Once again, I’m joining in with the Top 5 Tuesday meme this week! Top 5 Tuesday is hosted by Bionic Bookworm, who posts the month’s topics at the start of each month. Today’s topic is Top 5 Popular Books I Haven’t Read Yet. And of course, there are WAY more than the five (six) on my list. My TBR list will never be empty! Here are five (six) books that everyone seems to have read — except me.
1) Divergent series by Veronica Roth. Now that I’ve read her newest book (Chosen Ones), I’m wondering if I should finally give these books a try… except (a) I saw the first movie and didn’t care for it much, and (b) I keep hearing how let-down/angry fans were by the 3rd book. So, hard pass? Or not?
2) The Long Way To a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers: I’ve had this book on my shelf for ages, and I know people seem to love the trilogy. So this is one I really do mean to get to.
3) Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir: I absolutely want to read this book! I’m not sure why I haven’t yet.
4) The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss: I know, I know… I definitely need to read this! But I keep insisting that I’m not going to get involved in yet another unfinished series, and that I won’t start this book until there’s at least a publication date for the 3rd book. Maybe I’m being ridiculous, because everyone tells me I’ll love it!
5) Vicious and A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab: I haven’t actually read any of this author’s books, even though I know people loved them. And based on what I’ve heard, I think I’d love them too.
Have you read any of these? Let me know if you think I should READ or SKIP them!
And please share your Top 5 links too!
Bookshelf Fantasies 
Vicious is amazing! And I haven’t read anything by Becky Chambers either😁
I really do need to read both. And I even own copies!
I actually read three out of the six books, and the other three I tried and gave up on 🙈
Which did you read, and which did you give up on?
I read The Name of the Wind, Vicious and A Darker Shade of Magic – the rest I tried, Gideon the most recent, and The Long Way To a Small Angry Planet last year, neither could pull me in.
Vicious was awesome! And I loved Divergent when I read it, but I don’t know if I would still like it now haha.
I’ve heard so many good things about Vicious! I can’t believe I haven’t started it yet.
The name of the wind and ADSOM are some of my faves! I hope you will love them if you pick them up!
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That’s great to know! I’m looking forward to reading both.
I read Name of the Wind so long ago that I would have to reread it to know what’s going on in Doors of Stone (when/if it ever comes out), and at this point, I have lost interest.
I tried to read Gideon the Ninth, and I hated the writing style so I DNF’d it.
It sounds like people either loved or hated Gideon — I’ve yet to encounter anyone in the middle!
Same here!
I didn’t care for the Divergent trilogy; the only positive I found was that they were fast-paced and I read them quickly! 😅
I don’t know, if you didn’t care for the movie, I don’t know how much you’d like the books!
Fast is good! But I don’t really think I could bring myself to read the books, after my reaction to the first movie.
Oh my gosh! I JUST finished Vicious! (Well, I finished it a day or so ago) And I really liked it! I didn’t know what to expect and hadn’t read Schwab’s work before but Vicious sold me. I’d like to read more of her stuff. All the characters are unlikeable, but I love the themes she explores. I thought it was well done.
Regarding Divergent, I liked the first book, didn’t like the second one, and refused to read the last one.
Ha ha, I think I’m feeling really validated regarding my non-reading of the Divergent books. 🙂 I can’t wait to read Vicious! So glad to hear that you loved it.
I didn’t actually finish The Name of the Wind. I got to 90% and just DID NOT care anymore. It’s fine, but I just didn’t understand what the hype was and I was fed up of spending so much of my life on it. To me, it was just an unnecessarily long and uneventful, generic fantasy book?
I did like A Long Way To… I keep meaning to reread it actually!
Oh, how funny that you DNF’d at 90%! Although I’ve had that experience with other books, where even though I’ve put so much time into a story, I just don’t care.
I haven’t tried Gideon the ninth either. Highly recommend vicious!
I’ve been wanting to read it every since it came out!