You know that moment when someone catches you smiling at a page, eyes wide, completely lost in another world? That’s the magic of a great book. Today, as May is Get Caught Reading Month, I’m sharing a list of books I’m sure I’d be more than happy to get caught reading—on the couch, in the coffee shop, at the park, or even in line at the DMV. These stories are worth every curious glance from strangers.

I have to admit – I have not read any of these books in today’s list. Rather, I saw them at various times across blogs – on top ten lists, or review posts, or other themed posts, or random mentions. I added them to that ginormous being that is my TBR, and hope to get caught reading them this month 🙂 Plus, I picked these among the many others on my TBR for their intriguing titles – hopefully they will inspire someone else who catches me reading them to pick up the book as well

13 Amazing Books I Would Not Mind Get Caught Reading At All

For Thursday 13.

1. An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
2. Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces that Make Us Who We Are by Bill Sullivan
3. My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro by Jeffrey Eugenides 
4. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
5. The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk and translated by Christopher Moseley 
6. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
7. How to Be Both by Ali Smith
8. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
9. When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
10. Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
11. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty
12. The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
13. Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller

Alliterisen Again!

Since I am on a roll with poetry, I might as well continue, right? And when I went to check dVerse’s MTB prompt, turns out it is the alliterisen (I used this during NaPoWriMo as well here).

The Joy of Junk
(One (Wo)Man’s Treasure and All That)
Cleaning clutter – clearing racks,
Or stirring sentimental stacks?
Dusty drawers—more beneath
Clippings, crafts, and baby teeth!
Pausing over paper piles,
Letters, lists, and lost old smiles.
Clutter? No! just treasure here
~ Vidya Tiru @ LadyInReadWrites

And Now, the End of This Post

Dear reader, which book would you not mind get caught reading with, or maybe would love to read in public and maybe start some conversations? And which ones would be on the other list – the ones you would rather read at home? Have you read any of these books here? Do let me know which one I should get first?