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 Unread Books on My Shelves I Want to Read Soon. I’ve done plenty of posts about my unread books, so at first I thought I’d skip this week’s TTT rather than repeat myself… but the thinking about the key word soon, I realized I could work with it!
Some of these have been on my shelves for a long time now, and some are more recent additions, but all are books I want to read sooner rather than later. I’m not making any commitments (those never seem to work), but here are ten I hope to get to this year (or maybe next?):
- The Thorns Remain by JJA Harwood: Bought on a whim about a year ago.
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith: It’s been years and years. This one is on my Classics Club spin list, and I’ve been waiting for its number to come up! (I suppose I could finally just read it anyway, but it’s nice to have the spin as motivation.)
- Pat of Silver Bush by L. M. Montgomery: I only came to LMM’s books as an adult, and have been on a mission to read as many as possible ever since! I picked up the two Pat books a couple of years ago.
- A Turn of the Tide by Kelley Armstrong: This is a more recent addition. I added it to my shelves last year, but now that I’m finally reading the series (this is #3), I expect to read it quite soon.
- The Return by Rachel Harrison: I added the Kindle edition to my library a couple of years ago.
- The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler: Maybe this is cheating a bit — I bought this last year, and I know I’ll be reading it soon since it’s my book group’s pick for June.
- Needful Things by Stephen King: I bought this a few years ago to take on vacation; didn’t end up reading it that time, but maybe this summer?
- Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant: Bought a copy on my daughter’s recommendation a year or two ago.
- Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala: Another one I bought to take on a trip and then didn’t read, but I keep packing it in my travel bag just in case.
- Theft of an Idol by Dana Stabenow: I also finally started this series this year after stockpiling the books as they came out, and intend to read this one in the next few months.
Have you read any of these? Are there any you particularly recommend?
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I hope you get to all of these soon and they are good reads for you.
Thank you! I really hope to get to some of these over the summer.
You will like I Capture The Castle. Good luck getting to all of these.
Can’t wait to finally read it!
The Return has a cool cover.
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I think so too! And I’ve liked everything I’ve read by her so far.
I’ve read Thorns Remain and really enjoyed it, hope you do!
I’m looking forward to it!
Arsenic and Adobo is a fun read and I think it’s the first in a series.
I think my daughter has read 2 or 3 of the books in the series, and she’s really been pushing me to give it a try.
I’m enjoying that series by Kelley Armstrong. In fact, I’m enjoying a whole bunch of her books at the moment. Hope you like all of your choices.
So far, I’ve enjoyed everything of hers that I’ve read!
I just started reading I Capture the Castle yesterday! I’m not very far (all of 30 pages) but so far it’s leading up to be an interesting read. I like that this is told through our main character’s journals and it’s basically her musings of the castle. It’s a fun way to get to know everyone!
That’s great to hear! I can’t wait to finally read it.
I Capture The Castle is very good, I hope you like it! I read the first book in Kelly Armstrong’s Stitch in Time series, I didn’t realize there were three books already.
I really do intend to read I Capture the Castle, hopefully soon! I’m loving the Kelley Armstrong books, definitely worth continuing!
Arsenic and Adobo is a fun one! I hope you get to these soon!
Thank you! I think I’m going to keep packing Arsenic & Adobo whenever I travel, and eventually, the timing will be right for me to read it. 🙂
It sounds like a great plan!
The Return is one I need to read as well. I’d love to complete her backlist at some point😁
I think The Return might be her only book I still have to read… and I keep putting it on my TTT lists to prompt myself to get to it!
Arsenic and Adobo! I’d forgotten about that book. I wanted to read it back when it came out.
I think there are 3 (?) more in the series now!