Sara: My summer 2019 TBR list + open to any recomendations!

I'm going to leave soon to go back home, and you guys have no idea how happy I am to leave this country for a while. It is funny because then when I'm in Madrid I kind of miss Boston, but then I come back and I'm like "ugh why am I in such a cold, dark and expensive city whyyyy?". Anyways, I'm going back home and I will have some free time to catch up with my reading. I have a huge pile of paperbacks in my room that I had for a while because as sometimes happens, when I went looking for something to read and checked my bookshelf I thought that I had nothing to read so I kept buying books and more books (hence, the reason my parents bought me a kindle as a subtle hint of "please Sara stop spending our money and space in more books please and thank you") and this Summer I'm going to try to stop this pattern.
I created a folder in my Goodreads called summer19 and in there I put the books I already own that I have not read yet. This is the list:

1. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown - I actually bought this book a while ago right after I read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand because I loved loved loved the story so much I wanted to keep reading stories about athletes during WWII, but I never got around to read it. This summer hopefully this will be one of the first ones I will read.

2. The Nix by Nathan Hill - I bought this one because I liked the cover, and the story sounded interesting enough.

3. The Secret History by Donna Tartt - I found this book one day while browsing through Goodreads and it had a lot of reviews and a good rating, so I ordered it via Amazon but then never read it. The story sounds mysterious and cool, and this summer I really want to finally finish it.

4. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease by Michael Greger and Gene Stone - Fun fact about me: I'm the super obnoxious kind of person that is obsessed with healthy food and the origins of the ingredients and food I eat and all that fun stuff. I'm sort of a hypochondriac, and I'm constantly thinking about diseases I might have at some point in my life and how to not die young and whatnot, so I bought this book but I've only read a couple of chapters. This summer I want to finish every single one.

5. La Verité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert by Jöel Dicker - My aunt bought me this book a couple of Christmas ago, the Spanish version, and I feel bad I haven't read it yet so I'm finally doing it this summer.

6. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness - Again, another book I found interesting, bought but never got to read. Apparently, Tom Holland is going to act as the main character in the film coming out based on this book, and I'm obsessed with him so I really need to read this book before the film comes out (whoever is still processing his last scene in Avengers Infinity War, please know you are not alone Marvel really went too far with the whole thing and my Tom deserves an Oscar and he is the best Peter Parker and he is too pure and good for this world)

7. Just Kids by Patti Smith - I've heard her life was really interesting, so I'm looking forward to finally read this one. 

8. 11/22/63 by Stephen King - I hate horror books but I feel one should read a Stephen King book at some point in life, so I picked this one who has amazing reviews and is in the Fantasy and Historical Fiction genre. Win-win.

9. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - I had to read this book for a high school essay, and the funny thing is that I read half of it and really liked it but never finished it because in high school you do weird stuff like that so this summer will be the time I get to finally finish it.

10. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris - I thought the blurb sounded interesting, and I was in a memoir mood when I bought it but then never read it, so another one for the TBR pile this summer.

11. The Bride Test by Helen Hoang (!!!!!!) - I know I said I would try to read books I already own but I lied a little. This is the second book by Helen Hoang, the author of The Kiss Quotient, and is about a character introduced in the first one who is Michael's cousin and has autism too and I'm so freaking excited for this one it is crazy how much I like this author. It comes out on May 7 and I'm going to definitely buy this one and read it as soon as I have it with me.