Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
The Original Question for this week was:
Books From My Past Seasonal TBR Posts I STILL Haven’t Read (Submitted by Dedra @ A Book Wanderer)
This doesn’t really apply to me so I’ve changed it just a bit, and the new question is:
Confession: My Goodreads TBR or “Want to Read” list has 197 books on it! I decided pick the ten of those that I wanted to read the most, and then admit that there are some I’m never going to read and delete those. Here are my Top 10, which I have decided to read by the end of the year:
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This has been in my Audible library for about 7 years! It’s time to listen to it. (That is another topic: Oldest 10 Audible books you haven’t listened to!)
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Time and Again by Jack Finney is hailed as one of the classic time travel books of all time. I’m surprised I haven’t read it yet. I’m going to remedy that.
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A frightening look at the future. Maybe I didn’t want to take a peek. This has been on my TBR for a year.
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I did a spotlight on this earlier this year and planned to read it, but haven’t yet. Now it will be done by the end of the year.
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This dystopian sounds great, it’s on Kindle Unlimited, has close to 3,000 reviews, and yet it’s been on my TBR for three years. Go figure.
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This novel about family secrets is on Kindle Unlimited with added free listening and has 15,000 plus reviews. It’s also been on my TBR for three years so time to get it read.
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This is not just a cookbook with fabulous recipes, but the story of a life and how it was saved by cooking. How I let this sit on my TBR for close to three years is beyond me.
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We try to watch the Band of Brothers Miniseries every year near Memorial Day, and this is a biography of the real-life main character, Dick Winters. I’m sure I just forgot about this one.
After going through this list, my conclusion is I put too many books on my TBR, and I need to get it down to the top 20 or 25 that I want to read. Also, some of the books on my Goodreads TBR have been on the list for years, and in some cases my reading tastes have changed, so I’m going to delete them.
How about you? What books are languishing on your TBR?
Bonnie Reads and Writes 
My Goodreads Want to Read shelf has over 1000 books Bonnie. I will never read them all, but every time I try to delete some, I think, but, I do want to read that. The Midnight Chicken really appeals to me and I have not heard of it before. I hope you get to these soon.
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I know what you mean. It’s hard to let go of those books!
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I think that’s a good plan, to read the books you want before the end of the year. I gave away eight bookshelves of books some years ago, and I never looked back.
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Thanks Deb. I have boxes of books ready to go to new homes as well.
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The Art of Inheriting Secrets sounds interesting. I love family sagas.
Here’s my TTT post.
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Oops, wrong link… here’s the correct one. 🙂
http://girlplusbooks.blogspot.com/2022/07/top-ten-tuesday-youre-still-one-books.html
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Thanks! I plan to read it soon!
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Impressive list, Bonnie. Our tastes do change, so changes in where we’re headed in our reading side of life are bound to happen.
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Absolutely. I need to get my Goodreads TBR list under control.
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My TBR lists on GR are out of control as well. I throw any title on there that I have any interest at all in reading, just so I won’t forget. I really should go through and purge the ones I’m no longer interested in. Thanks for the encouragement! LOL.
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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I hope you enjoy all of these whenever you read them.
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2022/07/26/top-ten-tuesday-378/
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I couldn’t begin to count the number of books on my TBR.
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I just know the number I have designated as Want to Read on Goodreads.
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Most of mine are in and on a bookcase in my study. Some are on my Kindle, some are listed in Evernote, some are in random little piles.
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The Art of Inheriting Secrets looks good. I like Barbara O’Neal.
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I don’t know how I missed that one and left it on the shelf so long.
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I have a couple of Ken Follett books on my TBR as well and the size and scope of them definitely makes me wary to pick them up, even though I really want to read him!
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My Goodreads Want to Read shelf is groaning with over 600 books. Most of them have been added since I started blogging, and it’s a dangerous prospect! Out of those 600+ books, Midnight Chicken is one of them.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/books-i-still-need-to-read-from-previous-tbr/
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197 books on your TBR! I’m so jealous, lol. I have over 1400 books on my Goodreads TBR and I only put the first book in a series on my TBR until I read and like the first book and decide if I want to continue. I also cull my list about twice a year. LOL. Sigh.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy all of these when you get to them! 😀
My TTT
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Wow, I feel a little better about the 197. LOL. I think 1400 would make my head spin. However I’m going to knock it way down by deleting the ones that I may no longer want to read.
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