Hello! Welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl)! Today we’re supposed to talk about “Books on My TBR I’m Avoiding Reading and Why”. I’m not sure if I do avoid reading books, so I’m going to talk about books I really wanted to read but haven’t had time for yet. There are a lot of reasons why I have to put off reading a book I really want to read. I usually read ARCs in order of publication date to have them read in time. Some of my books I pick with a random number generator and they haven’t been picked yet. So here are ten books I really want to read… and they have to patiently wait.
Any V.E. Schwab book: over the past year, I’ve been slowly whittling away at the authors that I keep saying I have to read, but haven’t. This year I’ve gotten to read several new-to-me authors that I really want to read, but V.E. Schwab, in all her incarnations, remains on my unread author list. (Spoiler alert: I picked one of her books by random number generator and it’s on my fall TBR).
The Unhoneymooners – Christina Lauren: Ever since I started hearing about The Unhoneymooners earlier this year, I thought it sounded like a good book. I just haven’t had time to read it yet.
The Lunar Chronicles – Marissa Meyer: The entire Lunar Chronicles series was on sale over Black Friday weekend last year and I had to pick it up. Alas, I haven’t found time to read it.
Starfish – Akemi Dawn Bowman: I got a copy of Starfish when it was on sale last year. I still want to read it, although it’s been on my TBR lottery at least twice, it hasn’t been picked. Eventually I’m sure I’ll read it.
The Boy & His Ribbon – Pepper Winters: This book looks interesting, but I haven’t gotten around to reading it yet. It didn’t win the TBR lottery this time either, so it’ll have to wait. The cover looks kinda wintery; maybe it will make my winter TBR.
Michael Vey and the Prisoner of Cell 25 – Richard Paul Evans: My daughter read this years ago and I think we own this in both hardback and on the Kindle. It’s just slipped my mind to read it. It didn’t win the TBR lottery for the fall; let’s see if I can get to it in the winter.
Descendant of the Crane – Joan He: This is one of those books I requested on Netgalley and wasn’t approved for, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to read it. Look at the beautiful cover! It was on sale for $1.99 on Amazon a few months after it came out, so of course I picked it up… I just haven’t read it yet.
Opposite of Always – Justin A. Reynolds: This book sounds so interesting… and I bought it on sale. I buy a lot of books on sale (I find it hard to pass up $1.99 for a book). I forgot I even had this book. When I was coming up with the list of books I wanted to add to my fall TBR, I realized that I had gotten this book. This one didn’t win the fall TBR lottery either.
American Panda – Gloria Chao: This book sounds so good! I’ve wanted to read it for about a year now. Although I forgot to put it in the running for the TBR lottery for this upcoming season, it is available on audiobook at my library! So… I’ll probably listen to this next, after I finish listening to this Audible course I’m listening to called The Other Side of History, which is kind of research for the book I’m writing. So I should take this one off my TBR soon.
King of Scars – Leigh Bardugo: Bardugo is an author whom I had only read a short story of before this year. I love her books now though. My library has copies just waiting for me to check out. I’m tempted whenever I see it, but I have other books I should read first.
So there’s a list of several books that I really want to read but haven’t gotten around to yet. This list could continue for several more Top Ten Tuesdays. Next week’s Top Ten Tuesday is supposed to be “Favorite Things to Eat/Drink While Reading.” Since I don’t necessarily eat (except lunch or dinner) while reading and mostly drink water, I think I’ll change it to “Books That Lost the Fall 2019 TBR Lottery” and continue this topic while segueing into my Fall 2019 TBR which I’ll post in two weeks.
I’ve heard that STARFISH is good. But I haven’t read it either. My TBR books I’m avoiding
Why are there just so many good books!
I loved CINDER. I’m not a huge fantasy or sci-fi reader, and I was instantly hooked when I started it. I don’t think it’s a series you need to binge, so if you only have time to read the first one, you’re good.
I saw that it was a comp book to Sky Without Stars, which makes me want to read it more. Still, I haven’t.
I just read one fo V.E Shawb’s books, it Darker Shade of Magic, I enjoyed it, Hopefully I’ll read her other works soon, I highly recommend reading The Lunar Chronicles, they’re so good.
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They both sound good. I always see Ms. Schwab on Twitter and I feel bad because I haven’t read any of her books yet and she seems so nice. Soon!
I hope you get to read all of these books soon.
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Thanks. At least there’s no shortage of good books though.
The Boy and His Ribbon does sound like an interesting read.
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I read a few of her other books and they were good (although a little disturbing).
Oh Gosh yes, any thing by Schwab and Bardugo are ones I’ve not had time for at all. Though part of my is afraid of the hype too and them not living up to uit.
I hope you can get over your fear and read some of them soon.
Vicious is probably the best one to start with with Schwab! None of the others really live up to it.
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That’s not the one I’m reading first… although I’m sure they’re all good. I’ll get to this one someday though.
I’m so far behind. I haven’t read any of these. I’m planning to read The Unhoneymooners and Descendants of the Crane but they’re still expensive.
I don’t know how I ended up finding Descendant of the Crane for $1.99! It was probably on sale for less than a week. I’ll probably get The Unhoneymooners from the library when I finally get to it (unless I happen to find it on sale for $1.99 first… I find it really hard to pass up a book for that price).
I just listened to Opposite of Always – it was really good! The Unhoneymooners was my first Christina Lauren book and I really enjoyed it.
They both sound good. I’m glad you liked them.
I need to read Vicious very soon!
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Yes. I want to read that one, but that’s not the one that won the fall TBR lottery, so that one will have to wait.
Great list! I need to read Descendant of the Crane soon, too. I hope you enjoy all of these when you get to them!
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Thanks! I hope you like Descendant when you get to it.
I had so much fun reading The Unhoneymooners. It will be perfect for when you want a light read.
I keep hearing lots of good things about it.
If my list was longer some of these would have made it. I don’t own them but I really want to read them!!!! Great Post.
Thanks! I’m continuing with a similar topic next week too.
The Unhoneymooners looks fun. And I haven’t had any luck starting Bardugo although one of these days? Maybe haha? 🙂
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You’ll probably get around to reading her books someday.
My daughter absolutely loved the Michael Vey series too—it’s her favorite series of all time. I really should read it. 🙂
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