Books On My TBR Lottery The Longest

Hello! I hope you’ve been having a great week. It’s Tuesday, and time for Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl). I did today’s topic (New To Me Authors) last week, so this week I’m going to do last week’s topic (Books I Meant to Read In 2020 but Didn’t Get To). I actually didn’t have a lot of books that I had to read last year. There were a few new releases, but I pretty much pre-order those and start reading them release day. Most of the other books I’m interested in, but you know what? There’s about 50 other books I’m interested in reading just as much.

That’s why I started the TBR lottery. It’s a numbered list of books I’m interested in reading. When I want to read a book but don’t have one I have to read (like Chain of Iron on March 2nd) then I use a random number generator to pick my next book. As long as I have access to that book (some I have to get from the library, as an example) I’ll start reading it. I’ve been doing this for about a year now, and some books just don’t get picked. So today, I’m going to go over the books that have been patiently waiting the longest.

I found The Boy and His Ribbon through book blogging. I’ve read most of Pepper Winters’ Dollar series, and they were always so addictive. This book is a forbidden romance that sounded interesting from the first time I heard about it. Although this book has the lowest number on the TBR lottery (the higher numbers are newer), it did get picked for my winter TBR so I’ll be reading it soon.

I read the first book in Jennifer L. Armentrout’s Lux series, Obsidian, back in 2019. I haven’t had the chance to read the second book, Onyx, yet. And it hasn’t been picked by the TBR lottery yet.

One of the Amazon Prime benefits I take advantage of every month is picking up their free book every month. Sometimes I just end up collecting these books though. I’ve been adding them to the TBR lottery though. The Boy Between Worlds is about a biracial boy in the Netherlands who lives through World War II. It sounds really interesting, but it’s number hasn’t been drawn yet.

I got The Night Circus for $1.99 on Amazon when it was on sale. I figure for that price I couldn’t pass it up. Anyway, it went onto the TBR lottery and hasn’t been heard from again. I’m sure it will get picked someday.

Once & Future is another book I got on sale. I was interested in reading it when it came out, but it wasn’t one of my top priority books. So it went onto the TBR lottery, and has been sitting there ever since.

Meet Cute was another book I got on sale. That’s a common theme for a lot of these older books, I think, because I’m interested in them enough to take advantage of the low price, but not quite so much that I want to read it right away. Anyway, this book (about a girl who has a meet cute with an actor she had a teenage crush on) is still waiting for its big break.

So Hope Nation was on sale, and I had to pick it up, because it had an essay by Marie Lu in it (and a lot of other amazing authors). I have read the Marie Lu essay in this book, but the book is on my TBR lottery and I’ll read the rest of the authors when this book gets picked.

All the Little Lights is another book I got on sale. Actually, the majority of these books I either got on sale or I don’t own. Anyway, this book is about two friends who are forced apart, reunite, and then trouble happens that keeps them apart.

Millions is the last book in the Dollar series by Pepper Winters. I said earlier that this series is addictive. If I owned this book, I probably would have read it earlier. It’s not that expensive ($3.99) but I guess I’m waiting for it to win the TBR lottery to buy it. Then I can finally find out what happened to these people!

I really liked Laini Taylor’s Strange the Dreamer, so when I saw that Daughter of Smoke and Bone (you probably guessed it) was on sale, I had to pick it up. So now it’s been on my TBR lottery for a while.

So that’s today’s list! Are there any of these you think should jump to the front of the line?

Next week I won’t be a rebel and I’ll post about Books that Were Published Before I was Born like everyone else. Maybe I’ll narrow it down to books that I’ve read. They’ll probably end up being mostly classics. See you then!