Top Ten Books I HAD To Buy...But Are Still Sitting On My Shelf Unread
You see it online. You see it in the bookstore. You have to have it - now. Your life will end if you do NOT have this book. You bargain and reason with yourself. You fail. You buy it.
Every. Damn. Time.
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente - Everyone keeps telling me to read it. Owning it was half the battle.
The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan - I can't believe I am so far behind on this series. I haven't even opened the first book.
The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom by Christopher Healy - I had to have this one when I read the description, and have it I did! I even broke my rules and went to Barnes and Nobel and bought it. Still sitting with the receipt in the cover.
Monstrous Beauty by Elizabeth Fama - Goodreads highly recommended that I read it. At least I bought it.
The Faerie Ring by Kiki Hamilton - The second book is already here. The first one remains untouched on my bookshelf.
Valkyrie Rising by Ingrid Paulson - I waited with baited breath for the release. Now I am waiting with baited breath to actually read it.
What books made your list this week? Leave me a link!
Aaaa Valkyrie Rising is so good! But the same thing happens to me all the time. Most are free e-books though that's too tedious to list. :P
ReplyDeleteI had to cut myself off from free and cheap e-books. I have 300 books on my Kindle, and I am barely reading.
DeleteLyn Days of Blood & Starlight is also in my TBR pile along with Scarlet, but this is how late I am, I JUST finished reading Cinder!
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Have a great week!
WOW! At least you were able to get to it!
DeleteI am so disappointed in you. Glow and Between Shades of Gray are books I'll have to hunt down to find and read them, but you have them. And you've not read them!
ReplyDeleteTo be honest I have a copy of Scarlet, but I haven't read it yet and I know I can find Days of Blood and Starlight when I finally decide to read it.
I KNOW! I am HORRIBLE! Maybe I should read them and send them along to you when I am done.
DeleteDon't feel bad! You should totally see the one's I posted! We spend all this money on books, and they just sit there collecting dust and looking pretty on our shelves. Definitely need to do a clean up challenge or something to get motivated.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I keep telling myself I will trim down my shelves. Bwahahaha. I love lying to my own brain.
DeleteLol! We had similar openings. This amuses me.
ReplyDeleteBooks on your list I also have sitting on my shelves unread: The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland and Tired out My Fingers with Her Absurdly Long Title, Glow, The Hero's Guide to Saving the Kingdom, and Days of Blood and Starlight. The only one I know I'll get to soon is Hero's Guide because I lucked into an ARC of the sequel. Now I HAVE to read it.
LO-freaking-L on "Absurdly Long Title"! The premise of Hero's Guide sounds SO cute!
DeleteI have Between Shades of Grey, too ... AND Scarlet, AND Days of Blood and Starlight. I really must read them! I think I get nervous when a book is highly recommend, thinking I might hate it. But I should still give it a try! I do love that cover for the Faerie Ring ... gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteI KNOW! Seeing a bunch of 5 stars on a review causes me to feel a little wary about a book.
DeleteIt happens. I just figure, we'll get around to them eventually. Or one can only hope. :)
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Agreed, Bonnie!
DeleteBetween Shades of Grey is a book I am dying to read. I read her other novel "Out of the Easy" and it was pretty amazing!
ReplyDelete- Juhina @ Maji Bookshelf
I have my eye on that book. I should read it very soon.
DeleteYou REALLY need to read Monstrous Beauty. It's one of my favorite titles, probably ever. The writing was just so gorgeous, gahhh.
ReplyDeleteI really think you'll love The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland. The writing is gorgeous, it's really quite wry and witty, and of course it's a wonderful story. I think you'll enjoy it a LOT.
I know!! I feel like a terrible person because I haven't read it!! :(
DeleteIt looks like it can break me out of my reading anxiety. I should read it.
I'm always glad when I find someone else that hasn't read Cinder - I feel an immediate affinity with them and far less alone ;)
ReplyDeleteI liked Between Shades of Grey, Sepetys did a great job with that one.
I read Cinder, but it didn't rock my world.
DeleteI think I am going to read that one next.
Scarlet and The Kingdoms guide are two that I have and still have yet to read too. I got Days of Blood and Starlight from the library and never read it before it was due back. Lol!!
ReplyDeleteI should read that one. I have wanted it forever. Ggrrr.
DeleteSo many good books in here Lyn! I hope you get to them soon. I loved Fairyland, Scarlet, DoBaS, Monstrous Beauty, and Shades of Grey. I hope you get to them soon!
ReplyDelete(I also own the Lost Hero and have yet to get to it. One day.... hopefully!)
Valkyrie Rising has had so many good reviews - I need to get that one soon.
OMFG it is JESSIE!!!
DeleteI wish I could take a reading break soon. I am very hopeful that graduation helps me get back into the swing of things.
Scarlet, DoBaS, and Between Shades of Gray are all AMAZING! I have Glow and The Girl Who... on my shelves too, so I'll need to pick those up soon. I swear, it's like they're collecting dust! ;)
ReplyDeleteIt makes me sad to have to dust books.
DeleteGLOW!!!!!!!! I only got that book because I received the sequel for review. I wasn't even sure I'd like it but I did, it's an awesome series. You know book three comes out this year, you should read Glow & Spark in preparation *nudge*
ReplyDeleteI should....I really really badly want to read it.
DeleteI can definitely understand why you were dying to read these books, I am too :D I also understand the problem of getting to everything ;-)
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I do. I get in this rut, and my real life is messing with my hobbies. I am so far behind on all of my goals. MEH.
DeleteDays of Blood and Starlight is the only one I can't understand. Girl! Read it!
ReplyDeleteEmpress Kat has demanded. I must obey.
DeleteThe Lost Hero!!! EEP. It may be good that you waited, because I found The Lost Hero and The Son of Neptune a bit weak - but then The Mark of Athena happened and asdfjkl; it was just as beautiful as the original series. Seriously, get to that though.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you on Days of Blood and Starlight and Scarlet. I've honestly had the former since November. Disgraceful. I don't know why I keep putting it off. T_T
I was very fond of the Percy series, and I want to read this book as soon as I can get to it.
DeleteI think about what I liked about the first book, and I see that the second book cannot have some of the elements of "Smoke and Bone" and become super depressed.
Valkyrie Rising was really good. Hope you get a chance to read it soon!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I love anything related to Norse mythology, and I need to read this book immediately!
Deletei loved monstrous beauty
ReplyDeletePeople were salivating over the book. I really need to get in gear and READ.
DeleteA big yes to The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland - I bought if forever ago too and I STILL haven't read it. I really want to though but I keep getting distracted by other books o.O
ReplyDeleteI hope you'll LOVE Days of Blood & Starlight as much as I did! And I still need to read Cinder before I get to Scarlet hehe I hope you get to all of these soon :)
Thanks! I have so many awesome books right now. It just kills me to see them, unopened.
DeleteYour list looks a lot like mine! Fairyland, Glow, Blood & Starlight, Between Shades of Grey, and Scarlet are sitting unread, too. SO MANY BOOKS. I hope you get a chance to read MONSTROUS BEAUTY soon, though! Love that book.
ReplyDeleteWendy @ The Midnight Garden
I bought Monstrous Beauty off of your recommendation alone, and I have not even cracked it open on the Kindle. Straight to Book Hell I go.
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