Top Ten Books I HAD to Buy…But Are Sitting on My Shelf Unread
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the bloggers over at the Broke and the Bookish. Book bloggers from all around create lists based on the chosen topics, and post links to the host blog to share our love of books. This week we are looking at books we just HAD to buy, but we still haven’t read. I do this for a lot of reasons, and I do it a lot. The big question is, when will I have the time?
Also, with the recent “Spring TBR” and “Series I Have Yet To Start” topics, I feel like I’m repeating myself on these TTT lists lately. So…sorry.
Top Ten Books I HAD to Buy…But Are Sitting on My Shelf Unread
[to sell or to keep, that is the question]
Sitting on My Shelf
1.) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens – Have print copy, a digital copy, AND the audio book (thanks to classics being SUPER cheap in all three formats).
2.) Thirteen Days to Midnight by Patrick Carman – A classmate did a book talk on this in my YA lit class, and I bought it immediately. In hardcover. It’s survived multiple book purges, but remains unread.
3.) Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork – Same as #2, but add in that it also some awards when it first came on and was on my radar for that, too.
4.) A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray – I did read maybe 2/3 of it, but never finished. I lost interest, and I’m not sure if it was the timing (busy semester) or that it just wasn’t for me. I keep it because I always tell myself I’ll restart in, and I never do!
5.) Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool –Bought it when it won the Newbery, but I don’t think it’s for me. Still can’t stand to part with it, though.
Sitting on My Nook (darn cheap books!)
6.) The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth – Bought it cheap, but I read some reviews that turned me off from the book. I’ve heard it’s good, but slow. Best savored over time. And I’m just not in a good place to read a slow book right now. But one day!
7.) Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta – I do plan to read this one this summer, in a quest to read digital books I’ve bought cheap and never read. I’m saving it for a time when I can enjoy it!
8.) Luna by Julie Anne Peters – Bought it cheap ($1.99, I think) to save for later.
9.) One Breath Away by Heather Gudenkaff – I started it, but couldn’t get into it.
10.) Feed by MT Anderson – I have concrete plans to read this book this summer.
Which books did you buy and never read?
Posted on March 19, 2013, in books, librarian, lists and tagged Top Ten Tuesday, why?, ya. Bookmark the permalink. 16 Comments.
Jellicoe Road = best YA book I think I’ve ever read. I hope you love it, Tara!
I’m very good at buy books cheap in the kindle and saving them for holidays. Luna is on my to-read list ATM may see if I can get it cheap still.
Marcelo in the Real World is definitely worth a read…it’s a bit of a quickie too, so you should be able to knock it over without much effort!
I am very guilty of buying up cheap books on my Kindle and not getting back to reading them. So now I make myself read one of them a month…..at this rate I should finish up my cheap book collection in about six years, rofl!
Feed may be one of my favorite books of all time, Great Expectations is probably my favorite Dickens, and I very much liked A Great and Terrible Beauty (though the course of the series as a whole proved disappointing). You have some good stuff lying in wait!
The Art of War by Sun Tzu – there were so many notes on alternate interpretations and translations, I wasn’t reading the actual book anymore.
I really enjoyed “A Great and Terrible Beauty” maybe it’s my love for historical/gypsy characters :s
I’m glad i don’t have an ereader. I think my unread pile would be twice as long.
I still have A Great and Terrible Beauty too. I’ve heard it’s good! But….. just so many other things I feel like I need to read first.
Good luck with all your books!!!
You absolutely must make time for A Great and Terrible Beauty! That series is just so fabulous. Once I started them I whipped through them in like a month I think!
The cheap/free/onsale ebooks do me in every time! I have to buy them right then and then… no time to read them.
I highly suggest A Great And Terrible Beauty! I read the whole trilogy a few years back, and it was great!
Also, I’ve never read Feed, but my sister has, and she loved it.
And haha, I actually have a lot of books I’ve bought that I haven’t read. Mostly ones I picked up at the candy shop without covers or at the library. Bought I actually bought one full-priced book, Fallout by Ellen Hopkins, which is top priority, as soon as I finish my Stephen King marathon.
I’d also support the many recommendations that you definitely read A Great and Terrible Beauty. I enjoyed the atmosphere in that one a lot
Seriously try reading “A Great and Terrible Beauty” again. It is really good and provides a remarkable understanding of beauty.
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Great Expectations AND A Great and Terrible Beauty.. I bought.. And they’re still unfinished… I haven’t even cracked the spine of Dicken’s yet!
I’m a little relieved that I’m not the only person that does this:
Me: I MUST BUY THAT BOOK!
Mum: Don’t you have enough?
Me: NEVER! *buys… Gets home… Puts on shelf*
Set to repeat.. ^.^