Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010.
August 23: Ten Books That Have Been On My Shelf (Or TBR) From Before I Started Blogging That I STILL Haven’t Read Yet…
Well seeing as how I started tracking and reviewing the books I read on MySpace in 2006, and then moving them to each new system… the “before I started blogging” clause is going to be ignored. 10 years is a looong time and I haven’t kept close track of my TBR shelf that whole time. So this list is just going to be of books I’ve had on the TBR for several years, one’s I’ve been meaning to get to but just haven’t managed to read yet.
I am participating in the 2016 TBR Pile Reading Challenge. I encourage you to take a look at that post. And maybe this will kick start me towards digging a little deeper into the TBR.
Top Ten Books I STILL Haven’t Read Yet…
In no particular order…
- The Borrowers – I remember the TV show from when I was a kid, so we picked up a couple of the books years
ago at a thrift shop. I really have no excuse for not reading this book, except for I’m not sure where it’s at. I know we have it, but it escaped from the YA TBR shelf.
- The Kitchen Gods Wife –
I really enjoy Amy Tan, but somehow this book sunk to the bottom of the pile and has stayed there. One of those ones I know I’ll enjoy if I ever get around to it.
- Casino Royale (And the rest of the James Bond series) – My sister bought these for me, one at a time over a couple of years (of course she read each one, before sending them to me.) I feel bad because she sent me the WHOLE series and I’ve read one of them. 🙁
The Forth Turning – I talk about this book ALL the time. If you ever mention anything about generations to me, I will bring up this book. It was a cornerstone of the curriculum when I did a church internship. But we only had excerpts. I keep telling myself I’ll read the whole thing one of these days. It’s really an important book and has a ton of good stuff in it. Maybe I should go get it off the shelf now…
The Wizard of Oz – Yes, it’s true, I have not read the Wizard of Oz. And it’s been sitting on my shelf for a least 5 years. The only excuse I have is the other 200 or so books overflowing the TBR shelves.
City of Illusions / Left Hand of Darkness – This time I actually have an excuse. I got these books before reading EarthSea, and well they have stayed on the shelf because EarthSea kinda ruined me on Le Guin (even though Lathe of Heaven was super fantastic and I still think about it every now and them.) I know that these are important sci-fi books that many TV shows, etc have been inspired by. I keep them around hoping I’ll feel like picking them up one day.
Childhood’s End – Another important sci-fi classic that I just haven’t gotten around to. I think this one suffers from the same sort of fate that the Le Guin books do and that’s that I felt burned after reading the Rama series (my advice read Rendezvous with Rama, it’s a sure fire classic, and none of the rest.) I know the end of the series wasn’t written by Clarke, but still the let down of the Rama series was immense.
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand – Another sci-fi classic that’s been on the back burner because of a different piece by the author. My husband and I both read The Long Dark Afternoon of Earth, and thought it was fantastic. So we sought out other Aldiss books. I wish I had read this before his short story collection, Super Toys Last All Summer Long (which the movie A.I. is based off of.) Unfortunately other than the title story the books is a bunch of veganism propaganda, which makes me afraid to read a book he wrote about 4 million years of man kinds future.
A Princess of Mars – After reading Burroughs lesser known Venus series I meant to read the Mars Series, I actually loaded them all up on my kindle (it’s kind enough to remind me) in April, 2012. Until I was looking through my lists today, I had forgotten I had them. Oops! 😜
King Solomon’s Mines – Let’s say ditto for this one, put it on the Kindle and then forgot about it. This despite the fact that my sister is a fan of H Rider Haggard I haven’t read any of his books.
2 replies on “Top Ten Tuesday #12”
I finally read Childhood’s End after seeing the TV version this year, and thought it was pretty brilliant! I still need to read The Left Hand of Darkness, and I”ve had a copy on my shelf forever. I read The Kitchen God’s Wife so long ago that I really don’t remember the details — but I do remember loving it at the time. Good luck with your TBR!
I’ll have to give Childhoods End another look. It’s still on the TBR so it does mean I’m willing to read it. Thanks for taking the time to comment on my blog!