Something Light & Fun

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. It’s awesome. Every Tuesday, the lovely folks over at The Broke and the Bookish post a top ten list topic so that book lovers like you and me can pour over our shelves and make our own lists. You can check out all the other Top Ten Tuesday’s on their site!

This is just the PERFECT topic for this time of year, friends. With the weather getting nicer and the days getting longer, I’m in the mood for breezy. Perhaps, MAYBE not LIGHT all the time, but breezy, fun, fast, and full of good feels. BIG FAN of this list, friends. Lots of rereads on here!

Basically, any Jennifer Echols book could–and should–be on this list. To me, fun and light = contemporary, and the better the contemp, the more likely I am to want to read it when I’m feeling the effects of the warm weather and the long days. But GOING TOO FAR was my first Echols and it remains my favorite. HOT COP IS HOT, Y’ALL.

I just LOVE this series so hard. I don’t know if I’d classify this series as “light”; in fact, I’m positive that I wouldn’t. But there’s something about the pacing and the action and the feels that keep me coming back to it when I’m in the mood for something that gets my adrenaline going and my heart aching. This one is on here more because of the action and the pace than anything else.

HEYO! It’s time for my semi-regular Penderwicks shout-out! These sisters are honestly so freaking adorable and funny and AMAZING. They’re each so different, but always loving in that sisterly way where they still make fun and drive each other NUTS. This series is seriously THE BOMB.  Very much the breezy fun times that I like to pick up about now.

Ummm, DUH. PERCY RULES MY LIFE. Another one that’s more for the fun and the pace than the lightness, but seriously PERCY.

YAY FARMS! There’s still some emotional heft to these books about the frank, hard-working, unpretentious, AWESOME DJ Schwenk, but I do crave them for their humor and their heart. Also FARMS. DAMN IT! I keep thinking of things that should’ve been on my Top Ten Tuesday last week that I forgot!

Spies will forever be fun and breezy. It’s like Ocean’s Eleven with teens. HOW IS THIS WRONG. My only gripe is that there’s not enough kissing. Ally Carter needs to up her make-out game. But still–if we’re talking about light and fun, these books are BOTH.

I know, I know, this one is a little teensy bit on the serious side, too. But for me, if it’s got a good romance in it, that always makes me feel light and happy even if the circumstances surrounding that romance are a little emo. And we all know that St. Claire is EMO. But doesn’t this whole story just have that MAGIC? I love it, and I reread it all the time because it gives me the warm-fuzzies.

Haha…THESE DUDES. I haven’t read the second book in this series yet, but talk about a book version of a cartoon! It’s so easy to envision these bumbling, hilarious princes being doofuses with hearts of gold, you know? Pure fun, this series is. PURE. FUN.

I cannot think of anything lighter or breezier or more fun than a road trip. Especially this one, where Amy and Roger fall slowly for each other in this really sweet but not saccharine way. SIGH. Rereader and big fan of this one FOREVER.

Blanket genre shout out over here! I LOVE picking up a historical romance and flying through them while getting all those tingles. Plus, I’m always enchanted by the ton and their manners and parties and scandals and British humor. It is MAY and I haven’t read  ANY historical romances this year. UNACCEPTABLE.