Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Top Ten 2015 Releases I Meant To Get To But Didn’t. I’m reinterpreting this one to include anything I bought in 2015 but haven’t read yet, not just new releases from 2015. Here are the books that for whatever reason I had to have RIGHT NOW! IMMEDIATELY! GIMME!, but then stuck on my shelf and never picked up again.
1) Carry On by Rainbow Rowell: OF COURSE I bought this one the second it came out. I love Rainbow Rowell and I loved Fangirl and… I have no idea what my problem is.
2) Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell: I love everything by Mary Doria Russell, and loved her Doc Holliday book (appropriately named Doc). I bought Epitaph right when it was released so I’d have a chance to read it before she came to my town on her book tour. And then her book tour appearance was cancelled, and I never got around to the book.
3) The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg: I loved the author’s previous novel, Openly Straight (review), and I’m really excited for this one. Plus, a porcupine on the cover!
4) The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber: Really sounds awesome, and I have a friend who loved it — but it’s over 500 pages, and I just haven’t been in the mood to tackle it yet.
5) The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan: I actually have a good excuse for not reading this one yet. I was going to read it as soon as I got a copy last year, and then my book group picked it for this coming spring, so of course I had to wait!
6) Cheating here and listing a trilogy as one entry: I picked up all three books in Holly Black’s Curse Workers series last year, but haven’t touched them yet. Given that one of my resolutions is to binge-read series instead of reading them one book at a time, this might make a good place to start!
7) Conversion by Katherine Howe: This is a 2014 book (described as “Prep meets The Crucible”!) that I bought in 2015, and it’s been sitting on my nightstand ever since.
8) Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey: This one actually is a 2015 release, and it sounds like just the kind of historical fiction that gets me in the heart.
9) Pioneer Girl by Bich Minh Nguyen: A Vietnamese-American woman with a possible connection to Laura Ingalls Wilder? Yes, please!
10) Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain: The little bits and pieces I’ve read so far tell me that this is a book designed for me!
If I stick to my plan to read more from my shelves this year, then I should be able to get to these book in 2016!
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Bookmarking this now!! 😀
LOL. I’m almost afraid to look at other people’s lists this week and realize how many MORE books I need to read. 🙂
Haha! That is actually true! TBR will surely overflow after this week! 😀
I read Conversion last year and thought it was pretty good. I think you will enjoy it!
That’s great to hear! I’ve read (and really enjoyed) two other books by her so far.
I really need to read Carry On!!! 😦
I know… it sounds so good, and I loved the little bits of Simon’s story in Fangirl!
Great list. Added the Richard Flanagan to my TBR
Thank you! I’ve heard such good things about the Richard Flanagan book – really looking forward to it.
Haha, I love this idea for a list! I’m afraid mine might be a few longer than 10 >_<
Well, I definitely had to do some whittling down to make it to 10. 🙂
I still haven’t gotten the chance to read Black Heart – but the first two in that series were awesome! I think I’m still a little peeved about the cover change…
Check out my TTT.
I’m so glad to hear you liked the first two! I’ve been hearing good things for a while now, and so far I’ve loved everything I’ve read by Holly Black. Thanks!
Great list- Carry On is fabulous, so when you finally get to it, it’ll be worth the wait for sure 😀
Thanks! I really have been looking forward to Carry On — I think I was too distracted by other things when it first came out, but I absolutely intend to read it. 🙂
Great list! The Book of Strange New Things is on my TBR, too, and I keep meaning to check out more of Katherine Howe’s work – I really enjoyed The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. 🙂 Happy reading!
Thanks! I’m so excited for all of these… now I just need to make time for them. 🙂
Far too many – Letters to the Lost is really good, you should move that one up the stack!
Can’t wait to read that one — I’ll try to bump it to the top of my priority list!
I really need to read Carry On. I hope it’s good, I wasn’t the biggest fan of Fangirl. Good luck with these boooks!
Thanks!
Hi, Quiet and Conversion look great. More to add to my TBR list. Yay. 🙂 haha Thanks for stopping by.
Leslie
Thanks! Every Tuesday, every TTT list I visit, my TBR list just grows and grows… 🙂
I SO need to read Carry On. I loved Fangirl so don’t know why I haven’t managed to get around to this one yet.
Quiet caught my eye recently too. I don’t really read much or any non-fiction but I think that one could be an interesting read.
We’re in the same exact boat when it comes to Carry On. I loved Fangirl, and have no reason (except too many books) for not starting Carry On yet!
Quiet was such a great read, I hope you enjoy it! I also really want to read The Narrow Road to the Deep North but I don’t know when I’ll get around to picking it up xD Hope you enjoy reading all of these when you get to them 🙂
Thanks!
These all look great…especially Letters to the Lost. I’m adding that to my TBR! Hoepfully I’ll get to it in 2016. 🙂
Thanks! That’s one that I’m really looking forward to.