Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Books I Meant to Read in 2023 but Didn’t Get To.
At the end of each year, I share a list of all my book purchases that I didn’t actually read (All the Books I Meant to Read), and I don’t really want to repeat myself, so…
I thought I’d focus on the books I listed on my 2023 quarterly TBR posts… but realized that I mainly read them all! So, I’m digging back a little further, and just listing 10 books from the past couple of years that I’ve been meaning to read… and haven’t yet.
My top 10 are:
- Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor
- How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
- Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
- Saga, volume 11 by Brian K. Vaughn
- Infinity Gate by M. R. Carey
- The Thorns Remain by JJA Harwod
- Pat of Silver Bush by L. M. Montgomery
- A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice by Rebecca Connolly
- Deaf Utopia by Nyle DiMarco
- Gilded by Marissa Meyer
Have you read any of these? Which should I make a top priority?
If you wrote a TTT post, please share your link!
Bookshelf Fantasies 
I’m hoping to read Starling House at some point as well!
I really hope to get to it soon. I’ve loved everything else by this author!
I’ve only heard of and read Gilded from your list. It’s the perfect book for this winter seasin to be honest.
My TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2024/01/23/top-ten-tuesday-backlist-books-i-want-to-get-to-in-2024/
I’m excited to check it out!
Great list. Hope you get a chance to read them. My TTT post is here.
Thank you!
Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice is sooo good! I hope you enjoy it!
That’s one I’m really looking forward to!
Both Starling House, and How to Sell a Haunted House are in my wish list. 🙂 I can’t wait to get them.
They both look amazing! I can’t wait either 🙂
Fab list! I can recommend Gilded, I loved it!
Excellent! I’m excited to read it — may try the audiobook version.
I’m really curious about Deaf Utopia. It’s on my TBR list too! I’ve been tempted to buy it once or twice, but decided I should read it first. … If I ever start reading nonfiction with any sort of speed or consistency again. 🤦♀️🙄. (I know I will eventually, but it’s taking *much* longer than I thought it would!)
I really don’t tend to pick up non-fiction very often, but this is one I’ve been wanting to read for over a year now, so I think I just need to push myself a bit.
It really does look promising, doesn’t it?
STARLING HOUSE and GILDED are two I want to read as well. I’ve heard a lot of great things about them. I hope you enjoy reading all of these.
https://jennielyse.com/top-ten-tuesday-44/
Thank you! I’m looking forward to both of those (as well as all the others on my list)
I pre-ordered that Saga volume and still haven’t read it! I need to just do it since it’s a quick read. I hope you enjoy all of these!
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I’m with you on Saga! I preordered it as soon as it became available… but still have it sitting unread in the stack next to my bed. 🙂
lol, I’m glad I’m not the only one!!! It’s such a bad habit and I need to be better about reading things I pre-order. Maybe. haha
I always say I’ll be better about it… but it hasn’t happened yet 🙂
Haha, SAME!! 😆🤦🏻♀️
I keep intending to return to the Akata Witch books but have yet to. I’d recommend prioritizing Akata Woman.
I’d like to! Since I listened to the audiobooks of the first two, I just got on the library hold list for #3!
Even if you don’t love it as much as I did, I really hope you get to reading Brilliant Night… it made me cry like a baby, and I loved the angle she took with this – a Titanic story that doesn’t focus on all the rich and famous people on board.
I can’t wait to read it! Although my new Classics Club spin is a Titanic book, so I may hold this one for a bit later in the y ear.
Makes sense!
How to Sell a Haunted House was so good! I hope you can read some of these😁
I absolutely want to read that one! I always enjoy his books — my only reason for not reading it yet is running out of time 🙂
Starling House and Deaf Utopia are two I really want to read, too. I didn’t try to do this TTT this week because there are so many books on my TBR list that I didn’t manage to read last year it was too hard to narrow the list down to ten. And this year’s TBR list is even longer! ;D
Oh, I’m with you… my actual TBR list is miles long, and sometimes I don’t even know where to even consider starting. Good luck to both of us!
Wow! I’m impressed that you read so many from your seasonal lists. I hope you enjoy all these when you get to them.
Happy TTT (on a Thursday)!
Susan
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Thank you! I was actually surprised that I got through so many from my seasonal lists… but I’m not in any danger of running out of books on my TBR!